It’s not like the Tech boys basketball team is a perennial bridesmaid, but for the second consecutive year, the Tigers had to settle for second place in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference thanks to a loss in their final regular-season league game.Tech lost on the road to Greater Lawrence, 68-60, in a winner-take-all scenario. The Tigers defeated the Reggies when they met earlier in the season, but it wasn’t in the cards this time around with the league title on the line.”We had opportunities to take care of business, but we didn’t,” Tech coach Marvin Avery said. “It wasn’t a good overall effort. We just couldn’t capitalize on our opportunities and they hit their shots when they needed to.”Victor Smith had 20 points for the Tigers, and Garrett Fairweather added 12. Tech trailed by two with 1:35 remaining, but the Reggies pulled away.Yeltsin Colon led Greater Lawrence with 17 points and Don Celestin, who didn’t play in the teams’ first meeting, had 13 points.Winthrop 51, Marblehead 43At Marblehead, for the first time in 22 years, the Vikings are champions in the Northeastern Conference.”This is a huge win for our program,” said Winthrop (15-4) coach David Brown, whose team captured the NEC South. “My first year as coach, seven years ago, we were 2-18, and we’ve improved every season since. The kids are very excited, and it was a total team effort. We held a very good basketball team to 43 points.”Viking Dino Mallios was kept scoreless in the first half but exploded for 11 of his 14 points in the third quarter to provide his team with a cushion after the game was tied at 20 at the half.”Dino showed everyone he’s one of the better players around,” Brown said.Winthrop’s Anthony Hatzisavas scored seven and pulled down 11 boards, while teammate Mark Jenkins returned to the starting lineup and added 11.For Marblehead (11-6), Taariq Allen scored a team-high 12.English 74, Beverly 68At the Cavanagh Field House, the Bulldogs played a bit sluggish, but still bounced back from their first defeat of the season last night in Everett.”You could tell we didn’t have that bounce tonight. We left it all on the Everett court,” English (17-1) coach Buzzy Barton said.The Bulldogs led by two at intermission and held on thanks to the play of Jeremy Subervi (team-high 17 points) and Travonne Berry-Rogers, who scored 12 and also had six rebounds and five steals. Point guard Ryan Woumn added 11.Beverly’s (12-6) Curtis Manuel was the game’s high scorer with 23, and Nate Knudson and Justin Resse both dropped in 14.Peabody 79, Classical 72At Peabody, Vasilios Frangias scored a game-high 31 points for the Tanners in their upset victory.”He had a monster night,” Peabody (5-15) coach Domenic Coleman said. “He was in his rhythm and feeling it. We just got him the ball and he was making things happen.”Peabody held a six-point advantage at the half and led by 12 at the conclusion of the third, and although it held on, Classical made a fourth-quarter push, scoring 27 points.The Rams hit six three-pointers in the final quarter and cut it to three with 1:30 remaining, but the Tanners hung on due to stellar execution on both ends of the court.”They made us nervous,” Coleman said. “We closed out the game very nicely. This is a great win for our program going into next season. I’m very proud of our seniors’ effort. It was awesome.”Ryan English scored 24 points and collected 14 rebounds in the win. For Classical, Jasper Grassa led the way with 22. Cameron Smith scored 16, and Jarell Byrd added 15.Salem 74, Revere 55At Salem, Bryan Ortiz got the job done for the Witches (14-5, 11-4 NEC), scoring 31 points. Derek McIntyre scored 15 points and Sean Linehan had 13.The Witches were without one of their big guns, Antonio Reyes, who is recovering from pneumonia and is expected to be out the rest of this week. Trae Weathers had 21 points for Revere, and Paul Cinelli checked in with 20.Ipswich 68, Lynnfield 58At Ipswich, the Pioneers squandered an opportunity against a weaker