MIAA Division 4 Super Bowl: (2) Scituate 29, (1) Duxbury 13 — Sailors earn revenge

December 5, 2024

By Tyler Amaral NEFJ Staff FOXBOROUGH — Scituate waited 370 days to avenge last year’s 62-33 Super Bowl loss to Duxbury. The wait was well worth it as the second-seeded Sailors rolled to a 29-13 win over No. 1 Duxbury in the Division 4 title game to capture the program’s third state championship since 2018. The Dragons had no answer for Scituate’s passing attack led by junior quarterback Jonny Donovan……

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MIAA Division 3 and 4 previews

August 23, 2024

Division 3 Five teams to watch: Milton, Walpole, Milford, North Attleboro, Mansfield Five players to watch: Noah Mackenzie, QB, Walpole; Dan Moore, OL, Billerica; Ryan Bannon, LB, North Attleboro; Jackson Hart, QB, Dartmouth; Johnny Gingeruha, WR, West Springfield. Outlook: We want to be clear, here. Division 3 is the most wide-open division in the state this year. It really could be anybody’s. Now, with our five teams to watch, it……

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Champions Q&A: Duxbury coach Matt Landolfi

December 28, 2023

Another football season has passed, and another great Duxbury team has won a D4 state title. The Dragons went 11-1 this fall, and earned a championship with a 62-33 victory over a very good Scituate team. That makes at least a Gillette Stadium appearance in each of the last four MIAA postseasons. We wanted to talk to Duxbury coach Matt Landolfi, on what makes this program so special. Here is……

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Friday’s state champions exceeded high expectations

December 2, 2023

Preseason expectations are funny. For some teams, they can feel like a heavy weight, and add unwanted pressure. They can crumble a team’s psyche. Then, for others, those expectations don’t affect them negatively at all. And those squads fly past them, and even improve upon them. It was the latter scenario for the three state title winners in Friday’s games at Gillette Stadium. Uxbridge in D7, Duxbury in D4, and……

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Duxbury 21, Mansfield 17 – Dragons rally past Mansfield

September 14, 2023

MANSFIELD — Trevor Jones and Finn Carley both start on defense for Duxbury, Jones as a defensive back, and Carley as a linebacker. Were it just for those contributions, Jones and Carley would be enough for the Dragons. But as it is now, each player also plays quarterback, and Duxbury coach Matt Landolfi rotates them. In Thursday’s game at Mansfield, both players made a positive impact in Duxbury’s 21-17 win…….

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Duxbury’s Matt Festa signs with UNH

February 1, 2023

In one of the top storylines of National Signing Day, Duxbury quarterback Matt Festa inked his pledge to the University of New Hampshire. https://twitter.com/unh_football/status/1620817624660860928?s=46&t=wWBXP7mzuVfRGKPa_VpVkQ Throughout the recruiting process, it became a real question mark on where Festa would eventually sign. For much of it, Festa did not have an obvious landing spot. It took a while for many of the local Division 1 programs to offer the talented player. In…

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