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Top Fall Sports Moments

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MIAA Leadership Award: Vision of the MIAA: LeOMG!

Class of 2026 (ALL FOUR YEARS)

  1. Football Elite Eight: Hanover Archies Elite 8 Football Kellen “Football” ducci 4th quarter 60 yard TD (28-26 loss)
  2. Gillette 2023: “Mr. Everything” “Once in a generation” Sclazi, Mekhi, BOOM BOOM Mancini
  3. Soccer State Championship 2022 at Lynn vs. Dedham Sophia, Natalie,

Ray Mancini vs Duk Koo Kim, 1982 WBA Lightweight Title

Duk Koo Kim was a South Korean professional boxer who died after a championship fight against Ray Mancini in November 1982. Kim was knocked out in the 14th round and suffered a fatal brain injury, which led to a coma and his death five days later. His death prompted major safety reforms in professional boxing, including a reduction of championship bouts from 15 to 12 rounds.  

    • The fight: 

      On November 13, 1982, Kim challenged Ray Mancini for the WBA lightweight championship in Las Vegas. 

  • The knockout: 

    After a brutal fight, Kim was knocked down in the 14th round and did not recover, leading to the match being stopped. 

  • The tragedy: 

    Kim fell into a coma and, after surgery, was declared brain-dead. He passed away on November 18, 1982, just five days after the fight, at the age of 23. 

  • The aftermath: 

    Kim’s death led to significant changes in boxing to improve fighter safety, such as shortening championship fights to 12 rounds and mandating more thorough pre-fight medical exams. 

  • Legacy: 
    The tragic event has been the subject of films, including the 2002 South Korean movie Champion, and continues to be a pivotal moment in boxing history, as detailed on Wikipedia, Find a Grave, and by this ESPN article

Class of 2026 (Fall 2025 season)

  1. Golf Sectional Champions (Best finish in career)
  2. Cheerleading: Patriot, Regional
  3. Cross-Country: 1st win in 4 years!!!!!!! Beat SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY SAILORS!
  4. Boys Soccer: Beat Hingham 1-0 victory 1st time in 10+ years. 6th minute Parked the Bus!  (Christmas Tree Lax Defense)
  5. Football Elite Eight: Hanover Archies Elite 8 Football Kellen “Football” ducci 4th quarter 60 yard TD (28-26 loss)
  6. Boys Soccer: Senior Night ALL 5 SENIORS SCORED vs. Quincy 6-1 (Gavin (2), James (10/20??), Addison (1/1), Ryan Much PK (1/1), Adam A (1))
  7. Boys Basketball: Fall League Basketball Champions (beat Plymouth South, Braintree 20+ point wins) Taking a chare Costa lot engery
  8. Volleyball: “Volleyball” Chant

 

MIAA Playoffs 2025

  1. Football
    1. Sweet 16: Hanover (3) defeats Weston (14) 46 – 14
    2. Elite 8: Archies (6) defeats Hanover (3) 28 – 26
    3. All-Stars
    4. All-Scholastics
  2. Cheerleading
    1. Patriot League Champions
    2. Regional Champions
  3. Boys Soccer Division 3
    1. Round of 32: Hanover (12) defeats Blackstone Valley Reg Voc / Tech HS (21) 3 – 0
    2. Sweet 16: Chicopee (5) defeats Hanover (12) 4 – 1
    3. All-Stars:
    4. All-Scholastics
  4. Girls Soccer Division 3
    1. Round of 32: East Bridgewater Jr / Sr (28) defeats Hanover (5) 1 – 0
    2. All-Stars
    3. All-Scholastics
  5. Girls Volleyball
    1. Round of 32: Hanover (6)  defeats Medway (27) 3 – 1
    2. Sweet Sixteen: Newburyport (11) defeats Hanover (6) 3-2
    3. MVP Tessa Madden
  6. Field Hockey
    1. Round of 32: Hanover (7) defeats North Reading (26) 5-1
    2. Sweet Sixteen: Lynnfield defeats Hanover (7) 2-0
    3. STATE CHAMPION
  7. Golf
    1. Sectional Champions
    2. State Tournament
  8. Boys Cross Country
  9. Girls Cross Country

 

 

Class of 2029 (FRESHMAN)

Moments

  1. tommy regan stiff arm senior
  2. Football (Cam Hallett / James Byrne): Razzle Dazzle (2 wins)
  3. JV Soccer: Sadie (JV Jesse Blasso) (2 losses)
  4. Field Hockey: Megan Amsler
  5. JV Golf (Rhea)

Golf:

  1. Sectional Champs
  2. Senior Night “Bye Bye Birdie”
  3. State Championship
  4. Bus Driver
  5. Beating Duxbury

Cheerleading

  1. League Champs (3x)
  2. Regional Champs (2x)

Volleyball:

  1. Senior Rockland
  2. Fastest team to make tournament

Football (2016 State Championship):

  1. Football 2025: Hanover Archies Elite 8 Football Kellen “Football” ducci 4th quarter 60 yard TD (28-26 loss)
  2. Senior night win vs. Quincy:
  3. 1st win vs. Somerset
  4. Patrick Flynn PAT block vs. Holliston less than one minute left in 2015 State Playoffs.
  5. Mike N. Tackle vs. Holliston inside the 10 fumble. (The Marriage Story)
  6. 2017 South Sectional Final: Trev Blaisdell 70-yard screen pass “going to the Crib!” 28 – 0.
  7. Matt Lanagan interception vs. Ashland
  8. 3rd touchdown at Gillette State Championship Game

 

  2. Danvers Final four win (Fall 2023)
  3. Hockey State Championship (Winter 2022)
  4. Elite 8 Hockey Norwell (Winter 2024) 2-1 Mekhi jumped boards
  5. Rugby State Championship vs Weymouth (Spring 2024)  31-26 
  6. Elite 8 girls basketball
  7.  Round of 16 closer

Class or 2023

  1. Junior Gym WILD RIDE, soccer ball to face injuries (witnesses)
  2. State Championship Girls Soccer Fall 2022
  3. Hockey CO(vid)-State Champions Winter 2020
  4. Hockey Winter 2022 State Champions
  5. Boys Soccer State Tournament 4 – 0 vs. Greater New Bedford
  6. Dover-Sherborn Shootout Save
  7. Tackling Coach Cody:

Cross-Country

  1. 1st win in 4 years!!!!!!! SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY SAILORS!
  2. Northfield Mountain:

Soccer Moment

  1. Hingham 1-0 victory 1st time in 10+ years. 6th minutes Parked the Bus!  (Christmas Tree Lax Defense)
  2. Senior Night ALL 5 SENIORS SCORED vs. Quincy 6-1 (Gavin (2), James (10/20??), Addison (1/1), Ryan Much PK (1/1), Adam A (1))

Field Hockey:

  1. Senior Night: Beat Braintree (2026)
  2. Beating Scituate 2-1 (LEAGUE Champs 2026)
  3. South Sectional Finals vs. Cohasset Final Score 1-0 Double OT Maura Kelly (3 consecutive 2OT victories Dover-Sherborn, Holliston)
  4. South Sectional Semi-Finals vs.Holliston Final Score 1-0 Double OT Samatha Taylor (3 consecutive 2OT victories Dover-Sherborn, )
  5. South Sectional Quarter-Finals vs. Dover-Sherborn Final Score 1-0 Double OT

Baseball: 

  1. Freshman Year: Seekonk 2-0 (Ryan Kelleher)

Boys Basketball (2017 State Championship):

  1. Freshman: JV Buzzer beater Jared Whit
  2. Sophomore: Beating Bishop Stang in State Tournament, Jack Buckley 1,000 points.
  3. Senior Year: Beating Bourne (funniest game). Whitman Hanson buzzer beater. Old Rochester.

Boys Tennis:

Softball: Whitman Hanson 6th inning comeback (trailing 9 – 1) Batting out of order.

Pass it On: Sports Blogs

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The Baseball Player you’ve Never Heard of is the Player we Should All Aspire to be.

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The Baseball Player you’ve Never Heard of is the Player we Should All Aspire to be.

David Ross played for three MLB teams, winning two World Series, hitting a home run to cinch the championship for the improbable Cubs, and solidifying his place in sports history as a great teammate.

October 7, 2025 by The Foundation for a Better Life

Many of us dream of being the hero in a baseball game. Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, the world championship on the line. The pitch. The swing. The hit … and it’s gone!

What makes dreams so exceptional and wonderful is that they rarely happen the way we envision them playing out. David Ross grew up in a baseball family. When he played for Auburn University, his team appeared in the College World Series. The Dodgers drafted him before his senior season, but when he made his debut as a pinch hitter, he struck out. He did hit a dinger later in the year in a blowout win over the Diamondbacks, but no one paid much attention. As a catcher, Ross got very few looks. There was a glut of catchers in the league, and Ross just didn’t have many chances.

For 13 of his 15 years in the league, he was a backup. In that short window when he was a starter, he got cut from the team for being a bad teammate. He decided right then that he was never going to let anyone call him a bad teammate again. He got a second chance in Atlanta as a backup catcher.

The year in Atlanta started differently for Ross. He positioned a whiteboard in the locker room and asked everybody who passed by, “Give me three words to describe the best teammate you ever had.” Then he built a list for himself of the habits it would take to become a great teammate. For the next four years, he worked at it, telling himself every morning, “I will be those things today.”

He got traded to Boston and won a World Series.
Then he got traded to Chicago, where, in the last game of his professional career, at his last at-bat, he hit a home run, and the Cubs won the World Series. It was the first time the Cubs had won the World Series in 108 years.

Of course, there are a lot of emotions in that thrilling situation. When David Ross, the hero of the moment, was being interviewed on TV, in the middle of the conversation, his teammates crashed the interview and lifted him onto their shoulders. Not because he is a great player, but because he makes others better.

“It’s rewarding riding into the sunset,” Ross said. “What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field — it doesn’t get any better than that. Now it’s time to be a dad. To be as successful at that as I was at baseball would be nice.”

In Everything You Do, Be A Great Teammate… PassItOn.com®

My SportsWorld

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https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/46269910/continue/playhttps://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/46269910/continue/play”My SportsWorld” is for your journal. It is essentially the default writing prompt.

2025

Joey F Tufts @ Bowdoin Tommy O’Donnell (45 Tommy O’Donnell Fr. LB 5-11 199 Boston, Mass. / B.C. High Parents tailgating a little too much. All over the officials. Text about Brenden Ryan. He is my boy. Text back “Mr. Ryan is Mr. Molloy’s boy.” Mr. Molloy worked with Tommy’s mom.

Tim S. He went down like a folding chair.

Bull Durham

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/46269910/continue/play

I broke my arm

My College

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Kicked out of Dartmouth

Drew C Wesleyan

Roommate stories (pictures)

Fight

  1. Max I aint’ A (NOT A Cheater) BSU /
  2. Say it Ain’t SoJoe S Florida Tech / Pilot (Andrew Blancarcd / Giesele)
  3. Luke “I am Fan” Stonehill SkyHawks formerly the Cheifs
  4. Bruchi Bruschi Kyrie: Curry Football
  5. Matt Jenks: South Carolina
  6. Brennan St A (NOT S) TEDDY
  7. KING CUE UCF
  8. Murph Lynn fighting KNIGHTS
  9. Josh Merrimack (NCAA Champ Lax)
  10. Scott Don’t call me Shane Electrical Union
  11. Colby Electrical Union
  12. Max UMass Amherst Rugby
  13. Oh Noey She didn’t University of New Haven Rugby accepted post

Period 5

  1. Amelia B Quinnipiac Bobcats
  2. Adam I like to play Polk er UMass
  3. Abby to be hear Hope I can help the ball club Johnson & Wales Softball
  4. Mack Having a Ball and UMass Liar’s Poker Michael Lewis
  5. Tyler Bean Spinkler, EMT Firefighter
  6. JamesB Merrimack
  7. Robert “Ant Man” Electrical Union
  8. Levon Curry Football
  9. Dylan BSU
  10. Gorbey Great

Period 6

  1. Isabella Umass Dartmouth
  2. Natalie Emmanuel
  3. The great PLL
  4. Sam I am UMass
  5. Alexandra Endicott
  6. Abby Johnson & Wales
  7. Noey
  8. UMass Beacon
  9. Olivia URI
  10. Adrian Mass Maritime
  11. April Cape Cod Community
  12. Haylei Gap
  13. Colby Electrician
  14. Brooke Massassoit
  15. Jentina MCPHS Boston
  16. Coop to Hoop Pitt vs. Conn College

My SKILL Workout

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Birthday Baseball

Twin River

4:00 – 5:30

STRETCH

4:00 4:21 heavy ball

51 score

catch play

Bull pen

jump push-up

Plate machine

Sill machine 372

Scott Blewett 500+

Justin Willis

Top Three

Musician: 2025 Danny Tawa Donte FRON 2027 Griffin Ryan (Levitate “Leave Me Alone”)

  1. HHS Band: Photos for the final

Singer: 2025: Maddie Curtis, Natalie Gilpatrick

  1. Vocal Coach (1x week): Scales

Artist: 2025: Adrian, April

Fall

Golf: 2026

  1. Putt for Dough:  3 feet, 6 feet,  9, 12, 15 RECORD score 10 out of .          .
  2. (Jack F 29) two tees putting 5 two hands, 3 one hand
  3. grip and setup

Field Hockey: 2026

Cheerleaders: 2026: 2025: Izzy, Lily

Football: 2025: Boutin, Hines

Boys Soccer: Will Jenkins Sophie

Girls Soccer:

Boys Cross Country: Perkins

Girls Cross Country: Cam Bradford

Winter

Boys Hockey: 2025 Peirceson Lee, Perk

Girls Hockey: Grace Monahon Abby

Boys Basketball: Tyler Vincent

Girls Basketball:

Wrestling:

Spring

Baseball:

Cole Hendrickson: Birthday workout

Softball

Boys Tennis:

Girls Tennis:

Boys Lax: Dylan Clark (hat trick) Thomas Gorbey

Gorbey the Great

  1. Weekend AM 30 minutes Whistles (quick, medium, slow as anything)
    1. 25 forward, 25 backward, 25 plungers, chops 3 x 30 seconds

Girls Lax: Charlotte W. Ava P

Lax

 

Thomas Gorbey

14/15 vs. Tyler Vincent S Bass

PM workout

  1. 50 forward, 50 backward, 50 plungers, chops 3 x 30 seconds

Girls Soccer: Sophie

Football: Very few positions require skill development. Lifting and running.

Who has more skill workouts

  1. Will vs. Boutin

Tyler Bean

Student Challenge & Skills

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  1. What is your passion? Sport? Skill? Activity? What do you love and hope to do for the next 5 years?
  2. What can you do regularly that will help you grow this skill?
  3. In your eyes, who in this school and the world shares your passion with skill? Who is really good at this skill and how did they get here?
  4. Create a “workout” for your skill that you can follow to help you improve before the end of the school year.
  5. Your passion – best work ethic in school / grade.
  6. CREATE A VISUAL

Fundamentals are key

Round of Golf vs. hour on putting green.

Carroll vs.

 

Skill Workouts per week

Face off Gorbey vs.

  1. 300 face off challenge 300 vs. Tyler, Brennen, Bouts Junior off-season year
    1. specialization : 6th – 7th grade 2 years
    2. vs. Drip King
  2. Cole Hendrickson hit 300 at bats
  3. Brad “I’m not too Bad” Peterson