Q&A with Scituate coach Herb Devine

September 8, 2024

In maybe the most exciting finish of the weekend, Scituate slipped past Foxboro, 20-14, when junior quarterback Jonny Donovan hit Lawson Foley with a 44-yard touchdown as time ran out. It was a terrific win for Scituate, beating the defending D5 state champs in dramatic fashion. We spoke with Scituate coach Herb Devine to get his perspective on the win. Adam Kurkjian: Tell me about that ending. How often in……

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MIAA Division 5 and 6 previews

August 22, 2024

Division 5 Five teams to watch: Foxboro, Shawsheen, Hanover, Apponequet, Bishop Fenwick Five players to watch: Ben Angelini, RB, Foxboro; Sidney Tildsley, QB, Shawsheen; Brody Joly, RB, Apponequet; Aidan Boutin, RB/LB, Hanover; AJ Pinet, RB/DB, Dedham. Outlook: Unlike Division 7 and 8, we are not expecting parity out of D5. The team that won this division last year, Foxboro, actually had a junior-heavy team in 2023, and is coming back……

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Champions Q&A: Foxboro coach Jack Martinelli

January 4, 2024

You talk to Foxboro coach Jack Martinelli, you can hear the love in his voice that he has for the 2023 Warriors. The team went 12-1 and won the D5 state title, but the fact that the team was so good was only part of the equation. In a season in which Martinelli also won his 300th game, there was so much to make him smile. We spoke to him……

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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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Division 5 Super Bowl — Foxboro 48, Hanover 21 — Storybook finish for Warriors

December 2, 2023

FOXBORO — For a season in which Jack Martinelli won his 300th game, and capped it off with a D5 state title, the Foxboro coach had the perfect word for it. “You know, it’s been storybook,” Martinelli said. “But, as I said early on, kids have personal goals. They have team goals. I never asked anything what they were. I said it always bears the truth at the end of……

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Foxborough 35, Canton 0 – Martinelli picks up 300th win as Warriors cruise past Bulldogs

October 21, 2023

CANTON- Winning 300 games as a coach in any sport is quite an accomplishment. Winning 300 games in football is rare air. Jack Martinelli is in exclusive company becoming just the seventh coach in state history to accomplish the feat after the Warriors beat Canton 35-0 on Friday night.  The Warriors got off to a slow start early offensively but managed to score right before the end of the first……

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King Philip 13, Foxboro 7 — KP holds on, stays perfect

October 13, 2023

There are not a lot of teams that play like King Philip. The Warriors line up in the I formation and play power football. Then, on defense, they bring pressure and hit you for four quarters. When KP is able to string together long possessions and make you play from behind, the Warriors are damn near impossible to beat. In a 13-7 victory over previously-unbeaten Foxboro, King Philip followed its……

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Foxboro 14, North Attleboro 0 — Defense, running game lift Warriors

September 15, 2023

NORTH ATTLEBORO — With all due respect to the many high-flying passing offenses at every level of football, it remains true that playing great defense and running the football well is still a winning formula. In Friday night’s game at North Attleboro, Foxboro held fast to those tenets, and earned a massive, 14-0 victory in a Hockmock League crossover game. Foxboro, of the Davenport Division, moved to 2-0 on the……

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