BAYS sent 19 teams to MTOC 2018 held June 22-24, 2018 at the State Fields in Lancaster.  Six teams were crowned champions, six teams lost in the finals, three teams lost in the seminfinal giving us 15 of our 19 teams making the semi-finals  Almost one quarter of the teams in the semifinals were from BAYS.  Two Finals were all BAYS and eight other finals involved one BAYS eams and six finals had no BAYS teams participating.

 We had three wild cards in addition to our regular 16 slots and in the age groups that we had wildcards both the wild card and the regular slot team made it to the final four and in every case, one BAYS team was eliminated by the other, two were in an all BAYS final (B06 D2 and B08 D2) and the thrd was an all BAYS semfinal in Bous 10 D1.

And as a first for this writer, we had a team pull out at 8:45 Friday morning giving BAYS a hefty fine.  Due to some hard work and scrambling among Ed McDonald, Ted Ritchie, Steve Smoller and Peter DeNatale, a Needham grade 8 team agreed to step up and take the girls grade 10 D1 slot.  In 4 hours they got a team together, paperwork done and made a 5 PM kick off to prevent a Nantucket team from traveling to have no opponent.  BAYS wishes to thank Needham and coach Jim McShane for stepping up with a younger team and taking the schedule over.  in an interesting side note, the official tournament results will list the games as three forfeits, had the results been allowed to stand - they would have won their division and made it to the final four displacing the eventual winner.  They played the eventual winner in group phase and defeated them 1-0.  They also took home the lone Sportsmanship Award for BAYS.  Congratualtions and great thenaks to Needham.

BAYS delegation was headed by Ed McDonald, President and a number of volunteers.  Assisting with Registration were Past President Dan Bielenin, Past President Dick Penta, Denis Cho & Joe D'Amico.  Heading the awards effort for final four and sportsmanship was Co-Vice President Lisa Wentworth with her dream team of Tony Loftis, Dick Penta, David Dalrymple, Steve Smoller, Ted Ritchie, Katie Bigelow, John Cresap, Kelly Kemp with photography by veteran Maddy Hill and rookie Lucas Martiros..

Levon was the referee assignor assisted by a number of BAYS referees that were unable to work many deserved finals due to the success of the BAYS teams. 

Below are the team summary and team pictures:

 

MTOC 2018
Division	Sec	BAYS ID	MTOC ID	Team	Coach	Results
G PG	A1	6483	9157	Dedham Express	George Cariofiles	Champion
G12 D1	A1	4646	8151	Franklin Lady Panthers	Lou Moccia	Champion
G10 D1	*	*	6153	Needham United	Jim McShane	*First Place Group A  Sportsmanship
G10 D2	A	10732	6255	Walpole Rebels	John Thomsen	4th Place Group B
G08 D1	AA	6138	4151	Natick G7/8 A1	Peter Henderson	3rd Place Group A
G08 D2	A	2612	4255	Lexington United Blue Raptors	Todd Barrett	Semi-Finalist
G06 D1	A2	4344	2155	Acton-Boxboro Lightning	Gary Sullivan	Finalist
G06 D2	A	733	2253	Medfield Warriors	Patrick Deignan	Champion
B PG	B	4595	9102	Needham Thunder 12	Lee Popper	Finalist
B12 D1	B	10707	8102	Natick HS Boys 12	Michael Davidson	Semi-Finalist
B10 D1	A1	4660	6110	Arlington B10 Eagles	David Dolan	Finalist
B10 D1 W/C	A1	10731	6108	Walpole Pirates	John Thomsen	Semi-Finalist
B10 D2	A2	10669	6203	Medway Mustangs	Daniel Olsen	Champion
B08 D1	A	5852	4110	Newton Bolts	Andrew Hargens	2nd Place Group C
B08 D2	A	10514	4211	Westwood Wolverines	Patrick Lombard	Finalist
B08 D2 W/C	B	10095	4204	Southborough Galaxy	Benjamin Deschaine	Champion
B06 D1	A2	4523	2110	Needham Storm B6	Kenneth Keyes	Finalist
B06 D2	A	944	2207	Framingham Revs	John Howard Jones	Finalist
B06 D2 W/C	B	5213	2212	Wellesley Revolution	William Corkhill	Champion

Legend

In Team Column

	Champion - overall winner of Age Group
	Finalist - Lost in the Finals - came in Second
	Semi-Finalist - made it to Final Four but lost in Semi-Final
	Did not make it to Final Four

In Coach Column

Awarded the Sportsmanship Award for the Age Group

* Girls Grade 10 Needham replaced a BAYS team that pulled out 8 hours before the first game kicked off.  The nucleus of the team is the Needham Girls Grade 8 Division 1 team.  Since they did not have a conforming roster, the tournament committee declared their games forfeits. They went 2-0-1 including a victory over the eventual champion in the group phase.  BAYS wishes to express its deep appreciation for the team stepping up on short notice to fill the slot.

MTOC Team Pictures below:

Sportsmanship Winner

 

Girls Grade 10 Division 1 Needham United coached by Jimmy McShane

 

 

MTOC Representatives - 19 in all.

Teams Pictures Below:

Girls Grade 6 Division 1 Acton-Boxboro Lightning coached by Gary Sullivan, Stephen Korbly & Alycen Nigro

 

Girls Grade 6 Division 2 Medfield Warriors coached by Patrick Deignan and Brad Compston

 

Girls Grade 8 Division 1 Natick coached by Peter Henderson and Wendy Campana

 

Girls Grade 8 Division 2 Lexington United Blue Raptors coached by Todd Barett, Michael Sabin and Harold Payson

 

Girls Grade 10 Division 1 Needham United coached by Jimmy McShane

 

Girls Grade 10 Division 2 Walpole Rebels coached by John Thomsen, Scott Richer and Randy Jackson

 

Girls Grade 12 Division 1 Franklin Lady Panthers coached by Lou Moccia and David Doherty

 

Girls Grade PG Division 1 Dedham Express coached by George Cariofiles and Jason DeAngelis

 

Boys Grade 6 Division 1 Needham Storm coached by Ken Keyes, Jim Reddish and Matthew Ross

 

Boys Grade 6 Division 2 Framingham United Revs coached by John Howard Jones and Paul Walker

 

Boys Grade 6 Division 2 Wild Card Wellesley United Revolution coached by William Corkhill and Stephen Keresztes

 

Boys Grade 8 Division 1 Newton Bolts coached by Andrew Hargens, Wayne Levy and Thomas Hill

 

Boys Grade 8 Division 2 Westwood Wolverines coached by Patrick Lombard, Edward Vamenta and Robert Hanson

 

Boys Grade 8 Division 2 Wild Card Southboro Galaxy coached by Ben Deschaine and Jared Bouzan

 

Boys Grade 10 Division 1 Arlington B10 Eagles coached by David Dolan, Philip Ryan and Peter Jacob-Dolan

 

Boys Grade 10 Division 1 Wild Card Walpole Pirates coached by John Thomsen and Vincent Colbert

 

Boys Grade 10 Division 2 Medway Mustangs coached by Daniel Olsen, Brian Gray and Lyle Core

 

Boys Grade 12 Division 1 Natick coached by Michael Davidson, Cliff Browning and William Chase

 

Boys Grade PG Division 1 Needham Thunder coached by Lee Popper, Matt Keenan and Tobin Kelly