LIVE BLOG: MIAA State Finals D1-D4

Posted on March 17, 2024

Boston, MA – Welcome to the MassNZ Live Blog of the MIAA State Finals! We will be bringing you live updates from the 9th Floor of TD Garden all day on this St. Patrick’s Day in Boston. As a quick reminder, we have four Finals that we will be covering today. We have a staff…

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D1 Semifinal: St. John’s Prep Shuts Out Xaverian 4-0 to Reach TD Garden

Posted on March 10, 2024

Framingham, MA – The final game of the Final Four took place Sunday night at Loring Arena featuring the top two seeds still standing at the D1 level. The top seed St. John’s Prep Eagles were taking on the fourth seed Xaverian Hawks from Loring Arena to punch the final ticket to TD Garden on Sunday, March 17. The winner…

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D2/D3 Final 4: Marblehead and Tewksbury Punch Tickets to TD Garden

Posted on March 9, 2024

Stoneham, MA – We have reached the Final Four round of the MIAA Tournament and MassNZ was in the house for a doubleheader of D3 and D2 hockey. To start us off was a D3 Semifinal as the second-seeded Shawsheen Rams facing off against the six-seeded Marblehead Headers. Both teams were collectively one game away from the Championship…

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D1/D2 Elite 8: Duxbury and St. John’s Prep Advance to Final 4

Posted on March 7, 2024

Stoneham, MA – MassNZ was back again for a second night in a row at Stoneham Arena to take in a D2 Elite 8 matchup between the Chieftains of Masconomet and the Dragons of Duxbury. Masconomet enters the tournament as the 15-seed and Duxbury as the 10-seed and both knocked off higher seeds to get…

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D2 Elite 8: Boston Latin defeats Concord-Carlisle 6-2 to Reach Final Four

Posted on March 7, 2024

Woburn, MA – The third-seeded Concord-Carlisle Patriots faced off against the #11-seeded Boston Latin Wolf Pack at O’Brien Rink in Woburn in an MIAA Elite 8 Division II Playoff game. The teams played twice this season, with each team winning one game by a goal. Sophomore Oliver Murphy started in the net for Boston Latin,…

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D2 Elite 8: Woburn Topples Newburyport 6-3 to Advance to Final 4

Posted on March 6, 2024

Woburn, MA – The Clippers of Newburyport High School traveled south down 128 to take on the Tanners of Woburn High School in front of a packed O’Brien Arena in Woburn. This Elite 8 matchup featured the four seed Woburn against the five seed Newburyport and both fan sections were loud and engaged from the…

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D4 Elite 8: DS-Weston and Winthrop Advance to Final Four

Posted on March 6, 2024

Stoneham, MA – MassNZ made the trip out to soggy Stoneham Arena for Elite 8 action and to see two tickets get punched to the D4 Final 4. Competing first tonight were four-seed Sandwich Blue Knights and the five-seed Dover-Sherborn/Weston Raiders. We arrived just as the action began and the arena was about 40% full given the 5pm start…

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MIAA DIII Quarterfinal: Shawsheen Tech defeats Medfield 1-0 to Advance to Final Four

Posted on March 6, 2024

Framingham, MA – In the second game of a Final Four Doubleheader at Loring Arena, the DIII teams took center stage as second-seeded Shawsheen Tech Rams took on the number 10 seed Medfield Warriors. They have won two tight 2-1 games while Shawsheen won two games by a combined 6-1 score. Junior Charles Duggan started…

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MIAA D1 Quarterfinal: Winchester Takes Down Catholic Memorial 4-1 to Advance to Final Four

Posted on March 6, 2024

Framingham, MA – The 11th-Seeded Winchester Red and Black traveled down the Mass Pike to take on the third-seeded Catholic Memorial Knights at Loring Rink in Framingham. Winchester upset the #6 seed Arlington High School in Arlington to earn their ticket to the quarterfinals. Aiden Emerick got the start in net for Winchester tonight and…

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MIAA D3 Tournament Sweet 16: Shawsheen Blanks BVT 3-0

Posted on March 3, 2024

Billerica, MA – MassNZ made one last trip to close out the Sweet 16 in the MIAA State Tournament to watch top-tier action between the Beavers of Blackstone Valley Tech and the Rams of Shawsheen. The Rams entered this game as the two seed and the Beavers entered as the 15 seed. The atmosphere pregame…

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