2008 BOYS INDOOR TRACK RUNNER OF THE YEAR: An eventful season for North's Arsenault

Since Red Sox Nation last saw their team at home, a lot has happened and things are a bit out of whack. They may be getting a free pass right now, with the Celtics in the playoffs. But that'll change when the Celtics are finished, and school's out. Then the summer gaze will be all on the Red Sox. And this team has us wondering a bit.

There has been no place like home, and no place worse than the road, for the Celtics this postseason. Without bringing the banners, parquet planks and dancers clad in glittering green to Cleveland for tonight's Game 6, the Celtics will have to find a way to transfer that home feeling where they have mostly done nothing wrong to a hostile environment where it's often seemed they can do nothing right.

Former New England assistant coach Brian Daboll told the NFL he doesn't remember speaking with Matt Walsh about the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough Walsh attended the day before the 2002 Super Bowl.

The Waltham High boys tennis team finished its Greater Boston League schedule in style yesterday with a 4-1 victory over Medford at Brandeis University.

Coming off a 3-2 road win over Boston Latin on Wednesday afternoon, the Newton South girls tennis team claimed its second straight Dual County League victory, a 3-2 triumph at Concord-Carlisle.

Intensity is the best word to describe the Dual County League track meet between Newton South and Lincoln-Sudbury yesterday at the newly-renovated Meyer Field. The Lion boys roared past their DCL rival, posting an impressive 83-62 win over the Warriors. The Lion girls, who were tied 63-63 before the two relays began, slipped in the last seconds of the 4x400 relay in a 73-72 loss.

The Newton North boys tennis team earned yet another 5-0 win yesterday afternoon, sweeping Dedham in a Bay State Conference contest at Newton South High to improve to 16-0.

Sophomore pitcher Robbie MacDonald spun a four-hit gem on the mound and the offense backed him up with 14 runs on 11 hits in a 14-1 rout of visiting Greater Boston League nemesis Everett at Yetten Diamond yesterday afternoon.

In a match that pitted two tired and depleted against on another, the Newton South girls tennis squeezed out a 3-2 Dual County League win over Boston Latin at the Sportsmen's Club in Dorchester yesterday afternoon.

Senior Kelly Nugent of the Bentley women's tennis team has been named the Division II national recipient of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Arthur Ashe Jr. Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship. The national award winner is selected from the eight regional award winners that were announced last week.