Page 8 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022 Revere Travel Basketball Team wins Metro West Championship Patriot boys can’t keep pace with Scituate By Greg Phipps A fter scoring two straight signature victories, the ReThe Revere Travel Basketball Team won the Metro West Basketball League Championship, 44-30, against the Woburn team on Tuesday night at Mass Premiere in Foxboro. Pictured from left to right: Lily Martinez, Jasmine Rodriguez, Nathalie Ramcharan, Head Coach Jason Smith, Layla Hiduchick, Cate Morgan, Shayna Smith, Briana Capunay and Pina Piccardi. They will play at Dana Barros Basketball Club on Saturday night. (Courtesy photo, Head Coach Jason Smith) vere High School boys’ basketball team ran into an experienced and precise opponent in the Scituate Sailors last Friday evening in their Div. 2 Round of 32 playoff game. From the late stages of the fi rst quarter on, the Patriots were unable to keep pace with the Sailors and suff ered a convincing 80-41 setback. The 45th seeded Patriots concluded the season at 11-11 overall. Aside from last Friday’s contest, however, the season concluded on an overall high note. Revere pulled off a playoffclinching win in the fi nal regularseason game over Lynn English, a team it hadn’t defeated in a decade. The Patriots followed that up by traveling west and upsetting No. 20 Springfi eld Science & Tech in the preliminary round. It was Revere’s fi rst postseason tournament triumph since 2001. Faced with a large and vocal Scituate home crowd, the Patriots hung close through threequarters of the opening period. Revere’s James Clauto scored to make it a 15-11 contest in favor of the hosts. That’s when things began to unravel for the Patriots. Revere went scoreless for nearly six minutes before Ramadan Barry’s free throw and a fi eld goal by Hamza Ghoul a minute later finally broke the ice. In the meantime, Scituate lit it up from the perimeter and attacked the basket successfully to build a commanding 38-14 lead with about two minutes remaining in the fi rst half. Looking up at a daunting 46-17 halftime defi cit, the Patriots were basically playing for pride over the fi nal two quarters against the senior-laden Scituate squad, whose depth and chemistry on the court was too much for Revere on this night. Scituate earned its 16th victory of the season and have since advanced to the Round of 8. Scituate really made it diffi - cult for Revere’s off ense, which had amassed over 70 points in its previous two games. Also, the normally tough Revere defense was uncharacteristically torched by the Sailors (46 points in the fi rst half alone). Domenic Boudreau ended up leading the Patriots off ensively with 11 points, including two baskets from beyond the arc. Clauto poured in 10 (nine of those in the fi rst quarter). Jack D’Ambrosio netted seven and Barry fi nished with four, including a three-pointer. Other Patriots making the scoresheet were Chris Claudio with a three-pointer and Deivis Cruceta and Ethan Day with two points each. Departing seniors from this year’s squad include Ghoul, D’Ambrosio, Barry, Clauto, Ihssan Mourouane and Kenny Arango. For Advertising with Results, call he Adv cate Ne spapers call The Advocate Newspapers at 781-286-8500 or Info@ advocatenews.net
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