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

The Duxbury girls’ swimming and diving team blew away the competition at the Patriot League Championships over the weekend, winning by more than 200 points. 

Juniors Ellie Johnson and Shelby Rader led the Lady Dragons with two wins apiece, while 21 girls scored individual points for the team including the three relay teams that took home gold.

(Duxbury senior captain Bobby Boyle is flanked by head coach Kyle McCarthy and asst. coach Matt Jeffrey after winning the 220 lb. championship at the DII South Sectional wrestling tournament on Saturday.)

Apparently good things do come in small packages because the Duxbury HS wrestling team had only six wrestlers compete at the Division 2 South Sectional Individual Tournament on Saturday at Whitman-Hanson. Three of those grapplers punched their ticket to the state tournament that will be held at Reading Memorial High School on Friday and Saturday.

The Dragons survived a sluggish first-half offensive performance to beat Middleboro on Friday night, 56-46, raising their record to 6-8 with six regular season games to go. Duxbury must win four of its final six games in order to make the MIAA tournament.

Offensive consistency has been the downfall for this year’s boys’ basketball team, and it was in evidence last week when the Dragons had trouble pulling away from the Sachems with a 10-5 first-quarter advantage.

The boys’ hockey team looked like its chance at post-season play was headed in the wrong direction on Saturday afternoon when it took on a poor Quincy High team and trailed 1-0 midway through the third period.

“We were pretty much carrying the play in the first two periods, but their goalie (Peter Junta) was hot,” said Duxbury Coach John Blake. “Once we banged home that first one the flood gates opened.”

(Freshman forward Meredith Wright leaves a Barnstable defender in her wake before scoring the final goal in the win over Barnstable for sole possession of first place.)

The Duxbury girls’ hockey team faced its biggest challenge of the regular season on Friday afternoon at The Bog and came away with a 4-0 shutout win over the once-beaten Barnstable Red Raiders.

The victory solidifies Duxbury’s position as the top girls’ hockey team south of Boston, as the Red Raiders suffered their second loss in a week (Hingham) and saw their record drop to 10-2.

(Big Mac: Senior captain Shannon McLaughlin scores two of her 13 points in Thursday night's win over Marhsfield. Photo: Jim Tarbox)

After a 1-5 start under new head coach Bob Sullivan, everything seems to be falling into place for the Lady Dragons who ripped off their fifth straight win on Friday night with a 66-28 trouncing of Hanover in Patriot League action.

Playing on back-to-back nights after pulling away from Marshfield in the fourth quarter the previous night for a 58-43 win over the Rams, Duxbury came back in grand fashion at home and raced to a 14-0 lead in the first four minutes of the win over the Indians.