The inability to find the net and a lack of veteran players seemed to put a damper on the start of the hockey season for the Dragons, but the youth that replaced them gained valuable experience as their ice time increased. 

As a result, Coach John Blake’s squad road an eight-game unbeaten streak to qualify for the post-season Division I tournament by finishing the regular season with a 9-6-4 record with three games remaining in the Cape Cod Classic.

The unbeaten and No. 1 ranked Duxbury girls’ hockey team continued its masterful play on Wednesday night with a convincing 3-0 win over defending Division 1 State champion, Hingham HS.

Before a packed house in Hingham, the Lady Dragons and the Harborwomen gave the fans all they could ask for, as the two best women’s teams on the South Shore battled it out for supremacy south of Boston.

Kerri Connolly (DHS ’08) is a graduate assistant women’s golf coach at California University in Pennsylvania.. Because Connolly has full eligibility to play ice hockey, she tried out and made the school’s club hockey team. Because of golf commitments she only played in 9 games but had 8 points and 1 game winning goal.… Cornell’s gymnastics team placed second at the 2012 Big Red Invitational last week at Teagle Gymnasium. Cornell claimed first place in two of the day’s four events, with sophomore Lexi Schupp (DHS ’10) earning 9.700 on bars. Schupp (9.650) rounded out the Top-3 for beam, giving the Red a 1-2-3 sweep.

Junior Michela North scored 19 points last Tuesday night in Hingham to lead the Lady Dragons to an exciting 50-48 win over the Harborwomen. What made the evening even more special was the All-Star forward joined an elite group of women who have scored 1000 points in their DHS basketball careers.

North had an opportunity to break the 1000-point barrier with six seconds left in the first quarter, but her free throw bounced off the rim delaying the celebration by Duxbury fans. It didn’t seem to bother the forward who scored six points to give Duxbury a 17-5 lead after the first eight minutes of play. With anticipation growing on every trip down the court, Duxbury fans finally had their chance to cheer with 6:36 left in the second quarter when North buried a pair of free throws for 1001 career points: the fastest it has been done by any DHS female player.

Duxbury High School senior Emily Doyle has become the first female in school history to win an indoor State track title when she won the 300m at the Division III track championships on Friday afternoon at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston.

The Colby College-bound runner ran a :41.62 to beat out Patriot League foe Kaitlyn Elinoff of Hingham for the second time in two weeks, having previously defeated her at the Patriot League championships with a personal-best time of :41.15.

Junior Jake Genereux faces off against Burlington’s Luke Nigro in the 152 lb. championship quarterfinals.  A near reversal late in the third period would have given Genereux the win, but instead, Nigro would hang on to a 1-0 decision and eventually earn a trip to the finals.  A near pin of top-ranked Mariano Restivo-Lage in the first period would have kept Genereux’s hopes alive, but the Natick star would not be denied his second trip to the podium.

On Friday Feb. 10 at the Reggie Lewis Center the Patriot League held its All-League Meet.  Senior Emily Doyle (the only Duxbury girls’ league All-Star) won the 300m run (41.15PR and beat her own school record). Junior Laura Nee came in second in the 1000m and set a new school record with a time of 3:17.57.

Mike Connolly

10th Place in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:51.30.

6th Place in the 100 freestyle with a time of 49.95.

Junior Michela North had the biggest game of her high school career on Friday night in Duxbury’s 63-52 win over North Quincy, clinching the Keenan Division title for the Lady Dragons with her stellar performance.

Closing in on the 1000-point mark of her high school career, the Patriot League All-Star scored 31 points, grabbed 19 rebounds, blocked seven shots and dished out three assists in the deciding game, raising Duxbury’s record to 10-6 overall and 8-2 in the Patriot League. It is the team’s ninth win in its last 10 games.

The boys’ basketball team took a major hit in its efforts to gain a place in post-season play when it lost to North Quincy on Friday night, 54-53, in overtime.

The Red Raiders came into the game at 14-2, while Duxbury was sporting a 7-8 record after disposing of Silver Lake on Tuesday night, 59-56. With five games remaining in the regular season, the Dragons needed to win three of its last five games to finish at .500.

[EYES ON THE PRIZE: The Duxbury girls’ swim team poses after finishing in 5th place at the South/Central Sectionals at the MIAA Swimming & Diving Championships at MIT on Saturday. They will compete for the State title Sunday at Harvard.]

A total of 15 female athletes traveled to the MIAA South/Central Sectional Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday held at the Zesiger Pool at MIT.

Senior Lauren Bittrich made Divisionals, winning the two-mile with a time of 12:32 and the mile with a personal-best time of 5:40.

Senior Emily Doyle made Divisionals in the 600m with time of 1:44, as well as the 55m and 300m.

Senior captain Parker Doyle won the 55m hurdles in a personal best (8.86) and placed second in the 300m and second in the high jump.

Senior captain Jason Angell won the two-mile (10:49) and placed second in the 600m with a personal best (89.9.

The Duxbury boys’ swimming and diving team duplicated the efforts of their female counterparts by taking first place at the Patriot League Championships over the weekend in Quincy.

Trinity College senior Sean McCarthy (Roxbury Latin ’08) assisted on the winning goal in his team’s 3-2 win over Connecticut College on Sunday… Bates junior Mark Brust (DHS ’08) scored 29 points in the Bobcats 67-62 loss to Tufts on Saturday in Medford… Sophomore Caitlin Buckley (DHS ’10) had a busy afternoon for the Bryant University swim team in its 157-105 loss to Stony Brook last week in NY. Buckley finished 2nd in the 200-yard medley relay, 4th in the 100-yard freestyle and butterfly, and 5th in the 100-yard backstroke… Freshman Briana Connolly (DHS ’11) was credited with an assist on the first Sacred Heart goal in the Pioneers’ 6-4 win over URI on Friday… Cornell sophomore Alexis Schupp (DHS ’10) scored a 9.8 on the bars to finish 3rd in the Lindsay Ferris Invitational at George Washington University. She followed that with a first-place performance on bars in the Big Red’s 188.675 to 183.875 win over SUNY-Cortland. She also finished 6th in the vault and balance beam