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Wing vs. wing: Gonsalves-Cosme and New Bedford's double wing host Weymouth's single wing Friday

Both teams played in the Division 1 tournament last week. Friday is a Week 10 game on New Bedford's own field against the program that beat the Whalers 34-0 the last two years.

By the SC360 Sports Desk | Published Nov. 13, 2026 | Last verified Nov. 13, 2026, 12:05 p.m. ET

NEW BEDFORD Tru Gonsalves-Cosme and New Bedford's double wing play on their own field one last time this fall Friday night, against the Weymouth single wing that beat the Whalers 34-0 in each of the last two seasons.

The Whalers (7-2) and the Wildcats (5-4) kick off at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at the New Bedford High School football field on Maxfield Street, by New Bedford's schedule on Arbiter Live, in a Week 10 game the MIAA lists among its matchups for teams out of the postseason. Both played in the Division 1 tournament last week, by the MIAA's bracket: No. 12 New Bedford lost 47-0 at No. 5 Springfield Central on Nov. 6, and No. 16 Weymouth lost 35-6 at top-seeded St. John's Prep on Nov. 5.

Weymouth won 34-0 in New Bedford on Sept. 28, 2024, and 34-0 again at Weymouth on Sept. 26, 2025, the fall the Whalers went 0-10, by New Bedford's MaxPreps schedules.

How the Whalers got here

New Bedford opened with a 42-8 win over Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech on Sept. 11, beat Lowell 50-39 on Sept. 19 and won 44-8 at Hopkinton on Sept. 25, by the scores the MIAA posted. Its only regular season loss came at Quincy, 34-8 on Oct. 3, and the Whalers answered with four straight wins: 42-6 over Brookline, 34-28 over Haverhill, 20-14 at Brockton and 52-20 at Dartmouth. That adds up to 292 points in eight regular season games, 36.5 a game, against 157 allowed.

Three of those wins came against teams that shut New Bedford out a year earlier, when Lowell won 48-0, Brockton 41-0 and Dartmouth 31-0, by the Whalers' 2025 schedule.

The Boston Globe's preseason preview set out the plan behind the turnaround. Robert Lomp, in his second season with a 145-62 career record, planned to mix more shotgun and spread looks into his double wing and move the defense from a 3-4 to a four-man front. Gonsalves-Cosme and running back Lyric Ramos came over from Bishop Stang for their senior seasons, sophomore Miguel Neves transferred from Greater New Bedford, and senior captain Logan Desmarais was set to be a key piece of the double wing at fullback while still playing inside linebacker.

The Brockton win ended a seven-game losing streak against the Boxers that began after an 18-0 New Bedford win at Brockton on Oct. 19, 2018, by the Whalers' MaxPreps schedules, and on Oct. 24 at Marciano Stadium the Whalers trailed 14-6 going into the fourth quarter. Facing first and 20, Gonsalves-Cosme faked, rolled right and hit Desmarais for a long gain to the Brockton 36, as the Brockton Community Access broadcast of the game shows, and a few plays later he rolled right again on play action and threw back across the field to Ramos, wide open behind the defense, for the touchdown. Pushed back to the 20 for the two-point try, he found Jordyn Correia in single coverage, and it was 14-14.

With about five minutes left, Ramos stepped in front of a pass over the middle and returned it far enough to give the Whalers a first down at the Brockton 29. The Whalers kept the ball on the ground from there, mostly with Desmarais and Ramos, and on third and goal from inside the 1, Ramos took the pitch and scored with about a minute and a half left for a 20-14 lead. Brockton drove to the New Bedford 3 with 4 seconds to go, and the last pass fell incomplete. That afternoon New Bedford High's athletics Facebook page posted the scoreboard, Whalers 20, Boxers 14, with the words "The scoreboard says it all."

The Whalers' stars

Gonsalves-Cosme runs the double wing from under center, the pistol and the shotgun, and he makes plays on offense and on special teams. At Dartmouth on Oct. 30 he lined up to punt in the first half, took off instead and ran 68 yards for a touchdown, then returned the second-half kickoff to the 35 and, on the first snap, rolled out and ran 65 yards down the sideline for another. Facing fourth and 4 at the Dartmouth 39 in the third quarter, he ran for the first down, and he added a two-point pass to Correia and a two-point run of his own in a 52-20 win, New Bedford's highest score of the season.

Ramos, No. 6, a senior running back who also plays linebacker, scored three times at Dartmouth: from the 1 on fourth and goal on the opening drive after slipping a tackle, from the 1 again for a 20-14 lead and from the 3 on the last play of the first half, through a hard hit. At Brockton he caught the touchdown that started the comeback, picked off the pass that set up the winning drive and carried in the go-ahead score.

Desmarais, a senior captain, takes the inside handoffs at fullback and plays linebacker on defense, and at Dartmouth he carried the drive that put New Bedford back in front before halftime, ran in two two-point conversions and scored twice, from the 6 in the third quarter and from inside the 3 in the fourth after breaking two tackles on a long run. Playing linebacker, he tipped away a Dartmouth two-point pass. Last season's team roster listed him as a junior defensive end and tackle.

Correia, No. 2, a 6-foot-2 senior receiver and defensive back on the team's roster, was listed at receiver and quarterback as a junior a year ago. At Brockton, after the Whalers' defense forced a fumble near their own goal line, he went up over the coverage for two long catches from Gonsalves-Cosme on the 85-yard drive that put New Bedford on the board. At Dartmouth he caught a pass for a first down on the opening drive, went up and won a jump ball in the end zone for the two-point catch that made it 44-20, and on defense batted away a deep pass on third and 20 to force a punt.

Neves runs out of the same backfield, and at Dartmouth he caught a third-and-4 pass for a first down and dove in for the two-point conversion that sent New Bedford to halftime up 28-20. Sophomore Nyzelle Vasquez, No. 25, is listed at middle linebacker and tight end on the roster.

Up front, Max Sylvia joined Desmarais as a captain for the coin toss at Dartmouth, and Congo-Stanley Hepburn, wearing No. 60, made stops from the defensive line there, including a tackle in the backfield in the fourth quarter. Both were juniors listed at tackle and defensive end on last season's roster.

Weymouth: line play and the single wing

Weymouth comes in at 5-4, and the same Globe preview listed Mike Donovan, in his fourth season, at 21-13 coming into the fall after an 8-3 year and described a program that keeps winning on line play in a single-wing attack. It named senior Ty Monteiro-Cooper, No. 13, a 6-foot-4, 230-pound end bound for Stonehill, as the latest standout, with senior captain Tyler Hogan, No. 72, senior Chedwens Justinvil, No. 47, and junior Dominic Brancaccio, No. 57, among the linemen around him, and senior captain Nate Bessette, No. 17, a cornerback and safety, coming off four interceptions last season.

The Wildcats beat Taunton 31-29 on Sept. 11, Diman 10-7 on Sept. 18, Wellesley 36-0 on Oct. 2, Braintree 41-7 on Oct. 9 and Needham 33-15 on Oct. 23, by the scores the MIAA posted. All three of their regular season losses came by 13 points or fewer: 14-12 at Newton North on Sept. 25, 21-8 at home to Brockton on Oct. 16 and 27-20 to Milton on Oct. 29.

Weymouth's roster fills in the rest of the single wing. Senior Brendan Flynn, No. 14, is listed at running back and defensive back, senior Brandon Daley, No. 10, at fullback and outside linebacker, and seniors Peter Marciano, No. 26, and Brailyn De Los Santos, No. 33, at running back and safety. Junior Owen Halpenny, No. 35, plays receiver and outside linebacker, and sophomore Christian Wilkins, No. 3, is listed at quarterback and middle linebacker.

At Newton North on Sept. 25, in the closest of those losses, the Wildcats led 6-0 at halftime, fell behind 14-6 in the third quarter and scored early in the fourth to pull within 14-12, and the Tigers stopped the two-point try, as the Newton North TV broadcast of the game called it. Flynn carried the ball on Weymouth's third quarter drive and broke up a pass on defense, and Hogan made a tackle in the backfield.

What to watch

South Coast 360's read on the football: both teams run wing offenses built on angle blocking, misdirection and a fullback between the tackles, so the matchup to watch is Monteiro-Cooper and the Weymouth front against the New Bedford line opening holes for Desmarais and Ramos. New Bedford's extra answer is Gonsalves-Cosme out of the shotgun, rolling out to run or throw, which stretches a defense from sideline to sideline, and Weymouth's front is the group that has to keep him inside. The Whalers' four-man front gets a single-wing team that scored 31 or more points four times this fall.

Brockton is the one common opponent: Weymouth lost 21-8 to the Boxers at home on Oct. 16, and New Bedford won 20-14 at Marciano Stadium eight days later.

Kickoff, tickets and how to follow

Kickoff is 6:30 p.m. Friday at the New Bedford High School football field, 543 Maxfield St., the address on the school's GoFan listing. General admission is $5 plus a $1.25 fee on GoFan, and South Coast 360 will post the final on the Friday Night Scoreboard.

What comes next

New Bedford plays Durfee at Fenway Park on Wednesday, Nov. 25, at 4 p.m., by its Arbiter Live schedule and the Red Sox event page, ahead of Xaverian and St. John's Prep in the second game. The Whalers and the Hilltoppers are both 1-0 in the Big Three after beating Brockton, by their MaxPreps league records, so the Thanksgiving week game decides the conference. General admission is $20 through the Red Sox and covers both games that day. Weymouth closes at Walpole on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26, at 10 a.m., by its MaxPreps schedule.

More on this team: how New Bedford went from 16 players to 60 and a Division 1 tournament berth, our Springfield Central tournament preview and New Bedford 52, Dartmouth 20.

Label: Reported by us, from the town's posted records.

Notes

The date, time and site come from New Bedford's schedule on Arbiter Live and the school's GoFan listing, read again Friday morning, and the pairing from the MIAA's Week 10 list of games outside the tournament. Seeds and tournament scores come from the MIAA's Division 1 bracket, and regular season scores from the MIAA's posted football scores, which we totaled ourselves. Earlier meetings, the Brockton series since 2018, league records and next games come from the MaxPreps schedules of New Bedford, Weymouth and Durfee, and numbers, classes and positions from the teams' MaxPreps rosters. The Brockton plays come from the Brockton Community Access broadcast of the game, the Newton North plays from the Newton North TV broadcast, and the Dartmouth plays from our own notes on the Dartmouth Community Media broadcast, checked against the final scores. The Fenway time and price come from the Red Sox, the scoreboard post from New Bedford High's athletics page, and the preseason plans, transfers and coaching records from the Boston Globe's Sept. 9 preview, credited in the story. We read and watched them between Oct. 30 and Nov. 13, 2026, and checked each date and weekday against a calendar. South Coast 360 asked New Bedford coach Robert Lomp, through athletic director Thomas Tarpey, for comment Thursday, and his answer will be added.

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1. Arbiter Live: New Bedford High varsity football schedule"Fri Nov 13 6:30 PM vs Weymouth High School New Bedford High School Football Field - Maxfield St"; "Wed Nov 25 4:00 PM vs Durfee High School ... Fenway Park". Read Nov. 13, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
2. GoFan: New Bedford Whalers vs Weymouth High SchoolStart 2026-11-13T23:30Z (6:30 p.m.); General Admission $5.00, fee $1.25; 543 Maxfield Street. Read Nov. 13, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
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