Here are the top Sports stories for the week ending Oct. 11 as determined by readers of providencejournal.com .
∎ What happened when La Salle Academy and Bishop Hendricken football teams met on Friday night, Oct. 3? It's more like what didn’t, The Journal's Eric Rueb wrote. Two of the best teams put together four of the best quarters of football, with the best players in the state making big plays, and it wasn’t enough. The game ended in overtime when Antonio Bearden’s fourth-down touchdown catch tied the game before Quincy Marino’s extra point gave La Salle a 21-20 win over Hendricken, the first regular-season victory over the Hawks since 2012.
“Heading into the game, we just wanted to kill a Hawk,” La Salle’s Donald Young said. “[Coach Dan Koppen] went into the past scoreboards agai