THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 Page 17 Meet the 2023 Revere High Patriots Girls’ Volleyball Team Standing, from left to right: Head Coach Emilie Hostetter, Samantha Hoyos Tobon, Bianca Alvarez, Danna Canas, Liv Yuong, Basma Sahibi, Lea Doucette, Valery Echavarria and Assistant Coach Raela Berry. Kneeling, shown from left to right: Sophia Restrepo, Hadassa Dias, Farah Habbour, Isabella Arroyave and Susan Lemus. NICO’S THE ONE! Revere’s Morgira scores lone goal in 1-0 win over host Malden in season opener Defense rules as Patriots Goalkeepers Garcia, Espinosa combine for shutout over GBL rival Tornados By Steve Freker Captain Lea Doucette with Head Coach Emilie Hostetter. CANDIDATE | FROM Page 1 that people are fed up with the amount of residential development that has taken over the city. “We need to do a better job with early community engagement and a better development planning process,” he said. Growth and progress are essential and he believes commercial development should be the city’s focus. But he feels residential development has come at a high cost to the city in terms of quality-of-life issues, such as traffi c, parking, public safety and crowded classrooms. Visconti feels there needs to be a change of culture in the Mayor’s Offi ce. “We need to restore respect. People don’t have confi dence in City Hall anymore. They feel ignored, like nobody is listening,” he said, adding, “I’ll be a mayor who will listen.” Visconti has been listening closely to how residents feel about the new high school. And he has listened to all sides. He served on the high school building committee for three years and was heavily involved in planning. “The high school is an unprecedented project in size and scope, the biggest investment the city will make in the foreseeable future. We have to make sure we get it right,” he said. The plan to build at Wonderland was voted down because of ballooning costs and a lack of transparency. Visconti said the City Council voted on the eminent domain taking of Wonderland based on a $380 million price tag for the project. But soon after that vote, councillors learned that the actual cost was closer to $500 million. That cost, coupled with the looming $100 million lawsuit the former owners of Wonderland are pursuing against the city, would have fi - nancially crippled Revere, he said. “The former administration continued to push for Wonderland, but the City Council wasn’t given accurate information,” said Visconti, who also felt the administration proposed a terrible plan to pay for the project. Visconti said residents who are already struggling with higher taxes, bills and infl ation are nervous they will have to foot the bill for the new high school. “Seniors will be unable to aff ord their homes; we’ll be pricing them out of the city.” Visconti said that under his administration Revere will build a new high school. But it will be a fi scally responsible project with the emphasis on delivering the best up-to-date technology and programming, rather than location. CANDIDATE | SEE Page 19 son and Greater Boston League (GBL) opener for both teams. Revere (1-0, 1-0 GBL) was right back in action on Thursday, hosting GBL power Somerville at Revere High at 4:15 p.m. in another early season test, after Advocate press deadline. Next week Head Coach Nicolas “Ni co” Morgira scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win for Revere High over host Malden on Tuesday afternoon at Pine Banks Park. (Advocate Photos) T his one surely looked like it was headed for a double-zero fi nish, with both teams unable to break the scoring seal in the fi rst game of the season on Tuesday. Then the visiting Patriots of Revere High struck. Revere junior Nico Morgira spun free to the right of the Malden net with just under fi ve minutes to play and booted a shot past the diving Malden goalkeeper and into the net for what turned out to be the lone goal of the entire afternoon. Morgira’s heroics held up, as Revere held on for a hard-earned, 1-0 victory over host Malden at Pine Banks Park in the seaManny Lopes’ team stays on the league trail, playing GBLer Lynn Classical on the road at 7:15 p.m. at Manning Field in Lynn on Monday evening and then staying on the road Thursday, Sept. 14 for another game at Manning (3:45 p.m.) versus Lynn English. Malden hosted the Lynn English Bulldogs at Pine Banks Park yesterday at 4:15 p.m., after Advocate press deadline. Next week, Malden head coach Jeremiah Smith’s Tornados stay on the road against two top GBL rivals: at Everett on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 4:15 p.m. and then at Somerville on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 4:15 p.m. On Tuesday, Malden and ReRevere High defender Kenan Batic (4) keeps control in the Patriots’ end. Coach Manny Lopes breaks it down for the Revere High players at halftime of Tuesday’s 1-0 Patriots win. vere battled each other and the sweltering heat, with both team’s goalkeepers – Revere junior Juan Garcia and Malden senior Nathan Dean – both pitching shutouts in the fi rst half. Malden also got strong play throughout the game from senior midfi elder and captain Donny Wright, sophomore midfi elder Sandesh Ohmire, junior midfi elder Henry Rodriquez Filho and senior midfi elder Ali Zoulgami. “Overall we played a solid, team game and we stayed right with them,” Malden Head Coach Jeremiah Smith – coaching his 20th consecutive season opener – told The Advocate. “We had just the one breakdown near the end and in a game like this, it cost us.” Revere got strong play from both Garcia in net in the fi rst half as well as from junior Daniel Espinosa, who played goalkeeper for the entire second half and also threw a zero at Malden. The two juniors split the game and combined for nine saves. Revere also got some strong play from captains Bryan Medina, a junior, senior JV Chavarria, sophomore Kenan Batic, who was rock-solid defensively, and freshman Emmanuel Lopera.
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