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Agganis football on tap for tonight
By Anne Marie Tobin
LYNN — With the summer season
officially underway, that means only
one thing to 315 recently-graduated student-athletes;
it’s time for the annual
Agganis All-Star Classics and one final
chance to play alongside former teammates
and old rivals.
The games are a sports lover’s delight
featuring some of the region’s best athletes
who will compete in baseball, basketball,
lacrosse, soccer, softball and, of
course, the granddaddy of them all, football,
which is set to be played tonight
(Thursday) at 7 at Manning Field.
Last year’s football classic was a defensive
battle, won by the North 10-6
in the lowest scoring game since 1992
when West defeated East, 9-7.
As usual, the football rosters includes
several local athletes from Lynnfield and
Peabody.
The Pioneers will be represented on
the South squad by wide-receiver Nick
Kinnon, quarterback Matt Mortellite,
defensive back/wide receiver Jason
Ndansi, running back/linebacker
Anthony Murphy and tight end/linebacker
Cooper Marengi, Ndansi and
Mortellite plan to continue their football
careers Tufts and St. Lawrence, respectively,
while Marengi will play baseball
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Peabody’s Eric DeMayo is only
Tanner to suit up; the Wagner University
commit will also play on the South
squad, which will be coached by Chris
Carroll of Lynn English.
Tickets for the game will be on sale at
the gate and are $8 for adults and $5 for
children.
For its first 40 years, the Agganis
Football Classic was the primary fundraiser
for the Agganis Foundation. In
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1995, the Foundation began branching
out into other sports when baseball was
added. It was an appropriate new addition,
considering Harry Agganis was a
first baseman for the Boston Red Sox.
But the Agganis All-Star Classics are
more than just games; they are the major
fundraising vehicle for the foundation’s
scholarship program that awards college
scholarship aid to deserving seniors who
have excelled in academics and athletics.
Since its inception in 1955, the Agganis
Foundation has awarded $1,955,000 in
college scholarships to 964 deserving student
athletes. Each year, 15 new four-year,
$4,000 scholarships are awarded to students
on the North Shore and in Boston. Thanks
to the generosity of the Yawkey Foundation,
there are four scholarships earmarked to
students in Boston schools each year.
Several local students are among this
year’s recipients.
Lynnfield High graduates Kate
Mitchell and Lizzie Shaievitz received
Greg Agganis Scholarship awards, while
Bishop Fenwick’s Colby Flickinger
and Jennie Meagher received Agganis
Scholarship awards. Mitchell will be attending
Boston College, where she plans
to run cross country and track, while
Shaievitz will be attending St. Anselm
College, where she plans to play soccer.
Flickinger will be attending Indiana
University, while Meagher will be attending
Villanova University.
This games began Sunday morning at
Manning Field in Lynn with the Awards
ceremony and introduction of all the allstars
and softball and baseball games at
Fraser Field.
The games are named after Harry
Agganis, who was a football and baseball
star at Lynn Classical and Boston
University, and played for the Red Sox.
He died at age 26 in 1955.
Relihan, Arsenault star in boys hoop game
By Mike Alongi
LYNN — The 14th annual
Agganis All-Star Boys
Basketball Game brought together
the top talent from the
North Shore and beyond at
Conigliaro Gymnasium, and
the South team rode a second-half
rally to a big 92-66
victory over the North Monday
evening.
Marblehead’s James Millett
was awarded the MVP for the
South team after putting up a
double-double with 13 points
and 12 rebounds. Most of his
damage came in the second
half, where he and fellow
Magician Derek Marino (12
points, four rebounds) helped
break the game wide open.
“We had a bit of a slow
start but were still able to take
that lead into halftime,” said
South coach Dave Brown, who
coaches the St. Mary’s boys
team. “But in the second half
I told the guys, ‘whoever is
playing defense is staying on
the floor.’”
For the North, Beverly’s
Luigi Derrane led the way with
19 points to earn MVP honors.
St. John’s Prep forward Matt
Relihan (12 points, three rebounds)
and Melrose guard
Joe Stanton (10 points) were
the only other North players in
double figures. Peabody’s Jake
Irvine added six points in the
loss.
The North got off to a great
start, taking an early 13-4 lead
thanks to some solid hustle
plays and great passing from
Lynnfield’s Billy Arseneault,
PHOTO | ANNE MARIE TOBIN
Some of Lynnfield’s Agganis all-stars pose for picture following Sunday’s
opening ceremony. Left to right, Cooper Marengi, Nick Kinnon, Anthony
Murphy, Billy Arseneault, Matt Relihan, Matt Mortellite, Jason Ndansi,
Stephen Fama, Nick Giammarco.
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St. John’s Prep’s Matt Relihan, left, of Lynnfield, had 12 points
for the North in Monday’s Agganis boys basketball game. The
Pioneers’ Billy Arsenault was also solid. The South won, 92-66.
who will be playing at Division
2 Assumption College. But the
South stuck around the whole
time, eventually cutting the
deficit to just two points with
two minutes left in the first half.
In the final minute of the half,
Classical’s Ishmael Johnson
(seven points, five rebounds)
scored four quick points to give
the South its first lead. When
the buzzer sounded, the South
held a slim lead at 32-31.
The second half saw a number
of highlight plays, both good
and not-so-good. The entire audience
got a good laugh about
five minutes into the half when
Hamilton-Wenham’s James
Lust ing had a momentary lapse
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in awareness. After receiving
an inbound pass at the top of
the key, Lusting, playing for
the North team, turned around
and bolted toward the opposite
hoop and flipped in a layup,
giving the South team an extra
two points.
St. Mary’s Stephen Fama of
Lynnfield, who will be playing
at Division 3 New England
College, also participated.
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