The Dragons walked away with a 17-7 win over Marshfield last Thursday in the traditional Thanksgiving Day confrontation, hoping that their victory sent a clear message to the Rams prior to Tuesday's Division IIA playoff game.

Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

That saying may have found a new meaning on Friday night in Duxbury, when senior running back Bobby Murphy had the best game (31 carried/191 yards) of his high school career in a 15-13 overtime thriller over Scituate.

Coach John Tocci claimed before the year started that he would have one of the best defensive teams around. Tuesday night’s game with Medway proved the Duxbury coach knows what he is talking about.

It was bad enough that Coach John Tocci and his boys’ soccer team had to open its season against archrival Marshfield. But to do it on the Rams’ home field without the services of starters junior Mike Gabrielli (broken foot), junior Zac Gino (hip), and senior Pat Charland (hamstring) made it even more challenging.

Despite optimism that the DHS boys’ golf team should do okay this season, they got off on the wrong foot last Wednesday by dropping a 240-248 decision to Xaverian Brothers High School at the Brook Meadows golf course in Canton.

Despite losing three key members from last year’s 18-2 team, Coach Jack Stoddard seems to have little worry about his boys’ golf team duplicating last year’s success.

Sophomore goaltender Sophie Fitzpatrick shutout the Marshfield Rams in her first varsity start, as the Lady Dragons rolled to a 3-0 win in the season opener for both teams last Friday afternoon in Marshfield.

They didn’t wheel any wooden horse behind the Duxbury defense. They just went toe-to-toe and ran at will on their opening drive, moving the ball 90 yards in 14 plays and overcoming a 15-yard penalty in the process.

Tryouts for the Kingfish swim team will be held on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 4 p.m. at the Kingsbury Club in Kingston. The tryout is for children ages 7-18 for the short course season, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Sept. 8-9. Children need to know all four basic strokes (freestyle, backstroke, sidestroke and breaststroke) and be able to swim a lap of the pool (25 yards). You do not need to be a member of the Kingsbury Club to try out for or participate on this team. For more information, go to kingfishswimming.com or call Coach Jay Craft at 781-871-7287.

Lost in the shuffle of last year’s three state titles won by DHS was the valiant effort put in by the Lady Dragon field hockey team in the opening round of last fall’s MIAA playoffs. In one of the most hard-fought and entertaining games of the year, Duxbury lost a double-OT game to Sandwich, 2-1, and had its season end at 10-5-4. While the loss was hard for the players to accept at the time, it has become a rallying cry for Coach Pam Manley’s squad and a memory they have no intention of repeating.

Last weekend the Duxbury Bay Maritime School hosted the 2009 Duxbury Bay Junior 420 Regatta—the first major sailing event to be staged from DBMS’s spectacular new waterfront facility.  This two day regatta on Duxbury Bay included 23 boats from yacht clubs and schools all throughout Massachusetts.  Despite less than perfect weather all races were sailed and the event was deemed a success by all involved.  

Dave Caso and his crew aboard his Cherubini 44, Silhouette, have again won their class in the grueling Marion Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race contested between June 19 and June 25.

The temperature was only in the mid 70s on June 7, but that didn’t stop Duxbury resident Marissa Fitcher from jumping in the water at Nantasket Beach to compete in the 10th annual New England Longboard Classic Surf Contest.

Legion baseball is back in town after a one-year hiatus, and appears to have a solid team for the 2009 season with Pembroke’s Ryan Kane managing and General Manager Peter Bizinkauskas running the organization.

You would think after winning five consecutive State titles and six of the last seven, the excitement for Coach Chris Sweet winning his seventh Division I State lacrosse title would be somewhat tempered. Don’t be fooled.

“We always believe we can do it, but it’s hard to believe it’s six in a row,” said the surprised Duxbury coach after his team beat St. John’s Prep, 13-12, on Wednesday night at Harvard Stadium. “It hasn’t quite sunk in yet. But it never gets old. It’s a new group every year, but no Duxbury group has ever worked as hard as this one. They earned it and I’m extremely proud of them.”