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, see Super 8 (round).

For the film format, see Super 8 mm film
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The Super Eight is the name of the Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 hockey tournament that determines the state champion. The tournament is technically called the Division IA tournament. Both public and private high schools from the MIAA
Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association , comprising 365 high schools in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, is an organization that sponsors activities in more than thirty sports. The MIAA is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations , which writes the rules...

 compete in this tournament. The Independent School League
Independent School League (Boston Area)
The Independent School League is composed of sixteen New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. Founded in 1948, the ISL's sixteen member compete in eighteen sports in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference...

 does not compete in the MIAA and has its own tournament

The format of the Super Eight tournament is a round-robin
Round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

 in which the top eight Division I teams compete against each other. Since 2001, there are actually 10 teams selectedhttp://www.boston.com/sports/schools/graphics/2007super8_seedings/, with the bottom four seeds playing a play-in game. The winners of those games compete in the Super Eight tournament while the losers return to the respective Division I tournaments (e.g. Division I North tournament) and are seeded at the top of their respective tournaments.

History

While Catholic Memorial has won the well over half of the tournaments with 13. BC High's 2007 championship marked the first time a school other than Catholic Memorial has won back-to-back tournaments and only the second time Catholic Memorial has gone three years without a championship (the first time was in 1996 and 1997). Reading Memorial High School became the first public team to win the Super Eight after defeating Malden Catholic 3-0 in 2008.Through 2007 tournament
School Appearances Wins Losses Championships Years Won
Catholic Memorial School  17 61 13 13 2009, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1999,
1998, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991
Boston College High School
Boston College High School
Founded in 1863, Boston College High School is an all-male Jesuit Roman Catholic college preparatory secondary school with historical ties to Boston College. It has an enrollment in grades 7-12 of approximately 1,500 students and is located on a campus on Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester...

 
14 48 17 4 2007, 2006, 2002, 1996
Arlington Catholic High School
Arlington Catholic High School
Arlington Catholic High School is a coeducational Catholic high school in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Arlington Catholic High School was established in 1960 under the direction of Msgr. Oscar O’Gorman. It was built by the parishioners of St...

 
8 22 18 1 1997
Matignon High School
Matignon High School
Matignon High School is a co-ed Catholic school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.-Campus:...

 
8 19 15 0  
Reading Memorial High School
Reading Memorial High School
Reading Memorial High School is an award winning four year public high school located in Reading, Massachusetts, USA. Reading Memorial is managed by Reading Public Schools. The school has a student body of over 1,200 drawn from Parker Middle School and Coolidge Middle School. A new building...

 
12 15 15 1 2008
Arlington High School
Arlington High School (Arlington, Massachusetts)
Arlington High School is a secondary school located in Arlington, Massachusetts. As of 2010, the school enrolls approximately 1,300 students annually. The current school principal is Mary Villano.-History:...

 
12 14 24 0  
Austin Preparatory School
Austin Preparatory School
Austin Preparatory School is a co-educational Catholic school located in Reading, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. It was founded by the Order of Saint Augustine in 1961...

 
7 11 14 0  
St. John's Prep, Danvers  10 11 18 0  
Archbishop Williams High School
Archbishop Williams High School
Archbishop Williams High School is a co-educational Catholic school in Braintree, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1949 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth...

 
4 8 8 0  
Hingham High School
Hingham School District
Hingham School District is a school district that serves Hingham, Massachusetts, USA.-Schools:*Plymouth River Elementary School*South Elementary School*Foster Elementary School*East Elementary School...

 
5 8 11 1 2010
Medford High School 4 5 8 0  
St. John's, Shrewsbury
St. John's High School (Massachusetts)
Saint John's High School is a private Catholic boys' high school located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester...

 
6 5 10 0  
Xaverian Brothers High School
Xaverian Brothers High School
Xaverian Brothers High School , founded in 1963 by the Xaverian Brothers, is a private, Catholic secondary school for boys on a campus in Westwood, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston....

 
1 2 2 0  
Weymouth High School
Weymouth High School
Weymouth High School is a comprehensive public high school located in Weymouth, Massachusetts that serves students in grades nine through twelve...

 
2 4 3 0  
Malden Catholic High School
Malden Catholic High School
Malden Catholic High School, founded in 1932, is a private, Catholic secondary school for young men located in Malden, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The school was founded by the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier , an international...

 
2 4 4 1 2011
Duxbury High School
Duxbury High School
Duxbury High School is a public high school in New England, located in Duxbury, Massachusetts a small sea-side town. The superintendent of the district is Dr. Benedict Tantillo, III...

 
3 4 4 0  
Chelmsford High School 3 4 5 0  
Belmont High School
Belmont High School (Belmont, Massachusetts)
Belmont High School is a four-year public high school in Belmont, Massachusetts. It was built in 1970 at a cost of $9 million. The school had 1,170 students enrolled and a student/teacher ratio of 16:1 in the 2004-05 school year....

 
2 3 4 0  
Central Catholic High School
Central Catholic High School (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Central Catholic High School is a college preparatory school with an academic campus in Lawrence, Massachusetts and an athletic campus in Methuen, Massachusetts associated with the Marist Brothers of the Schools and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and founded in 1935 by Brother Florentius...

 
1 2 2 0  
Newton North High School
Newton North High School
Newton North High School, formerly Newton High School, is the larger and longer-established of two public high schools in Newton, Massachusetts, with about 2,000 students, the other being Newton South High School. It is located in the village of Newtonville...

 
2 2 4 0  
Acton-Boxboro High School 2 2 4 0  
Billerica High School 6 2 11 0  
Don Bosco High School 1 1 2 0  
Needham High School 2 1 3 0  
Wakefield High School
Wakefield High School (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
Wakefield Memorial High School is a public school located in Wakefield, Massachusetts that offers a broad range of Advanced Placement Program courses....

 
1 1 2 0  
Cathedral High School, Springfield
Cathedral High School (Springfield, Massachusetts)
Cathedral High School is a Catholic co-educational college-preparatory High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Opened in 1883 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph at the diocese's Saint Michael's Cathedral, its current facility has been at 260 Surrey Road since 1959 in one of the city's residential...

 
1 1 2 0  
Framingham High School
Framingham High School
Framingham High School, or FHS, is an urban/suburban public high school in the town of Framingham, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately 20 miles west of Boston...

 
2 1 3 0  
Winchester High School 2 2 5 0  
Burlington High School  1 1 8 0  
Waltham High School 4 1 9 0  
Falmouth High School 1 0 2 0  
Tewksbury Memorial High School
Tewksbury Memorial High School
Tewksbury Memorial High School is a suburban public high school located at 320 Pleasant Street in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, USA. Serving grades 9-12, it is the only public high school in the town. Its total enrollment for the 2005-2006 school year was 1,206....

 
1 0 2 0  
Woburn Memorial High School 2 0 3 0

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1991 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial High School^
  2. St. John’s Prep, Danvers
  3. Boston College High School
  4. Matignon High School
  5. Medford High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Arlington High School
  8. Billerica High School

^ Tournament Champion

1992 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial High School^
  2. Matignon High School
  3. Woburn High School
  4. St. John’s Prep, Danvers
  5. Don Bosco High School
  6. Newton North High School
  7. Reading High School
  8. Arlington High School

^ Tournament Champion

1993 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. Medford High School
  3. Archbishop Williams High School
  4. Billerica High School
  5. Arlington High School
  6. St. John’s, Shrewsbury
  7. Burlington High School
  8. Weymouth High School

^ Tournament Champion

1994 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. St. John’s Prep, Danvers
  3. Arlington High School
  4. Arlington Catholic High School
  5. Wakefield High School
  6. Framingham High School
  7. Matignon High School
  8. Falmouth High School

^ Tournament Champion

1995 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. Boston College High School
  3. Arlington Catholic High School
  4. Arlington High School
  5. Newton North High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Matignon High School
  8. Acton-Boxboro High School

^ Tournament Champion

1996 seeds

  1. Boston College High School^
  2. Catholic Memorial School
  3. Matignon High School
  4. Reading High School
  5. Arlington Catholic High School
  6. Arlington High School
  7. Acton-Boxboro High School
  8. Tewksbury High School

^ Tournament Champion

1997 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School
  2. Matignon High School
  3. Arlington Catholic High School^
  4. St. John’s, Shrewsbury
  5. Boston College High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Billerica High School
  8. Chelmsford High School

^ Tournament Champion

1998 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. Archbishop Williams High School
  3. Arlington High School
  4. Boston College High School
  5. Billerica High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Arlington Catholic High School
  8. St. John’s Prep, Danvers

^ Tournament Champion

1999 seeds

  1. Boston College High School
  2. Reading High School
  3. Archbishop Williams High School
  4. Arlington High School
  5. St. John’s Prep, Danvers
  6. Catholic Memorial School^
  7. Matignon High School
  8. Walpole High School

^ Tournament Champion

2000 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. Boston College High School
  3. Arlington High School
  4. Austin Preparatory School
  5. Arlington Catholic High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Needham High School
  8. St. John’s, Shrewsbury

^ Tournament Champion

2001 seeds

  1. Winchester High School
  2. Arlington High School
  3. Catholic Memorial School^
  4. Austin Preparatory School
  5. Boston College High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Springfield Cathedral High School
  8. St. John’s High School, Shrewsbury
  9. Archbishop Williams High School
  10. Matignon High School

^ Tournament Champion

2002 seeds

  1. St. John’s High School, Shrewsbury
  2. Boston College High School^
  3. Austin Preparatory School
  4. Hingham High School
  5. Catholic Memorial School
  6. Billerica High School
  7. Chelmsford High School
  8. Reading High School
  9. Arlington Catholic High School
  10. Arlington High School

^ Tournament Champion

2003 seeds

  1. Boston College High School
  2. Catholic Memorial School^
  3. Arlington High School
  4. Hingham High School
  5. Austin Preparatory School
  6. Arlington Catholic High School
  7. Belmont High School
  8. Chelmsford High School
  9. St. John’s, Shrewsbury
  10. St. John’s Prep, Danvers

^ Tournament Champion

2004 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. Boston College High School
  3. Arlington Catholic High School
  4. Hingham High School
  5. Waltham High School
  6. St. John’s Prep High School
  7. Belmont High School
  8. Duxbury High School
  9. Billerica High School
  10. Framingham High School

^ Tournament Champion

2005 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School^
  2. Boston College High School
  3. Hingham High School
  4. Waltham High School
  5. Arlington Catholic High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Duxbury High School
  8. Medford High School
  9. Austin Preparatory School
  10. St. John’s Prep, Danvers

^ Tournament Champion

2006 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School
  2. Boston College High High School^
  3. Arlington Catholic High School
  4. Medford High School
  5. Hingham High School
  6. Duxbury High School
  7. Winchester High School
  8. Acton-Boxboro High School
  9. Austin Preparatory School
  10. St. John’s Prep, Danvers

^ Tournament Champion

2007 seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School
  2. St. John's Prep, Danvers
  3. Boston College High School^
  4. Malden Catholic High School
  5. Weymouth High School
  6. Reading High School
  7. Woburn High School
  8. Central Catholic High School
  9. Waltham High School
  10. Austin Preparatory School

^ Tournament Champion

Seeds

  1. Catholic Memorial School
  2. Hingham High School
  3. St. John's Prep, Danvers
  4. Boston College High School
  5. Reading High School^
  6. Malden Catholic High School
  7. Xaverian Borothers High School
  8. Waltham High School
  9. Needham High School
  10. Westford Academy


^Tournament Champion

Standings
























Overall
Rank
BracketTeamBracket
Record
Overall
Record
Bracket
GF
Ice hockey statistics
- Team statistics :* STK - winning or losing Streak* GP – Games played – Number of games the team has played* W – Wins – Games the team has won, either in regulation or in overtime...

Bracket
GA
Ice hockey statistics
- Team statistics :* STK - winning or losing Streak* GP – Games played – Number of games the team has played* W – Wins – Games the team has won, either in regulation or in overtime...

12BC High53-05-0224
21Weymouth43-04-11615
31Catholic Memorial32-12-2165
42Austin Prep32-13-21114
52St. John's Prep21-21-277
61Central Catholic21-22-21118
T-71Malden Catholic20-30-3616
T-72Reading20-30-3515
T-9N/AWaltham1N/A0-1N/AN/A
T-9N/AWoburn1N/A0-1N/AN/A

1 Eliminated in Play-In Round
2 Eliminated in Bracket Round
3 Eliminated in Cross-Over Round
4 Eliminated in Championship Game
5 Tournament Champion

Game results

Play-In Games







DateLocationTeamsResult
February 26
Chelmsford Forum, Billerica, MA
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...


Austin Prep
Woburn
Austin Prep, 2-1 (shoot-out)
February 26
Chelmsford Forum, Billerica, MA
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...


Central Catholic
Waltham
Central Catholic, 2-1

Bracket Games


























DateBracketLocationTeamsResult
February 27
1
Chelmsford Forum, Billerica, MA
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...


Malden Catholic
Weymouth
Weymouth, 3-2
February 27
2
Chelmsford Forum, Billerica, MA
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...


BC High
Reading
BC High, 5-2
February 28
1
Chelmsford Forum, Billerica, MA
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...


Catholic Memorial
Central Catholic
Catholic Memorial, 10-1
February 28
2
Chelmsford Forum, Billerica, MA
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...


St. John's Prep
Austin Prep
Austin Prep, 2-1
March 4
1
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


Catholic Memorial
Weymouth
Weymouth, 2-1
March 4
1
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


Malden Catholic
Central Catholic
Central Catholic, 8-3
March 4
2
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


St. John's Prep
Reading
St. John's Prep, 5-2
March 4
2
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


BC High
Austin Prep
BC High 7-0
March 11
1
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


Catholic Memorial
Malden Catholic
Catholic Memorial, 5-1
March 11
1
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


Weymouth
Central Catholic
Weymouth, 5-2
March 11
2
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


St. John's Prep
BC High
BC High, 3-1
March 11
2
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Arena
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Arena was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and national politician Paul Tsongas on January 27, 1998...

, Lowell, MA
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...


Reading
Austin Prep
Austin Prep, 5-1


Cross-Over Games

Both games played at Bright Hockey Center
Bright Hockey Center
The Alexander C. Bright Hockey Center is a 2,850-seat ice-hockey arena in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is home to the Harvard University Crimson men's and women's ice hockey teams. It is named for Alec Bright '19, a former hockey player. Known as Lynah East for Cornell's dominance in...

 at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

 on March 15








TeamsResult
Weymouth vs. Austin Prep
Weymouth, 5-4 (OT)
BC High vs. Catholic Memorial
BC High, 1-0


Championship Game

Played at TD Banknorth Garden
TD Banknorth Garden
TD Garden is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after its sponsor, TD Bank, N.A. and is often simply referred to by local Bostonians as, The Garden, The Fleet Center, or the traditional Boston Garden...

 in Boston, Massachusetts on March 18





TeamsResult
BC High vs. Weymouth
BC High, 6-1

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