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Benedetto, Duchane jamborees kick off hoop season

Steve Krause

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Two of the city?s most revered names in high school sports will be remembered again this weekend when the basketball teams play in the Elmo Benedetto (boys) and Paul Duchane (girls) jamborees.First up is the Benedetto Friday night at English. The Duchane jamboree has been a fixture at Classical on Saturday afternoons and evenings since 1989, when Duchane, a popular teacher and coach at both English and Classical, died.The Benedetto jamboree is in its 28th year, having begun in 1985, at the behest of former English basketball/baseball coach Ron Bennett, the same year the former citywide athletic director died.Benedetto, who has one of the five Agganis Hall of Fame awards named after him (given to the person who contributes the most to youth athletics in and around Lynn), worked tirelessly on behalf of Lynn?s high school students, and his motto was “there?s a college for everyone.”This year?s tournament begins at the Cavanagh Fieldhouse at English at 4:15 with Winthrop playing Peabody. The rest of the schedule is as follows: Marblehead vs. Greater Lowell (4:50); Swampscott vs. Greater Lowell (correct) (5:25); Salem vs. Fenwick (6); St. Mary?s vs. Beverly (6:30); Everett vs. Classical (7:05) and St. John?s vs. English (7:40).The cost is $5 and there will be no passes.Duchane taught science and physical education at both Classical and English. He was the head football coach at English from 1980 through 1986 before becoming an assistant at both Matignon and Bishop Fenwick.He died of a heart attack during halftime of the Fenwick-Matignon game at Donaldson Field in Peabody in 1989.The Duchane jamboree begins at 2 p.m., and teams will play two eight-minute periods. Swampscott will play Everett in the opener.The rest of the schedule is as follows: Peabody vs. Medford (2:40); Revere vs. Somerville (3:20); Beverly vs. Malden (4); Marblehead vs. Fenwick (4:40); Winthrop vs. St. Mary?s (5:20); English vs. Westford Academy (6); Danvers vs. Reading (6:40); and Classical vs. Masconomet (7:20).

  • 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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