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By KEVIN DEVLIN On Sunday, Feb. 21, at the Walsh Center gym, Saint Vincent’s two CYO boys’ travel teams competed in the annual CYO Vicariate Tournament. The seventh and eighth grade team went home with a victory in the opening round by cruising to victory against Saint Agatha’s of Milton, while the fifth and sixth grade team lost to a talent-laden Saint Peter’s of Cambridge squad. The older boys’ squad is coached by Billy Allen and Alhaji Mansaray. They were 9-3 during the regular season and continued their winning ways against coach John Timmins’ team from Milton. For Saint Vincent’s, Djeison Resende was unstoppable, netting 22 points and hauling down 12 rebounds. Darrell Hardy scored 12 points, while Walter Steele and Alex Nunez had 10 [...]

By KEVIN DEVLIN Spring is sitting on the horizon as we glance at winter through our rear view mirrors. Such optimism abounds as the South Boston Stars spring soccer and basketball teams get ready to rumble. This upcoming season, from March through late May, the Southie Stars will be fielding three hoop teams and one soccer team. Southie Stars founder, Marc Iannaco, is coaching the Under 12 and Under 13 boys’ hoop teams, while Megan Cheeseman will be coaching the eighth-grade girls’ hoop team. Basketball practices will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the South Boston Catholic Academy gym. They started Tuesday, Feb. 23. Practice for the boys’ teams are from 6 to 7:30 p.m., while the eighth-grade girls’ team practices are from 7:30 to [...]

By KEVIN DEVLIN On Sunday, Feb. 21, at the Walsh Center gym, the Metro Energy Club defeated the Jack McDonough Club, 29-22, to capture the Gate of Heaven CYO cadet house league title. The Metro Energy Club was the regular season champion with an 11-1 record and was not to be denied in the championship tilt. In the first half, Metro Energy Club guard Logan Crowley hit a three-pointer from the corner to give his team an 11-6 lead at intermission. In the opening minutes of the second half, the Jack McDonough Club went on a 5-0 run to cut the deficit to one, 12-11. But then coach Billy Crowley’s boys buckled down and went on a 6-0 run of their own to realize an [...]

By KEVIN DEVLIN On Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Walsh Center gym, the Gate of Heaven CYO third and fourth grade boys team, coached by Danielle McDonald and Sean Monahan, played in the annual CYO Vicariate Tournament. Their opening round opponent was Saint Agatha’s of Milton. It was a close knit game and with less than 30 seconds to play, Gatey was leading by three, with the score at 20-17. Then, Saint Agatha’s raced down the court and hit a three-pointer from downtown, to tie it. It looked like the game was going to go into overtime, but with 6.2 seconds left on the game clock, Gatey forward Robert Wisniewski had the ball and dribbled to his right. He shot the ball hoping for a [...]