The DHS boys’ hockey team improved its record to 1-1-1 with a 3-0 shutout win over Hanover in Patriot League action on Wednesday night at the Hobomock Arena in Pembroke.

Outshooting the Indians by a 13-5 margin in the first period, Duxbury took a 1-0 lead with 4:38 left in the period when sophomore forward Nick Marrocco wristed a shot over the shoulder of Hanover netminder Elijah Marciello to break the scoreless tie.

They’ve been picked as the favorite to repeat as Division II State champs, and by the look at things so far, there seems to be little doubt as to why.

After squeaking by Walpole, 4-3, in its season opener, the Duxbury girls’ hockey team got back to form last week with a 10-1 trouncing of Pembroke/Whitman-Hanson and a convincing 7-2 win over Canton last Wednesday night on the road.

The Duxbury boys’ swim team is off to an exceptional start, posting a 4-0 record and heading into the holiday break with the top spot in the Patriot League. Graduating only one swimmer from last year’s team, the Dragons added four freshmen to their 2011 roster. Diving for this year’s team and looking to add points are senior Ryan Scanlan and sophomore Mike Tougas. Leading the Dragons so far this season with state-qualifying times are juniors Ian Wilson and Mike Connolly, who have yet to lose an event between them.

They came into the tournament as the No. 2 seed behind perennial super power Walpole HS (21-0), with the only chance the two would meet being in the South Sectional final.

After surrendering the state title they had held for seven straight years in 2010, the Duxbury Dragon lacrosse team regained the top spot in Massachusetts by defeating defending state champion St. John’s Prep of Danvers for the crown at Harvard Stadium.

It looks like the Duxbury girls’ swim team is the team to beat in the Patriot League, as they began their season at 4-0 with two more wins last week over Pembroke (88-68) and Hanover (91-87).  The addition of eight freshmen has given the Lady Dragons the depth they will need to compete with the best teams in the division.

After losing out as the Globe’s “Coach of the Year” to Concord-Carlisle’s Mike Robichaud, who saw his Patriots manhandled by the Dragons, 35-13, in 2010’s Division 2A Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium, Duxbury Coach Dave Maimaron got his just reward by being named the MIAA 2011 “Football Coach of the Year.”

Pam Manley, in her fifth season of coaching the Lady Dragons field hockey team, guided Duxbury to its third straight Patriot League title and a 22-2 record that included a 2-0 shutout of perennial power Walpole High School in the South Sectional finals. Duxbury went on to face Andover in the Eastern Mass. finals where they lost 2-0.

Head Coach Bob Sullivan and his Lady Dragon basketball team and it didn’t go as expected, as the girls were humbled on their home court by Quincy HS, 44-35.

While Duxbury started out strong, and ended with a late-game rally that fell short, it were the two middle periods that cost the Lady Dragons a chance to reward Sullivan with a win in his first Duxbury start.

The boys’ indoor track team had its hands full with a veteran Whitman-Hanson track team, dropping its first meet of the season, 81-19.

Senior captain Parker Doyle finished second in the high jump and the 55m hurdles, while classmates Nick Kangos finished third in the 55m and Brody Zisko finished third in the shot put.

The Duxbury girls’ indoor track team lost to Whitman-Hanson, 77-23, at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston last Tuesday night.

Senior Emily Doyle came in first in the 55m and qualified for States with a time of: 7.81 (qualify time is 7.84), and also won the 300m, qualifying for States with a time of  42.60 (qualify time of 44.94)

Led by returning tri-captains Michela North, Katelyn Norton and Shannon McLaughlin, new head coach Bob Sullivan’s girls’ basketball team won’t be lacking for experience, or a positive attitude, as the veteran coach returns seven juniors to the 2011 squad that qualified for last year’s MIAA Division II playoffs.

With over 20 years of coaching experience, Sullivan isn’t about to admit he has all the answers to taking his team deep into 2012’s playoffs. But he seemed to do pretty well in his first two years of varsity coaching at Bourne HS where he led the girls’ program to its first league title in 25 years in his second season. Along with that title was a 20-3 record and his selection as the DIII Mass. Coach of the Year.

The Duxbury girls’ indoor track opened its season against Quincy last Thursday at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, beating the Presidents, 76 -19.

Junior Laura Nee and senior Emily Doyle qualified for the Division III State meet in February, with Nee placing first in the 600M with a time of 1:46.6 and Doyle taking first in her event.