Opening-round pairings for Old Rochester Regional High School and Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School for MIAA state tournament basketball and hockey are as follows:
ORR Boys Basketball
The Bulldogs (17-4) are seeded second in Division 3 behind Charlestown (18-2) and open the tournament season Friday night on home court against the winner of Tuesday night’s Preliminary Round game between Foxboro (5-17) and Lynn Classical (11-7.) Tipoff for ORR’s boys’ basketball playoff opener is Friday, March 1, at 6:30 pm at the ORRHS Gym.
ORR Girls Basketball
At 15-6, the ORR girls’ basketball team is seeded 22nd in Division 3 and earned a Preliminary Round bye into a Round of 32 matchup on the road Friday night, March 1, at 11th seed Watertown (15-5.) Tipoff is 6 pm; win it and the Bulldogs most likely take a shorter ride to play sixth-seeded Norton (also 15-5), which only needs to defeat the winner of Tuesday’s Preliminary Round game between 27 seed Newburyport and 38 seed Southeastern.
ORR-Fairhaven Hockey
The 12-8-1 Bulldogs are seeded 11th in Division 4 and host 22nd-ranked Cohasset (11-9-0) on Thursday, February 29, at 6:00 pm at Tabor Academy. The winner gets the winner of Wednesday’s game between sixth-seeded Hanover and 27 seed St. Bernard’s in the Round of 16.
Old Colony Boys Basketball
Old Colony boys went 18-2, but the power-rankings system seeded the Cougars 21st in Division 5, so they opened Tuesday night on home court against 10-10 Notre Dame Cristo Rey, the 44th seed. A win would send the Cougars into a Friday, March 1, 7:00 pm Round of 32 game against John J. Duggan Academy (18-2) at the Springfield High School of Science and Technology (1250 State Street, Springfield.) Also in Old Colony’s bracket is a potential game at Mahar Regional in Orange (gas up the bus.)
MIAA State Tournaments
By Mick Colageo