MIAA announces postseason football pairings

With the regular season complete, the MIAA released the sites and times Friday morning for the Super Bowl playoff games set for Tuesday.Lynn’s Manning Field is one of the sites chosen and will have one of the marquee doubleheaders on the slate, as a pair of defending Super Bowl champions and the state’s top two teams will be on hand.Defending Division 2A champion Gloucester, winner of the Northeastern Conference’s North Division, will meet Cape Ann League/Large champion Masconomet in the first game at Manning on Tuesday, scheduled for 5:15. It will be the teams’ third meeting in less than a season.The Fishermen, who finished the regular season at 10-1, and the Chieftains (winners of eight in a row) met last year in this round at Cawley Stadium in Lowell. Gloucester rolled to a commanding win en route to its championship.The two also met earlier this season at Newell Stadium in Gloucester, with the Fishermen escaping with a 20-14 win. The other Division 2A semifinal will pit Duxbury against unbeaten Apponequet.Another regular-season rematch will bookend the night in Lynn as defending Division 1 champion Everett will meet Catholic Conference champion BC High at 7:45.The Crimson Tide, winners of the Greater Boston League, sit at 10-1, their only loss coming to St. John’s Prep. The Eagles also are 10-1, with their only regular-season blemish coming at the hands of Everett.The other Division 1 game will see Dartmouth, the Crimson Tide’s opponent in one of the more memorable Super Bowl games in recent memory, facing Brockton at Marciano Stadium in Brockton (7:45).The other North Shore representative in the postseason is also looking for a second straight Super Bowl title.After being on the outside looking in with two games left in the regular season, Swampscott found its way back to the postseason thanks to a 21-13 win over Marblehead on Thursday in a winner-take-all showdown for the NEC South title.On Tuesday, the Big Blue will return to the site of its state semifinal win of a season ago, Pierce Field at Arlington High, to take on the same opponent as 2007 – Catholic Central League/Large champion Arlington Catholic.Norton, one of three teams to best Masconomet earlier this season, will take on Abington at Bridgewater-Raynham HS in the other Division 3 semifinal.The complete postseason slate is as follows:DIVISION 1Everett vs. BC High, 7:45, at LynnDartmouth vs. Brockton, 7:45, at BrocktonDIVISION 1AActon-Boxborough vs. Dracut, 7:45, at LowellMarshfield vs. Framingham, 5:15, at BrocktonDIVISION 2Walpole vs. Reading, 7:45, at ReadingMansfield vs. Bishop Feehan, 5:15 at Bridgewater-RaynhamDIVISION 2AGloucester vs. Masconomet, 5:15, at LynnDuxbury vs. Apponequet, 7:15, at DurfeeDIVISION 3Swampscott vs. Arlington Catholic, 7:15, at ArlingtonNorton vs. Abington, 7:45, at Bridgewater-RaynhamDIVISION 3AAmesbury vs. Whittier, 5:15, at LowellMartha’s Vineyard vs. South Boston, 4:45, at TauntonDIVISION 4Manchester Essex vs. O’Bryant, 5:15, at ReadingPope John vs. Tri-County, 7:15, at Taunton