Foley scores four times as unbeaten Scituate routs Grafton 49-7 to reach Division 4 semifinals
The top-seeded Sailors are 10-0 and one win from a return trip to the state final, with No. 5 Walpole up next.
SCITUATE, Mass. High school football: MIAA Division 4 state tournament, quarterfinals
Scituate senior Grayson Foley ran for four touchdowns in the first half Friday night, and the top-seeded Sailors rolled past No. 8 Grafton 49-7 at Scituate High School to reach the Division 4 state semifinals with their record still perfect at 10-0.
The win keeps the defending Division 4 champions on course for a second straight trip to the state final. Scituate meets No. 5 Walpole in the semifinals after Walpole edged No. 4 Duxbury 14-13 the same night, according to the MIAA bracket.
The victory was also the 150th of coach Herb Devine's career, The Boston Globe's Schools Insider reported Saturday. A Whitman-Hanson graduate, Devine took over the Sailors in 2008.
How the Sailors scored
Foley, a senior running back and free safety who wears No. 6, piled up 89 rushing yards and did all of his scoring in the first half, The Boston Globe reported in its Friday roundup. Scituate scored seven touchdowns in all: four on the ground, two through the air and one on defense.
Junior Tyler Stelljes needed only nine passes to stretch the field, completing five for 185 yards and two touchdowns. Junior Sam Huggins, No. 88, was his biggest target, with two catches for 120 yards and a touchdown. The Scituate defense added the seventh touchdown on a 70-yard interception return.
Grafton, which reached the quarterfinals by beating No. 9 South High Community 17-12 in the first round, fell to 5-5.
A season of lopsided scores
Scituate entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed at 8-0 and opened it with a 21-0 shutout of No. 16 Ashland on Thursday, Nov. 5, according to the MIAA. The Sailors went 5-0 in the Patriot League's Fisher Division, according to the team's schedule on MaxPreps.
Scituate opened the season Sept. 11 with a 21-0 win over Duxbury, according to that schedule, then beat Norwell 35-14, Marblehead 42-21, Plymouth South 49-12, Quincy 41-6, Pembroke 49-6, North Quincy 42-28 and Hanover 49-7 before the playoffs began. By our count from those results, the Sailors have outscored 10 opponents 398-101, close to 40 points a game, and every one of those wins has come by at least 14 points.
Last year's title, and the players who were part of it
Several of Friday's stars were on the field at Gillette Stadium last December, when Scituate beat Tewksbury Memorial 42-41 in the Division 4 final on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. The MIAA's box score from that game shows Foley scoring on runs of 1 and 13 yards and adding two 2-point runs, Huggins catching a 5-yard touchdown pass from Jonathan Donovan, and Stelljes kicking extra points. Donovan's 15-yard touchdown pass to Miller Shea with 16 seconds left won it.
What's next
Scituate's schedule on MaxPreps lists the semifinal against Walpole for Friday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. Walpole reached the final four by beating No. 12 Westfield 48-18 and then holding off Duxbury, according to the MIAA bracket. The other Division 4 semifinal matches No. 2 Tewksbury Memorial and No. 3 Danvers.
The Sailors then host Hingham on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, Nov. 26, at 10 a.m., according to the same schedule, which lists an NFHS Network stream for that game.
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- 2026 MIAA Division 4 Football Tournament bracket and results, MIAA, posted November 2026 (https://www.miaa.net/sites/default/files/2026-11/brackets-football-2026.pdf), read Nov. 14, 2026
- MIAA Football 2026 Division 4 State Tournament page, game times and sites, MIAA (https://www.miaa.net/miaa-football-2026-division-4-state-tournament), read Nov. 14, 2026
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