Seven takeaways from Friday’s high school basketball quarterfinals, including another Feehan thriller

Bishop Feehan’s postseason magic continued Friday night as the 14th-seeded Shamrocks knocked off No. 6 Bridgewater-Raynham, 65-60, in double overtime to reach the Division 1 boys’ semifinals for the first time in 11 years. The victory came just 48 hours after Feehan upset No. 3 Needham, making the Spartans the lowest-seeded squad still alive in any MIAA basketball or hockey bracket.

Senior forward Brody Bumila, a 6-foot-9 Texas baseball commit, authored the latest chapter of the tournament’s most compelling storyline. After averaging 39 points and 17 rebounds through Feehan’s first two playoff games, Bumila delivered 36 points and 18 rebounds against the Trojans, scoring 18 of his team’s 22 points in the fourth quarter and both overtime periods. He has now amassed 117 points and 55 rebounds across three contests that have included six extra periods.

The Shamrocks trailed by seven midway through the fourth before rallying to force overtime, then survived a second extra frame to secure the program’s first state semifinal berth since 2014.

Feehan’s upset was one of only two on a boys’ bracket that saw 23 teams advance to the semifinals. In Division 3, No. 6 Lynn Classical rode 29 points from senior DJ Reynolds and lock-down defense from Shyheim Babb and Deshawn Rucker to topple No. 3 Tewksbury, 68-59.

While the boys’ brackets produced drama, the girls’ quarterfinals followed form: all 13 higher seeds advanced. Top-seeded Medfield rolled past No. 8 Norwood, 66-46, behind sophomore Abby Broderick’s 31 points and five rebounds. Millis senior Grace Higgins anchored the paint with eight blocks, nine points and nine rebounds in a win that sets up a semifinal date with undefeated Norton.

Whitman-Hanson senior Dylan Hurley turned her milestone moment into a victory, scoring the 2 points she needed for 1,000 in the game’s first eight minutes and finishing with 17 in a 51-47 Division 2 decision over Oliver Ames. Hurley, a Saint Anselm commit, now sits fourth on the Panthers’ all-time scoring list with 1,015 career points.

Masconomet senior captain Jimmy Farrell stuffed the stat sheet in a 61-25 Division 1 rout of Burlington, posting 17 points, six rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks to pace the top-seeded Chieftains.

With 13 more basketball quarterfinals on Saturday’s slate and five hockey semifinals set for the weekend, the MIAA tournament field will shrink to its final four in every division by Sunday night.