Gloucester slows down Winthrop
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A sense of history is valuable, even in a football game. Gloucester has watched Winthrop's Anthony Fucillo walk all over the Northeastern Conference this season. Through eight games, Fucillo had thrown 11 touchdown passes and scored 87 points.
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-- Winthrop's impressive run to another NCAA tournament bid has the Eagles in The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time. While Ohio State stayed No. 1 in the rankings for the second straight week Monday, Winthrop moved in at No. 24.
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Aiming for its first America East tournament title game since 2003, Boston University came up short -- and long -- yesterday against Albany. At a loss? So was BU about finding a way to put the ball in the basket.
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The stage is set. No. 24 Boston College (6-2, 2-1 Big East) improved its position for a showdown against league-leading West Virginia with yesterday's raggedy 21-10 victory over Rutgers before an Alumni Stadium crowd of 41,162.
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They had lost to Vermont, 89-45, last Sunday and barely got by Longwood University, 63-58, a team with a 1-18 record, on Tuesday. Put it this way -- the University of Hartford Hawks weren't exactly on a roll going into last night's game at Boston University.
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Katie McNamara hit the go-ahead basket with a minute remaining, lifting Vermont to a 69-66 America East victory over Boston University yesterday in Burlington, Vt.
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George Washington hangs with No. 2 Wake Forest for most of the game, but the Demon Deacons pull away in the final minutes for a 97-76 in the opening round of the Preseason NIT.
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The Winthrop Vikings took one step closer to the promised land last night.
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Rutgersâs basketball team scored fewer points against Georgetown than its football team did Saturday.
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Kansas and Boston College barely remained unbeaten. Shelden Williams made sure Duke had a much easier night.
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Any team that has a date with the Acton-Boxboro boys' soccer team could learn a lesson from Concord-Carlisle. When playing the second-ranked Colonials, leave mistakes at home. A poor clearance, a cheap foul, or a mistimed pass will not go unpunished, as exhibited in A-B's 3-0 victory over the third-ranked Patriots.
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Jessica Adair scored 14 points to lead four George Washington players in double figures and the 14th-ranked Colonials beat Massachusetts, 69-45, last night in Amherst, Mass.
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It started as a coronation. One more victory, maybe one last time in Boston for retiring Vermont coach Tom Brennan, whose team had yet to lose in America East play, and had not lost period since North Carolina defeated the Catamounts Dec. 21.
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The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team didn't make the 1 1/2-hour drive down here to be embarrassed. But that's what happened last night when Boston College humbled the Wildcats, 50-31, at Conte Forum.
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Massachusetts beats rival Connecticut for the first time in 14 tries Thursday night, 61-59, on Rashaun Freeman's layup with 4.3 seconds remaining.
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WORCESTER -- Keith Simmons had a quiet first half in yesterday's Patriot League tournament semifinal against American -- three shots, one basket, and zero rebounds aren't exactly up to Simmons's standards -- and the Holy Cross senior knew if his team was to come back from a 5-point halftime deficit, he would have to get stirring.
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Just two days after the former No. 1 East Boston boys' basketball squad fell, the top-ranked Peabody girls followed suit, suffering their first loss by dropping a nonleague contest to host Gloucester, 62-51, yesterday.