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HIGH SCHOOLS, PATRIOTS / 16
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Boxer
girls get
revenge
Brockton finds scoring
touch to avenge loss to
Quincy in rematch
By Chris McDaniel
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
QUINCY – What a difference a month
made for the Brockton High girls basketball
team.
The Boxers avenged a loss to Quincy
High earlier this season by
defeating the host Presi-
dents, 62-58, on Monday.
In their first meeting on Dec. 17, Quin-
cy had won, 34-31, with 6-foot-4 freshman
center Nicole Jorgensen breaking team
records for rebounds (26) and blocked shots
(12).
In the rematch, the Boxers (6-4) were
able to run, allowing them to nearly double
the score from their first match-up.
“They kind of turned it into their style
tonight,” said Quincy High coach Jeff
Bretsch. “Our strength was our size advan-
tage and we weren’t quite able to capital-
ize.”
This time around, the Boxers held Jor-
gensen to 14 points, including only four in
the second half, although she did finish with
15 rebounds and six blocked shots.
Quincy couldn’t keep pace with the
Boxers’ up-tempo attack attack despite en-
Hawks
stand on
solid ice
Southeastern wins third
straight in boys hockey
By Jay N. Miller
ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
RAYNHAM – It has been a solid mid-
season turnaround for the Southeastern Re-
gional High boys hockey team.
After stumbling out of the gate with an
0-3-2 mark, the senior-laden Hawks won
their third in a row on
Monday, getting two
goals apiece from se-
niors David Burns and Adam Haigh in a 6-3
win over New Bedford High at CDL Are-
na.
“The kids have started skating harder,
working the forecheck better and getting to
the goal,” said Southeastern coach Mark
Cabral.
The Hawks, who improved to 7-5-2 (4-3
Mayflower League Large), need six points
in their final eight games to qualify for the
MIAA South Sectional tourney.
The Hawks and Whalers stood tied, 2-2,
after the first period before Southeastern
struck for three unanswered goals in a sec-
ond period in which the Hawks outshot the
Whalers, 15-3.
“What we saw on a couple occasions to-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I Patriots tackle Marcus Cannon talks on the phone next to a box of his belongings from his locker at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro on Monday. Players
packed for the offseason before heading home as a result of Sunday night’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game.
R E D S O X
Pen should make mark on mound
PAT R I O T S
PACKING IT INAfter AFC title loss to Ravens,
Pats clean out lockers, head
home for long offseason
By Glen Farley
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
F
OXBORO – Less than 24 hours earlier,
they were taking the field in front of
more than 68,000 fans at Gillette Stadi-
um in pursuit of the Lamar Hunt Trophy.
Come Monday morning, the Patriots were
back at Gillette, in the solitude of their locker
room, packing up cardboard boxes and stuffing
belongings into trash bags.
Reality quickly set in.
The 2012 season was Patri-
ots’ history.
Break-up meetings were
conducted. Exit physicals were
administered.
“There’s definitely a
somber, I guess you could say,
feel to the place today,” cornerback Kyle Arring-
ton said. “But I think Bill (head coach Bill Be-
lichick) said it best: ‘This time of year there (are)
no soft landings, it’s a hard crash.’ So we’ve just
got to do our best to stick together as a team and
just move forward.”
The fact that the season had ended harshly and
abruptly with Sunday night’s 28-13 AFC Cham-
pionship Game loss to the Baltimore Ravens was
the mantra at the stadium on Monday.
“That’s the NFL,” said Belichick. “The last
game, you play a game in this time of year you’re
either (feeling) euphoria or it’s a crash landing,
and so for us (Sunday night) was a crash landing.
A year ago at this time (following the 2011 AFC
Championship Game win over the Ravens), it was
the other feeling.”
One night, the Patriots are striving to be No. 1;
the next morning, they’re one of the other 31.
The Ravens are going on to play the San Fran-
cisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans;
the Patriots are going home.
“It’s one or the other,” said Belichick.
“There’s no between and there’s certainly no soft
landings. A season that’s very much alive and
with great hopes and expectations and energy,
suddenly it crashes and it’s over and that’s the
way it’s going to be for every team but one this
year.
“That’s the NFL. It’s not going to change.
That’s the way it is. Unfortunately, that’s where
H I G H S C H O O L S
SOUTHEASTERN 6
NEW BEDFORD 3
BROCKTON 62
QUINCY 58
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib is surrounded by the media in the locker room at Gillette Stadium on
Monday where players said their goodbyes to each other heading into the offseason.
INSIDE
I Belichick
says he will
be back next
season / 16
PATS/PAGE 16
Addition of Hanrahan
bolsters already solid
roster of relievers
(Second in a series leading up to
spring training. Today: the bullpen)
By Mike Fine
THE PATRIOT LEDGER
O
f all the problems the Red Sox
have attempted to correct this
winter, the bullpen might have
required the fewest fixes.
While the pen finished only 11th in
the AL last season with a 3.88 ERA, it
featured many solid performances and
strong arms. Several key failures, most
notably by Mark Melancon early on
and Daniel Bard later helped drag
down the averages. Otherwise, Junichi
Tazawa, Scott Atchison, Clayton
Mortensen, Rich Hill and others were
solid. And the pen was forced to throw
more than 514 innings thanks to the
shortcomings of the starting rotation.
Still, general manager Ben Chering-
ton has tweaked the pen. He has not, as
yet, extended an invitation to Atchison
(42 games, 1.58 ERA) or Hill
(25/1.83), while Vicente Padilla, who
was effective early on, has left for
Japan. Bard’s status remains unclear af-
ter his early starting failures and subse-
quent ineffectiveness at Triple-A Paw-
tucket. Relieving for the Sox, he had a
16.20 ERA in seven games late in the
season.
The problem with bullpens is that
they change from year to year. What
was an effective bullpen one season can
erode the next, but Cherington made
two key signings that could ensure con-
sistency throughout the 2013 season.
His latest acquisition was Joel Hanra-
han, whom he immediately named his
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I Former Pittsburgh Pirates closer Joel Hanrahan is expected to bolster the
back end of the Red Sox bullpen this season.
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