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Watertown Boys Hoops Team Waits for State Tourney Seed After 46-Point Win

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Senior center John Korte scored 34 points for the Raiders in just three quarters to lead the Watertown High School boys basketball team to an 81-35 victory over visiting Boston United on Tuesday afternoon. The Raiders now await the release of the MIAA tournament brackets to see if they can make another deep run in the Div. 3 playoffs. With the win, Watertown finished the regular season with a 14-6 record. The team has won three straight and six out of the last seven, giving head coach Steve Harrington somethings to be optimistic about.

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Watertown High Grad Receives College All-Conference Hoops Honors

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The Commonwealth Coast Conference announced its all-conference women’s basketball teams and one of those honored was a Watertown High School graduate. 

Senior Gabriella Coppola, a guard at Endicott College, was named to the All-CCC second team. Coppola averaged 10.3 points per game for the Gulls this season and also led the team in assists per game with 4.9, according to Endicott Athletics. Earlier in the season, she moved into second place on the all-time career assists list at Endicott and currently sits at 370 total assists. Coppola has recorded 12 double-digit scoring efforts throughout the season as well. Endicott (14-4) earned the No.

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Senior Led Watertown Boys Basketball Faced Belmont Friday Night

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The Raiders’ boys basketball team – led by the senior duo of John Korte and Julio Fulcar – suffered a close loss to rival Belmont Friday  night in the WHS Gym. 

Watertown lost 59-56 to the Marauders in the Middlesex League matchup. The Raiders battled back to make it close after being down 36-22 in at halftime. The team dropped to 8-5 on the season and 5-5 in the Middlesex League. The Raiders were coming off a 10 point win over Boston United earlier in the week, where senior guard Julio Fulcar scored a career high 30 points, according to Wicked Local Watertown. The team has been led this season by senior John Korte, who passed the 1,000 point mark for his career during a 27-point performance at Wilmington last week.

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Watertown’s Coppola Claims 2nd Place on Endicott Women’s Basketball Assist List

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Watertown’s Gabriella Coppola moved into second place on the Endicott College women’s basketball program’s assist list during the game at Gordon College on Thursday night. 

The former WHS star tallied five assists in Wenham, Mass., and gave her a total of 46 through 12 games in her senior year and 306 in her career for the Gulls. She came into the game tied with Kaylin Burke at 301, so her first assist in the 78-55 win against Gordon put her into second place. The assist record at Endicott is held by Heidi Stevens, who had 472 in her career. Coppola is also second on the single-season assists list at Endicott with 135 during her sophomore year. She is also among the top active NCAA Div.

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Former WHS Star Climbing Ranks of NCAA D3 Women’s Basketball Assist Leaders

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Gabriella Coppola had had quite an encore to her stellar career on the Watertown High School girls basketball team. Now a senior at Endicott College, she has steadily climbed up the list of assist leaders at the Beverly-based college and in all of NCAA Div. III. Coppola, who plays guard for the Gulls, has 15 assists through five games during the 2017-18 season, putting her at 275 for her college career. This is fourth best all-time at Endicott and 30th highest among active D3 players.

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Raiders 2007 Basketball State Champs to Enter WHS Athletic Hall of Fame

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(The Watertown High School Athletic Hall of Fame submitted the following team profile)

Hall of Fame Coach Steve Harrington consistently had his teams knocking on the door of a State Championship in the early 2000’s. In 2000, 2005 and 2006 the Red Raiders lost in the North Sectional Finals. In ’03 they lost in the Garden in the EMass finals. The gyms at Watertown High and the rest of their Middlesex League opponents was the place to be on Tuesday and Friday nights. Both home and away games were packed with loyal Red Raider fans.

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Basketball Star Anthony Coppola Joining WHS Athletic Hall of Fame

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Like many of the esteemed student-athletes in the WHS Athletic Hall of Fame, Anthony Coppola, class of 2007, was a multi-sport athlete. But it was in the gym and on the basketball court under the direction of Hall of Fame coach, Steve Harrington, where he was most dynamic and successful. The WHS Athletic Hall of Fame sent out the following profile:

“Anthony was relentless,” Harrington told us. “He had tunnel vision all the time, but especially as a senior, when we knew as a program we could make a good run at the program’s first State Title.” And after a grinding 18 game Middlesex League schedule, a brutal battle through the D3 North sectionals, a glorious trip to the Boston Garden, and four clutch free-throws by the cool, calm, and collected Coppola down the stretch to cap a nail biting one point victory in Worcester, the Red Raiders did indeed get to hoist the trophy. Like many of Harington’s troops, Coppola started out at the Boys and Girls Club playing Biddy Basketball.