THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023 Page 13 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, including two consecutive Greater Boston League Championships in 2021 and 2022. DiLoreto also coached in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, a four-game stint postponed to the spring of 2021. DiLoreto served as an assistant 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 off ensive 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 fi ve 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 20082016, 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 con2010, 2015 and 2016. “The words that come to my sidered 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 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.” DIVISION 3 PITCHING TRIO JOINING 2023 NORTH SHORE NAVIGATORS UMass Boston’s Ross Dexter LYNN, Mass. -- The North Shore Navigators’ infl ux of local players for the 2023 New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) season will include three pitchers from the Division 3 ranks, all of whom call Massachusetts home. Beverly’s own Brayden Clark will join the Navigators following his junior campaign at Salve Regina University, where he has helped the Seahawks earn back-to-back NCAA tournament berths. Clark racked up 22 strikeouts in his fi rst 17 innings of work this spring after going 6-2 with a 2.83 ERA and fanning 63 batters over 60.1 frames in 2022. The All-Commonwealth Coast Conference third-team honoree went on to start fi ve games for the Futures League’s Nashua Silver Knights over the summer. Clark was a three-sport athlete in golf, hockey and baseball at Beverly High and played for the Beverly/Salem team that advanced to the 2021 American Legion World Series. A St. John’s Prep graduate who hails from Westford, Alex Erickson has signed on to spend his first summer ball experience with North Shore. The Union College sophomore made fi ve relief appearances during his fi rst collegiate season, recording nine strikeouts in just fi ve innings of work. Erickson and the Dutchmen are slated to begin the 2023 season on March 19. Erickson, who will become the fi rst-ever product of the New York school to join the Navs, played four years of baseball at St. John’s and was also a member of the Eagles’ cross country and indoor track and fi eld teams. rounds out the newest trio of Navs. After emerging as a key reliever with a 3.05 ERA in 19 games during his freshman year, Dexter has slotted right into the starting rotation for the Beacons this spring. The 6-foot-3 right-hander has averaged well over a strikeout per inning for his career at UMass, logging 41 through 30.2 frames including 12 so far in 2023. Dexter spent the majority of last summer with the Futures League’s Pittsfi eld Suns, going 4-1 with a 2.93 ERA and 31 strikeouts in 27.2 innings before earning a call to the Cape Cod League with the Wareham Gatemen. He played baseball and hockey at both his hometown Milton High School and The Winchendon School. The Navs kick off their 16th summer of collegiate baseball on Wednesday, June 7 and will host their home opener at a renovated Fraser Field on Friday, June 9. The 2023 season includes 22 home games, as well as the return of the NECBL All-Star Game to Lynn on Sunday, July 23. Stay up to date on the latest Navs news by visiting nsnavs. com and following the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Single-game and season tickets are now available for purchase online. ~ Home of the Week ~ SAUGUS - 1st AD - Perfectly located 6 room Mansard Colonial, 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ baths, spacious living room and dining room, eat-in kitchen, convenient with loft storage, level lot, located just outside of Saugus Center in the Iron Works neighborhood. View the interior of this home right on your smartphone.
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