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Winter sports season is upon us

Steve Krause

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The winter season is about to begin.It officially starts tonight with track and wrestling, and then really heats up Friday with a full slate of boys and girls basketball.Both Classical and Engish are in action Friday, with Ram boys traveling to Revere while the girls host the Patriots.The English boys will entertain Salem at the Cavanagh Field House while the girls are on the road at Salem High.All the basketball games are at 7.St. Mary’s opens Monday and Tech Tuesday. St. Mary’s star Tyler Grillo needs only nine points to reach the 1,000 plateau.Hockey opens Saturday with a full slate of activity as well. The Lynn Jets – who year include players from Tech as well as Classical and English – open at Connery Rink at 8:30. The St. Mary’s boys are at St. Peter-Marian (2 p.m.). The defending Division 1 state championn Lady Spartans open at home Saturday, against Hingham at 6:30. The English/Classical/Revere/Winthrop cooperative girls team travels to Everett at 5:30.

  • Steve Krause

    Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

    Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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