THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, SEpTEmbER 29, 2023 Page 17 THE SPORTS WIRE | FROM PAGE 15 Jake Willcox, a senior captain and quarterback of the Brown University football team, was named Ivy League Off ensive Player of the Week by the Ivy League and the Gold Helmet Award Winner by the New England College Football Writers for his eff orts in a 29-25 win over Bryant on September 16. He threw for 357 yards and 3 touchdowns on 36-for-49 passing. He is a former Everett High and Milton Academy standout quarterback. (Courtesy/Brown Sports Information) For Advertising with Results, call The Advocate Newspapers at 617-387-2200 or Info@advocatenews.net 2022, the AL pennant in 2016 and wild card appearances in 2013 and 2020. Anyways, does anyone realize that Francona fi rst coached in the Chicago White Sox minor league farm system for four seasons from 1992-1995 before he got his first Major League Baseball (MLB) manager’s post with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1997? That’s right. His very fi rst manager’s post in the Minor Leagues was with the South Bend (Ind.) White Sox, Chicago’s Low Single A franchise. One of Terry “Tito” Francona’s top players on the first team he ever managed? Well, it was none other than Malden High School’s longest-playing professional baseball player in city history and perhaps the best overall athlete to wear a Malden uniform, Carmine Cappuccio. Cappuccio is the second-highest pro baseball draftee in Malden High history, one of five MLB picks in the Malden glory days of the 1990s. He was selected 260th overall in the 1992 MLB entry draft, the 24th pick in the 9th round by the Chicago White Sox. Cappuccio, a 1988 Malden High graduate and a three-time NCAA Division 2 First Team All-America selectee out of Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., signed for a $15,000 bonus and jumped on a plane to Chicago two days after to meet his coaching staff and join his team. I decided I, too, would fl y to EHS SPORTS | SEE PAGE 19
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