THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, March 31, 2023 Page 17 Everett High Football Head Coach Rob DiLoreto resigns Leaving post after two years, three seasons, 20-3 record and two Greater Boston League crowns By Steve Freker A fter three seasons and a pair of league championships, Everett High School Varsity Football Head Coach Rob DiLoreto announced his decision to resign his post on Wednesday morning. DiLoreto said in a statement released Wednesday, “A series of circumstances over the past few months have led me to conclude that I cannot continue as the head football coach at Everett right now.” The 1986 Everett High School graduate, who starred in football and baseball for the Crimson Tide in the mid-1980s, did not specify the circumstances referred to in the statement. In the past three seasons after he came back to his alma mater as Head Coach, DiLoreto led the Crimson Tide to a 20-3 record, instint postponed to the spring of 2021. DiLoreto served as an assisOn Wednesday, Rob DiLoreto resigned as Everett High School Football Head Coach, just over two years after being hired to lead his alma mater. cluding two consecutive Greater Boston League Championships in 2021 and 2022. DiLoreto also coached in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, a four-game tant coach at Everett High in 2017 under former Tide icon coach John DiBiaso, during DiBiaso’s last season at the helm before he departed for Catholic Memorial. DiLoreto then served as offensive coordinator under former Tide Head Coach Theluxon Pierre in 2018. In 2019, DiLoreto coached at Arlington High School, for the second of two stints, where he also serves as Dean of Students. DiLoreto has served as a head coach before, from 1994-1999 at the former Pope John XXIII High School, in Everett, winning a Super Bowl in 1998. That guaranteed a string of Super Bowl trophies in Everett as the Tide won the crown in 1997 and 1999. He left Pope John and took the football head coach position in the district where he worked, as head man for the Arlington Spy Ponders for five seasons, from 2000-2004. DiLoreto took a year off from coaching in 2005, but he returned to the sidelines at Austin Prep in Reading (2006) and Malden Catholic (2007). DiLoreto’s longest and most successful coaching stint was at Reading High School, from 2008-2016, where he coached his sons., Robert Jr. and Corey. Corey was a star quarterback and All-Scholastic baseball player at Reading High and is now considered a professional prospect in his junior year at Northeastern University in Boston. As the offensive coordinator at Reading, he helped guide the Rockets to undefeated Division 2 championship seasons in 2009 and 2012 and Super Bowl appearances in 2010, 2015 and 2016. “The words that come to my mind are honored, humbled, family, tradition and Everett pride,” DiLoreto said when he was hired in January 2021 in an online report. “To get an opportunity to serve as the head football coach in the city where I grew up and love so much is a dream come true.” After just over two years on the job – two full and one abbreviated season – DiLoreto is now walking away. “I was truly honored and forever grateful to be able to live out my childhood dream of coaching for the high school that I attended in the city I grew up in and love so much,” DiLoreto said in his statement on Wednesday. “The Everett football family will always be in my heart.” East Coast Jr. Patriots Face-Off in Playoffs The ECJP are ready to dominate this weekend! By Meghann Breton L ast weekend, the East Coast Junior Patriots (ECJP) competed in the playoffs. Both the AA Bantam Team and the A PeeWee Team won and will be competing this weekend in the Semi-Finals and the Championships. The AA Bantam ECJP Team is a double AA youth hockey team that placed third last year in the State Championships. The team is made up of 13-, 14- and 15-year-old kids from Saugus and the surrounding towns. The A PeeWee ECJP Team is a single A youth hockey team made up of 9-, 10-, 11and 12-year-old kids from Saugus and the surrounding towns. The ECJP AA Bantam Team played their first playoff game last Saturday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at Cronin Rink in Revere, Mass., against the Dorchester Chiefs. The team won with a final score of 5-2, advancing them to the Semi-Finals this coming weekend. The first goal was scored by J.J. Perryman in the first period. The second goal was scored by Zachary Guelpa, also in the first period. The third goal was scored by Demetri Breton in the second period. The fourth goal was scored by Adam Mouhib, also in the second period. The fifth goal was scored by Zach Woods in the second period as well. The ECJP A PeeWee Team Joseph Visconti of the East Coast Junior Patriots A PeeWee hockey team in recent action (Courtesy Photo to The Saugus Advocate by Meghann Breton) earned themselves a bye week this season for placing second, meaning their first playoff game was the Semi-Finals. They played this game last Sunday, March 26 at 9:20 a.m. at the Connery Skating Rink in Lynn, Mass., against the Rochester Sachems. The team won with a final score of 4-1, advancing them to the Championships this coming weekend. The first and second goals were scored by Paul Capurso during the first period. The third and fourth goals were scored by Justin Hurley in the second and third periods. Both ECJP Teams are ready to play this coming weekend and The East Coast Junior Patriots AA Bantam hockey team, pictured from left to right: Demetri Breton, Isabella Krokos, J.J. Perryman, Lana Hardin, Anthony Ford, Ray Blauvelt, James Caruso, Evan Souders, Adam Mouhib, Louis Migliore, Johnathan Patterson, Zach Woods and Chris Argueta. (Courtesy Photo to The Saugus Advocate by Meghann Breton) take it all. The ECJP AA Bantam Team will play in the Semi-Finals this Saturday, April 1 at 6:30 p.m. at Kasabuski Rink in Saugus, Mass., against Methuen. If they win, they will play their Championship game on Sunday, April 2 at 5:30 p.m., also at Kasabuski Rink. The ECJP A PeeWee Team will play their Championship game this Saturday, April 1 at 1:45 p.m. at Haverhill Valley Forum in Haverhill, Mass., against Cape Ann. The East Coast Junior Patriots AA Bantam hockey team is a part of the Valley Hockey League and consists of the following kids, all coached by Justin Souders of Malden and Jamie Branzell of Revere: Demetri Breto, 13, Saugus; Evan Souders,13, Malden; Adam Mouhib, 14, Winthrop; Charles Govostes, 14, Everett; Johnathan Patterson, 14, Saugus; Louis Migliore, 13, Saugus; James Caruso, 13, Saugus; Ray Blauvelt, 13, Everett; J.J. Perryman, 14, Everett; Anthony Ford, 13, Malden; Raphael Rufino, 14, Revere; Isabella Krokos, 13, Everett; Zachary Guelpa, 14, Revere; Stephen Rizzo, 14, East Boston; Shane Moran, 15, Saugus; Zach Woods, 14, Everett; Lana Hardin, 13, Everett; Chris Argueta, 14, Revere. The East Coast Junior Patriots A PeeWee hockey team is a part of the Valley Hockey League and consists of the following kids, all coached by Justin Hurley of Malden, Jamie Branzell of Revere and Gerry Visconti of Revere: Zachari Breton, 9, Saugus; Justin Hurley, 12, Malden; Nathan Harrington, 10, Malden; Jacob Navarrete, 12, Revere; Dominic Rystrom, 12, Malden; Joseph Visconti, 12, Revere; Bobby Moulton, 10, Natick; David Crespim, 11, East Boston; Paul Capurso, 12, Peabody; Cameron Hanifan, 12, Saugus; Michael Beuoy, 12, Winthrop; Evan Manuel, 11, Saugus; Kevin Moura, 12, Revere; Luiz Sena, 10, Malden; Izzie Burke, 12, Everett;
18 Publizr Home