CM Loses to BC High at Fenway Park

West Roxbury's Bartley Regan secures two points as BC High takes Frozen Fenway game, 4-0.

  There isn't much the Catholic Memorial hockey program hasn't done in its storied history. After Saturday afternoon's game, the team can cross one of those rare new experiences off its to-do list, having played archrival BC High outdoors at Fenway Park. Though the Knights fell 4-0, the experience resonated with the players and the fans. "We were all hyped to play here," said CM senior captain Jared Beckwith. "It obviously didn't come out in our favor, but we were all excited. It was a great day." Early on, it looked like the game may have lived up to the hype for the Knights; CM dominated play in the scoreless first period, outshooting the Eagles 12-3. BC High alternate captain and West Roxbury resident Bartley Regan, however, changed the…

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BC High Takes Catholic Conference With Thanksgiving Win Over Catholic Memorial

Knights end their season 7-2 as four captains played their final games.

Catholic Memorial's much-hyped 2011 football season came to a sombering conclusion Thanksgiving morning as BC High shut down the high-powered Knights offense, claiming the Catholic Conference championship with a 13-0 win. Though scoring was at a premium in the 50th annual rivalry game, the Eagles (8-3, 4-0) controlled the game offensively, running 53 plays to CM's 30. That disparity in possession led to CM head coach Alex Campea's daring but controversial fourth quarter decision to attempt to convert on fourth-and-two on the Knights' own 22-yard line while trailing 6-0. Senior quarterback AJ Doyle's keeper was stuffed like a turkey by a strong BC High defensive line, giving the Eagles possession well within striking distance. Seven plays …

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Catholic Conference on the Line When CM Hosts BC High Thanksgiving Morning

The 50th anniversary of the rivalry will also see the stadium's dedication to former coach Jim O'Connor.

What better way for the Catholic Memorial School to honor two-time Eastern Massachusetts Super Bowl winning coach Jim O'Connor than to dedicate the football team's stadium to him during a halftime ceremony on Thanksgiving, in the 50th annual rivalry game against BC High? Perhaps by earning their first trip to the playoffs since that third Super Bowl in 1978 on the very same day. Thanksgiving has loomed on the Knights' schedule all season. The two teams always seemed to be on a collision path, gelling as units in the first half of the season and running through Catholic Conference opponents in the second. Now, the teams will play for the Conference championship. By announcing the dedication, CM (7-1, 3-0) upped the day's stakes even more. …

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West Roxbury Patch Athlete of the Week

Patch Athlete of the Week: BC High's Bartley Regan

After attending Catholic Memorial in seventh and eighth grade, West Roxbury native followed his family's footprints and joined the Eagles for high school.

A Division 1 high school athlete may choose his or her school for any number of reasons. For BC High quarterback Bartley Regan, who will enter his senior season this year and also plays hockey and baseball for the Eagles, those reasons provided some conflict as he neared high school. A West Roxbury native, Regan grew up in the shadow of Catholic Memorial and even went to CM for seventh and eighth grade. One connection ran even deeper, however: Regan is the grandson of the late Jim Cotter, a 1955 BC High graduate who went on to coach the Varsity football program for 40 years (1964-2004), winning two Division 1 Super Bowls in the process. That legacy was enough to lure Regan away from the neighborhood for his high school years, taking on the…

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