High school soccer, field hockey, volleyball and football: MIAA state tournament early-round results, Monday, Nov. 9, to Thursday, Nov. 12, plus other local games and Massasoit basketball through Saturday, Nov. 14
Correction, 2:35 p.m. Nov. 15, 2026: An earlier version of this story used the names in The Boston Globe's game accounts for three Duxbury players, Cate Sovik, Anna Manganello and Liv Coperine. Duxbury High School's 2026 varsity girls soccer roster lists them as Catherine Sovik, Annabel Manganello and Olivia Coperine.
Correction, 12:40 p.m. Nov. 15, 2026: An earlier version of this story gave the name of Braintree's junior goalkeeper as Liv Whelan, the name in The Boston Globe's game accounts. She is listed as Olivia Whelan on Braintree High School's varsity girls soccer roster.
The early rounds of the fall state tournaments sent a long list of South Shore teams into the quarterfinals, and a handful of players carried them there. Taylor Bello had back-to-back hat tricks for Hingham girls soccer, Jack Donahue had four goals in two games for unbeaten Oliver Ames boys soccer, and Libby Harper had a hat trick and the go-ahead goal in two Hull girls soccer wins.
Here are the South Shore's tournament results from Monday through Thursday, by sport, with a note on how far each team went later in the week. Scores, seeds, sites and the semifinal pairings are the MIAA's; scorers and stats come from The Boston Globe's game accounts. The full results of Friday's and Saturday's quarterfinals are in our Nov. 13 and 14 roundup, and three South Shore girls soccer quarterfinals are scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15: Rockland at Sandwich at 1 p.m., Oliver Ames against Masconomet at Danvers High at 2:45 p.m., and Notre Dame Academy at Hingham at 4 p.m.
Boys soccer
- Oliver Ames (Division 2, No. 1): Jack Donahue scored both goals in a 2-0 win over No. 32 North Attleborough on Monday, then the sophomore had two goals and two assists in a 5-0 win over No. 17 Bedford on Wednesday. The unbeaten Tigers beat Melrose 2-0 in Saturday's quarterfinal and meet No. 4 Milford in the semifinals.
- Marshfield (Division 2, No. 5): Brady Hanson had a hat trick, Daragh Hume had a goal and two assists and Zach Evans had a goal and an assist as Marshfield beat No. 28 Grafton on Monday, a game the MIAA bracket lists as 5-0 and the Globe as 5-1. Hume, Hanson and junior Cole Sombronski scored in a 3-0 win over No. 12 Dartmouth on Thursday, and senior Ian Sarabia earned his 10th clean sheet of the season.
- Duxbury (Division 2, No. 25): Duxbury tied No. 8 Reading Memorial 1-1 on Monday and advanced on penalty kicks, a result the MIAA records as a 2-1 Duxbury win. Its run ended Wednesday with a 5-3 loss at No. 24 Melrose, where senior Sirak Araia had a hat trick for the Red Hawks.
- Hingham (Division 2, No. 23): Hingham lost 2-1 at No. 10 West Springfield on Monday, with senior Oliver Cojocaru scoring twice for the Terriers. The Harbormen finished 10-6-4.
- Archbishop Williams (Division 2, No. 39): The Bishops lost 3-0 at No. 7 Wakefield on Monday, with Alex De Morais scoring twice, and finished 12-5-3.
- Braintree (Division 1, No. 30): Braintree took No. 3 Lincoln-Sudbury to overtime Monday before Keenan Kirk won it 1-0 for the Warriors. The Wamps finished 9-8-3.
- Norwell (Division 3, No. 3): Mac Dyment had a goal and an assist, and Tyler Kelley and Jerry Dunn also scored in a 3-2 win over No. 30 Watertown on Monday. Norwell beat Assabet Valley 4-1 on Thursday and Greater New Bedford 1-0 on Saturday.
- Pembroke and Hanover (Division 3): Fourth-seeded Pembroke beat No. 29 Hanover 2-0 on Tuesday, with Declan Carey and Dylan Baldwin scoring, and beat No. 13 East Boston 3-0 on Thursday behind Nate Comeau's goal and assist. Hanover's season ended at 9-8-3, and Pembroke went on to beat Chicopee 1-0 in Saturday's quarterfinal.
- Scituate (Division 3, No. 11): Scituate lost 2-1 to Auburn at home on Tuesday.
- West Bridgewater (Division 4, No. 2): Drew Spadea scored twice and added an assist in a 4-0 win over No. 31 Millis on Monday. On Wednesday against No. 15 South Hadley, the sophomore headed in senior George Baroud's corner kick to tie the game with six minutes left in regulation, then scored the winner six minutes into overtime for a 2-1 win. The Wildcats lost 2-0 to No. 10 Littleton in Saturday's quarterfinal.
- Abington (Division 4, No. 5): Aiden Calcano and Dimitri St. Paul scored, both on assists from Nathan Calcano, in a 2-0 win over No. 28 Millbury on Monday. Abington beat Advanced Math and Science 3-2 at home on Thursday before a 1-0 quarterfinal loss to Sutton on Saturday.
- Rockland (Division 4, No. 8): Senior Daniel DaSilva scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over No. 25 Wahconah on Monday. Rockland lost 3-1 at home to Monomoy on Wednesday.
- Hull (Division 5, No. 7): Christian Truglia scored twice in a 4-0 win over No. 26 Gateway on Monday. Hull lost 7-2 at home to Collegiate Charter School of Lowell on Thursday.
- Holbrook (Division 5, No. 16): Holbrook beat No. 17 TechBoston Academy 2-1 at home on Monday, then lost 4-0 at top-seeded Hopedale on Wednesday and finished 12-7-1.
Girls soccer
- Hingham (Division 2, No. 2): Taylor Bello had a hat trick and four assists and Charlotte Mercer scored twice in an 8-0 win over No. 34 Shepherd Hill on Monday. Bello had another hat trick on Thursday, Sara Maroney scored twice, and Bello and Corinne Granoff had two assists each in a 7-0 win over Holliston.
- Duxbury (Division 2, No. 1): Catherine Sovik, Madeline MacKinnon and Annabel Manganello scored in a 3-0 win over No. 32 Stoughton on Monday, and senior Lilah MacQuarrie had a hat trick, with senior Olivia Coperine adding a goal, in a 4-0 win over No. 17 Northampton on Wednesday.
- Oliver Ames (Division 2, No. 5): Brooke Dean scored the only goal against No. 28 Canton on Monday. Senior Siena Fabrizio scored first and Emma Barry added a goal off a Stella Fabrizio throw-in in a 2-0 win over No. 12 Newburyport on Wednesday.
- Notre Dame Academy (Division 2, No. 7): Sam Linhart and Aoife McDonagh scored first-half goals in a 2-0 win over No. 26 North Attleborough on Tuesday, and the Cougars beat No. 10 Minnechaug 1-0 on Thursday.
- Whitman-Hanson (Division 2, No. 8): Seniors Keira Manchester and Caleigh Mahoney scored in the second half of a 2-1 win over No. 25 Melrose on Monday. On Thursday, Bella Delorenzo and Skylar Griffin connected on a cross that went into the upper corner in double overtime for a 2-1 win over No. 9 Grafton.
- Silver Lake (Division 2, No. 13): Maddie Cina scored three times and Sam Chue once in a 4-1 win over No. 20 Somerset Berkley on Tuesday. The Lakers lost 6-0 at No. 4 Masconomet on Thursday.
- Marshfield (Division 2, No. 24): Marshfield lost 3-2 at No. 9 Grafton on Tuesday.
- Braintree (Division 1, No. 7): Savannah Sanon scored twice and added an assist, Michaela Ranieri and Siena Quintiliani also scored and keeper Olivia Whelan kept the shutout in a 4-0 win over No. 26 Boston Latin on Tuesday. On Thursday, Ranieri, Quintiliani and sophomore Caitlin Kelly scored in a shootout and Whelan, a junior, stopped three of four Lexington penalty kicks for a 1-0 win.
- Weymouth and Bridgewater-Raynham (Division 1): No. 28 Weymouth lost 3-0 at No. 5 Franklin, and No. 19 Bridgewater-Raynham lost 2-0 at No. 14 Shrewsbury, both on Monday.
- Norwell (Division 3, No. 2): Ally Kelley scored twice in a 4-0 win over No. 34 St. Mary's on Monday, and Kelsey Tuttle, Mairin Blake, Kelley and Hannah Morse scored in a 4-0 win over No. 15 Wilmington on Thursday.
- Cardinal Spellman (Division 3, No. 8): Emerson McCann had two goals and an assist and Brynn Nickley had a goal and two assists in a 3-0 win over No. 25 Nauset on Monday in Brockton. On Wednesday, Addie Bernazzani scored the winner off a Nickley cross in a 3-2 overtime win over No. 9 Bishop Fenwick, with McCann and Nickley also scoring. The Cardinals' season ended Saturday with a 10-1 quarterfinal loss at unbeaten, top-seeded Medfield, and they finished 16-3-2.
- Hanover (Division 3, No. 7): Callie Delaney scored early in the second half, on an assist from Addy Phillips, for the winner in a 3-1 win over No. 26 Salem on Monday. Hanover lost 3-2 to No. 10 Tewksbury in double overtime on Wednesday and finished 12-6-2.
- Pembroke, Scituate and East Bridgewater (Division 3): No. 23 Pembroke lost 2-1 at No. 10 Tewksbury, No. 22 Scituate fell to No. 11 Dedham 5-4 on penalty kicks, and No. 17 East Bridgewater lost 2-0 at No. 16 Medway, all on Monday.
- Rockland (Division 4, No. 5): Rockland beat No. 28 Manchester Essex 2-1 on Monday and Advanced Math and Science 3-2 in overtime on Thursday, both at home.
- West Bridgewater (Division 4, No. 13): Kendall Conley and Sophia Hulme scored and keeper Kate Austrino saved two penalty kicks in a 3-2 win over No. 20 Leicester on Monday. West Bridgewater lost 2-1 in overtime at No. 4 Sandwich on Thursday.
- Abington (Division 4, No. 24): Abington lost 1-0 at No. 9 Hamilton-Wenham on Monday on a goal in the second minute.
- Hull (Division 5, No. 3): Senior Libby Harper had a hat trick and an assist, Aubrey Littlefield scored twice and Mackenzie MacLeod and Gianna Thorne added goals in a 7-1 win over No. 30 Franklin County Tech on Tuesday. On Thursday, Harper broke a scoreless tie in the second half off an assist from Littlefield, a freshman who also scored, and Scarlett Arevalo kept the clean sheet in a 3-0 win over No. 14 Palmer.
- Holbrook (Division 5, No. 12): Holbrook beat No. 21 Ware 5-0 at home on Tuesday and won 1-0 at Monson on Thursday.
Field hockey
- Hingham (Division 2, No. 5): Libby Baxter had two goals and an assist, Remy Lynch and Libby Koyce scored, and Quinn Hallisey had two assists in a 4-1 win over No. 12 Newburyport on Tuesday.
- West Bridgewater (Division 4, No. 7): Haylee Krakowski and Sarah Diedrichsen scored and Reese O'Keefe added an assist in a 2-0 win over Ipswich on Tuesday. The Wildcats' season ended Thursday with a 3-0 quarterfinal loss at No. 2 Dennis-Yarmouth, and they finished 18-4-1.
- Duxbury (Division 2, No. 8): Duxbury lost 2-1 in overtime to No. 9 Reading Memorial on Tuesday and finished 15-3-2.
- Notre Dame Academy (Division 2, No. 10): Notre Dame lost 2-0 at No. 7 Westwood on Tuesday and finished 9-10-1.
- Scituate (Division 3): Scituate lost 3-0 at top-seeded, unbeaten Sandwich on Tuesday.
Girls volleyball (second round, Nov. 10 and 11)
- Oliver Ames (Division 2, No. 1): Chelsea Wagner had 16 kills and three aces, Taylor Donohue had 13 kills and four aces, Theresa Kavolius had 30 assists and Molly Milliken had 12 digs in a 3-0 win over No. 16 Wayland on Tuesday, a rematch of last year's Division 2 final.
- Duxbury (Division 2, No. 7): Duxbury won the first two sets against No. 23 Essex Tech on Tuesday, 25-19 and 25-22, lost the next two and trailed 13-8 in the fifth before senior Catherine Grimaldi put together six straight serves to seal a 3-2 win. Ashlan Upham, Hazel Condon and Maria Torres led the Dragons.
- Hingham (Division 2, No. 4): Hingham swept No. 13 Burlington 3-0 on Tuesday.
- East Bridgewater (Division 4, No. 1): Senior Ayla Kingman had 29 assists and sophomore Elizabeth Willis had 14 kills in a 3-0 win over No. 16 Ayer Shirley on Tuesday.
- Season enders: No. 15 Hanover lost 3-1 at No. 2 Old Rochester, Rockland lost 3-0 at Ursuline, South Shore Voc-Tech lost 3-2 at Mount Greylock and Holbrook lost 3-0 at Old Colony, all on Tuesday, and No. 9 West Bridgewater lost 3-1 at No. 8 Hamilton-Wenham on Wednesday.
Football
- Abington (Division 6, No. 3): Jack Reilly and Naz Paulding scored two touchdowns each and Jake Lehman ran for another as Abington beat No. 11 Joseph Case 36-7 in Thursday's quarterfinal. The Green Wave (8-2) meet No. 7 Old Rochester in the semifinals.
Other games (not part of the state tournament)
- Football, Thursday: Pembroke won 30-22 at East Bridgewater, Silver Lake won 41-24 at Quincy, Archbishop Williams won 28-20 at Nauset, and Braintree lost 25-14 at Westwood.
- Football, Friday: Cardinal Spellman lost 48-0 at Sandwich.
- Girls volleyball, Thursday: Thayer Academy beat St. George's 3-1 at home.
Massasoit men's basketball
Massasoit beat Gateway of Connecticut 81-56 in Brockton on Tuesday, Nov. 10, as Dhiego Neves had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Nasir Pereira adding 22 points and eight assists and Jake Savage putting up 12 points and 13 rebounds. Savage scored 27 points in a 65-53 home loss to UConn Avery Point on Thursday, when Pereira had 11 assists and Neves had 14 rebounds, and Massasoit beat Roxbury 71-61 on Saturday, Nov. 14.
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Corrections
Correction, 2:35 p.m. Nov. 15, 2026: An earlier version of this story used the names in The Boston Globe's game accounts for three Duxbury players, Cate Sovik, Anna Manganello and Liv Coperine. Duxbury High School's 2026 varsity girls soccer roster lists them as Catherine Sovik, Annabel Manganello and Olivia Coperine.
Correction, 12:40 p.m. Nov. 15, 2026: An earlier version of this story gave the name of Braintree's junior goalkeeper as Liv Whelan, the name in The Boston Globe's game accounts. She is listed as Olivia Whelan on Braintree High School's varsity girls soccer roster.
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Sources (6)
- MIAA 2026 state tournament pages: boys soccer and girls soccer Divisions 1 to 5, field hockey Divisions 1 to 4, fall volleyball Divisions 1 to 5 and football Divisions 1 to 8, MIAA (https://www.miaa.net/miaa-boys-soccer-2026-division-1-state-tournament and the matching pages for each sport and division), read Nov. 15, 2026
- Game accounts, The Boston Globe, Nov. 9 to 12 and 14, 2026, one per game named (https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/high-schools/story/?sport=girls-soccer&id=20261109-1-shepherd-hill-hingham and the matching pages), read Nov. 15, 2026
- 2026 athletics rosters, girls varsity soccer, Braintree High School (https://sites.google.com/braintreeschools.org/athletics/sports/fall-season/soccer-g), read Nov. 15, 2026
- High school scoreboard, all sports, Nov. 9 to 14, 2026, The Boston Globe (https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/high-schools/scoreboard), read Nov. 15, 2026
- South Shore playoff roundup, Nov. 13 and 14, South Shore 360 News (story south-shore-playoff-roundup-football-volleyball-soccer-nov-13-14-2026)
- Massasoit Community College men's basketball 2026-27 schedule and box scores, Massasoit athletics (https://massasoitccwarriors.com/sports/mbkb/2026-27/schedule), read Nov. 15, 2026








