Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Boston Globe North basketball writer, Pat Bradley, finally came to his senses in today’s editions. He has the newly-crowned repeat Division 3 state champion Danvers High Falcons ranked first in his Top Ten, and he made the choice before … Continue reading →

From a 1-19 record four years ago, new coach John Walsh and his flock of remarkable high-flying Falcons have turned Danvers High into the most successful boys basketball program currently in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By beating Smith Academy, 66-50, Saturday at … Continue reading →

I’ve been around Danvers High sports since I was a water boy on my big brother Bob’s Oniontowner football teams in 1960 and 1961. I played on two DHS basketball teams that lost Northeastern Conference titles the last week of the … Continue reading →

Great, legendary teams know how to win even when they appear to be on the verge of falling off the cliff, i.e. losing. The Danvers Falcons, a team for the ages, were the perfect example after they grinded out a pulsating 50-47 … Continue reading →

Call me an eternal optimist. Do not call me a Jinx Machine. There’s no such thing anyway. But doesn’t the fate of the surging Danvers High Basketball team look oh so inevitable after passing its sternest test of this magical … Continue reading →

The Danvers High Basketball Falcons’ inexorable quest for a second consecutive Division 3 state championship is passing through the Wayland Warriors once again. The No. 2 seeded Falcons (21-2) take on Wayland (19-4) Saturday at 3:45 in the Division 3 … Continue reading →

Forced to crank it up a notch from their previous two blowout tournament wins, the Danvers High Falcon Cagers got their first serious post-season test last night in the SRO Triton Regional gym and turned back Whittier Regional Voke, 69-51, in their … Continue reading →

The surging Danvers High Falcons, after looking unbeatable in its first two tournament wins, takes on its third straight opponent from the apparently woefully weak Commonwealth Athletic Conference Tuesday night at 7 at Triton Regional in Byfield. That’s a straight … Continue reading →

This was big-time high school tournament basketball at its best in Massachusetts, A turnaway crowd of 1300 in the Prep’s Memorial Gymnasium Friay night to watch Division 1 North top-seeded St. John’s (19-2) host No. 8 seed Andover (15-6), with … Continue reading →

Congrats to Coach Pat Veilleux and his Danvers High girls basketball team after an impressive 50-42 opening round victory over arch rival Gloucester in the Division 2 North Section tournament last night in the DHS fieldhouse. This was my first glimpse … Continue reading →