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This week in Boston Neighborhood Sports, we bring you highlights from two playoff football games, as the Brighton Bengals hosted the Mystic Valley Eagles in the North Division 4 Sectional Finals, while the O'Bryant Tigers took on Latin Academy Dragons in the North 4A Sectional Finals. We also tell the story of how the Brighton Bengals football team found a new home in a familiar place. For full coverage of the O'Bryant vs. Latin Academy playoff football game, please visit: http://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/video_library.asp?id=19901

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We begin with nine bps high school football teams at the start of the miaa state tournament and heading into friday. We were down to just three the latin academy: dragons o'brien tigers were the two top seeds in the north division 4a bracket and they squared off on friday, but the brighton bengals carrying an undefeated season hosted the mystic valley eagles in the north division, 4 sectional finals, with the right to move on to the state semifinals on the line.

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So, let's head out to daily field in brighton, they see the bengals getting fired up just before the game and they were getting it going. Early first quarter opening drive for the bengals eric brown with a 36-yard touchdown scamper. He puts the brighton bengals up 6-0 early on mystic valley. Now on their opening possessions, quarterback felipe guerrero on the carry he gets mystic valley down to the 10-yard line. He would then punch it in for a one-yard touchdown tied up at six. Now.

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Second quarter kevin brown, beautiful run right here for him he busts it down the sideline 64 yards to the house. He puts brighton up 14-6 there in the second quarter, ensuing possession bengals blocked the punt gerard clark, scoops it up and scores for brighton, and they go up 20 to 6 late in the second quarter. But just before half time, guerrero's pass somehow finds his receiver hunter crase that gets mystic valley inside the 15..

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Then it's guerrero to joey larusso, a 10-yard touchdown connection, 20-14 brighton at the half, we're gonna fast forward down to the third quarter, bengals coming out strong. Once again, it's kevin brown. He had a monster game in this one huge hole for him: 30-yard touchdown scamper for brown, 28-14 bengals, then later on, it's nate hall, the quarterback on the keeper finds his way down the sideline inside the 15 out of bounds, and then it's hall hooking up with their big receiver. Gerard clark for the touchdown bengals go on to win.

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52-28 brighton, wins the division; four north bracket, they're heading to the state, semi finals, north division, 4a bracket, it's latin academy, hosting the o'bryant tigers. These two were former rivals in the boston south, we're going to pick it up in the first quarter.

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That's emanuel exile, home hauling in a deep touchdown pass from kobe smith, 63 yards tigers up six to zip, then it's latin academy driving down the field, that's tee and hooking up with marvin luke over the middle, make that jules coral with the catch for latin academy good for 10 yards in the dragons from the 10-yard line as tian finds his receiver devin harris james seven-yard touchdown pass we're tied up at six then on the ensuing kickoff, kobe smith, on the return for brighton for o'brien.

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But he coughs up the football latin academy recovers right around midfield.

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Then, after the dragons take over this drive spills into the second quarter, they hand it off to where they get the pass over the middle of marvin luke. He makes his way inside the 20-yard line and that sets up latin academy in the red zone. John teen off the scramble finds harris james again for another touchdown connection, this time, good for nine yards latin academy up at the half 14 to six third quarter, tian again with the touchdown pass.

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This time it's deep to pat fitzgerald and that puts latin academy up 22-6 dragons would go on to beat o'bryant in this one. They move on to the north division, four state semi final, so there you have it brighton, taking on mashpee in the state semifinals on saturday at 12 p.m. Over at cauley stadium in lowell. Meanwhile, latin academy will be taking on millis hopedale at brockton high school this friday at 6 pm in the state semifinals on the division, 4a psi.

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Since the new high school football, playoff format was implemented back in 2013 no bps high school football team had made it to the state semifinals, and now the city has two teams getting that far: that's really good stuff. Now, obviously, this has been a special season for the brighton bengals who are undefeated and looking to make history this postseason, but no matter what happens to brighton in the playoffs over the next couple of weeks. Bengals players, coaches and fans will remember 2016 as one for the books. For another reason, let's.

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Go five rv counter five I'll be counter double team right there up to that backer, brighton.

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Bengals head football coach, randolph abraham, is a stickler for details. His play calling is complex.

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Trips right, open, zip, 99 jet and.

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His instructions.

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Are precise, I want you guys to blow this kid up, because we need to get movement. We get this movement. Look at the size of the hole then climb up to the back.

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But before the 2016 season, abraham's coaching style wasn't the only complicated aspect of the brighton bengals football program. Since the 1980s, the bengals have been a football gridiron orphan after their former practice field. Next to the charles river in brighton, fell into disrepair.

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The bengals then bounced around to different practice facilities until 1998 when they settled on cassidy field in cleveland circle, a less than ideal location for football, drills and scrimmages.

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That feels just oh, my god, it's just unbearable. You know holes. You know we have geese feces all over the place. There's like.

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A lot of rocks holes there's like hills, it's uneven.

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The lines were never straight just dealing with the elements, it was just not ideal situation to.

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Make matters worse. Private spaces for the bengals to change into their paths were few and far between.

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When I played, we changed outside whether it was rain snow doesn't matter change outside you know, in the middle of you know, the field home.

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Games were also an adventure for the bengals. Each friday. Brighton would have to leave school hours before game time and make the crosstown trek to boston english and then years later, white stadium.

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We're very thankful to all the city. You know teams and white stadium for allowing us to play and we would have to leave kind of like right after school and try to beat the traffic wait a few hours before the game hope to get a locker room because they're doing double headers playing.

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Games at white stadium, it's old, it has history behind it. Everybody played there. My dad played there, but I just wanted to play on our own field to a place that we can call home, but.

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Over the last handful of seasons, word began to trickulate through the bengal community that a brand new field was in the works.

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I didn't believe it, I didn't believe it until last year, around november coach, abraham told me hey it's real and I'll be honest. I still didn't believe it until I came out here physically, I saw him doing construction.

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The brighton community teamed up with simmons college who began leasing the daily field athletic complex, the former home of the brighton bengals simmons then financed a 13.5 million dollar refurbishing of the daily field athletic complex that they would then share with brighton high school after the completion of the renovation.

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And it turned into an amazing partnership between brighton, high school, brighton, community and simmons college and well simmons is doing a great job. You know. First of all I want to thank them for putting this together for us and just working with us. You know they have a maintenance group here they take care of the field and.

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In the summer of 2016, the brighton, bengals, coaches and players were able to walk onto their very own home football field for the first time.

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Oh man, I shed a tear, I did it was beautiful. You know you know for putting in all this work as a player as a coach, we finally have a place to call home. It got.

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To a point where I just come out here with just shoes and shoes and socks and start running over the field, because I was just excited the.

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New daily field comes fully equipped to serve the needs of the bengals football program, whether it be the new locker room for the bengals to occupy.

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Here we change the inside with his heat now running water and bathrooms.

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With the state-of-the-art organic turf that brighton now, practices on.

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No rocks no slipping on; nothing, no hills, it's just flat nice and even.

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When I was told I went to several meetings at simmons is: there's a pat, uh a padding right underneath the turf, the grass and it actually prevents the concussions.

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They're supposed to reduce concussion, something like 50 percent and that's why again, this great practice in here as opposed to cassidy, that's what we would have our concussions at practice. But here it's like the kids can go and get taken to the ground and they bounce right back up because of the foam underneath the turf in.

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Addition to its brand new amenities daily field sits less than a mile from brighton high and provides an accessible venue for members of the brighton high school community.

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When we go out fundraising, people ask us like where's the field at and we used to stay at white stadium, but now we just say a daily field. Now a lot of people from our school can come out. People from the community are coming out like we have. These stands.

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Packed now that we're here, people coming home from work go home, take a walk. Five minute, walk down the street you're right here, but.

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As these bengals relish in their newly minted football residents, they will be sure to remember the decades of players and coaches who had to sacrifice before them.

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On opening night, when my brothers came out and they saw that the dream was reality, they couldn't believe it either. You know they were happy that we finally had a place to call home.

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Many of them, don't even you know a lot of the new kids, don't know what it felt like to be in geese, poop and practice football. But you know this is everybody's, feel all the bengals nice job, nice job.

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Boy, just a phenomenal partnership between brighton and simmons college and brighton plans on having other sports teams from the high school share the fields with simmons as well. That's going to do it for sports this week, folks be sure to come right back here next week for more on boston, neighborhood sports.