Author Archives: Gary

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 →

Think the Danvers High Falcon Hoopsters are primed to repeat as Division 3 state champions? Consider these facts from their opening round 78-31 annihilation of Greater Lawrence last night in the DHS fieldhouse: Danvers led 18-0 after one quarter, forcing … Continue reading →

That was quite an affair they had for noted sports marketer Andy Buckley at Anthony’s Hawthorne by the Sea on the Swampscott oceanfront last Saturday night. More than a hundred family members, friends and business associates gave the Marblehead native … Continue reading →

To some of us, it seems like only weeks ago that we were toasting the Division 3 state champion Danvers High Falcons at Spinelli’s on Route 1 in Lynnfield. Well, here we go again, and unlike a year ago, when the … Continue reading →

Well, here they are. The Danvers High boys’ basketball team that has made history like no other Falcon cage squad.  Now, they are preparing to defend their Division 3 state championship, most likely starting late next week as the No. … Continue reading →