Former Quincy Rivals Join Forces

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quincy versus North Quincy has been a long standing boys
hockey rivalry, but now they're joining forces to stay alive.
With Quincy High only supposed to have around a dozen
players next year, they'll now play alongside their North Quincy rivals.
Matt Gibbons is North Quincy Highs coach, and he says
combining the teams will help improve hockey in the city overall.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
The last couple of years, with the numbers so small,
it's like no one earned their spot. Everyone's just giving
a spot. It's ago we have enough kids to have
a team. Let's just have a team. And I think
what happens now is, you know, this is going to
turn into like these kids are going to be earning
their spot now and that's a huge piece that I
think has been missing.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well. He's sad to see the rivalry go, he sees
it as an opportunity to help build a stronger and
united program at the youth level.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think will be pretty cool at the younger level
to see that that excitement of like, wow, we got
a pretty good team here at eleven years old. Now
twelve years wow, we're like doing pretty well. We can
just push this int High.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
School from Quincy. Kyle BRAWBZ, Boston's news radio