Sports
Mashpee offers a wide variety of interscholastic sports. It is known for having very competitive American football, basketball and field hockey teams. The football team has also had the honor of having the highest rated defense (points against average) in the state twice, in 2006 and 2008. The football team won its first State Championship in 2011 by defeating Cardinal Spellman of Brockton, 34-8 at Gillette Stadium on December 3, 2011. It also completed an undefeated season at 13-0 in 2011.
Mashpee is part of the MIAA. Mashpee is affiliated with the South Shore League, which competes at the Division 3 & 4 level of athletics in Massachusetts. The members of the South Shore League are Mashpee High School, Carver High School, Hull High School, Harwich High School, Norwell High School, Cohasset High School, Rockland High School, Randolph High School, Abington High School and East Bridgewater High School. Before joining the South Shore League, Mashpee was affiliated with the Patriot League, another Division 3 athletics conference. Also, the boys' and girls' winter track teams compete in the Eastern Athletic Conference, a Division 2 athletics conference.
As of the 2013 Fall season, the South Shore League will be divided up into Large & Small divisions for Football. This coincides with the new MIAA Football Playoff format and due to Randolph and Monomoy becoming members of the SSL. The SSL-Large (Abington, Rockland, East Bridgewater, Randolph, Norwell) will compete in Division 5 South, while the SSL-Small (Mashpee, Cohasset, Monomoy, Hull, Carver) will compete in Division 6 South.
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