Above: ARHS Boys Rugby fought hard for their right to play in this week’s Finals. (image cropped from photo by Owen Jones Photography)
It’s time for an update on how Algonquin teams are doing in their post-season journeys.
Last week, members of Gonk Outdoor Track teams competed at District E Track & Field competitions. Both teams took part in the Weight Pentathlon. (Click links to see the results for the Boys and Girls.) The Girls team also competed at the Heptathlon. (See those results here.)
But it was the final competition of the season, the Boys Decathlon, that ARHS Athletics boasted brought some more glory to the successful Track program:
The boys decathlon team of Miles Lipka, Mason Drew, and Yates Campbell finished 1st and Miles Lipka was the overall winner.
(The tweeted photo includes Max Brown and Jonah Gould, who also competed.) You can view the detailed results here.
12 Seed Titans Boys Lacrosse were pushed out their playoffs by 5th seed Hingham a the Round of 16 on Wednesday. They lost 14-5. (You can read brief highlights in the Telegram here.)
That left ARHS Boys Rugby as the school’s last team still battling it out.
As I previously posted, the Division 2 Semi-Finals pitted them against Catholic Memorial a team they recently beat 38-27. I assumed that would mean an easy win. As the team told the Telegram, they assumed otherwise. It turns out they were right.
It was a close, hard fought 28-26 win for the Titans. Player Cullen Doherty was quoted as explaining why:
It’s tough to beat a team twice because they know what they’re going to be looking for. They definitely switched up their game. That was a tough one. It was a nail-biter with a lot of injuries. It was an intense game.
And from Head Coach Dominic McNeil:
I was telling these boys all week, it is so difficult to beat a team twice because you took their best shot, but we have what they want and they’re going to play so much more hungry, and they did. That was a very motivated team.
You can read more of the Telegram’s coverage here. Below you can see a few more of Phographer Own Jone’s photo highlights (click here for his gallery), followed by the final exciting moments of the game tweeted by the school:
Boys 🏉 secures a spot in the D2 State Final with a 28-26 win vs. Catholic Memorial.
Great Job Players & Coaches!!! pic.twitter.com/rtSA9B7bxs
— ARHS Athletics (@ARHSAthletics) June 8, 2023
This Saturday, the Boys will play Weymouth in the Finals. Their opponents are lower seed, but also the defending Champs who only lost one game this season (to Hanover who they went on to beat 19-17 in the Semi-Finals). That game is 4:00 pm on June 17th at Curry College.
