The Dart "All the news that is fitting and to the point." Volume 9, Issue 3 Spring 2010 Student Council Elections Mr. Rossini were able to get us through this by Jay Daukas season by helping us bear down and just fight The ninth grade class president spot had through every inning. They taught us to try to several bidders. One of them, Christian Kelly, a win every inning on offense and defense. We had veteran of the student council, ran again for a some good pitchers, but at times our fielding second term, but Charlie Canty came out on top didn’t help them out. Mr. Doherty was also good in the voting. The vice-presidential election was with the fact that he was able to keep our not as hard to win. Running unopposed, Jay pitchers calm, helping us get through the inning Daukas was elected. The new ninth grade class without allowing many runs in. The season representatives have promised some of the same started out against Belmont Hill, but after the things. Both aspire to bringing more activities for first inning they were already up 2-0. We ended the ninth grade, such as a trip to Six Flags. up losing 10-1, but then again it was only our Though the class representatives are new, they first game. In our game against Thayer, we were could do great things. down 7-2 going into the fifth inning when Justin Nicklas started off the inning with a single. The next batter, Aturo Adkins, followed up with a bomb to right field that should have been a homerun, but the umpire missed where the ball landed, and Aturo ended up on third base. But then Henry Finnegan hit a shot to left that was Eighth Grade Baseball by Pat McGowan Even though we only won two games during the season, we had many close ones and a lot of positive things to look at. Mr. Doherty and called a homerun, bringing us back into the game. Conor Craven. Connor Strachan had bone Nevertheless, we ended up losing the game 9-7 on crunching hits in many of the games, which helped some poor defense. We lost the next two games to get the team fired up. Some of our strongest Belmont Hill and BB&N, but then something midfielders were Luke Murphy, Angus O’Rourke, miraculous happened. We were playing on the turf Tyson Reed, Cam Quirk, and Brandon Sweeney. in some lousy weather against CM, but we were Luke Murphy scored many goals throughout the able to pull out of it with a 12-1 win. We then spring as did Angus, Cam, and Tyson. Brandon played a good BC High team, staying with them all Sweeney scored a key goal in the B.C. High game, the way to the end but ended up losing 8-5. After ruining the goalie’s shutout. Our attack generated losing two more games, we defeated an the most offense on the team, thanks to players like inexperienced Fessenden team, scoring twenty-two John O’Leary, Jack van der Velde, Peter Scotten, runs off their pitcher. We ended up with a 2-7 Pat Fraser, and Seve Mustone. Overall it was a good record, so it may not look good on paper, but when season, and hopefully next year’s team will be even you look between the lines, you see a hardworking better. team with a desire for winning. Seventh Grade Baseball By Brendan Albertson and Chris Wolpe Seventh grade baseball had a great season this year. We finished the year with a solid 5-5 record. We started off the year by smoking Milton Academy 12-2 which got our hopes up for a good season. Fourth Lacrosse by Kevin Ginns Unfortunately, we lost our next game 6-4 to a very competitive varsity baseball team from Derby The St. Sebastian’s Fourth Lacrosse Team, Academy. We won against a less competitive RL coached by Mr. Eaton and Mr. Goulet, finished with team 6-1. The game against Moses Brown ended in a record of twelve wins, six losses, and one tie. The Fourth Lacrosse Team had well over twenty players this year, so each roster tended to consist of a diverse assortment of players ranging across all skill levels. The team was led by goalies Pat Rivard and Greg Barletta. They both provided the team with solid, consistent goaltending the whole season. The next line of defense was led by three eighth grade veterans: Connor Strachan, Miles Hunter, and 2 2 ½ innings due to torrential downpours. We ended Some of us had a lot of tennis experience, and some up losing to Nobles 8-7 on a well executed suicide of us were brand new. The matches were intense, squeeze play. We beat Thayer Academy by a lot but fun, and we had a lot of our friends and but lost a close one to Dexter 11-10 after waiting classmates cheering us on to victory. thirty minutes for them to arrive after their bus On behalf of my teammates, I would like to driver took a wrong turn onto Interstate 93. We thank Mr. Dagdigian and Miss DiBlasi for an won a good game against Fessenden 6-4. We lost a awesome season of tennis, and I encourage anyone very ugly game to Belmont Hill, 14 -1. We won our who is considering switching sports next year to final game in dramatic fashion against Thayer in an give tennis a try. absolute blowout. All in all, the St. Sebastian’s Seventh Grade Baseball Team had a season full of memories. We finished off with a 5-5 record, but we think that everyone knows that we were better than our record. We definitely look forward to another great season next year- hopefully with some more wins. Seventh and Eighth Grade Tennis By Will Supple Derby Tournament The Seventh and Eighth Grade Tennis Team by Patrick Rivard had a great spring. We all put in a lot of effort so we On our way to Hingham early one Saturday could improve our skills and be as successful as morning this spring, Mr. Eaton had to run in and out possible. The seventh graders practiced on of coffee shops asking for directions, but we at last Mondays, while the eighth graders did so on found our way again to Derby Academy, arriving at Tuesdays. Both grades played together on what eventually seemed like three hours before our Thursday. Our coaches, Mr. Dagdigian and Miss first game. When the games began, so did the fun. DiBlasi, helped prepare us for our matches during Although it was a little chilly, we Arrows came in hot. the season. The first game was against a new member of the The players, David Abelson, Matt Barletta, tournament, Cohasset. We defeated numerous odd- Matt Blue, Charlie Canty, Sam Carroll, Peter man opportunities, Connor Strachan, when not in the Fantozzi, John Flatley, Erik Jones, Conor penalty box, single-handedly beating their power play. Masterson, Morgan Rockett, and Will Supple, all In the end we pulled out a 5-3 win. We had no time to improved throughout the course of the season. celebrate because we next had to face the host team, 3 Derby. Earlier in the season we had played them tight Patrick Ciapciak came in victorious for us to get the and had come out with a close win. In this game the win. Our last match of the year at our home course seventh graders stepped up to the plate with clutch was against Governor’s Academy. Although we goals from Peter Scotten and Kerry Lyne. We ended were upset that one of our matches had been up defeating Derby 6-3. Next we had to play Park, the cancelled, we still went out and played great golf only other team left undefeated in the tournament, against G.A. Our last match of the year was held at meaning we were practically playing for the Braintree Country Club. We faced Thayer again, championship. Gabe Maxwell showed off his style but this time our match wasn’t so close. We swept with a BTB (behind the back)! Once we had a them, everybody winning his match. It felt good to substantial lead, James Fiore grabbed a long pole. He beat a great team like Thayer by so much, and it led the defense for the rest of the game, and we won was a great end to a perfect season. 8-4. Our last game was against Thayer, and to seal the deal, we wanted a win. We had had a miraculous comeback against them earlier in the season, and we knew they wanted revenge. We were prepared and defeated the Tigers 4-1. We won the tournament again Sailing by Shawn Lynch for the third time in a row and look forward to a successful tournament next year. The sailing team is off to a great start this year. The team is racing well and is getting better every time they set off into the water. Though the team is a varsity sport, it is filled with fifteen students from every grade including seventh grader Shawn Lynch and seniors that have been on the team since seventh grade. The sailing team sails all over the Massachusetts area but mostly at Community Boating in Cambridge which is on the Charles River. We sail two types of boats: the 420 JV Golf which is pretty big and the Mercury which is not so by Mike Pergola big.