Three years ago, a weary Bill Belichick confided in the last group of people you would ever expect him to trust.

The media.

During a private production meeting before a Patriots-Bills game on Monday Night Football, Belichick dismissed Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen as an MVP candidate to ESPN. The suggestion alone apparently made him animated.

“There was no question that Bill really got fired up when talking to him about potentially being swept, Josh Allen being one of the MVP favorites,” added Louis Riddick revealed on the December 2020 broadcast. “He was not having any of it.”

Yeah, about that.

Not only did Allen rip the Patriots that night in a 38-9 rout, passing for 320 yards, four touchdowns and no picks, he hasn’t stopped. Allen is now universally recognized as one of the game’s greats. In the process, he’s become something more: Belichick-proof.

Against Belichick, Allen owns the highest passer rating of any quarterback to make more than five career starts or attempt at least 200 passes versus his defense. He’s 6-1 versus the Patriots the past three years, during which time Buffalo has averaged more than 30 points per game. Last season, the Bills became the first team to beat the Pats by 10 or more points in three consecutive games since Belichick took over in 2000.

But enough about passer rating, a flawed, archaic metric, and win-loss record, a measure of team success, not quarterback play. Let’s dive deeper.

Patriots defender Deatrich Wise (91) applies pressure to Bills quarterback Josh Allen during a Dec. 1, 2022 game in Foxboro. (Staff Photo/Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)

Over the last three seasons, Belichick has thrown every X and every O at Allen: disguised zone coverages, man-blitzes, zone blitzes, simulated pressures, three-man rushes, quarterback spies. He’s proven scheme-proof in the way Tom Brady did lording over Buffalo for two decades. Allen’s ascension is among the chief reasons the Pats and Bills have switched places within the division.

No quarterback has thwarted Belichick as consistently and ruthlessly as Allen. He is at the heart of Belichick’s heartache.

Unlike Brady, but akin to all modern stars, Allen is a master inside the pocket and on the run. Armed with 4.7 speed at 240 pounds, he can eat up free yards on scrambles or escape closing pockets to buy his receivers more time to uncover. His escapability powered Buffalo’s most memorable wins over the Patriots in recent years.

In 2021, after Belichick’s privately dismissed Allen, the Bills famously didn’t punt in the last two of their three meetings with the Pats. Over a 33-21 regular-season win and 47-17 thumping in the Wild Card round, three-quarters of Allen’s dropbacks lasted 2.5 seconds or longer, per Pro Football Focus. Often, this time and place becomes a danger zone for quarterbacks, who are fated for a coverage sack or bad decision.

Not Allen.

He converted a first down on more than half these plays, an unprecedented conversion rate for even the greatest offenses in NFL history. He also threw an accurate pass on 84.8% of his attempts, per PFF, for five touchdowns and zero interceptions. As a runner, he scrambled five times for 103 rushing yards.

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So naturally last season, the Pats emphasized containing Allen and keeping him inside the pocket, where he would be forced to confront Belichick’s schemes on Belichick’s time instead of slipping out and playing backyard ball. Instead, Allen shoved humble pie down their throats.

Over two regular-season meetings, the Bills outscored the Patriots by 26. Allen went 27-of-42 for 360 yards, five touchdowns and an interception on longer-developing pass plays, which accounted for 70% of all his dropbacks. Buffalo played on Allen’s time, and marched to the playoffs.

At 4-2, Allen has again primed himself for the MVP discussion. The Bills are among the league’s most devastating offensive teams. Allen ranks second in the NFL by passing touchdowns and QBR.

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He has been fully weaponized, and should inflict more damage Sunday in Foxboro. If the 8.5-point spread holds through kickoff, Allen and Co. will become the largest road favorites to ever kick off inside Gillette Stadium; perhaps the best measure of how the gap has widened between Buffalo and the Patriots.

To hurry Allen without Pro Bowl pass rusher Matt Judon and likely Josh Uche (who’s dealing with a knee injury), the Patriots must blitz. The good news is, they’re already blitzing at the second-highest rate in the league to protect a hurting secondary.

The bad news?

Allen owns a sparkling 109.1 passer rating against the blitz this season, seventh-highest in the league.

Meaning before he even sits down at the table, Belichick might already be out of cards.

FAIRHAVEN – As the rain trickled down at Alumni Field, Justin Marques darted around the rain drops as if they were South Coast League tacklers.

Rain drops, torrential rain, or even a Nor’easter doesn’t seem to have a chance to stop Marques from finding the end zone this season for the undefeated Blue Devils.

Marques is a dual threat as a running back and linebacker for the 6-0 Fairhaven squadron. The junior captain has his sights set on a trip to Gillette after two consecutive first-round losses in the Blue Devils’ most recent state tournament runs.

Marques has been destroying school records since his freshman year. He holds the single season touchdown record with 25 trips across the goal line in 2022, is tied for most touchdowns in a game with five and has accumulated 45 touchdowns with plenty of games left to play.

The 45 touchdowns is already the career Fairhaven scoring record as Marques continues to slice up defenses like the pizza from Galaxy Pizza House down the road on Main Street.

The soft-spoken Marques is a three-sport star for the Blue Devils in football, hockey and lacrosse and has been a full-time starter on both sides of the football since his freshman year. In just six games this season, Marques has 684 yards and 16 touchdowns. On defense, he has racked up six sacks with three forced fumbles. Marques certainly enjoys letting his play on the field do the talking.

“I think my strength is just being really tough (on the field) and having the grit and never wanting to come off the field and always wanting to battle,” said Marques, who has had game-day visits to Brown, Harvard, Boston College and Bryant, with UMass also on the schedule.

Everything hasn’t been cupcakes and candy for Marques as he suffered a torn meniscus in Week 8 of last season, yet continued to pile on the touchdowns through the end of the season and added 10 games for the hockey team before surgery put Marquez out of action until just two months ago.

Marques admits he isn’t mentally 100% over the injury and hasn’t had that signature breakout game yet in 2023. But no one can deny the toughness of the career touchdown leader for the Blue Devils – including head coach Derek Almeida – as Marquez is only halfway through his junior season.

“Justin raises the level of every player in our program, his intensity spreads,” said Almeida, who is in his fourth season at the helm in Fairhaven. “Justin has been a huge part of our success the past three years; he made an immediate impact on our program. I think others have raised their level as a direct result of his play and dedication. He makes an impact in all phases of the game.”

While Marques is nervous about the injury, it doesn’t show as he brings 24-7 energy around the team, gets everyone going, and gets the team level up. The Division 1 college hopeful has everyone following in his footsteps as the lead dive back in Almeida’s triple option offense in the backfield this season.

As the unquestioned team leader, even as a junior, Marques is rewriting the record book as well as lifting the two-time defending South Coast Gold Division champions on his back and hopefully to greater heights. The Blue Devils face Seekonk (0-6) Friday night with the chance to put a stamp on the division this early with wins over Bourne and Case already this season and shift the focus to the long-term goals.

With all the success and potential surrounding Marques, he remains grounded and humble. He doesn’t have to think long and hard about how he has elevated to this level.

“I just have to have a good mentality and I put in a lot of work in the offseason. The continued good mentality is key,” said Marques. “But I have to thank my role models, my parents 100%. Without their support, this isn’t happening.”

 

NAME: Justin Marques

SCHOOL: Fairhaven High School

AGE: 16

HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 5-11, 220 pounds

POSITION: Running back, linebacker

NICKNAME: No true nickname

FAMILY: Crystal (mom), Bruno (dad), Jordan (older brother), Jackson (younger brother) and Violet (sister).

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: My major accomplishment is making my parents proud and showing them that all their hard work is starting to pay off.

FAVORITE PERSONAL MOMENT IN SPORTS: Definitely beating Dartmouth last year on Thanksgiving.

FAVORITE COURSE IN SCHOOL: English – comes pretty easy.

LEAST FAVORITE COURSE IN SCHOOL: Oh, Math – 100%

FAVORITE PIGOUT FOOD: Definitely some gold fever wings; yes – the 99 Restaurant gold fever wings.

FAVORITE TV SHOW: Last Chance U (Netflix)

FAVORITE MOVIE: The Waterboy (Adam Sandler)

FAVORITE MUSICIAN: That’s a tough one – I like all music genres.

FAVORITE VIDEO GAME: Madden ‘24

FAVORITE SMARTPHONE APP: YouTube, as I’m always watching videos; but you must include HUDL as well.

FAVORITE TWITTER ACCOUNT TO FOLLOW: @FairhavenHigh – Fairhaven High School just to see everything going on at the high school and all the accomplishments from other people around the school.

FAVORITE PRO TEAM: New England Patriots – sadly

Fairhaven High football star Justin Marques has already scored 45 career touchdowns. And he’s only a junior. (Chris Christo/Boston Herald)

As much as the sacks and the laurels, Terrell Suggs remembers the frustration, the times when he felt less self-assured than he seemed on the surface, the older co-workers who lent helping hands.

From the long view, Suggs’ career was seamless: No. 10 pick after he set a single-season NCAA sack record at Arizona State, NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year at age 21, NFL Defensive Player of the Year at 29, Super Bowl champion at 30, Ravens institution by the time he played his 16th and final season in Baltimore.

At halftime of Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions, Suggs will become the 12th Ravens player inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor.

Put his first year as a Raven under the microscope, however, and the story is both messier and more interesting.

“Yeah, you’re gonna get frustrated,” he said of his NFL beginning. “In college, you’re used to knowing everything you’re supposed to do, but when you get up there, you’re not top dog anymore. I felt like I wasn’t progressing the way I should have.”

Suggs was never supposed to be here. Articles about the Ravens’ draft plans for 2003 stated matter of factly that he would be off the board, picked No. 6 in the first round by his hometown Arizona Cardinals.

He filmed a commercial with future teammate Ray Lewis before the draft, and when Lewis teased him about how he’d be treated as a rookie, Suggs declared he would never make it to Baltimore’s pick.

The Ravens needed pass rush help after they finished an unfamiliar 22nd in total defense the previous season. But speculation focused on Penn State’s gifted defensive tackle, Jimmy Kennedy, especially after Kentucky’s Dewayne Robertson shot up draft boards late in the process. Kennedy and Robertson would combine for 24 1/2 sacks in 184 career games, the equivalent of two good Suggs seasons, but we’re getting ahead of our story.

The Ravens made draft day a whole lot more interesting when general manager Ozzie Newsome struck a deal with the Minnesota Vikings to move up from No. 10 to No. 7 for Marshall quarterback Byron Leftwich. After a lost season with Jeff Blake and Chris Redman under center, they thought Leftwich was the man to set them on a fresh offensive course. But Newsome heard a busy signal when he phoned NFL headquarters in New York to report the trade. Minnesota’s clock expired with the pact unconsummated, and Leftwich went to Jacksonville.

Meanwhile, the Cardinals traded their pick instead of selecting Suggs, whose stock had slipped when he ran a 4.8-second 40-yard dash at a predraft workout. “Maybe they should have put a quarterback at the end, and then he would have gotten there a lot faster,” cracked Rex Ryan, the Ravens’ defensive line coach at the time.

“It was just crazy,” Suggs remembered. “I didn’t know where I was going to go. It was a free fall.”

Ryan immediately saw the implications when the trade for Leftwich fell through: “I was the only one sitting in there happy as hell. This was a once-in-a-generation talent, Terrell Suggs, and we were about to luck into him.”

Those stopwatch digits were apparently more important than Suggs’ 24 sacks as a junior at Arizona State, but not to the Ravens. They picked him No. 10, then traded back into the first round to add quarterback Kyle Boller, setting off euphoria inside their headquarters and among their fans.

“I didn’t think there was any way or any formula that I could have come up with that would have us getting Kyle Boller and Terrell Suggs in the same draft,” the normally stoic Newsome said that evening.

Suggs was expected to start at outside linebacker immediately. He would close on quarterbacks from one edge while incumbent Pro Bowl selection Peter Boulware would converge from the other.

That was the vision anyway. In reality, Suggs was 20 years old and had been asked to do just one thing in college — surge upfield in pursuit of sacks. Setting the edge? Dropping into coverage? These were foreign concepts.

“He was super raw,” Boulware remembered. “When he put his hand in the ground, you knew that he was going to be special, the way he came off the ball with his combination of speed and power. But our defense was very complex. It was hard for rookies to pick it up.”

Suggs joined a defensive culture forged by the workaholic Lewis, one in which even younger stars such as safety Ed Reed were film nerds. Compared to them, he was a 6-foot-3, 260-pound class clown.

Fellow rookie edge rusher Jarret Johnson roomed with Suggs at minicamp. “He was terrible,” Johnson recalled, cackling. “Always on the phone.”

Retired Ravens great Michael McCray worked with Suggs on his rush moves that summer and referred to the rookie as “an infant” because he had so much maturing to do.

Johnson remembered coach Brian Billick calling Suggs out in training camp, suggesting the Ravens were not getting their money’s worth.

“I wasn’t starting on defense, and I couldn’t play special teams, so Brian Billick didn’t like that too much,” Suggs recalled. “I would say probably half the defense and [kicker] Matt Stover came and talked to me after that and said, ‘Hey, you’re a rookie. It’s not going to all come to you at once.’”

Ryan didn’t buy the criticism.

“I thought the kid was a stud, and I knew what was getting ready to happen,” he said. “He was like an Energizer bunny, too. … You don’t come in as just a hardened veteran. That’s nobody in this league. His personality might have been a little different, a lot different than probably Ray’s at that time, but you don’t have to be just one way. I loved him.”

Plenty of teammates valued Suggs’ goofiness.

“The life of the locker room,” Boulware said.

“There’s so much stress and pressure that if you don’t laugh, if you don’t have a person like Terrell, it’s freaking miserable,” Johnson said.

Suggs did not, in fact, start across from Boulware. More versatile players such as Adalius Thomas and Cornell Brown took his snaps. Suggs served as a designated pass rusher.

“In time, that will happen,” defensive coordinator Mike Nolan said. “But it’s got to be the right time.”

Suggs did not complain.

“I definitely have to know my coverages better and get better in my [pass] drops,” he said that October. “That’s the No. 1 thing that’s keeping me off on first and second downs. And the play of [Adalius] and Cornell, they are playing really solid right now. So if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Looking back, he appreciates the patience Thomas, Boulware and others showed in teaching him.

“I really didn’t have good study habits then, but I picked it up pretty fast,” he said. “They’d been rookies before, so I think they understood it. They were probably more patient than the coaches were.”

Not to suggest he squandered the third downs on which he did play. In his debut against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Suggs bull rushed past his blocker’s outside shoulder and dropped quarterback Tommy Maddox for a 7-yard loss. He would add another sack in each of his next three games on his way to a team-high 12 for the season.

Johnson was struck by Suggs’ apparent belief that he belonged with the best in the NFL and by the physical evidence suggesting he was right.

“Just how comfortable he was,” he said. “I remember how nervous I was, didn’t feel comfortable around the vets, kept my mouth shut. But I remember how cool he was and just the ungodly ability. I was thinking, ‘Oh crap! It doesn’t matter that you came from the SEC. This is a different ballgame.’”

Suggs laughed at his friend’s perception. “I was definitely not comfortable around the older guys,” he said. “These were ‘vet’ vets.”

Whether they let on or not, the men Suggs revered saw him as a foundational addition. After Lewis watched him and Boulware menace Denver quarterback Danny Kanell, he said, ”When they start jelling, it’s going to be scary.”

Suggs played just 39% of the Ravens’ defensive snaps but led the team with 24 quarterback hits and six forced fumbles. He won Defensive Rookie of the Year as a part-time worker, presenting an intoxicating glimpse of what lay ahead.

“It’s like, ‘If he only played third down and won it, just imagine what happens when he plays every down and really becomes a linebacker,’” he said at the time. “Then it’s going to be something to see. Until then, it’s stay tuned.”

The stay tuned part turned out pretty well. Suggs made seven Pro Bowls, bounced back from severe injuries to record a franchise-record 132 1/2 sacks, played more games in a Ravens uniform than anyone until punter Sam Koch passed him. He was a remarkable physical specimen all the way but evolved into one of the cleverest players on the team, sniffing out screen passes like no other.

He yearned to finish his career as a Raven but signed with his hometown Cardinals for the 2019 season because he wanted to be close to his ailing mother, a decision he does not regret.

He never abandoned his silly side. Early in coach John Harbaugh’s tenure, the Ravens held up a team flight because their star pass rusher showed up without the proper shoes. In his last years with the team, he would commandeer owner Steve Bisciotti’s golf cart and, with nose tackle Brandon Williams riding shotgun, steer it into tackling dummies. He ran out for games wearing the mask of Batman’s movie nemesis, Bane.

“I played with him nine years, and he was the same dude the day I left,” Johnson said. “He was like a giant kid, always cutting up, but he could do that because they had so many serious guys around. Terrell was allowed to just be Terrell.”

Suggs still finds it strange that when the story of Ravens defense is told, his name is uttered beside those of Lewis, Reed and the others he thought of as big brothers 20 years ago.

“It’s mind blowing,” he said. “I can’t grasp it.”

Week 7

Lions at Ravens

Sunday, 1 p.m.

TV: Ch. 45

Radio: 97.9 FM, 101.5 FM, 1090 AM

Line: Ravens by 3

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Bishop Stang captured the Catholic Central League golf title at Hillview Golf Course in North Reading.

The Spartans fired a 277, defeating Bishop Feehan by 16 strokes (293). Archbishop Williams (296) rounded out the top three, followed by St. Mary’s (301), Bishop Fenwick (304), Arlington Catholic (306) and Cardinal Spellman (375).

Bishop Stang dominated the individual competition as Matt Costello (65), Matt Oliveira (67) and Nathaniel Mello (71) took the top three spots. Bishop Feehan’s Gavin Walsh and Archbishop Williams’ Brady Sulivan (71) tied Mello for third.

Field hockey

Megan Smith scored two goals assisted by Cat Rosseau and Maeve Richarson as Westport (12-0) took down Case 4-1 in South Coast Conference play.

Ally McEneaney erupted for four goals while Chloe Egan added a goal and two assists, powering Barnstable in a 7-0 Cape and Islands League win over Nauset. … Alivia Barnes scored twice and set up another goal, Khloe Schultz dished two and scored herself, and Meghan Dwyer added one of each for Sandwich (14-0-1), besting South Shore League foe Carver 6-0.

In nonleague play, Ella Tucker scored twice and three others scored in front of Natalie Partelow to power Essex Tech past Haverhill 5-0. … In Merrimack Valley Conference action, Kerri Finneran recorded a hat trick and a pair of assists to lead Central Catholic to a 5-0 victory over Methuen.

In the Middlesex League, Regan Driscoll scored six times as Watertown (15-0) defeated Wilmington 7-0.

Boys soccer

Kaya Jackson netted a pair and Nick Miller distributed two assists to help St. Mary’s of Lynn (11-1-2) rally past Bishop Feehan for a 3-2 Catholic Central League win.

Jack Gibbons buried the game-winner late in the second half for BC High, securing a 2-1 win over Xaverian in Catholic Conference action.

In a nonleague matchup, Ben Novo notched a pair of goals as Westport (13-0-0) blanked Atlantis Charter, 6-0. … In the Patriot League, Ryan Butzbach netted a hat trick and Ben Elliott added two assists as Hanover (7-4-4) edged North Quincy 3-2.

Ryan Linhares and Joey Carney each dialed up three points with a goal and two assists, fueling Oliver Ames in a 6-0 Hockomock League win over Canton. … A pair of goals from Lucas Yemin and a penalty kick goal from Jack Gavron paced Wayland in a 4-1 Dual County League win over Waltham.

Girls soccer

Milla Lee notched her second straight hat trick as Dover-Sherborn shutout Tri-county opponent Millois 6-0.

In the Patriot League, Claire Murray scored twice as Hingham defeated Whitman-Hanson 4-1.

In a nonleague game, Kathleen Murphy finished with a pair of goals and Ally Johnson recorded the shutout to boost Blue Hills (13-0-2) past Westport, 4-0. … In a Cape and Islands league contest, Maya Flaherty recorded seven saves and Karah Deveau scored twice as Monomoy defeated Nantucket, 3-0.

Olivia Dunham set up two goals with assists as Mansfield defeated Sharon 4-2 in Hockomock League action. … Janiya Morales-Matier record eight saves for her 10th shutout of the year, anchoring Oliver Ames in a 3-0 win over Canton.

Football

Aran Hanlon scored three touchdowns as Nantucket (3-4) defeated Monomoy 28-12 in the Cape and Islands clash.

Volleyball

Frankie Spadorcia dominated the net with 10 kills and nine blocks, adding to Chloe Zhong’s 20 assists and 11 digs to help Braintree outlast Weymouth 3-2 in Bay State Conference play.

Basketball

Travel to the Tsongas Center in Lowell is going to be the catchphrase for any boys or girls basketball teams gunning for a berth in the state finals.

At Thursday’s MIAA Basketball Committee meeting, the word came out that the 10 state finals would be contested on the weekend of March 15-17. According to the MIAA Basketball Committee Chairman Jeff Newhall, the only obstacle would be if the UMass Lowell hockey team finishes in the top four and thus would host a Hockey East quarterfinal on March 16. Newhall went on to say that the Tsongas was amenable to making whatever adjustments need to be made in order in terms of scheduling.

In other news to come out of the meeting, several new rule changes were discussed. The most prominent of the changes was the elimination of the one-on-one for common fouls beginning with the seventh foul in the half. The new rule states that teams would be awarded two free throws beginning with the fifth foul in the quarter and would reset at the start of the next quarter.

Scores

FIELD HOCKEY

Apponequet 1, Middleboro 0

Arlington 1, Belmont 1

Barnstable 7, Nauset 0

Canton 2, Oliver Ames 0

Case 3, Westport 1

Central Catholic 5, Methuen 0

Essex Tech 5, Haverhill 0

Fairhaven 2, Wareham 0

Hingham 10, Whitman-Hanson 0

Hopkinton 1, Longmeadow 0

Hudson 2, Littleton 1

Lynnfield 2, Amesbury 0

Manchester-Essex 2, Pentucket 2

Monomoy 3, Martha’s Vineyard 0

Newburyport 7, Hamilton-Wenham 1

North Reading 3, Ipswich 0

Norwell 3, Cohasset 2

Reading 2, Lexington 0

Sandwich 6, Carver 0

Triton 3, Rockport 0

Watertown 7, Wilmington 0

Winchester 7, Woburn 0

FOOTBALL

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Ashland 21, Medfield 6

Bishop Feehan 29, Bishop Fenwick 26 (3 ot)

Cathedral 42, Arlington Catholic 0

Everett 56, Malden 0

Holliston 49, Hopkinton 7

KIPP 36, Whittier 16

Mansfield 49, Oliver Ames 0

Nantucket 28, Monomoy 12

Newton South 20, Waltham 19

Roxbury Prep 18, Atlantis Charter/Westport 12

Southeastern 13, Diman 12

Stoughton 14, Sharon 13

FRIDAY’S GAMES

English/New Mission at O’Bryant, 4

Nashoba Tech at Lynn Tech, 5:30

Rivers at Brooks, 5:30

Braintree at Walpole, 5:45

Bishop Stang at Archbishop Williams, 6

Brighton at Randolph, 6

Chelmsford at Westford Academy, 6

Dighton-Rehoboth at Nauset, 6

Durfee at Dennis-Yarmouth, 6

Foxboro at Canton, 6

Latin Academy at East Boston, 6

Lynn English at Somerville, 6

Marshfield at Plymouth North, 6

Mashpee at Cohasset, 6

Medford at Chelsea, 6

Newton North at Barnstable, 6

Norwell at Sandwich, 6

St. John Paul at Martha’s Vineyard, 6

Stoneham at Burlington, 6

Wakefield at Wilmington, 6

Xaverian at Malden Catholic, 6

Apponequet at Greater New Bedford, 6:30

Cambridge at Acton-Boxboro, 6:30

Case at Bourne, 6:30

Dexter Southfield at New Hampton, 6:30

Essex Tech at North Reading, 6:30

Franklin at Attleboro, 6:30

Holbrook/Avon at Cape Cod Tech, 6:30

Hull at Carver, 6:30

Lawrence Academy at St. Sebastian’s, 6:30

Lowell Catholic at Manchester-Essex, 6:30

Masconomet at Danvers, 6:30

Medway at Dedham, 6:30

North Attleboro at Lynnfield, 6:30

Norton at Dover-Sherborn, 6:30

Pentucket/Georgetown at Ipswich, 6:30

St. Mary’s at Cardinal Spellman, 6:30

Salem at Winthrop, 6:30

Seekonk at Fairhaven, 6:30

Somerset Berkley at Old Rochester, 6:30

Woburn at Belmont, 6:30

Abington at East Bridgewater, 7

Andover at Central Catholic, 7

Bedford at Wayland, 7

Belmont Hill at Thayer Academy, 7

Blue Hills at West Bridgewater, 7

Boston Latin at Weston, 7

Bridgewater-Raynham at Dartmouth, 7

Gloucester at Peabody, 7

Haverhill at Dracut/Innovation, 7

Lincoln-Sudbury at Concord-Carlisle, 7

Milford at King Philip, 7

Millis at Bellingham, 7

Milton at Taunton, 7

Needham at Weymouth, 7

North Andover at Billerica, 7

Norwood at Westwood, 7

Rockland at Middleboro, 7

Scituate at North Quincy, 7

South Shore at Wareham, 7

Tewksbury at Methuen, 7

Triton at Newburyport, 7

Upper Cape at Old Colony, 7

Watertown at Melrose, 7

Whitman-Hanson at Duxbury, 7

Winchester at Arlington, 7

SATURDAY’S GAMES

BC High at St. John’s (Shrewsbury), 12

Noble and Greenough at BB&N, 12

Lowell at Lawrence, 12

Plymouth South at Quincy, 12

Amesbury at Hamilton-Wenham, 1

Brockton at New Bedford, 1

Catholic Memorial at St. John’s Prep, 1

Minuteman at Keefe Tech, 1

Natick at Wellesley, 1

Saugus at Falmouth, 1

Swampscott at Beverly, 1

Bristol-Plymouth vs. Tri-County, 2 (Xaverian)

Reading at Lexington, 2

Middlesex at Governor’s Academy, 3

Milton Academy at Roxbury Latin, 3

Revere at Lynn Classical, 3

Silver Lake at Hingham, 3:15

Groton at St. George’s, 3:30

St. Mark’s at Tabor, 3:30

Austin Prep at Greenwich Country Day, 4:30

Framingham at Brookline, 7

GOLF

Hanover 230, Norwell 259

Tewksbury 248, Billerica 254

Walpole 67, Brookline 55

Wellesley 215, Westboro 227

Catholic Central League Championship

Team totals: 1. Bishop Stang, 277; 2. Bishop Feehan, 293; 3. Archbishop Williams, 296; 4. St. Mary’s, 301; 5. Bishop Fenwick, 304; 6. Arlington Catholic, 308; 7. Cardinal Spellman, 375

Top five individuals: 1. Matt Costello (Bishop Stang), 65; 2.  Matt Oliveira (Bishop Stang);  67; 3.  Nathaniel Mello (Bishop Stang); Gavin Walsh (Bishop Feehan); Brady Sullivan (Archbishop Williams), 71

BOYS SOCCER

Bedford 1, Cambridge 1

Beverly 6, Danvers 0

BC High 2, Xaverian 1

Braintree 1, Weymouth 1

Bridgewater-Raynham 2, Dartmouth 1

Brookline 2, Wellesley 1

Central Catholic 5, Methuen 0

Cohasset 4, Hull 0

Dedham 3, Medway 2

Durfee 0, New Bedford 0

Duxbury 0, Plymouth North 0

Foxboro 1, Stoughton 1

Franklin 2, North Attleboro 0

Gloucester 5, Winthrop 2

Greater Lowell 1, Lynn Tech 1

Hanover 3, North Quincy 2

Holliston 1, Medfield 0

Hopkinton 5, Norwood 1

Ipswich 3, Pentucket 1

Lincoln-Sudbury 1, Weston 0

Methuen 2, Andover 1

Milton 2, Walpole 1

Nantucket 2, Monomoy 1

Needham 4, Framingham 1

Neighborhood House 2, Excel 1

North Andover 3, Dracut 0

Northeast 1, Swampscott 0

O’Bryant 9, Snowden 1

Oliver Ames 6, Canton 0

Peabody 1, Marblehead 0

Pembroke 2, Scituate 0

St. John’s (S) 6, Malden Catholic 1

St. Mary’s (L) 3, Bishop Feehan 2

Sandwich 6, Carver 0

Wayland 4, Waltham 1

Westport 6, Atlantis Charter 0

GIRLS SOCCER

Bedford 1, Cambridge 1

Blue Hills 4, Westport 0

Boston Latin 3, Latin Academy 0

Brookline 5, Wellesley 1

Burke 4, Madison Park 0

Central Catholic 3, Haverhill 0

Cohasset 4, Hull 4

Danvers 3, Beverly 2

Dedham 1, Medway 1

Dover-Sherborn 6, Millis 0

East Boston 5, Tech Boston 0

Hanover 1, North Quincy 0

Hingham 4, Whitman-Hanson 1

Marblehead 1, Peabody 0

Mansfield 4, Sharon 2

Methuen 3, Tewksbury 1

Middleboro 4, Carver 0

Monomoy 3, Nantucket 0

Nauset 7, Barnstable 0

North Andover 1, Dracut 0

Oliver Ames 3, Canton 0

Plymouth South 7, Quincy 2

Saugus 4, Mystic Valley 0

Scituate 3, Pembroke 1

Sturgis West 3, Dennis-Yarmouth 0

Tri-County 2, Bristol-Plymouth 1

Weston 3, Lincoln-Sudbury 1

Weymouth 1, Braintree 0

VOLLEYBALL

Bishop Feehan 3, Barnstable 1

Braintree 3, Weymouth 2

Brookline 3, Wellesley 2

Cohasset 3, Carver 0

Covenant Christian 3, Marie Philip 2

Hamilton-Wenham 3, Newburyport 2

Haverhill 3, Methuen 0

Ipswich 3, North Reading 0

Lexington 3, Reading 2

Lynn Tech 3, Minuteman 0

Lynnfield 3, Triton 1

Madison Park 3, East Boston 0

Malden Catholic 3, Swampscott 1

Melrose 3, Burlington 0

Nantucket 3, Sturgis East 0

New Mission 3, Latin Academy 0

Newton North 3, Natick 2

O’Bryant 3, Boston English 0

Old Rochester 3, Tewksbury 0

Pentucket 3, Whittier Tech 0

Rockland 3, Middleboro 0

Shawsheen 3, Innovation 1

Whitman-Hanson 3, Abington 0

BISHOP FEEHAN 29, BISHOP FENWICK 26

Bishop Fenwick (5-2)    14     0    3    0   3   3   3   –   26

Bishop Feehan (6-1)       0   14    0    3   3   3   6   –   29

FEN – Luke Connolly 29 run (Aidan Silva kick)

FEN – Anthony Nichols 2 run (Silva kick)

FEE – David Quinn 2 run (Austin Clemente kick)

FEE – Quinn 3 run (Clemente kick)

FEN – Silva 30 field goal

FEE – Clemente 34 field goal

FEN – Silva 28 field goal

FEE – Clemente 22 field goal

FEE – Clemente 25 field goal

FEN – Silva 37 field goal

FEN – Silva 25 field goal

FEE – Jack Higgins 10 pass from Owen Mordas

HOLLISTON 49, HOPKINTON 7

Hopkinton (4-3)   0   0      0   7    –  7

Holliston (4-3)   21  14   14    0  –  49

HL – Blake Harper 55 pass from Lima (Connor Teague kick)

HL – Teague 20 run (Teague kick)

HL – Austin Rodenhiser 31 interception return (Teague kick)

HL – Brad Andreola 10 pass from Lima (Teague kick)

HL – Kevin Sahagian 2 run (Teague kick)

HL – Teague 80 kickoff return (Teague kick)

HL – Landon Beecher 6 run (Teague kick)

HO – Jakai Bellofatto 8 run (Boulos kick)

KIPP 36, WHITTIER 16

KIPP     (6-1)    8 14   14   0   –   36

Whittier (5-2)    0   8     0   8   –   16

KI – Morenel Castro 50 punt return (Chanel Gutierrez run)

KI – Jovan Machado 6 pass from Gutierrez (Gutierrez run)

WH – Anderson Pineda 20 pass from Giordio Gioldasis (Nick Almanzar run)

KI – Castro 64 pass from Gutierrez (pass failed)

KI – Jose Echevarria 9 pass from Gutierrez (Machado pass from Gutierrez)

KI – Andrew Gonzalez 35 pass from Gutierres (run failed)

WH – Pineda 8 run (Pineda run)

MANSFIELD 49, OLIVER AMES 0

Mansfield (4-3)      14  21  7   7 – 49

Oliver Ames (0-6)   0    0   0  0 –  0

MA – Nolan Bordieri 15 run (Evan Hefez kick)

MA – Brandon Jackman 4 run (Hefez kick)

MA – Bordieri 4 run (Hefez kick)

MA – Sean McCoy 5 run (Hefez kick)

MA – Andrew Burnham 45 pass from Connor Curtis (Hefez kick)

MA – Joe McIntyre 3 run (James Warren kick)

MA – KJ Mahoney 2 run (Warren kick)

NEWTON SOUTH 20, WALTHAM 19

Newton South (4-3)    6     8     0    6   –  20

Waltham (0-7)            0    13     0    6   –  19

NS – Paxton Boyd 15 pass from Charlie Vyadro (kick failed)

WA – Adam Chasari 1 run (Noah Foy kick)

NS –  Boyd 15 pass from Vyadro (Will Cotter rush)

WA – Foster Landin 15 pass from Noah Foy (pass failed)

WA – Wes O’Connor 4 run (pass failed)

NS – Charles Carpenter-Simms 42 pass from Vyadro (pass failed)

STOUGHTON 14, SHARON 13

Sharon (1-6)        0   0   0   13   –   13

Stoughton (3-4)   7   0   0    7    –   14

ST – Jarred Daughtry 50 fumble return (Masuwa kick)

SH – Duncan Seaman 54 interception return (Noah Wright kick)

ST – Liam Pearl 1 run (Masuwa kick)

SH – Jacob McLaughlin 52 pass (conversion failed)