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12 Feb

Basketball Magicians top this week’s MHS sports notebook

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Boys basketball gets closer to the postseason The Marblehead High boys basketball team (9-6) needs just one more win in its final five regular season games to clinch a state tournament berth after throttling visiting Peabody, 78-45 on Feb. 6. The Magicians also led the Tanners at halftime, 33-24 after junior captain Finn Baron sank a three-point shot to extend the team’s lead to nine at the break. In the third quarter, defensive adjustments and fast break points broke the game open for coach Mike…

12 Feb

Marblehead High girls finish third in North state swimming sectionals; boys end up 16th

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The Marblehead High girls swim team finished in a tie for third place with Wayland during the Division 1 North state sectionals at the Boston Sports Institute in Wellesley on Feb. 6. Both teams each accumulated 216 points. The Marblehead High girls swimmers are among the top three teams in Division 1 North after finishing up the state sectionals last weekend, while the boys were 16th. Both teams will be back at it again this weekend to participate in the All-State Championship Meet at MIT.…

11 Feb

PREP STANDOUT: Faceoff specialist Crawford commits to Providence

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Will Crawford, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound faceoff specialist from Marblehead, will take his lacrosse skills to NCAA Division I Providence College this fall. COURTESY PHOTO Lacrosse faceoff specialist Will Crawford of Marblehead was one of more than a dozen St. John’s Prep student-athletes who recently made commitments to compete at the college of their choice. Crawford will attend Providence College. “Will had an incredibly productive season last spring in the faceoff spot, earning USA Lacrosse All-American honors,” said Eagles coach John Pynchon. “He is skilled and…

10 Feb

Magicians celebrate seniors with dominant 70-40 win over Bishop Fenwick

Luca TedescoMarblehead Public Schools, Sports, Top Stories

The Marblehead High School boys’ basketball team beat the Bishop Fenwick Crusaders, 70-40, at home Monday evening. “It was a big one for us,” said Marblehead Head Coach Michael Giardi. “That’s our 10th win so we’ve qualified for the state tournament which is a big thing to do on senior night.” Finn Baron (24) of Marblehead is fouled by Charles Sebuma Jr. (21) of Bishop Fenwick in the third quarter of a basketball game at Marblehead High School on Feb. 9. CURRENT PHOTOS / LUCA…

05 Feb

Marblehead High swimmers complete perfect regular season with another NEC Meet championship

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The Marblehead High swim team celebrates in Beverly’s Sterling YMCA pool after they completed the perfect season with another championship in the annual NEC Meet on Jan. 31. Combined, they scored over 1,000 points, easily outdistancing their conference foes. COURTESY PHOTO / NOAH LUCAS The Marblehead High swim team (6-0) completed the regular season undefeated the only way they know how with a 92-75 win over archrival Swampscott at the Lynch/van Otterloo YMCA on Senior Night, Jan. 29. Senior captains Brady Leveroni, Cale Nelson, Monica…

05 Feb

Hockey Headers, Track, Wrestling in this week’s Marblehead Magicians sports notebook

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Hockey Headers fall to Beverly to snap winning streak The Marblehead High boys hockey team (3-9-1) saw their three-game winning streak come to an end against host Beverly at Endicott College’s Bourque Arena on Jan. 31, 5-1. The lone goal by the Hockey Headers was scored by Ryan Frary on a breakaway late in the third period. First-year coach Brendan Locke said that goaltender Bowden Laramie was his star of the game after he came up with an extraordinary total of 38 saves against a…

04 Feb

Marblehead girls take home 46-23 senior night win against Salem

Luca TedescoMarblehead Public Schools, Sports, Top Stories

The Marblehead High School girls basketball team picked up a dominant 46-23 senior night win over the Salem Witches on Tuesday night at the Kulevich Athletics Complex. “I thought we played a really great game,” said Marblehead co-captain, Greta Sachs. “It was pretty fun and light spirited. Salem’s a great team so it was awesome.” The all-senior starting lineup for the Magicians included co-captain Samara Dosch who has been sidelined this season with an injury. Dosch scored the game’s opening points, her first of the…

31 Jan

Basketball Magicians fall to Masconomet, 64-35

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The Marblehead Magicians boy’s basketball team lost to the Masconomet Chieftains 65-35 in Boxboro on Friday night. “We got blasted,” said Marblehead head coach, Mike Giardi. “We did not do the things that we needed to do in order to stay in a competitive game like we did the first time with them. It wasn’t from lack of effort. It was more of, a little bit of ‘I’ve got to take over and do a little too much individually.’ We didn’t play good team basketball.”…

29 Jan

Marblehead indoor track teams enjoy winning seasons

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The Marblehead High boys indoor track team remains undefeated with a record of 4-0-1, while the girls are 3-1-1 after each team’s latest win at home against Saugus on Jan. 22. The boys upended the Sachems, 68-12. The girls pretty much did the same, 65-21. Previously, the Magicians faced Peabody in Swampscott on Jan. 8. The boys were victorious, 45-41, but the girls lost, 50-36. They then took on Masco on Jan. 15 at Gloucester, and both ends of that meet ended up in a…

29 Jan

Hockey Headers begin to turn the corner; wrestlers show fight in this week’s notebook

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Hockey Headers make it two in a row After getting their first win of the season against Danvers on Jan. 17, the Hockey Headers (2-8-1) had to wait a week to make it two straight, which they did against Masco at Haverhill’s Valley Forum last Saturday night, Jan. 24, 4-3. Can this be the start of another miraculous comeback like the one two years ago, which propelled that group to the state title? Only time will tell, but first-year coach Brendan Locke is still thrilled…