Massachusetts High School Basketball News

The basketball court at the Center School was always crowded back then. Big kids.

Boston College basketball landed a big commitment this afternoon, literally, as Swedish power forward Billy Magarity Jr. committed to the Eagles.

After weeks of pressure-packed tournament games with each and every pitch or plate appearance possibly meaning the end of a schoolboy career, the best seniors from Central and Western Mass.

The PGBL is Plymouth's only all-girl basketball league with four divisions serving grades 2 to 8. The instructional division is open to all first- and second-grade girls with the focus on teaching the fundamentals of the game and basic basketball skills.

School's out . . . forever. If Alice Cooper sang it best, it is anything but music to the ears of the New Leadership Charter School community.

Swampscott High School 's boys' varsity basketball team has a new head coach. Salem Public Schools Athletic Director Jon Flanagan announced Wednesday that longtime Watertown High School basketball coach David Born would take over the team beginning next season.

Jeff Caron, one of the last links to Durfee High School's basketball glory days, is the new boys basketball coach at Dartmouth High School.

There they sat, side by side, in a booth at a downtown restaurant. A couple of phone calls had brought them together Tuesday for the first time since 1979 - and 49 years after they captivated Western Massachusetts in a magical high school basketball season.

When 69 seniors march onto the stage of the Shed at Tanglewood Sunday afternoon for their graduation ceremony, they'll cheer for two valedictorians as well as the salutatorian.

I got some disturbing news this week. I'm sure many of you remember Jack Zabek, who arrived at Frontier Regional School in 1972 as a physical education teacher.

The 6-foot-11 power forward visits this week and will decide between Seton Hall, Temple and Boston College sometime over the next two weeks.

The Greenfield High School junior pitcher was on the Green Wave basketball team that lost to the Tigers in the Western Massachusetts Division II boys' basketball finals and saw his school lose to South Hadley in the quarterfinals of the hockey tournament.

Weston was the top player for the Whalers last season, averaging 20.5 points and 10 rebounds a game, but will reclassify into the Class of 2016 at Cheshire.

Trailing two sets to one, with Newton North serving up the match point, the Newton South Lions refused to lose.

Thirteen years after being inducted into Archbishop Williams hall of fame, Brian Holden will return as the new boys' basketball head coach, athletic director Gordie McClay announced on Friday.

Second base has been a home away from home all season for senior Taylor Shaker, who plays center field for the Bishop Stang softball team.

Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, recently recognized Andrew Nene, 18, of Webster who was named, for the second time, a Boys & Girls Club Local Youth of the Year.

The now 59-year-old New Bedford native was at his best for the majority of his 27-year varsity coaching career when he compiled enough wins and guided his New Bedford High School basketball teams to enough championships to be inducted into the Massachusetts Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame.

Standout Newton South basketball player Kayla Burton has been tapped as a member of Lehigh University's women's basketball team.

"My time at GD has been filled to the brim with activity and was constantly a balancing act of school, work and sports.