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A year after an 0-4 start, Benji Baptiste and 7-1 Old Rochester host Bay Path's Wing-T in the Division 6 playoffs

Benji Baptiste's 1,096 yards in five games, a defense allowing 14.9 points a game and the coach's father back on the sideline after a heart transplant carry Old Rochester into a home playoff game against a Bay Path team that has run for 2,328 yards, Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. at Hagan Stadium.

By the SC360 Sports Desk | Published Nov. 3, 2026 | Last verified Nov. 4, 2026, 5:55 p.m. ET

MATTAPOISETT Updated 5:16 p.m. Nov. 4, 2026.

Correction: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong date for the game. It is Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. at Hagan Stadium.

With 23 seconds left on a Thursday night at Dartmouth, Benji Baptiste finished the final drive with a 5-yard touchdown run that tied the game at 12, and Nolin Vieira's extra point won it, 13-12, the Boston Globe reported. That Sept. 24 win was the closest game of a 7-1 season. On Thursday, Nov. 5, the Old Rochester junior and the Bulldogs open the MIAA's Division 6 tournament at home as the No. 7 seed, hosting No. 10 Bay Path RVT at 7 p.m. at David S. Hagan Stadium in Mattapoisett.

A year ago the Bulldogs opened 0-4. This fall they have won four straight by a combined 151-45 and stand 3-0 in league play, first in the league standings. Baptiste, who holds the school record in the 55 meters, the Globe reported, has run for 1,096 yards in the five games with published totals and scored 21 touchdowns, by Globe and Standard-Times figures. The Globe's playoff preview told Division 6 to look out for No. 7 Old Rochester, "with speedy tailback Benji Baptiste pacing a run-heavy offense."

"We're proud of what this group has accomplished in getting to 7-1 and earning a home playoff game," head coach Bryce Guilbeault said in an email to South Coast 360 on Tuesday. "Our players have worked hard for this opportunity, and we're excited to be playing in front of our home crowd Friday night." He wrote on Tuesday, when the game was still set for Friday; it has since moved to Thursday.

Thursday puts two teams that win on the ground on the same field. Guilbeault describes Bay Path as a smash-mouth Wing-T team with a physical fullback and two quick backs, and the statistics Bay Path has entered on MaxPreps show 2,328 rushing yards and 501 passing yards in eight games. Old Rochester answers with junior quarterback Connor Nelson under center and two backs behind him.

From 0-4 to an instant classic

Old Rochester lost its first four games of 2025, to Plymouth North, Bishop Stang, Fairhaven and Dartmouth. "We had a tough schedule to start the year. We had a lot of young guys playing and that takes time to get everybody on the same page," Guilbeault told the Sippican Week that October. The Bulldogs then won three of their next four, all three wins over South Coast Conference Blue teams, and went into the playoffs as the 13th seed.

In the first round they beat No. 4 Wilmington 47-39 in three overtimes, a game the Globe called an instant classic. Baptiste, then a sophomore, scored on a 29-yard run and the clinching two-point conversion, and quarterback Connor Nelson ran in keepers in the second and third overtimes. "We started the season 0-4 and they wrote us off. I'm happy for them that they got it done tonight," Guilbeault told the Globe. Hudson ended that run a week later, 34-13, and the Bulldogs closed the year with a 47-8 Thanksgiving win at Apponequet that finished a 4-0 run through the Blue.

The season, game by game

Sept. 11, Plymouth North, won 27-13. Old Rochester had opened its 2025 season with a loss to Plymouth North. This time the Bulldogs beat it at Hagan Stadium, the first of three straight wins to start the season.

Sept. 18, Bishop Stang, won 42-14. Baptiste broke out with 17 carries, 184 yards and four touchdowns, on runs of 6, 7, 40 and 10 yards, the Globe and the Standard-Times reported. Nelson ran eight times for 99 yards and a touchdown and completed a 20-yard pass, and Logan Hiles had two sacks, the Standard-Times reported. Stang had beaten Old Rochester 19-17 a year earlier.

Sept. 24, at Dartmouth, won 13-12. Baptiste carried 33 times for 204 yards. He broke a 48-yard touchdown run on a halfback dive, then capped the final drive with the tying 5-yard touchdown with 23 seconds left, and senior Nolin Vieira's extra point gave Old Rochester its one-point win, the Globe reported. "We're resilient. We're tough," Guilbeault said. Baptiste gave the credit away: "That wasn't just me. That's our team and that was the line blocking too."

Oct. 2, Foxborough, lost 35-14. Old Rochester led 14-0 early in the second quarter before Foxborough came back, the Globe reported. It is the only loss on the schedule, and it came against a program the Globe calls a perennial contender, now a Division 5 playoff team that opens against unbeaten Apponequet on Thursday, Nov. 5, by the MIAA's bracket.

Oct. 9, Dighton-Rehoboth, won 20-14. The Bulldogs answered Foxborough a week later with a six-point home win that started the four-game streak still running. It was the first of three league wins, with Greater New Bedford and Somerset Berkley to follow.

Oct. 16, Bishop Fenwick, won 53-18. Baptiste ran for 273 yards and five touchdowns, on runs of 54, 22, 4, 34 and 2 yards, the Standard-Times reported, and the Globe named him a Player of the Week for the game. Nelson ran for 131 yards and a score, and Hiles scored twice, on a 4-yard run and a 44-yard interception return. Fenwick is now the No. 15 seed in Division 6 and could meet Old Rochester again in the Round of 8 if both win this week.

Oct. 23, at Greater New Bedford, won 36-6. Baptiste ran 16 times for 178 yards with touchdowns of 11 and 91 yards, fullback Matt Tobin scored twice and Jermaine Boardman added a 25-yard touchdown run, the Standard-Times reported. It was the third straight win.

Oct. 30, at Somerset Berkley, won 42-7. Baptiste returned the opening kickoff to the Somerset Berkley 9 and scored from 6 yards out two plays later, then went straight up the middle and cut back to the outside for a 37-yard touchdown. Nelson's 28-yard touchdown pass to tight end Wyatt Churchill made it 21-0 after one quarter. When the Raiders answered with their 90-yard drive, Old Rochester scored again in three plays, Baptiste shedding a tackle in the open field for his third touchdown and a 28-7 halftime lead. Tobin scored twice in the third quarter, once untouched and once from 27 yards after an 18-yard Baptiste punt return.

Nolin Vieira made all six extra points that night. The Bulldogs' last drive ran from late in the third quarter to the final whistle, and nearly 10 running backs got a touch on it by the JJ Silvia Broadcasting crew's count. The Globe credited Baptiste with 257 yards and three touchdowns and named him a Player of the Week.

For the season Old Rochester has scored 247 points and allowed 119. It held six of its eight opponents to 14 points or fewer and won four games by 20 points or more. It beat all three teams on this year's schedule that beat it to open 2025, and unbeaten Apponequet comes to Hagan Stadium on Thanksgiving.

How Old Rochester moves the ball

In the 42-7 win at Somerset Berkley on Oct. 30, Nelson took the snaps under center, often with two backs set behind him and a receiver split wide to each side. The calls kept coming back to the same handful of plays. Baptiste or senior fullback Matt Tobin took a give up the middle. Baptiste took a pitch toward the sideline. A double handoff sprang Tobin to the outside. Nelson showed the fake, then kept the ball himself and ran up the middle.

Three Bulldogs have run for 99 yards or more in a game this fall, according to the Globe and the Standard-Times: Baptiste in every game with a published total, Nelson with 131 against Bishop Fenwick and 99 against Bishop Stang, and Tobin with 150 at Somerset Berkley. Nelson's biggest throw at Somerset Berkley came on third and 17, a 28-yard touchdown pass up the seam to Churchill.

Somerset Berkley ran a triple option and Wing-T look that night, the JJ Silvia Broadcasting crew said, the closest thing on Old Rochester's schedule to what Bay Path brings. The Raiders scored once, on a 90-yard drive. Their first series of the second half reached the Old Rochester 44, and the Bulldogs stopped the runs that followed for little or no gain and forced a punt.

The stars

Benji Baptiste, junior running back. He had 16 touchdowns and 96 points through six games, second in SouthCoast scoring, the Standard-Times reported, and he has scored five more since. In the five games with published totals he averaged more than 219 yards. He returns kicks and punts too. He has been scoring against South Coast Conference teams since his freshman year, when he caught a touchdown pass in a 49-35 win at Somerset Berkley, the Wanderer reported in 2024.

Connor Nelson, junior quarterback. The Sippican Week called him the starting quarterback as a sophomore in 2025. Nelson runs the offense with his feet as much as his arm: 131 rushing yards against Fenwick and 99 against Stang, by the Standard-Times count, the keepers in the second and third overtimes at Wilmington last fall, and the 28-yard touchdown throw at Somerset Berkley.

Matt Tobin, senior fullback. The JJ Silvia Broadcasting crew called him a captain, and he played like one at Somerset Berkley with 150 rushing yards and two touchdowns, the Standard-Times reported. He broke a run of more than 40 yards in the first quarter of that game, a week after he scored twice at Greater New Bedford.

Players to watch on both sides of the ball

On defense, Logan Hiles had two sacks against Stang and scored on a pick-six and a short run against Fenwick, the Standard-Times reported. He plays on a defense that allowed 45 points in the last four games and held each of its last two opponents to a single touchdown.

Owen Pelland, a captain, won the Standard-Times readers' poll for SouthCoast preseason defensive player of the year with 60% of the vote.

Jermaine Boardman scored on a 25-yard run at Greater New Bedford, by the Standard-Times account, the third Bulldog to run for a touchdown that night, after Baptiste and Tobin.

Hunter Horsey, senior captain. Horsey spoke for the team when the Standard-Times wrote about the return of assistant coach Paul Guilbeault in September. "There's a lot of culture at this school," he said.

Up front, Baptiste credited his line after the Dartmouth win. Extra points are not automatic at the high school level, and senior kicker Nolin Vieira has made 15 over the last three games, four at Greater New Bedford, five against Fenwick and six of six at Somerset Berkley, by the Standard-Times count, on top of the one that beat Dartmouth.

When the captains met at midfield for the coin toss at Somerset Berkley, the JJ Silvia Broadcasting crew named five for Old Rochester: Tobin, Horsey, Nelson, Baptiste and Pelland.

Two Guilbeaults on the sideline

Guilbeault played at Bishop Stang, captained his team at Framingham State and became head coach in 2019 after three years as an assistant, the Sippican Week reported. This is his eighth season running the Bulldogs and his 16th year coaching football, the Standard-Times reported in October, when it wrote about the restaurant he is opening in Mattapoisett this fall. "We talk about it all the time in football, about representing our community," he told the paper. "When you get an opportunity to do something where you live, that's important." Some of the lessons he teaches his players carry over to the restaurant, he told the paper: "I'm a huge teamwork guy."

His father, Paul Guilbeault, is back beside him. The elder Guilbeault, a Bishop Stang graduate who coached at Stang, Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and Old Colony and has been an Old Rochester assistant since his son took over in 2019, is in his 47th season on a high school sideline, the Standard-Times reported. He came back this fall after a heart transplant on Nov. 19, 2025. From the hospital he video chatted with the team and watched the games on livestreams, and after each game the score went up on the whiteboard in his room, the paper reported. "I told the doctors I will be coaching next year," he said.

"He's really happy he has the opportunity to coach again," Bryce Guilbeault told the Standard-Times. "The kids are happy to have him back." The players said the same thing. "We all missed the 'Yeah baby,'" Tobin said of one of the elder Guilbeault's favorite sayings, and Baptiste called him "a good hype man on the sideline." Horsey put it this way: "He's our drive. We work for him."

The program's playoff history

Old Rochester has won at least one state tournament game in each of the last five MIAA tournaments it played. In 2021 it opened the Division 5 tournament with a 26-6 win over Northeast Metro Voc-Tech, the Wanderer reported. In 2022 the No. 5 Bulldogs beat South Coast rival Fairhaven 49-17 in the first round, the Globe reported. In 2023 they fell behind North Middlesex 14-0 four minutes in, then forced five turnovers and won 28-14, the Wanderer reported. In 2024 they beat Norton 42-10 in the quarterfinals and reached the Division 5 semifinals, the Sippican Week reported. Last fall came the three-overtime night at Wilmington.

Three of those runs ended against the same opponent. Shawsheen beat Old Rochester in the 2022 and 2023 quarterfinals and the 2024 semifinal, the Sippican Week reported. After the 2023 loss Guilbeault said, "We are proud of the boys. They played hard and left everything on the field," the Wanderer reported, and after that year's Thanksgiving game he looked ahead: "We are looking forward to a great offseason and getting back to our winning ways in 2024. Roll Dogs!"

The deepest run came in 2018. Under coach Justin Kogler, Old Rochester won the South Coast Conference Large title and beat Ashland 28-6 in the Division 6 South final, and it went into the Division 6 Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium undefeated, the Wanderer and the Sippican Week reported. Stoneham won that final 26-20, according to Fun 107. The Bulldogs had lost the South final to Middleboro, 30-21, the year before, and in 2019, Guilbeault's first season, they reached a third straight South final by beating Norwell 22-15, the Wanderer reported.

What Bay Path brings

Bay Path, the regional vocational school in Charlton, is 4-4 and 3-1 in the Central Mass B league. The Minutemen opened 0-2 with road losses at Norton, 25-12, and Randolph, 20-6, then beat Clinton 41-7 and Northbridge 21-20. Losses at Blackstone Valley, 34-27, and to Northeast Metro, 20-13, followed. They arrive on a two-game winning streak, a 35-7 win over Millbury and a 41-21 win at Uxbridge that was their first road win of the season. That is 196 points scored and 154 allowed.

"Bay Path is a tough, rugged football team that plays physical, smash mouth football out of the Wing-T," Guilbeault said. "They're big and stout on both the offensive and defensive lines. They have a physical fullback and two quick backs who can break a big play at any time. Defensively, they're very aggressive and bring a lot of pressure to try to overwhelm opposing offenses."

By the team's own statistics, the Minutemen have run 246 times for 2,328 yards, 9.5 yards a carry, and senior quarterback Max Lapriore has completed 23 of 42 passes for 501 yards with five touchdowns and two interceptions. Three backs carry the load in that offense. Senior fullback and middle linebacker Dominik Ignatovich has 976 yards on 94 carries, senior Boden Barrell has 759 yards on 60 carries, 12.7 a carry, and sophomore Jahzian Torres has 433 yards on 57 carries. Ignatovich is also the leading receiver, with 14 catches for 324 yards, and sophomore Jayden Warren has 213 yards on eight catches.

Ignatovich arrives on a run of big nights. He ran 13 times for 217 yards and two touchdowns at Uxbridge, his sixth straight game with a rushing touchdown, and he has averaged 174 rushing yards over his last three games, by the team's figures. Barrell added 63 yards and a touchdown that night. On defense, senior Hunter Defosse has 18 tackles and senior lineman Eziajah Santiago has four sacks in the three games entered for them, and four different Minutemen have an interception, by the same figures.

Cody Giampa, Bay Path's head coach, went 40-25 in the six seasons before this one, starting with 2020-21. His teams won the Vocational Large state title three years in a row, beating Monty Tech 28-20 in 2022, Blackstone Valley 42-41 in 2023 and Whittier 38-0 in 2024. The 2024 team went 12-1, its loss coming 28-14 at Swampscott in the first round of the Division 6 tournament, The Daily Item reported. Bay Path finished 5-6 last fall, the same record as Old Rochester.

Guilbeault laid out the keys for Thursday. "For us, it comes down to playing a clean game in all three phases: offense, defense and special teams," he said. "We have to avoid self-inflicted mistakes, especially penalties and turnovers. If rain becomes a factor, ball security and execution will be even more important. The team that minimizes mistakes and takes advantage of its opportunities will give itself the best chance to advance."

Tale of the tape

The per-game points, the streak totals and Giampa's record are our math.

Our read on the matchup

This is our analysis. Bay Path's three backs average 7.6 to 12.7 yards a carry by the team's own figures, so Thursday starts with Old Rochester's tackling in space, the same part of its defense that stopped Somerset Berkley's option runs for little or no gain in the second half. Going the other way, a defense Guilbeault calls aggressive will be trying to get into the backfield against an offense built on handoffs, pitches and fakes, which is why his warning about ball security and turnovers matters. On points, Old Rochester has scored 6.4 more a game than Bay Path and allowed 4.4 fewer.

Thursday night: time, tickets, bracket

Kickoff is 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at David S. Hagan Stadium at Old Rochester Regional High School, 135 Marion Road, Mattapoisett. From the Round of 16 on, the MIAA sells tickets for every game only online, through GoFan. A Round of 16 football ticket costs $9.40, general admission, with fees included.

Buy tickets on the GoFan page for Bay Path at Old Rochester, the event Old Rochester's MaxPreps schedule links, or start from the MIAA's tournament ticketing page.

A win sends Old Rochester to the Round of 8 against No. 2 Hudson or No. 15 Bishop Fenwick, who meet the same night, Thursday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m. Round of 8 tickets cost $11.50. Hudson, 8-0, ended Old Rochester's run last fall, and its senior quarterback, Logan Dome, has 1,289 passing yards, 556 rushing yards and 29 total touchdowns, the Globe reported. The Bulldogs beat Fenwick by 35 points in October. Across the division, the Globe picked top seed Norwell as the slight favorite, and with Fairhaven and Case on the same side of the bracket as Old Rochester, a South Coast state semifinal is possible.

Two more home games

When the elder Guilbeault was in the hospital, he said, the support from the school and the community was "almost overwhelming," the Standard-Times reported. This fall's seniors, Tobin and Horsey among them by the Standard-Times account, have at least two more home games at Hagan Stadium: Thursday night, and Thanksgiving morning against an Apponequet team that went 8-0.

After last year's Thanksgiving win Guilbeault described what he wants each class to leave behind. "[The seniors] have left the program better than when they found it as freshmen and that's always a goal in life, for things to be better than how you get them," he told the Sippican Week.

Thursday's final will be on the Friday Night Scoreboard, every South Coast playoff game is in our bracket story, and our game story has the 42-7 win at Somerset Berkley.

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

Notes

The seeds, game date, kickoff time, site and Round of 8 path come from the MIAA's Division 6 bracket, with the date, time and site matched to both teams' Arbiter Live schedules and the GoFan ticket event, the ticket rule from the MIAA's ticketing page and the prices from its tournament price list, and every Old Rochester date and score from the schedule it posts on Arbiter Live; Bay Path's dates and scores come from the schedule it posts on Arbiter Live. The 247-119 total, the per-game points, the 151-45 over the last four games, the 1,096 yards in the five games with published totals, the 219-yard average, the 21 touchdowns, the 15 extra points, Bay Path's 196-154 and Cody Giampa's 40-25 are added up from published figures. Bay Path's player numbers come from the statistics the team entered on MaxPreps; its titles from the Massachusetts High School Football Coaches Association and the Globe; its 2024 playoff game from The Daily Item. The coach comes from the school's athletics page; last season from the Boston Globe, MaxPreps and the Sippican Week; the program's playoff history from the Wanderer, the Globe, the Sippican Week and Fun 107; the Guilbeaults' story and quotes from two Standard-Times features; and Old Rochester player numbers and quotes from the Globe, the Standard-Times and the Sippican Week, credited where they appear. The Somerset Berkley plays, the formations and the captains come from our own reporting on the game; the captains and the Somerset Berkley scheme are the JJ Silvia Broadcasting crew's words. Head coach Bryce Guilbeault's quotes on this season, Bay Path and this week's game come from his email to South Coast 360 on Tuesday, Nov. 3. We checked each date and weekday against a calendar.

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36. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): "ORR football coach back on the sidelines after nearly dying. 'Old man Guilbeault is the best.'"Published Sept. 30, 2026, by Laurie Los Lee: Paul Guilbeault's return after a Nov. 19, 2025 heart transplant, 47th season, coaching history; quotes from Bryce and Paul Guilbeault, senior Matt Tobin, junior Benji Baptiste and senior Hunter Horsey. Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
37. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo): "Old Rochester football coach gets ready to tackle his own restaurant"Published Oct. 2, 2026, by Faith Harrington: eighth year as head coach, 16th coaching football; quotes on community and teamwork. Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
38. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 6 SouthCoast football roundupBishop Fenwick game: Baptiste 5 touchdowns on runs of 54, 22, 4, 34 and 2 yards, 273 yards; Nelson 131 yards and a touchdown; Hiles 4-yard touchdown run and 44-yard interception return; 5 PATs. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
39. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 7 player of the week ballotPublished Oct. 26, 2026: Baptiste 16 carries, 178 yards, touchdowns of 11 and 91 yards against GNB Voc-Tech. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
40. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 7 SouthCoast football roundupTobin and Baptiste two rushing touchdowns each; Boardman 25-yard touchdown run; third straight win; 4 PATs. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
41. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 8 SouthCoast football roundupTobin 150 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns; Nelson 28-yard scoring pass; 6 PATs. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
42. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 2 player of the week ballotPublished Sept. 21, 2026: Baptiste touchdown runs of 6, 7, 40 and 10 yards; Nelson 8 carries, 99 yards, 2-yard touchdown, 1 pass for 20 yards; Hiles two sacks against Bishop Stang. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
43. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): SouthCoast football midseason offensive player of the year ballotPublished Oct. 22, 2026: Baptiste second in SouthCoast scoring, 96 points, team-high 16 touchdowns. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
44. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 8 player of the week ballotPublished Nov. 2, 2026: Tobin 150 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns at Somerset Berkley. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
45. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): Week 6 player of the week ballotOwen Pelland won the preseason defensive player of the year readers' poll with 60%. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
46. The Standard-Times (on Yahoo Sports): "Four SouthCoast football teams reach MIAA playoffs"Published Nov. 2, 2026: Old Rochester seeded seventh, hosts No. 10 Bay Path (4-4) at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, the date then posted (since moved to Thursday, Nov. 5). Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
47. Arbiter Live: Apponequet Regional High School Varsity Football scheduleEight 2026 wins in eight games; Thu Nov 26, 10:00 AM @ Old Rochester Regional, David S Hagan Stadium. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
48. MaxPreps: Bay Path RVT Minutemen football4-4, league (Central Mass - B) 3-1 (2nd); head coach Cody Giampa. Read Nov. 2, 2026, 6:49 p.m., and Nov. 3, 2026, 9:13 a.m. and afternoon.
49. MaxPreps: Bay Path RVT 2026 scheduleLosses at Norton 25-12 and at Randolph (printed 20-8 here; Bay Path's own Arbiter schedule, the official record, shows 20-6, which the story uses); wins over Clinton 41-7 and Northbridge 21-20; losses at Blackstone Valley 34-27 and to Northeast Metro 20-13; wins over Millbury 35-7 and at Uxbridge 41-21; Nov. 6 at Old Rochester, 7 p.m., the date then posted (since moved to Thursday, Nov. 5). Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:13 a.m. and 1:1x p.m.
50. MaxPreps: Football Preview, Bay Path RVT vs. Old Rochester Regional (generated from team-entered data)Published Nov. 2, 2026: Ignatovich 217 yards and 2 touchdowns on 13 carries at Uxbridge, 174.0 rushing yards a game over his last three; Boden Barrell 63 yards and a touchdown; first road win; GoFan ticket link. Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
51. MaxPreps: Football Preview, Old Rochester Regional vs. Bay Path RVT (generated from team-entered data)Published Nov. 2, 2026: Ignatovich's sixth straight game with a rushing touchdown; 7 p.m. kickoff; GoFan "the official partner for Old Rochester Regional High School ticketing." Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
52. The Boston Globe: "Tri-County rallies to win first MVADA Vocational Small state title; Bay Path rolls to Vocational Large title"Published Dec. 4, 2024: Bay Path 38, Whittier Tech 0, a third straight Large School Vocational Super Bowl title; coach Cody Giampa. Read Nov. 3, 2026, 9:2x a.m.
53. SC360: Old Rochester beats Somerset Berkley 42-7 (Oct. 30)Our game story, from our notes and transcript of the JJ Silvia Broadcasting stream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBWnLf1R9xk): opening kickoff to the SB 9, the 6-yard and 37-yard touchdowns, Tobin's run of more than 40 yards, Nelson's 28-yard touchdown pass on third and 17, the Raiders' 90-yard drive and the three-play answer, the second-half stop, Baptiste's 18-yard punt return, Tobin's untouched and 27-yard touchdowns, Tobin "captain" in the broadcast call, all six extra points, nearly 10 running backs on the final drive. Read Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, 2026.
54. Arbiter Live: Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School Varsity Football scheduleBay Path's posted 2026 results: @ Norton L 12-25, @ Randolph L 6-20, Clinton W 41-7, Northbridge W 21-20, @ Blackstone Valley L 27-34, Northeast Metro L 13-20, Millbury W 35-7, @ Uxbridge W 41-21; Thu Nov 5 7:00 PM @ Old Rochester, David S Hagan Stadium (Fri Nov 6 on the Nov. 3 read). Read Nov. 3, 2026, 1:1x p.m., and Nov. 4, 2026, 5:1x p.m.
55. MaxPreps: Bay Path RVT football stats (team-entered)Updated Nov. 2, 2026: M. Lapriore 23 of 42, 501 yards, 5 TD, 2 INT; team 246 rushes, 2,328 yards, 9.5 a carry; Ignatovich 94-976, Barrell 60-759 (12.7), Torres 57-433 (7.6); Ignatovich 14 catches, 324 yards; Warren 8-213; Defosse 18 tackles in 3 games; Santiago 4.0 sacks in 3 games; INTs by Cornier, Okyere-Tawiah, Rose and Adams. Read Nov. 3, 2026, afternoon.
56. MaxPreps: Bay Path RVT football rosterUpdated Oct. 31, 2026: Max Lapriore Sr. QB, OLB; Dominik Ignatovich Sr. FB, MLB; Boden Barrell Sr. RB, OLB; Jahzian Torres So. RB; Jayden Warren So. WR, DB; Hunter Defosse Sr. TE, OLB, K; Eziajah Santiago Sr. DT, DE. Read Nov. 3, 2026, afternoon.
57. MaxPreps: Bay Path RVT football historyCody Giampa head coach 2020-21 (1-3), 2021-22 (4-7), 2022-23 (8-5), 2023-24 (10-3), 2024-25 (12-1), 2025-26 (5-6); 40-25 is our sum. Read Nov. 3, 2026, afternoon.
58. MaxPreps: Bay Path RVT 2025 scheduleOverall 5-6. Read Nov. 3, 2026, afternoon.
59. Massachusetts High School Football Coaches Association: state champions 2021 to 2030Vocational Large: 2022 Bay Path 28, Monty Tech 20; 2023 Bay Path 42, Blackstone Valley 41; 2024 Bay Path 38, Whittier 0. Read Nov. 3, 2026, afternoon.
60. The Daily Item: "Swampscott finds second-half stride"Published Nov. 8, 2024, by Owen Finn: Swampscott 28, Bay Path RVT 14 to open the Division 6 tournament. Read Nov. 3, 2026, afternoon.
61. MIAA: tournament ticket pricesOnline ticket sales only; general admission; prices include all fees; football Round of 16 $9.40, Round of 8 $11.50. Read Nov. 3, 2026, 1:1x p.m.

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