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Pope John XXIII High School’s Leo Boucher was named the Boston Globe Coach for the Year in Division 4. Boucher led the Tigers to the state championship this season with a 24-1 record. Pope John also won its own hoop invitational tournament and the Catholic Central League and North sectional titles. Boucher was humbled...
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Sparked by a sensational 49-point performance by junior guard Angel Price-Espada, the Pope John XXIII High School basketball team blitzed Maynard, 89-57, to capture the Division 4 state championship Saturday at Springfield College. The decisive victory marked the Everett school’s first state title in basketball as coach Leo Boucher and his team claimed the...
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After a scintillating victory over Lawrence in the North Sectional final when a perfectly executed defensive game plan paid off, the Everett High basketball team met its match in the state semifinal, losing a hard-fought 73-65 decision to Mansfield Monday night at the TD Garden. Everett was looking to bring home a Division 1...
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Everett High student Shea Willcox was set to travel to Ireland this week for an international boxing event. Dennis Willcox, who is his son’s assistant trainer, and his older son, All-Scholastic quarterback Jake Willcox, will join Shea as he steps in to the ring against a nationally ranked opponent from Ireland. Amateur boxing observors...
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Theluxon Pierre was an All-Scholastic football player at Everett High School and a key performer on Crimson Tide Super Bowl championship teams. The 6-foot-3-inch star athlete went on to excel at Dean College and UMass/Amherst. An assistant coach on John DiBiaso’s staff for nine seasons, Pierre, 31, was introduced as the new head football...
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Everett High School boys basketball coach John DiBiaso recorded the 500th victory of his coaching career when the Crimson Tide defeated Chelmsford, 66-46, in the first round of the Division 1 North sectionals on March 1 in Everett. DiBiaso is believed to be the first high school coach in Massachusetts to reach 300 wins...
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John DiBiaso said good-bye to the Everett High School football program in an excellently delivered speech at the team’s awards banquet Sunday at Anthony’s in Malden. DiBiaso is retiring from the Everett school system at the end of the year. He has been named the head football coach and associate athletic director at Catholic...
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The father helped Everett win its first Super Bowl and went on to play Division 1 college football. The talented son stands poised to eclipse even those lofty athletic accomplishments. Kinjo Thomas Espada, the 16-year-old son of former EHS and Rutgers University football player John Espada and his high school classmate, Kim Dang Espada,...
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Running back Kevin Brown rushed for three touchdowns to power the Everett High School football team to a 36-20 victory over Masconomet Regional in a Thanksgiving eve game at Fenway Park in Boston. Brown opened the scoring with a 4-yard run in the first quarter. He had a 2-yard TD run in the second...
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The Everett High School football team had its hopes for a berth in the Division 1 Super Bowl ended by Central Catholic, 33-14, in the North sectional final Saturday at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Lawrence. Playing in its third consecutive road playoff game after two scintillating victories, the Crimson Tide (5-5) fell behind Central...
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