Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The defending Old Colony League Champions, the Barnstable High baseball team rode the efficient opening day pitching of senior James Burke and some collective hot bats en route to a 10-0 win over the visiting Whalers of New Bedford.
Leave it to the lefties. Senior James Burke staged an efficient starting performance on the hill for the Barnstable High nine yesterday afternoon in Hyannis, and got all the offense the Red & White would need when senior co-captain Dylan Morris (3-4, 3 RBI) drove in fellow co-captain Danny Walsh in the bottom of the third to make it 1-0. The score would remain as such until two innings later. Barnstable broke it open versus the visiting New Bedford Whalers (0-2) in the bottom of the fifth inning, scoring nine runs on six hits two walks and a pair of Whaler errors and it all started when Morris led off with a single then stole second base and scored when Jack Harrington reached on an error. Freshman Griffin Burke (1-4, 2 RBI) got his first …
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Columnist Sean Walsh tells us about Andrew Ellis, a special Barnstable High School senior athlete.
The dynamics of high school and high school athletics never cease to amaze me. There are the hangers-on. The groupies. The wannabees. There are the BMOCs. There are the BWOCs, although, I must confess, I am not certain I have ever actually heard that term before. There are the manipulators. There are the pretenders. There are the fans, in both good and bad ways, and there are the complainers. There are the duplicitous has-beens and the feigning heroes of yore. There are the "Jocks," still, and there are the bullies and then there are those whose glory fades as quickly as the setting sun. Bruce Springsteen sang about them. Robert Frost, in part, wrote about them. Almost every person I know, has some sort of story that hinges upon the …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Barnstable High School boys ice hockey team (5-2-3) staged a major upset over visiting Catholic Memorial last night at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center, 3-2, on a shootout goal from senior captain Max Willman.
They just wouldn't quit. Facing the number two-ranked team in the state - Catholic Memorial - the Barnstable High Red Raiders battled, scrapped and outwilled their guests in a 3-2 "Shootout" victory at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center. Senior captain Max Willman scored the sole goal in the shootout period while Barnstable junior goalie Kevin Huska stopped all three Catholic Memorial attempts in brilliant fashion, en route to victory. Due to MIAA rules, a shootout victory counts as a tie. The Barnstable win came during the nightcap of the 1st Annual Nate Nickerson Invitational. In the tournament opener, Falmouth (Maine) defeated Moses Brown, 3-2, in regulation. Down 2-1 with time almost gone in the third period, Barnstable's Connor …
In a packed house last night in Hyannis, the Barnstable High School basketball team outlasted the visiting upstart Dennis-Yarmouth Dolphins in thrilling, overtime fashion, 69-65, thanks in large part to the hot hands of Manny Perry and Sean Skagstead.
Dennis-Yarmouth looked like it was in the driver's seat all night long. That is, of course, until senior point guard Manny Perry drilled a jumper as regulation time expired to knot the score at 56-56. Perry finished the night with a well-earned 16 points, including an invaluable 5-6 performance from the charity stripe in overtime - an effort that very well may have proved the difference. Junior tall man Sean Skagstead - a new student this year at Barnstable High - matched Perry's offensive output with his own 16-point effort - an effort that seemed flawless beneath the basket throughout the evening. But with just 2:00 to go in the game and D-Y seeming to erase every ounce of momentum Barnstable tried to build with some inspiring play from …
Sunday, December 2, 2012
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 …
Friday, November 30, 2012
The Div. 1A MIAA Superbowl match-up Saturday at Gillette Stadium boasts the number 1- and number two-ranked teams in the state: Barnstable High (11-0) versus Everett High (11-1) in what promises to be the game of the year. Kickoff at Gillette is 1:30 pm.
No matter who wins, no matter what the weather, this one will be a bruiser. The undefeated Barnstable High Red Raiders - ranked no. 1 in Eastern Massachusetts - face the no. 2-ranked and 11-1 Everett High Crimson Tide at 1:30 pm, Saturday, Dec. 1, at Gillete Stadium. Barnstable defeated Everett for the first time in school history on September 28 when both teams stood at 3-0 and Everett maintained the number one ranking in the state. In a driving, windblown rain, the Red Raiders defeated the Crimson Tide to take over the top-ranked slot and have not looked back. Barnstable defeated Lincoln-Sudbury Tuesday night to finish at 11-0 and in so doing matched the school's greatest season: the vaunted, unbeaten 1995 campaign that saw the Red & …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Barnstable High School football team (11-0) avenged last year's nailbiting loss to Lincoln-Sudbury (10-2), defeating the Warriors on the same field (Taunton High) by a 28-7 margin, thanks in large part to Hayden Murphy's 191 yards and 3 TDs.
How sweet it is. Barnstable High channeled its emotions and energy just right tonight at Taunton High School, as the Red & White virtually shut down the Lincoln-Sudbury Warriors (10-2) and took home a 28-7 victory and in so doing earned a trip to the EMass. Division 1A Super Bowl this Saturday (Dec. 1) at Gillette Stadium at 1:30 pm. Barnstable, ranked #1 in the state, will face #2 Everett High in a rematch of the two teams' earlier season slugfest, a game which set the Red Raiders on course for its best season since 1995. Barnstable's 11-0 record matches the 11-0 season of 1995, and it all happened on the precise same field: BHS defeated New Bedford at Taunton High in the 1995 Div. 1A Super Bowl, 11-0, to also finish a perfect 11-0. …
The unbeaten Barnstable High School Red Raiders (10-0) head to the MIAA football playoffs Tuesday to face the 10-1 Lincoln-Sudbury Warriors for the second straight year in what promises to be a great game. The winner will go the Division 1A Super Bowl.
The Old Colony League Champion Barnstable Red Raiders (10-0) will face the Dual County League (Large) champions Lincoln-Sudbury (10-1) to determine which team will go to the Div. 1A Super Bowl, according to the MIAA (Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association) web site. Kick-off time Tuesday is at 5:15 pm at Taunton High School. Patch will be there to live blog the game. Barnstable set a new program/school record on Thanksgiving for most points scored by a BHS football team in one season (376), eclipsing the previous mark set in 2010 (372). Barnstable’s defense has allowed 147 points or 14.7 points per game this season, while averaging 37.6 on the offensive side of the line of scrimmage. Lincoln-Sudbury has scored 272 points this …
Sunday, November 25, 2012
The banquet room at the prestigious Oyster Harbors Club in Osterville was jam-packed Saturday afternoon as the Barnstable High School Athletic Hall of Fame inducted its 8th class of enshrinees.
There was barely a dry eye in the house. His words drove at the very core of every person in the room. Former coaches, administrators, athletes, alumni and family by the dozens filled the banquet room at the posh Oyster Harbors Club Saturday afternoon (Nov. 25), and the room was stone silent as former Red Raider standout athlete Kerry Delaney (Class of 1972) described his late, lifelong best-friend and teammate Michael J. Duffley Sr. (Class of 1972) who passed away unexpectedly at age 52 in 2007. "He taught his children and the youth he coached that what you put in, is what you get out," Delaney said. Duffley was honored as the 7th annual recipient of the prestigious William Leo Shields Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor given as part of…
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Things were close in the early going in the 127th meeting between Falmouth and Barnstable, with the Red Raiders ahead by a slim margin at halftime 13-7, but then Barnstable took off running in the second half for a 39-14 finale.
In the first half, this one had all the makings of a classic. Ahead just 7-0 in the first quarter, Barnstable found itself tied with guest Falmouth 7-7 after the Clippers' junior quarterback Jack O'Rourke found Darion Bartibogue in the end zone to make it 7-6. Falmouth kicker Billy Ellis's PAT kick made it an even 7-7 and fans on both sides had hope for a real barnburner, a hope that did not diminish by halftime with Barnstable leading by a slim 13-7 margin. But when Barnstable senior captain and quarterback Nick Peabody (10-18, 155 yds.) found Dylan Morris for a six-yard touchdown to start the second half, hope began to fade quickly for the rough and tumble Clipper Eleven. Morris's 13th touchdown reception of the season was shortly …
Maggie Walsh
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