Athletics News
Bland, Warren Commit to Bentley
Catholic Memorial School seniors Donald Bland and Lorenzo Warren have committed to Bentley University, a decision announced by the CM Athletics Office last week.
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The two seniors, who captained CM’s football team last year, will play for the Falcons, who led the Northeast-10 Conference last season and sent four players to the Conference All-Star game...[read more]
Posted 3/3/2010
Colucci, O'Brien and Hanson to compete in first MSHCA All-Star game
Catholic Memorial School seniors Derek Colucci and T.J. O'Brien have been selected to compete in the first Massachusetts State Hockey Coaches Association All-Star game. They will join CM hockey coach Bill Hanson, who will coach the south team, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell on March 20.
Colucci and O'Brien were chosen as two of the 23 players in the state to compete on the south's team in the game, which is sponsored by the Lowell Devils and presented by the U.S. Army. The MSHCA selected the rosters and coaches based on nominationsfrom MSHCA members and coaches...[read more]
Posted 2/26/2010
Winter Athletes head into postseason
Basketball, hockey, indoor track, swimming and wrestling have all continued to compete into the postseason this month. In basketball, the Catholic Conference Champions and #7-seed face West Roxbury on 2/23 at home in the first round of the South Sectional bracket.
In hockey, CM earned a 21st Catholic Conference Championship this month and has been named the #1-seed in the MIAA Division 1A "Super 8" Tournament for a fifth consecutive year. The team faces its first opponent, Winchester, in opening bracket play at the Tsongas Arena on 2/27...[read more]
Posted 2/22/2010
Basketball, Hockey Teams Earn Conference Championships
With defeats of BC High and a streak of wins against other conference schools, both the CM basketball and hockey teams earned Catholic Conference Championships this past weekend.
The basketball team (11-5) defeated BC High, 65-47, on Friday night in the Ronald Perry Gymnasium, their seventh win in a row...[read more]
Posted 2/7/10
Donovan Named All-American
CM Soccer captain Will Donovan '10 has been named to the ESPN RISE Fall Boys' Soccer All-America team. The senior captain scored the only goal in Catholic Memorial's state title victory over Ludlow. The Duke commit is the only ESPN RISE All-America selection who is a member of the U.S. under-18 national pool. Donovan finished the season with 18 goals and 15 assists to earn MVP of the Catholic Conference and Boston Globe first-team honors. Catholic Memorial finished No. 44 in the final FAB 50.
Posted 1/15/10
Fall All-Scholastics and Honors
Congratulations to the following Fall Sports athletes who earned special recognition in the postseason:Cross-Country: Ed Colvin '10, League All-Star
Golf: Joe Harney '10 - Div.II Player of the Year (Boston Globe), Boston Herald All-Scholastic and League All-Star; Tim Boyle '12, League All-Star
Football: E-Mass Div I All-Star and League All-Star Keshaudas Spence '10; League All-Stars Donald Bland '10, Donovan Henry '11, Joe McCarthy '10, and Lorenzo Warren '10.
Soccer: Will Donovan '10, All-Scholastic (Boston Globe and Boston Herald) and League All-Star; Conner Askins '10 (Boston Herald) and League All-Star; Hamadi Cantave '10 and Alex Flores '10, League All Stars
Congratulations to CM Soccer coach John Finn '89, named the Division I Soccer Coach of the Year.
Posted 12/15/09
Frank Wheeler-Larusso '10 commits to Fairfield
In a signing ceremony in the Catholic Memorial School boardroom on November 16, Frank Wheeler-Larusso '10 committed to playing lacrosse and studying for Fairfield University next year.
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Wheeler-Larusso, who has played varsity lacrosse and soccer in his years as a Knight, signed the letter of intent in the company of head lacrosse coach Brian Scott and CM athletics director Alex Campea.
Posted 11/19/09
Hanson, Cerbo to be inducted into Mass. Hall of Fame
The Massachusetts State Hockey Coaches Association has announced that Catholic Memorial School head hockey coach Mr. Bill Hanson and interim assistant athletics director Mr. James Cerbo will be inducted into the MSHCA Hall of Fame Class of 2010. The induction ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 6 at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham.
Hanson, who has won 17 state championships and has over 500 wins in his career, won the prestigious Mariucci Award in April, one of the highest honors in the field. Cerbo, whose career as a referee included several years with Eastern Hockey League and fifteen years with Division I hockey, has also served as a site director for the MIAA. In July, Mr. Cerbo began filling in for Br. Crowley as assistant athletics director.
Posted 11/19/09
CM Soccer heads to South Semifinals
The CM Varsity Soccer team will face King Philip Regional High School in the Division I South Sectional semifinals on Saturday evening at 7pm at Weymouth High School. Read More
Posted 11/17/09
Harney Wins State Championship
Joe Harney '10 knew he'd probably have to take some chances heading into the last nine holes of his high school career yesterday at Blackstone National Golf Club in Sutton. Down by two strokes, Harney remembered what his coach, John Palermo '79, had told him the day before. "These guys you're going up against are always going to shoot a 75 [on the coure]. You've got to take a chance and get an 80 or take a chance and win it." Read More
Posted 11/15/09
Vote for CM on High School Friday!
Fox 25 is considering coverage of the St. John's Prep v. CM game on October 30. Click here to vote for coverage of this game over the other contender!
Posted 9/25/09
Josh Boyd '09: The All-Scholastic Interview
Josh Boyd answers questions put to him by the Boston Globe after his selection as a Spring All-Scholastic. Watch the video by clicking here...
Posted 6/1/09
Excellence in Coaching: AHCA Honors Hanson, Parker
On Saturday evening, April 25, the American Hockey Coaches Association honored Catholic Memorial School hockey coach Bill Hanson with the John Mariucci Award. The Award, instituted in 1988, honors a secondary school association coach who best exemplifies the spirit, dedication and enthusiasm of the "Godfather of U.S. Hockey," John Mariucci.
Along with Hanson, Boston University coach Jack Parker '64 was honored as the Men's Division I Coach of the Year at the annual banquet, held at the Naples Beach Hotel. Parker, along with assistant Mike Bavis '88, led the Terriers to their 5th National Championship in a dramatic finish on April 11.
Coach Hanson, pictured above, thanked the AHCA and the delegation from CM that joined him, which included his wife Lynn, Ed '61 and Nancy McElaney, Fr. Jack Costello, and CM Athletic Director Alex Campea.
"My beginning in hockey was in South Boston, as a young kid digging hockey pucks out of the net for John Cunniff in the Greyhound Bus Terminal on East 2nd St.," Hanson remarked. "He became a right wing All-American at BC. I learned to play from one of the best. And from those humble beginnings, playing on Castle Island and in Columbia Park...to winning the Mariucci Award. My background was a lot like John Mariucci's--but his was the black ice of Minnesota."
"This is a well-deserved honor for Coach Hanson and all the success he's had in all his years," said Alex Campea. "With seventeen state championships and over 500 wins, it's safe to say he's contributed mightily to high school hockey in Massachusetts, producing quality student-athletes in his time here."
posted 5/1/09
Boyd Honored by National Football Foundation
Josh Boyd '09 has been recognized by the Jack Grinold Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation for his outstanding performance as senior captain of the CM Varsity Football team. Boyd was one of twenty-two secondary school scholar-athletes to be honored with the recognition and will be formally honored at the 34th annual banquet hosted by the Chapter on May 11, 2009.
"Congratulations for being selected for this honor," Edward Schluntz, chairman of the NFF Selection Committee wrote to Josh in early April. "I am sure that the occasion will be meaningful for you, your family and your school."
The NFF oversees the College Hall of Fame along with recognizing high school and college athletes with special honors throughout the year. Though many of Josh's predecessors from the CM Football program have been nominated, this is the first time a Catholic Memorial student has received this honor.
Posted 4/14/09
CM Hockey earns accolades at Hockey Night in Boston Banquet
CM Hockey coach Bill Hanson was named Division IA Coach of the Year and two individual hockey players received honors at the Hockey Night in Boston annual Banquet to mark the end of the season on March 29th.
Garrett Noonan '09 was named the Division I Player of the Year, while Dan Cornell received the Senior Recognition Award.
The event was hosted at the Holiday Inn in Tewksbury. Several top northeastern teams and individual players were honored and Catholic Memorial was named the #3 team in the northeast and the #1 team in Massachusetts in the final coaches' poll.
posted 3-30-09
Harris nominated for All Fox 25 Team
Al Harris '09 has been nominated for the All Fox-25 Basketball team. The Knights center averaged nearly 24 points per game this season and led his Knights to the South Sectional Finals in early March. Vote for Harris at the Fox 25 Website. (Harris appears in the video above along with the other nominees.)
Posted 3/21/09
Hockey Wins 17th State Title
The hockey team captured its record 17th state championship with a 5-1 victory over Burlington Sunday, March 15 at the TD BankNorth Garden. The victory made the Knights Division IA "Super 8" Champions for the 13th time since the tournament's inception in 1991. Read more...
Posted 3/15/09
Al Harris '09 reaches 1,000 Points
Thirty seconds into the fourth quarter of his team's first-round matchup against O'Bryant in the Division II South playoffs on February 25th, Al Harris '09 drove to the paint, pulled up in traffic and arced a six-footer into the basket. In doing so, he recorded his 1,000th and 1,001st points in a Knights uniform and became only the 6th player in school history to achieve four-digits in the record books as a leading scorer.
In the 71-61 win over O'Bryant, the senior captain (pictured above with his mother Diane and grandmother Alfreda on senior night), moved his team into the quarterfinals of the south bracket.
Previous 1000-pt. scorers for Catholic Memorial include Ron Teixiera '65, King Gaskins '72, Ron Perry, Jr. '76, Bruce Higgins '93, and Christopher Donald '06.
Posted 2/25/09
Josh Boyd '09 Selected for 31st Annual Shriners Classic
Josh Boyd '09 will play in the 31st Annual Shriners All-Star Football Classic being held on Friday, June 19, 2009 at Bentley University. Boyd received the news in early February. Boyd, one of Catholic Memorial's team captains this past season, will play in the game on his way to Harvard where he intends to play football in the fall.
Although he was also considered for the game, CM's other conference all-star, Brennan Williams '09, was scheduled to be in pre-season camp at the University of North Carolina.
Since 1978, the Shriners All-Star Football Classic has been a premier high school football game honoring the best and most athletic high school football players in the state of Massachusetts.
Posted 2/17/09
Vin Repucci '10 Wins Wright Award as CM defeats BC High
Vin Repucci '10 was named the 9th recipient of the Edward M. Wright M.D. Memorial Award after this season's second matchup of CM v. BC High at the Bright Hockey Center at Harvard University on Saturday, February 7th. With the 3-0 win against BC High, the Knights (7-3-14, 5-1-1) earned a playoff berth in the Division I hockey tournament.
Repucci, pictured above with Wright Wright Memorial Committee members (left) Richard Wright '71 and (right) John Glynn '65, scored the second goal of the game and added an assist. Billy Carey '09 and Garrett Noonan '09 also scored for the Knights.
Posted 2/8/09
Brennan Williams '09 Picks UNC
Aside from pursuing a graphic arts or computer science major, Catholic Memorial School's Brennan Williams '09 has announced that he will play football for North Carolina's Tarheels next year.
Williams, pictured with Coach Alex Campea above at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl game on January 3, made the announcement on game day. Read more by clicking here.
(Photo courtesy Rivals.com)
Posted 1/6/09
Coach William Hanson receives AHCA's Mariucci Award
The American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) has named Catholic Memorial School guidance counselor and head hockey coach William Hanson the recipient of the 2009 John Mariucci Award.
The award, named after former Minnesota player and coach John Mariucci, was created to honor a secondary school coach "who best exemplifies the spirit, dedication, and enthusiasm of the 'Godfather of U.S. Hockey,' John Mariucci." Established in 1988, the award is one of the highest honors bestowed upon a high school hockey coach.
Hanson will be honored along with other AHCA award recipients at a banquet in Naples, FL on April 25.
Catholic Memorial School has earned 19 Catholic Conference Championships, 16 State Championships and 6 National Championships during Coach Hanson's tenure as head coach. Coach Hanson is the first Massachusetts recipient of the award since Barnstable's Pete Melchiono was honored in 2001.
"We congratulate Coach Hanson for this award, which is a testament to his many years of service to CM," said Catholic Memorial principal Richard Chisholm.
Posted 12/30/08