Dream Season Ends for Barnstable Red Raiders
In a match-up whose script seemed written by Hollywood, the top two teams in the state - Barnstable (11-1) and Everett (11-1) - pounded each other to the very end in the MIAA Div. 1A Super Bowl championship at Gillette Stadium this afternoon in Foxboro.
One loss by one point. For the 75 young souls who stood dumbfounded at the end of this afternoon's MIAA Div. 1A Super Bowl championship at Gillette Stadium - the 75 players of the top-ranked Barnstable High School Red Raiders - it seemed too much to swallow. It was a bitter pill to have realized it had just fallen to a team it had beaten earlier in the season, and the loss came when all the marbles were laid bare on the table, a 20-19 defeat that invoked tears and collective looks of disbelief. Number two-ranked Everett High simply outlasted the Red & White on this snowy, biting December afternoon, even in spite of one of the most punishing defensive efforts seen on a Barnstable football field in, perhaps, decades. Barnstable's defense …
