10 moments to remember from high school sports this fall
THE FALL SEASON officially kicked off in searing 88-degree heat on the 19th day of August with the MIAA’s newly-instituted conditioning-only preseason football drills. The final horn sounded four months later on a chilly 30-degree Saturday evening in Foxborough, when unbeaten King Philip pranced off the Gillette Stadium turf with its first Super Bowl title . . . In between, the Watertown field hockey team extended its incomparable winning streak to 183 games with its eighth straight Division 2 title. Andover girls’ swimming (No. 16 overall) and Barnstable girls’ volleyball (No. 18) repeated as state champions, while the Eve Hewins-led Hingham girls made it a three-peat in Division 2. The Falmouth and Hanover football programs had perfect runs. And out on the trails, few were able to keep stride with Peabody’s Marcelo Rocha or Natick’s Grace Connolly. And down on the Cape, the Nauset boys had a plus-107 scoring differential on the pitch (that’s 108-1). Athletes, their coaches, their athletic directors, and yes, their parents, teamed up to produce extraordinary moments and results. Selecting 10 worthy stories from a season of hundreds of compelling storylines is not easy. Here, in no particular order, are 10 that we thought stood out.
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