Tide football snaps losing streak with home win over Lawrence to end the season on an upbeat note

With no Thanksgiving Day game again this year, DiLoreto hopes to end that drought starting in 2026

By Joe McConnell

Rob DiLoreto’s return as the Everett High School football coach didn’t go as well as he would have liked it to go, but there were some positives to take from the team’s 3-7 2025 campaign.

First of all, the Everett boys were able to break their seven-game losing streak last Friday night (Nov. 14) at Everett Memorial Stadium with a non-playoff home win against Lawrence, 19-14 to end the season on a successful note. Unfortunately, it’s over, because once again there is no Thanksgiving Day game for the Crimson Tide, but more on that later on in this recap.

It couldn’t have started off any better this year for the Crimson Tide. They had two great wins over Medford (34-7, Sept. 5) and Lynn Classical (42-6, Sept. 12). But of the seven losses that followed, four of them were competitive that could have gone either way. There was the 28-7 loss to BC High on Sept. 25, not to mention the 50-35 defeat to Lynn English on Oct. 25 to go along with the recent games against Revere (21-14, Oct. 31) and Cambridge (47-46, Nov. 7).

Ending the season with that win over Lawrence could have a residual effect on next year’s team in terms of a confidence booster.

“Our players were certainly proud to end the year with a win, especially at home,” said DiLoreto, “and were noticeably energetic throughout and after the Lawrence game (as a result of it).”

DiLoreto also mentioned that he and his coaching staff were excited to see the seniors win their final high school game at home. “They worked very hard to prepare for Lawrence, and I was very proud of their effort throughout,” added the Everett head coach, who didn’t want to single out any one player, preferring that the credit should go to the entire team.

The Everett coach went on to say that “the team came together in all three phases of the game to overcome injuries and adversity to secure this win, and they truly played like a family.”

Junior Jamauri Dulin hooked up with his classmate Jeremiah Joseph in this game on an eight-yard touchdown pass play, and sophomore quarterback Valdemyr Fedna completed a seven-yard pass to Dulin to help keep another drive alive.

Sophomore Phil Pimenta carried the ball four times for 18 yards and one touchdown. But Dulin was the leading ground gainer against the Lancers with 26 carries for 152 yards. Junior Steven Thomas racked up 56 yards on nine carries.

The Everett defense also accounted for a touchdown, when Pimenta, showing his versatility, picked off a pass, before running it back for six points. He also led the team in tackles with six. Senior Wael Fanidi was also one of the leaders on that side of the ball with four tackles and one sack. Dulin also came through with an interception to go along with his offensive heroics. Senior defensive lineman Jonathan Goes collected two tackles and one sack to do his part to slow down the Lawrence Lancers.

Unfortunately, this win over Lawrence was the team’s last game of the 2025 season, because the Tide once again are without a Thanksgiving Day opponent. But DiLoreto hopes that this will be the last year that Everett football fans have to sit the holiday out, while elaborating, “sadly, we do not have a Thanksgiving Day game this year, but we are working hard to find an opponent for next year and beyond.”

Three Tide players make the GBL all-star team

DiLoreto is proud to announce that senior offensive and defensive lineman Nathan Fortune, junior quarterback and linebacker Tyler Freni and Freni’s classmate Jamauri Dulin, another superlative two-way player, made the 2025 Greater Boston League all-star team.

The highlight of Dulin’s season, according to DiLoreto, was his five-touchdown performance against Cambridge. DiLoreto said of Freni that he was a team leader on both sides of the ball as its quarterback and hard-nosed linebacker, while adding that Fortune was an outstanding blocker on offense and a tremendous rush specialist on defense, who constantly put pressure on opposing offenses.