The schedule of events for the 2009 Agganis games was recently released. The events are as follows:
Awards Ceremony, Sunday July 12 at 10 a.m. at Manning Field.
12th Annual Softball Classic, Sunday July 12 at noon at Fraser Field.
15th Annual Baseball Classic, Sunday July 12 at 2 p.m. at Fraser Field.
5th Annual Women’s Basketball Classic, Monday [...]
Former Lynn English assistant Justin Fucile has been named the new head boys basketball coach at Swampscott High.
Fucile spent the last three seasons at English, helping guide the Bulldogs to three straight Northeastern Conference titles. He has also served as the head coach of the Under-16 AAU Thundercats team as well as the U-16 Raptors.
Coach Jane Heil’s Peabody High girls basketball team always sends its student-athletes to some top notch colleges, and this year’s graduating class is no exception.
Alyssa Manoogian is off to Colgate University to play Division 1 soccer for the Red Raiders. UMass Amherst will welcome a pair of Tanners in Katie Henrick and Sylvi LaFrazia.
Kenia McKeon [...]
Paul Moran’s resignation from his position as the Swampscott boys basketball coach last week was a bit surprising, but there might be an ideal replacement for him in Mike Smiley.
Smiley — like Moran long before him – was a great scorer for the Big Blue in the late 1990s and went on to play at Holy [...]
The last time we saw the Swampscott High girls basketball team, it was celebrating its first-ever state championship following a 72-38 mauling of Quaboag in the Division 3 title game in Worcester.
Now it’s time to honor the great 23-2 Big Blue team closer to home.
The school’s official State Championship Celebration Night is set for May [...]
Two-time Salem News Boys Basketball Player of the Year Mike Clifford has committed to the University of Buffalo for next season.
The 6-foot-8 Bishop Fenwick stud becomes the third Crusader to play Division 1 ball (Casey Arena at Maine and Sean Connolly at Ohio State/Providence are the others) after a career that saw him score more [...]
It’s good to know they’re reading us in some parts of Texas.
Former Salem High coach Dennis Skeadas checked in after seeing my column on the most dominating high school girls basketball teams in North Shore history. Swampscott, which went 23-2 this season and won its five Division 3 state tourney games by an average of [...]
In the aftermath of the “resignation” of head basketball coach Dave Leitao and three of his assistants at the University of Virginia, former Salem High great Rick Brunson is suddenly in charge of the team.
Since the Cavaliers went 10-18 this season, including 4-12 in the ACC, Leitao’s resignation seems more like [...]
It couldn’t get any easier.
We simply want to know: who will win Saturday’s Division 3 girls basketball state championship: Swampscott (22-2) or Quaboag (25-0)? Check out our poll below and vote.
The Swampscott High basketball team’s main concern in the state title game Saturday will be 6-footer Meaghan O’Keefe, who has scored over 1,000 career points and is capable of scoring 20 points anytime.
Meaghan O’Keefe’s older sister, Kelsey, was a superstar at Quaboag before moving on to Bryant College, where she is having a great career.
Kelsey’s [...]
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