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English boys basketball ready for Putnam By Mike Alongi | March 16, 2019 4:00 PM

LYNN — After a season full of ups, downs and in-betweens, it all comes down to one final game for

LYNN — The English boys basketball team has shown a lot of growth on the court over the course of

LYNN — The Lynn Elementary Basketball Tournament, now in its 42nd year, is one of the staples of the community.

Classical swim team celebrates another season By Mike Alongi | March 12, 2019 10:42 PM

LYNN — The Classical swim team celebrated its season Monday night with its annual awards banquet at Old Tyme Italian

LYNN — Getting to the Division 1 state semifinal has been a group effort for the English boys basketball team,

LYNN — If there’s any way to describe the English basketball team, it’s battle-tested. The Bulldogs finished the regular season

LYNN — It’s been a season of firsts for the KIPP Academy boys basketball team. In the Panthers’ first season

PEABODY — There isn’t much that Peabody/Lynnfield/North Reading senior goalie Abby Buckley hasn’t seen in her four years between the

The MIAA boys and girls basketball tournament is in full swing, with the matchups for the semifinal rounds in each

Swampscott gears up for sectional semifinal By Mike Alongi | March 4, 2019 8:49 PM

SWAMPSCOTT — The Swampscott girls basketball team only needed one win to get into the Division 2 North semifinal, but

LYNN — Defense was the name of the game for the St. Mary’s girls basketball team Friday night, as the

LYNN — If you didn’t know it, you’d never be able to tell that the KIPP boys basketball team has

PEABODY — After years of building up and knocking on the door, the Peabody girls hockey team finally made a

LYNN — The St. Mary’s boys basketball team led the entire game but still had to fend off a couple

SAUGUS — The Saugus girls basketball team showed off its toughness Monday night, as the No. 7 Sachems rode an

MIAA postseason basketball pairings released By Mike Alongi | February 22, 2019 8:58 PM

The MIAA released its pairings for the 2019 boys and girls basketball tournaments Friday afternoon, and a number of area

A special group coming together at St. Pius By Mike Alongi | February 21, 2019 10:06 PM

LYNN — Over the next couple of years, a new crop of young basketball players will burst onto the North

Revere gets a win for coach Joe Ciccarello By Mike Alongi | February 20, 2019 10:12 PM

PEABODY — Sometimes schools and communities come across things that are bigger than sports, and it’s in those times where

WINTHROP — It was a tight game for the first two quarters, but the Lynnfield girls basketball team had a

MARBLEHEAD — It all came down to the final game of the season to decide whether the Marblehead girls basketball