Watertown 1, Oakmont 0: Raiders win Division 2 state field hockey championship

Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss and Jets cornerback Darrell Revis are the game within Sunday's game. It was Revis and New York who had the upper hand earlier this year.

Just as soon as sophomore goalkeeper Kayla Costa could finish saying that the Watertown High field hockey team would savor last night's Division 2 state semifinal victory up until it returned to practice today, her coach, Eileen Donahue, boarded the team bus Costa was standing behind and shouted that she was giving the team the day off from the Waltham High turf. The coach's news after the 1-0 victory against Canton High on Canton's home field only temporarily interrupted the Raider chants: ``We're going to the show! We're going to the show!''
 

When the match was lost, and season over, the cheers continued for the Mount Alvernia girls volleyball team. The Mustang rooting contingent - four dozen strong that sounded more like 400 singing and shrieking girls' voices echoing off all corners of the Nashoba Regional High School gymnasium - urged on Mount Alvernia with vigor throughout last night's Division 3 state semifinal against Norte Dame Academy of Tyngsboro. In the aftermath of a 25-13, 25-21, 15-25, 25-11 defeat, the cheers continued as a salute to the squad and all it accomplished in bringing a second sectional volleyball title banner in five seasons to the school.
 

Senior All-America Jason Westrol scored a game-high 16 points and senior John Brandt led a strong bench effort with 14 points as Bentley University shot down Merrimack College, 72-58, last night at the Volpe Gym in a battle for early season supremacy in the Northeast-10 Conference.
 

Wheaton College men's basketball junior and Watertown High alumnus Anthony Coppola became the 12th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point milestone, hitting the plateau during the Lyons' season opener at Emerson College on Tuesday.

It turned around when Rajon Rondo said so. Pretty much. The Celtics were playing footsie with a decidedly inferior Golden State Warriors team, letting it hang around in front of a restless paying crowd, not to mention their coach.

The Patriots had two full days to stew in the aftermath of their stunning 35-34 loss to Indianapolis on Sunday night. For most members of the team, that was plenty. So while the talk radio shows continued to debate coach Bill Belichick's decision to go for it on fourth-and-2 late Sunday, there was little to be heard about the subject within the confines of Gillette Stadium.

Since coming into the league in 1999, Kevin Faulk has been the consummate jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none for the Patriots. Taking the ball up the middle? Check. Catching multiple passes each game out of the backfield? Check. Providing Tom Brady those extra seconds he needs to unleash a bomb down the sidelines? That checkmark stands as large as any.

The running backs were always going to be asked to do a lot this season. With a freshman at quarterback and no stars at wide receiver, the ground game figured to be the centerpiece of the Boston College offense. But when the season started, Montel Harris couldn't have imagined how big a focal point he'd become.

The New England Patriots' young defense kept Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts under control for three quarters. The Patriots forced seven punts, made one interception and led 24-14 with 15 minutes left. But they couldn't finish the job as Manning rallied the Colts to a 35-34 win Sunday night.