The New Bedford boys basketball team won a thrilling 55-53 game over host Brockton to clinch the Big 3 Conference title. With the win, the Whalers stayed unbeaten in league play with a 3-0 conference mark, while the Boxers fell to 1-2.
Current standings:
The New Bedford boys and girls swim & dive teams swept Durfee to win their respective Big 3 conference titles. The boys won 95-63, while the Lady Whalers prevailed 92-64.
Complete New Bedford vs. Durfee results
Final Standings:
The Durfee girls basketball team took first place in the Skip Karam Holiday Tournament, held at Durfee’s Luke Urban Field House. The Lady Hilltoppers defeated Somerset-Berkley, 46-31 in the championship game. Durfee’s Jasiya Norwood was named tournament MVP.
Leading scorers for Durfee were:
Jasiya Norwood-15pts
Skyla Coward-9pts
Anjie Olubonwu-8pts
Tajeaya Sterling-6pts
Avery Layne-4pts
The Toppers reached the title game by defeating Case in the semi-final round, 59-18
Durfee’s leading scorers in that contest were:
Jasiya Norwood-15pts
Tajeaya Sterling-11pts
Ava Amaral-9pts
Jean Marie Castillo-6pts
Jade Winslow-4pts
Durfee faced off against Bridgewater-Raynham at Durfee High School’s Karen Jarabek Pool. The meet was split with the boys falling to 0-2 in their 74-66 loss and the girls picking up their first win to go to 1-1 on the season, winning 78-68.
On the girls side double winners came from Claire Bjerre in the Dive Event and 500 Free (161.15 and 7:09.25), Bella Nunes in the 100 Back and 200 IM (1:27.60 and 3:18.88), individual wins came from Avery Antunes in the 100 Fly (1:20.51) and Kai Levesque in the 100 Breast (1:32.46). Durfee would also sweep all three relays with Antunes, Nunes, Levesque and Ella Farias in the 200 Medley Relay (2:20.82), Antunes, Levesque, Bjerre, and Farias in the 200 Free Relay (1:57.55), and the 400 Free Relay by Nunes, Levesque, Gretta Moniz, and Liliana Goncalves (5:24.63).
For the boys, Micah Ross kicked off the meet, winning the Dive Event with a score of 188.25. Michael Harrington was a double winner in the 200 and 500 Free events (2:16.83 and 6:17.90) Omar Mahmoud in both the 200 IM and 100 Breaststroke races (2:42.41 and 1:19.38). The relay team of Harrington, Mahmoud, Richard Rittenberg, and Logan Vandenburgh also won the 400 Relay with a time of 4:28.57.
The Brockton boys and girls cross country teams both easily took first place the 2025 Big 3 Conference Meet held on October 22. In the boys action, the Boxers, led by a first place performance from Seamus Canniff, took 8 of the top ten spots. On the girls side, the Lady Boxers took 5 of the top 10 spots, paced by first-place finisher, Aubrey Talbot.
Team Scores:
Boys
1. Brockton – 20
2. New Bedford – 48
3. Durfee – 68
Girls
1. Brockton – 24
2. Durfee – 49
3. New Bedford – 45
Boys Top 10
Girls Top 10
