A couple of awesome games tonight, both landing E-T area schools some hardware.
First, we saw Dan Habib’s Reggies knock off Lynn Tech for the Commonwealth Large title, which Habib said was the school’s first since 1997.
Great, great showing by the Reggie faithful. Plenty of faculty … does Marylin Fitzgerald ever miss a game???? … and a great showing by the students, right up until the booing of the Lynn Tech cheerleaders. That might have been a little over the top.
Still, you have to love that scene at the final buzzer when the students pour onto the court and mob the team.
Great team effort for the Reggies, who all of a sudden loom as a force in D3 North. Who wants to tangle with this bunch the way they played against Lynn?
“I think we can get better,” said Habib.
As good as “Teflon Don” Celestin is, the guy who makes the Reggies go is guard Kelvin Correa, defense, passing, scoring, he made so many good decisions in the win.
And his quicks on the defensive end, again with superb instincts, are a bigtime weapon.
Headed down Dracut way after that for the Methuen one-point win.
It should have been comfortable, instead the Rangers crumbled in the final two minutes and actually were a little bit lucky.
I’d call it justice. They owned the first 30 minutes. Dracut owned the last two. A middie win would have been thievery, a crushing blow to the Rangers.
Instead, Barden’s boys are champs. Congrats.
Can I just say that Matt Grimard is one impressive physical specimen in street clothes.
The Middies are physical man, really physical, but I’m wondering if my eyes deceived me.
I swear I watched Middie Johnny Rivera get a tooth knocked out, hand it to a teammate on the bench and continue playing. That, my friends, is tough, tougher than I could fathom ever.
Gritty effort by Edwin Gonzalez, who played on a tender ankle, but managed to hit three huge threes.
How about Matty Richardson putting this club on his broad shoulders lately?
And young Raudy Minaya played probably the best game of his young career.
Winning the small is a nice little accomplishment for a Ranger team that was 1-2 in the Christmas tourney and had some doubts.
Come tourney time, they’re a little like George Foreman … He always had a puncher’s chance. They always have a shooter’s chance.
Those threes add up mighty quick.
Elsewhere around the region, there were no major surprises, although Londonderry picked up a pivotal win over Exeter to help keep its tourney hopes afloat.
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