The Celtics lost their fourth straight game to start the season as the Grizzlies rallied in the fourth quarter to win. The Bruins game tonight will focus on the return of Tyler Seguin to Boston. The Patriots have a 7-2 record and a two game lead in their division heading into their bye week.

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Return of Tyler Seguin
tonight takes center stage
CHASING THE CUP
Just like last season,
Jimmie Johnson, above,
enters the next-to-last race
with a seven-point lead in
NASCAR’s Chase for the
Sprint Cup championship.
He came up empty in his
bid for a sixth title last year,
but is more confident about
his chances following Sunday’s dominating victory at
Texas.
With Matt Kenseth in his
rearview mirror, that could
be a false sense of security.
Johnson lost the title a
year ago to Brad Keselowski, who didn’t flinch during
his first title fight.
The chances of back-toback meltdowns for Johnson again this year are pretty slim. And after Sunday’s
rout in Texas, Johnson is
cruising into Phoenix feeling
far better than he did a year
ago.
“I’m optimistic. I feel
good,” he said.
The current point standings:
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Tyler Seguin ... no regrets
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y the time the puck drops, it should
be a team game again. Eighteen
skaters and one goalie should work
together against 18 skaters and
their goalie, and the group that executes best
should win.
You’d never have known
on Monday that a competition like that was scheduled for tonight at TD Garden, though.
Bruins coach Claude
Julien wasn’t asked how he
PRO HOCKEY
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planned to shake his BruMIKE LOFTUS
ins out of a funk that has
resulted in three losses over
four games, or how important the five-game
homestand that begins tonight (7 p.m.,
NESN, WBZ-FM/98.5) might be to the
team’s fortunes. Lindy Ruff, coach of the
Dallas Stars after 16 seasons coaching the
Buffalo Sabres, really wasn’t asked anything
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HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENTS
PRO FOOTBALL
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GLEN FARLEY
It’s time
off the
Pats can
savor
1. Jimmie Johnson .. 2,342
2. Matt Kenseth ...... 2,335
3. Kevin Harvick ...... 2,302
4. Kyle Busch .......... 2,290
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2,280
6. Jeff Gordon ......... 2,273
7. Clint Bowyer ....... 2,273
8. Greg Biffle ........... 2,269
FOXBORO
he Patriots will enjoy some
extended free time during
their bye week.
Time off for good
behavior, perhaps?
Cue the patented answer
from the coach.
“Whatever we do with our
schedule,” Bill Belichick said
during a conference call with
the media on Monday, “is always done with what we feel is
in the best interest of the team.”
Following a day off to relish
Sunday’s 55-31 win over the
Pittsburgh Steelers, players
were due back at Gillette Stadium on Tuesday before taking
an extended break from
Wednesday through next Monday.
The Patriots won’t play their
name game until Nov. 18 when
they’ll be in Charlotte, N.C., to
play the Carolina Panthers at
Bank of America Stadium.
When they return to work at
Gillette next week, the Patriots
will do so with a record of 7-2
and a two-game lead over the
New York Jets in the AFC East.
As guard Logan Mankins
said following Sunday’s game:
“We’d love to be 9-0, but 7-2 is
not too shabby. A lot of teams
would love to be 7-2.”
Twenty-eight by count, for
only three teams in the league –
9-0 Kansas City, 8-1 Seattle
and 7-1 Denver – have records
better than the Patriots’ 7-2 at
the moment.
If the NFL season were over
today, the Patriots would enjoy
the perks of being the second
seed in the AFC (a bye followed by at least one home
playoff game) behind only the
Chiefs since the Broncos would
qualify as a wild-card team and
thus could be no higher than
No. 5.
The season is not over today,
however, a fact for which the
Patriots may ultimately give
thanks because since 2001 they
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9. Joey Logano ....... 2,251
10. Kurt Busch .......... 2,246
11. Carl Edwards ...... 2,226
12. Ryan Newman .... 2,224
13. Kasey Kahne ....... 2,209
3 SOX GET OFFERS
NEW YORK (AP) – The
World Series champion
Boston Red Sox made
$14.1 million qualifying offers to free agents Jacoby
Ellsbury, above, Mike
Napoli and Stephen Drew
on Monday, the first deadline day of baseball’s offseason.
Thirteen free agents received the offers, up from
nine last year. The Yankees
also extended offers to a
trio of players: second
baseman Robinson Cano,
outfielder Curtis Granderson and pitcher Hiroki Kuroda.
Players accepting are
signed for next season. If a
player signs elsewhere, his
former team gets an extra
draft pick at the end of the
first round next June as
compensation.
Free agents can start
talking contract with all
teams on Tuesday.
The amount of the qualifying offer, which increased
by $800,000 this year, is set
by baseball’s collective bargaining agreement as the
average of the 125 highest
contracts.
Boston general manager
Ben Cherington said the
Red Sox decided not to
make an offer to Jarrod
Saltalamacchia, though he
would like to re-sign the
catcher.
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Cardinal Spellman’s Hannah Boucher advances the ball ahead of two Old Rochester players during Spellman’s 2-0 quarterfinal
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BOYS SOCCER
Gabon a wall for Abington
By Ken Lechtanski
ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
BROCKTON – On a cold night in
goal for the Abington High boys soccer team, Scott Gabon had the hot
hand.
The first-year goalkeeper saved his
best performance of the season for
Abington when it needed it the most,
stopping all 12 Cardinal Spellman
shots he faced to carry the sixth-seed-
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ed Green Wave to a 2-0 upset of the
third-seeded Cardinals in their Division 4 South SecABINGTON 2 tional tournament
quarterfinal on
SPELLMAN 0
Monday night.
“That was the
best game I’ve seen him play all season,” Abington High coach John
McGinness said of Gabon. “That’s
about the best I can ask for.”
Senior forward Rob McClafferty
scored both goals for Abington (13-43), which will next meet the winner
of Tuesday’s Nantucket-Sacred Heart
Div. 4 quarterfinal in the semifinals
with the date and time to be determined.
Abington first had to withstand a
game-long barrage of shots from the
Cardinals (13-3-5), who kept the
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Crowley hat trick leads Wildcats
By Scott Roche
ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
WEST BRIDGEWATER – Since
opening the season with a loss to Cardinal Spellman, the West Bridgewater
High boys soccer team closed the regular season with an 17-game unbeaten
(15-0-2) streak.
After winning its first tournament
game Friday over Sturgis East Charter
School, West Bridgewater was looking
at a quarterfinal round matchup with
one of the two teams to tie the Wildcats
this year, Mayflower Athletic Conference rival and ninth-seeded Westport
(9-6-3).
West Bridgewater took a 1-0 lead
into halftime in Monday’s MIAA Div.
4 South Sectional tournament battle on
a Reed Crowley goal, before scoring
two goals in the first three minutes of
the second half en route to a 5-0 victory.
With the win, top-seeded West
Bridgewater (17-1-2) advances to the
semifinals for the first time in school
history and
W. BRIDGEWATER 5 will play
fifth-seedWESTPORT 0
ed Cohasset (15-42), which eliminated Carver, 2-1, in
penalty kicks Monday, in the semifinals
on Thursday at a site and time TBA.
“The end result was totally different
than what I expected,’’ said West
Bridgewater coach Jeremy Winchell.
“Going in, we had tied Westport 3-3 at
their field and won 4-3 here this year. I
knew we were in for a very hard-fought
game. I just never expected a 5-0 score
Abington
blanks
Spellman
in the end.’’
West Bridgewater opened the second half a different looking team than
the one which played the first 40 minutes. Crowley increased the WB lead to
2-0 two minutes into the half with his
second goal. One minute later, forward
Jared Sharkey scored for a 3-0 lead.
“Those were huge goals to begin
the second half,’’ said Winchell. “It’s
nice to be up 1-0 at the half, but when
we played at Westport earlier this year,
we were losing 2-0 at the half. We came
out in that game and scored two quick
goals, which is exactly what we did today.
“We have three guys up front who
can really control the ball. It helps because often times we rely on Reed
(Crowley) to step up and score the
goals, but Jared (Sharkey) and Derek
(O’Brien) both have been working really hard this season on their foot work
and both have come a long way and I
think you saw that today.’’
Crowley scored his third goal of the
game and his 105th of his high school
career at the 11-minute mark of the second half when his penalty kick shot was
stopped, but the rebound came back to
Crowley and the senior forward buried
the ball inside the left post for a 4-0
lead.
Tyler Taccini scored the final West
Bridgewater goal with 11 minutes left
in the game with a shot from 18 yards
out that found the left corner.
“The kids are on a high right now
since that first Spellman game,’’
Winchell said. “This team in terms of
record, goals scored and in terms of
goals against, this is one of the best
boys soccer teams ever here at West
Bridgewater. It’s been a great run so far
and they are having a blast.
“A couple years ago, we made it to
the quarterfinal round and lost to Spellman at Archbishop Williams. This is
the first time we have made the semifinals. Looking at the competition, it’s
going to be tough, but I think we have a
good chance to go further.’’
Elsewhere in the boys soccer tournament:
Oliver Ames 1, Duxbury 0: Brendan Boone scored off an assist from
Evan Coose for Oliver Ames (13-0-5).
Tim Andrew recorded his ninth
shutout of the year.
The Tigers will play Hingham
Thursday at Taunton High School in
the Div. 2 South Sectional semifinals.
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Green Wave’s defensemen scrambling
from sideline to sideline in an effort to
keep Spellman at bay.
“A one-goal lead, you don’t feel
comfortable,” McGinness admitted.
“My guys in the middle ... they created a defensive wall that is very tough
to get behind.”
When the Cardinals did manage to
get the ball behind Abington’s back
line of Alex Nagle, Bryan Macaluso,
Max McNulty and Derek Gately,
Gabon was there to slam the door with
six saves in each half.
“I really stepped up this game,”
Gabon said. “I was trying to stay aggressive and keep us in it.
“There were a few scary moments
there, especially in the second half to
open it up,” he added.
Cardinals coach Mike Gerrish was
disappointed with the end result, but
satisfied with his team’s effort.
“I thought we played well all night,”
said Gerrish. “We had a lot of great
opportunities, but hats off to them.
“The problem was, we just couldn’t
put it home,” Gerrish added. “We had
pressure, pressure, pressure, but
(Gabon) just kept coming up with big
saves. When the ball was loose in the
area and he wasn’t near there, we
couldn’t get a solid foot on it and they
ended up clearing it.
“We had some opportunities, but we
never had that clear-cut break.”
Abington went into the game looking to score early, McGinness said, in
order to keep the Cardinals from going
into a defensive shell. McClafferty
made that plan work to perfection less
than three minutes into the game when
he raced down the right side and fired
a shot into the upper corner of the net
past a Cardinals defender and diving
goalkeeper Evan Stimpson for a quick
Abington lead.
Both teams came out strong with
end-to-end action, although the Cardinals applied the most pressure. Within
a span of three minutes early in the
game, Gabon stopped the Cardinals’
Jake Armstrong after he had split a
pair of defenders and Pat Grzybinski
on a hard, low shot before catching a
break when Armstrong couldn’t find a
loose rebound in front of the net and
Nick DeLuca blasted it high.
The Cardinals squandered several
first-half corner kicks, with Gabon
making a diving save on a Austin Ferriera corner kick at the corner of the
net late in the first half.
McClafferty, who scored five goals
in a first-round win over South Shore
Christian, was denied by Stimpson on
a diving save midway through the second half, but iced the outcome against
backup goalkeeper Brian Naughton in
the final minute of injury time. McClafferty weaved his way through
three Spellman defenders before unleashing a shot past a charging
Naughton for the final margin.
“You go out with your head high,”
Gerrish said. “The loss hurts like heck,
but you absolutely walk off here feeling good about yourself and the way
you played. You can’t play any better.
We just didn’t put it in the net.”
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Cardinal Spellman’s Brianna Steeves, right, prepares to advance the ball against Old Rochester during the Cardinals’ 2-0 win Monday.
Defense propels Spellman in tourney opener
By Ken Lechtanski
ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT
BROCKTON – Injuries and inexperience haven’t slowed down the Cardinal Spellman High girls soccer team
this season,
Turns out, neither could the Bulldogs
of
Old
Rochester Regional.
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First-half goals by
Emily Roan and
Faith Montgomery, backed by a stifling Cardinals defense, powered Cardinal Spellman (14-2-5) into a Div. 3
sectional semifinal showdown against
Hanover, a 1-0 winner over Medway
Monday, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at
Bridgewater-Raynham.
Having finished their regular season
a week earlier against Brockton, the
Cardinals quickly dispatched the concerns of head coach Mike Perry regarding his team’s ability to pick up
where it had left off.
“I was a little nervous about that because it had been a whole week,” said
Perry, “but I thought the girls came out
and did a real nice job in the first half
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O’Connell as the
only senior on the
field for the second half.
“It has been a
crazy
season,”
Perry said. “I’ve
just had so many
girls hurt, but then
again, the girls
have shown a lot
of
resiliency.
Somebody goes in
and
somebody
does the job.”
The Cardinals
followed that formula against the
eighth-seeded
Bulldogs (10-5-5)
with
Cardinal
Spellman jumping
out to a 1-0 lead
4:45 into the
game. Sophomore
forward Adriana
Forcucci, who left
in the second half
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with a shoulder infront of an Old Rochester defender.
jury, took a midbecause (Old Rochester) is a pretty field ball from classmate Hannah
good team.”
Boucher, raced down the sideline and
The Cardinals have exceeded ex- sent a centering cross to sophomore
pectations all season despite a rash of Emily Roan, who beat goalkeeper
injuries that left Perry fielding only Mikayla DeManche to the ball and
two seniors in his starting lineup on tipped it past her from 10 yards out on
Monday. When Mickayla Roan rein- the first shot of the game.
jured her ankle in the first half, CardiThe Cardinals continued to keep the
nal Spellman was down to Siobhan Bulldogs pinned in their own end and
the pressure paid off with Montgomery’s goal at 14:51 of the half.
Kristina Schneider started the rush by
sending a midfield pass to Montgomery at the 25-yard line where the
sophomore wrestled off a defender
and chipped it over a charging DeManche for a two-goal Cardinals’
lead.
“After they got those two quick
goals, we played them fairly even,”
Old Rochester coach Jeff Lombard
said, “but those two goals were a big
mountain to climb.”
Old Rochester began to find its
stride midway through the half with a
couple of attacks into Cardinal Spellman territory, but was kept in check by
the Cardinals’ back line of Lily Demers, Kristna Schneider, O’Connell
and Lisa Evans.
Goalkeeper Julia Schneider’s only
real test of the half was a soft drive off
the foot of Morgan Browning from 15
yards out that Schneider deftly pulled
in.
Shannon Ryan nearly made it a
three-goal lead for the Cardinals at
31:10 of the second half by breaking in
alone on DeManche and unleashing a
missle from 8 yards out straight into
the Bulldogs goalkeeper.
Schneider made a pair of nice saves
in the final nine minutes, falling on a
loose ball in the box after Old
Rochester’s Meghan Pachico and Demers collided, and then making a sliding save on an Abby Adams liner from
10 yards out in the closing minutes.