Labine guides Bishop Stang to baseball win over Westport
Bishop Stang is 1-0 in its second season. It’s just not the second season the Spartans had hoped.
Playing for the first time since being ousted from playoff contention, Stang and David Labine shut out Westport 9-0 in their baseball game at Westport High School.
Stang’s playoffs hopes ended with Saturday’s 4-1 loss to Old Rochester.
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HERREN HALL CALL: Mike, Chris headed to NE hoops hall of fame
This New England Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2013 is starting to look like a Durfee High School reunion.
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Anonymity not an option for Amendola at Patriots OTAs
On brand-new Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola’s shorts is the number 80. In Foxboro lore, those digits are synonymous with 2012 Patriots Hall of Fame inductee Troy Brown. However, it’s not to Brown that Amendola will most often be compared. That honor will belong to a certain No. 83.
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New Patriot Amendola says he doesn’t have to worry about comparisons to Welker
Wide receiver Danny Amendola says his concerns center around learning the playbook, running pass routes, and getting on the same page with his new teammates in New England.
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Bruschi to join Raynham’s Santos at Patriots Hall of Fame induction
Former linebacker Tedy Bruschi is announced as this year’s fan selection for entry into the team’s hall of fame. The ceremony will be held in Foxboro on Aug. 11.
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COLLEGES: Bridgewater State runner Molly Rouillard back in NCAAs
The senior, who earned All-America honors in the winter season, will be in two races at the Div. 3 Championships in Wisconsin this week, her fourth appearance in the NCAAs.
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COLLEGES: BSU’s Michael McPherson, Joshua Danner-Hicks in NCAA track meet
McPherson, an All-America a year ago, returns in the shot put event as the No. 11 seed while Danner-Hicks is the No. 15 seed in the triple jump. the two will compete in Wisconsin on Saturday.
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COLLEGE: Bridgewater’s Caitlin Fahey bound for NCAA Div. 2 track championship race
Bentley University senior Caitlin Fahey of Bridgewater, who struggled with illness as a sophomore and junior, is seeded ninth in the nation in the 1,500-meter event. The Coyle-Cassidy High graduate will be finishing her Bentley career at the NCAA Div. 2 Championships in Pueblo, Colo., this week. She will compete in the preliminary race Thursday night with the top 12 advancing to Saturday’s final.
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Durfee baseball takes frustration out on Diman
Missing the playoffs hasn’t taken away the competitive spirit Durfee showed against non-league opponent Diman RVT in their baseball matchup at John Pacheco Field on Monday.
After being eliminated from tournament contention by New Bedford on Friday, the Hilltoppers (5-13) took out their frustrations, cranking out eleven hits to the tune of 10 runs to back up a rock-solid performance by lefty pitcher Andrew Furtado, as they pounded the Bengals 10-2.
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Bruins getting blue-line gains from Bartkowski
His whistle taken away by fruitless labor negotiations, Claude Julien drove down to Providence during the lockout. The coach would spend his suddenly free time evaluating the Bruins’ AHL prospects, seeing which could be of use if and when the NHL season was ever defrosted. One of the players Julien kept his eye on was Matt Bartkowski, a 24-year-old third-year pro who’d played a handful of games with Boston over the previous two years.
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COMEBACK KIDS: Boone, McCann lead Durfee softball
If there’s such a thing as justifiable theft, then this was it.
Tara McCann pulled off a delayed steal of home, capping a two-out seventh-inning rally to give Durfee a 7-6 win over Bishop Feehan in a Monday afternoon softball game at Durfee High School.
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NEW DURFEE COACH: Guimond to lead Hilltopper hoops
Jameson Guimond is the new boys basketball head coach for Durfee High School. The Durfee High School Athletic Department announced Guimond’s hiring in a press release today.
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Bruins 5, Rangers 2: Commanding performance
A week ago the Bruins were on the ropes, down three goals in the third period in Game 7 against the Maple Leafs and staring elimination in the eye. Now they’ve got their swagger back and that three-goal deficit feels like it came from the days of wooden sticks. The Bruins commanded the final 30 minutes of Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Rangers at TD Garden, coolly and confidently taking a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
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Bruins Notebook: Krug coming up big
Claude Julien told Torey Krug before the rookie played in his first playoff game Thursday to not be afraid to make a mistake. Yet it would be easy to see how playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, on a team that expects to go all the way, on national television, against the best goalie in the world, etc., would make a guy feel some nerves.
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SULLIVAN: Somerset grad, Reds pitcher sidelined
It’s a new experience for Dan Langfield, and it’s a frustrating one.
The Somerset High graduate — a 2012 third-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Reds — has been sidelined with a shoulder injury. He remains at the Reds’ spring training camp outside Phoenix, Ariz., where his baseball life is downright dull. He said the injury has been diagnosed as an “internal impingement” in the pitcher’s right throwing shoulder.
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Megliola: Tortorella still the fiery kid from Concord
The teenager in Concord pretty much squares with John Tortorella now, at 54. He’s the ultimate taskmaster. He draws no line between superstars and sparsely used players.
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Bruins Notebook: Injured trio of defensemen still on the mend
It appears the Bruins’ defensive situation will be status quo Sunday in Game 2 against the Rangers, with Andrew Ference, Wade Redden or Dennis Seidenberg.
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HORSE RACING: Oxbow wins Preakness to deny Orb a shot at Triple Crown
Orb was unable to find his rhythm after breaking slowly from the rail, and never challenged in finishing fourth.
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