After barely escaping with a 2-1 win over Scituate on Sunday, the Lady Dragon soccer team brought its A game to Chandler Field on Tuesday night and defeated reigning Division II state champs, Cardinal Spellman of Brockton, 4-1.

Rarely has the Lady Dragon field hockey team been challenged during the 2010 season, but finally it met its match.

After opening the play-offs with an 8-0 wipeout of Bridgewater-Raynham, the No. 2-seeded Lady Dragons took on the No. 10-seeded Wellesley Raiders on Sunday afternoon in Duxbury.

The DHS girls’ soccer team knows how to come back from adversity this year, and they did it again on Sunday when they beat Scituate, 2-1, to advance to the second round of the MIAA Division II South Sectional soccer tournament.

The pre-game scuttlebutt was that the game wouldn’t be much of a battle, and apparently everyone knew what they were talking about.

Scoring on their first offensive play of the night, the Dragons scored at will the rest of the evening, as they manhandled Middleboro 55-21, to run their record to 9-0.  A win next week against Hingham will send the Dragons to the MIAA Div. II A playoffs against the winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Duxbury Dragons captured their second consecutive Division II state golf championship with a seven-stroke victory over Franklin High School on Tuesday at the Pocasset Country Club in Bourne.
It is Duxbury’s fifth State title in Coach Jack Stoddard’s 21-year coaching career and follows last week’s South Sectional title win at the Marshfield Country Club.

Junior sailor Ian Ikeda of Duxbury High School raced in the High School Singled-Handed National Championships in St. Petersburg, Florida over the weekend. Ikeda competed against 36 of the best high school sailors in the country: Eighteen of whom who were in his full-rig division and eighteen who were in the radial-rig division.

The game had all the excitement of a playoff game, as the winner gained a leg up on the race for a playoff berth. But by night’s end it was the Duxbury Dragons who were in complete control of their post-season destiny.
Facing Silver Lake in what appeared to be a game that could well determine the Keenan Division champ in the Patriot League standings; the Dragons took away a hard-fought 14-3 win over the Lakers on Homecoming Night in Duxbury last Friday night.

The Lady Dragons field hockey team saw its 17-game unbeaten streak come to a halt on Friday afternoon when it lost to Marshfield, 2-0, in the regular season finale.
While the loss was disheartening for many of the players, it made little difference in the standings, as Duxbury had already wrapped up the Patriot League title, and is destined to be the No. 2 seed in the MIAA tournament  behind perennial powerhouse Walpole.

The Duxbury Dragons captured their second consecutive Division II state golf championship with a seven-stroke victory over Franklin High School on Tuesday at the Pocasset Country Club in Bourne.

Another non-league victory by the Dragons has them at 7-0 after last Friday night’s 36-21 win over the North Quincy Red Raiders at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium in Quincy.

It was the coldest night of the year for any Dragons’ game and that may have contributed to Duxbury’s occasional sloppy play throughout the evening.

They say defending a title is harder than winning one. Jack Stoddard and his DHS boys’ golf team got that chance Tuesday after the Clipper had gone to press.

Led by Jonathan Stoddard’s 74, the Dragons coasted to a 9-shot win over Dennis-Yarmouth to capture the Division II South Sectional championship last Wednesday at the Marshfield Country Club. Both schools qualified to advance to Tuesday’s state championship at the Pocasset Golf Club in Bourne.

Doc Rivers would be happy if his Celtics could rebound like the Duxbury girls’ soccer team.

A come-from-behind win over Silver Lake and a come-from behind tie with New Bedford has Coach Emerson Coleman convinced his team is never out of any game.

Online registration for the Recreation Department’s Winter programs begins Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. Residents must have an account with Activenet in order to register for any Recreation Department programs, (except Turkey Trot), regardless if they register online or walk-in. Go to activenet.active.com/duxburyrecreation to create an account, sign up for programs and check availability of programs.

Come into the Recreation office, 22 Washington St., Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. for help setting up an account, or call the office at 781-934-7034. Walk-in registrations will be accepted beginning Nov. 8 at the Girl Scout House. No registrations accepted at  office before that date. Walk-in registration hours are Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be a Wednesday night registration at the Recreation office on Nov. 10 from 6-8 p.m. There is a $10 late fee charged to any registration taken after Nov. 12.

The Duxbury High School boys’ golf team will begin defense of its Division II state title starting Wednesday morning when it takes to the fairways of the Marshfield Country Club in the Division II South Sectionals.

After having their 14-match win streak broken by Hanover, the Dragons continued their slide with losses to Hingham (244-253) and BC High (229-235), before righting the ship with a pair of wins over Barnstable (233-236) and Sandwich (233-248).

James Magner led a strong Duxbury showing against Barnstable with a round of 37 that included two birdies and four pars, while Jonathan Stoddard (a birdie per 5 pars), Cam Daley (a birdie per 6 pars), and Curtis Owen (a birdie/5 pars) were a stroke behind at 38.

Kevin Kuckuk (39) and Stephan Krall rounded out the Dragon scoring, while Curtis Collopy shot a 37 for the Red Raiders and Dan Cowick’s 36 took medalist honors for Sandwich.

By the time you read this story, the DHS field hockey team could be riding a 14-game winning streak or recovering from its first loss of the season.

On Monday afternoon the Lady Dragons took on Hopkinton, a team that has caused Duxbury much pain over the last two seasons and is a perennial field hockey power in Massachusetts.