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boys' soccer tournament roundup
Tuesday’s boys’ soccer playoff roundup: With a Hollywood ending, Lowell survives double-OT battle with Beverly
After falling in the first round a season ago as the No. 2 seed — to eventual state champion Newton North — the Red Raiders learned and are attacking these playoffs with a different mentality.

field hockey tournament roundup
Tuesday’s field hockey playoffs roundup: No. 10 Lynnfield scores early to stun No. 7 Hanover
Hayden Valiton and Nola Maney paced the defense, and Bridget Mcgee posted nine saves to shut out the Hawks (14-4-0) for the first time since their season opener.

girls' volleyball tournament roundup
Tuesday’s girls’ volleyball playoff roundup: Wayland’s Anna Yalli kills any hope Billerica has of advancing
The senior belted the winning kill in the first set, three in the last 5 points of the second, and 16 overall to lead the No. 7 Warriors.

MIAA BOYS' SOCCER TOURNAMENT
MIAA boys’ soccer tournament: Favorites, sleepers, players to watch, analysis for Divisions 1-5
As proven with No. 31 Newton North winning Division 1 last fall, the high seeds will face a challenging journey.

MIAA GIRLS' SOCCER TOURNAMENT
MIAA girls’ soccer tournament: Favorites, sleepers, players to watch, analysis for Divisions 1-5
A Bay State Conference team looks likely to capture the D1 title, while defending champions seem primed for a repeat run.

STUDENT PHOTOJOURNALISM PROGRAM
Photo gallery: High school students taking their best shots
This week's gallery has 25+ pictures submitted by high school students from across the state.

MIAA TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP
No. 7 Winchester dominant, sweeps No. 10 Needham out of Division 1 girls’ volleyball tourney
Defne Mergen guided the attack with 29 assists as the No. 7 seeds rolled to victory over the Rockets in a Round of 16 contest.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Globe Top 20 football poll: Who finishes the regular season ranked No. 1?
St. John’s Prep is our top team entering the playoffs. Top 10 teams Methuen and Natick were dealt close losses in their finales, with Milton making the biggest jump up to No. 9.

MIAA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
The high school football playoffs are here. See the favorites, sleepers, and best first-round matchups.
The top seeds in each division are St. John's Prep (Div. 1), Catholic Memorial (Div. 2), King Philip (Div. 3), Scituate (Div. 4), Shawsheen (Div. 5), Norwell (Div. 6), Cohasset (Div. 7), and Nashoba Valley Tech (Div. 8).

Boston Globe All-Scholastics
The Boston Globe honors the best high school athletes and coaches each season with its All-Scholastics special section in print and online. First awarded in 1903, The Boston Globe's All-Scholastic teams celebrate the stars of tomorrow in all MIAA sports and highlight the all-stars in conferences and at prep schools.

Spring 2025 All-Scholastics

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
High school football players of the week: 44 stalwarts from Week 9
From a versatile senior captain at Acton-Boxborough to a a touchdown producing junior at Wilmington, there were no shortage of standouts on the final weekend of the regular season.

MIAA TOURNAMENT ROUNDUPNauset field hockey rallies past Nantucket in first-round upset
Nauset got the best of Nantucket despite going 0-1-1 during the regular season against their Cape & Islands League rival.

MIAA SOUTH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP
Newton North girls’ swimming continues to make a splash, winning first South championship since 2014
The Bay State Conference champions received first-place finishes from Barbara Liao and Victoria Sigmundstad-Callahan and swept the relays.

MIAA NORTH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP
Making waves, Haverhill girls’ swim team captures its first North sectional championship
Freshmen Mari Tucker, Georgia Abrams, and Alexandra Story and senior captain Molly Jordan started it off with a victory in 200-yard medley relay and the Hillies were off.

MIAA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
MIAA football playoffs: See the seeds and matchups for Divisions 1-8
The top seeds are St. John’s Prep (8-0), Catholic Memorial (6-2), King Philip (8-0), Scituate (7-1), Shawsheen (8-0), Norwell (6-2), Cohasset (6-2), and Nashoba Valley Tech (6-2).

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Seven high school sports takeaways from the final day of the MIAA football regular season
Field hockey and girls’ volleyball are already well into the first round. The boys’ and girls’ soccer brackets were released Saturday, with games starting Monday. MIAA football tournament brackets come out at 2 p.m. Sunday.

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Boys' high school hockey is ‘having an existential crisis.’ It starts with the rinks.

The MIAA was once where future pros developed. Now, prep schools and club programs have shifted the balance of talent. “Massachusetts is having an existential crisis,” one expert said.

Angry coaches and parents are driving away girls’ lacrosse officials. That’s a problem as the sport continues to grow.

Several officials said they left because of the culture of lacrosse. "It’s not every coach, it’s not every town, but there’s always a bad apple out there."

Demanding parents. Stressed-out students. Pressure to win. Welcome to life as a high school coach.

Gone are the days of "my way or the highway." X's and O's are trumped by managing personalities when athletes aren't used to direct feedback. And all the challenges make it hard for coaches to stick around.

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MIAA FIELD HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
With 18 straight wins, Wellesley field hockey team is racking up goals with flair, and wide smiles
Senior Alexa Heller, a first-year varsity player, and Sydney Kim netted two goals apiece in Division 1 first-round victory over Lowell.

high school football roundup
Saturday’s HS football roundup: Brockton recovers from 0-5 start to make playoffs, win Big Three
Casey Rhodes and Marcio Semedo each rushed for scores and Jarred Mighty caught a 30-yard game-sealing touchdown.

high school girls' volleyball roundup
With a dominant first-round win, Franklin girls’ volleyball following through on its state-title aspirations
Senior Makayla Kuykendall led with 15 kills, 11 digs, 3 aces, and a block as the No. 5 Panthers (19-2) earned a 25-16, 25-17, 25-13 victory over No. 28 Braintree (11-10) at Bellingham High.

St. John's Prep 43, Catholic Memorial 28
Top-ranked St. John’s Prep weathers early deficit, exploiting miscues to pull away from No. 3 Catholic Memorial
Coach Brian St. Pierre earned his 100th win, but it wasn't looking pretty when the Eagles fell behind 20-8 early on.

MIAA girls’ soccer tournament: Seeds and pairings for Divisions 1-5
Needham (D1), Duxbury (D2), Medfield (D3), Sutton (D4), and Granby (D5) secured the top seed in each division as the girls' soccer tournament kicks off.

MIAA BOYS' SOCCER TOURNAMENT
MIAA boys’ soccer tournament: Seeds and pairings for Divisions 1-5
A total of 210 boys’ soccer teams across five divisions learned their postseason fates Saturday afternoon with the release of the MIAA tournament brackets.

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Ten high school sports highlights from the last Friday night of regular-season football
With a hefty slate Thursday night (60 games) and another 44 games Saturday, it was a comparatively limited Halloween schedule (53 games), but we scared up plenty of highlights.

Conference champions, tailback terrors, and more among Thursday’s 10 high school sports takeaways
A wet and windy Thursday night kept the action on the ground, but still allowed for plenty of highlights, including five schools claiming league titles.

HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY NOTEBOOK
Canton girls’ cross-country completes rise to top of Hockomock League, now sets aim higher
For the first time in nearly a half century, the Canton girls claimed the Hockomock League crown, beating Oliver Ames despite a dual-meet loss during the regular season.

HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY
Globe Top boys’ and girls’ cross-country polls: Wellesley girls, Lowell boys on the rise entering divisionals
The Lowell boys capped their unbeaten regular season in the Merrimack Valley with a convincing league title, while the Wellesley girls advance two spots to No. 11 following a third-place finish at the Bay State championship.

HIGH SCHOOL CROSS-COUNTRY
Eastern Mass. cross-country: Runners of the Week for Oct. 24-30
Top finishers from the Middlesex and Bay State league championships dominate this week's top performances.

Archbishop Williams 22, Cathedral 0
Hudson Garrity, Archbishop Williams pass final test at Cathedral for an 8-0 regular season
The freshman quarterback continued his dazzling first varsity season with three TDs for Catholic Central Small champions.

All-time All-Scholastic teams

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Meet the Globe's all-time All-Scholastic football team
The Globe has selected a football All-Scholastic team every year since 1903. To celebrate this anniversary, we chose the best player at each position — based on their career after high school — for inclusion on our all-time team.

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Meet the Globe’s all-time All-Scholastic hockey teams
The Bay State has produced some greats on the ice. Here, we honor those players — men and women — who were named All-Scholastics in their youth and went on to big things as professionals.