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Local News “This kid is as clean as a whistle,” the teen’s lawyer, Robin Nice, told reporters after a hearing in Chelmsford. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, is released from a federal detention facility in Burlington, MA on Thursday, June 5, 2025 and speaks to the media with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (left) and Rep. Seth […]
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CHELMSFORD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts high school student who was arrested by immigration agents on his way to volleyball practice has been released from custody after a judge granted him bond Thursday.
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, who came to the U.S. from Brazil at age 7, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Saturday. Authorities have said the agents were looking for the Milford High School teenager’s father, who owns the car Gomes da Silva was driving at the time and had parked in a friend’s driveway.
Speaking with members of the media outside the detention center shortly after his release on $2,000 bond, Gomes da Silva described “humiliating” conditions and said his faith in God helped him through his six days of detention.
On his wrist, he wore a bracelet made from the thin sheet of metallic blanket he was given to sleep on the cement floor.
“I’ll always remember this place,” he said. “I’ll always remember how it was.”
His lawyer, Robin Nice, told reporters after the hearing in Chelmsford that his arrest “shouldn’t have happened in the first place. This is all a waste.”
“We disrupted a kid’s life. We just disrupted a community’s life,” Nice said. “These kids should be celebrating graduation and prom, I assume? They should be doing kid stuff, and it is a travesty and a waste of our judicial process to have to go through this.”
She said Gomes da Silva was confined to a room holding 25 to 35 men, many twice his age, most of the time he was detained, with no windows, no time outside and no permission to shower. He was able to brush his teeth twice. Nice said that at one point Gomes da Silva, who is active in his local church, asked for a Bible and was denied.
Gomes da Silva, who said his father taught him to “put other people first,” said many of the men imprisoned with him didn’t speak English and didn’t understand why they were there. He had to inform some of them that they were being deported, and then watched them break down in tears.
“I told every single inmate down there: When I’m out, if I’m the only one who was able to leave that place, I lost,” he said. “I want to do whatever I can to get them as much help as possible. If they have to be deported, so be it. But in the right way, in the right conditions. Because no one down there is treated good.”
He said some days, he was given only crackers to eat, which he shared with the other men. One of his first stops after being released was to McDonald’s to get a soda, chicken nuggets, and french fries.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said earlier this week that ICE officers were targeting a “known public safety threat” and that Gomes da Silva’s father “has a habit of reckless driving at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour through residential areas.”
“While ICE officers never intended to apprehend Gomes da Silva, he was found to be in the United States illegally and subject to removal proceedings, so officers made the arrest,” she said in a statement.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Monday that “like any local law enforcement officer, if you encounter someone that has a warrant or … he’s here illegally, we will take action on it.”
Gomes da Silva initially entered the country on a visitor visa and was later issued a student visa that has since lapsed, Nice said. She described him as deeply rooted in his community and a dedicated member of both the school marching band and a band at his church.
The immigration judge set a placeholder hearing date for a couple of weeks from Thursday, but it might take place months from that, Nice said.
“We’re optimistic that he’ll have a future in the United States,” she said.
A federal judge considering Gomes da Silva’s request to be released while his immigration case proceeds has given the government until June 16 to respond and ordered that Gomes da Silva not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice given to the court. The government sought permission Wednesday to move Gomes da Silva to a detention facility in a different New England state, Nice said. A judge quickly denied the request.
“I love my son. We need Marcelo back home. It’s no family without him,” João Paulo Gomes Pereira said in a video released Wednesday. “We love America. Please, bring my son back.”
The video showed the family in the teen’s bedroom. Gomes da Silva’s sister describes watching movies with her brother and enjoying food he cooks for her: “I miss everything about him.”
Students at Milford High staged a walkout Monday to protest his detainment. Other supporters wore white and packed the stands of the high school gymnasium Tuesday night, when the volleyball team dedicated a match to their missing teammate.
Amani Jack, also a recent Milford High graduate, said her classmate’s absence loomed large over the graduation ceremony, where he was supposed to play in the band. She said if she had a chance to speak with the president, she’d ask him to ‘just put yourself in our shoes.’
“He did say he was going to deport criminals,” she said. “Marcelo is not a criminal. He’s a student. I really want him to take a step in our shoes, witnessing this. Try and understand how we feel. We’re just trying to graduate high school.”
Veronica Hernandez, a family advocate from Medford who said she works in a largely Hispanic community where ICE has had an active presence, said cases like Gomes da Silva’s show immigration enforcement is serious about taking “anybody” without legal status, not just those accused of crimes.
“I think seeing that something so simple as a child driving themselves and their friends to volleyball practice at risk struck a chord,” she said.
Associated Press reporter Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this story.
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SINGAPORE — The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4. SINGAPORE — The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the […]
SINGAPORE — The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4.
SINGAPORE — The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4.
Canada is playing in a four-team pool comprised of Brazil, Singapore and the U.S.
Canada’s next game is Monday against Singapore, while the United States plays Brazil on Sunday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2025.
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Arizona head volleyball coach Rita Stubbs landed two big commitments on Friday afternoon. A big name from Wildcat history and size in the middle joined the class of 2027 with the announcements of Nylah Bibby and Londyn Pope. The 6-foot-2 Pope plays a premium position at middle blocker. Arizona tries to get one from the […]
Arizona head volleyball coach Rita Stubbs landed two big commitments on Friday afternoon. A big name from Wildcat history and size in the middle joined the class of 2027 with the announcements of Nylah Bibby and Londyn Pope.
The 6-foot-2 Pope plays a premium position at middle blocker. Arizona tries to get one from the transfer portal almost every year. They have been successful roughly 50 percent of the time. They will go with three this season instead of the four that Stubbs would prefer.
Stubbs is addressing the future of the position through the high school pipeline. She got a late addition to the 2026 class in Marina Vosloo. Pope will follow Vosloo in 2027.
Pope plays prep volleyball for V.R. Eaton High School in Fort Worth, Tex. She played club for TAV 15 Black, but moved to Dallas Premier 16 Black this year.
Over her first two years of high school volleyball, Pope has played 158 sets with 1.3 kills per set. She has a career hitting percentage of .244.
Her offensive stats jumped considerably between her freshman and sophomore seasons, going from 0.7 k/s her rookie year to 1.6 k/s in her second year. After playing just 50 sets as a freshman, she was on the court for 108 in 2024-25. On the downside, Pope’s hitting percentage dropped from .280 to .238.
Pope has been fairly consistent with her blocking numbers. Despite a jump in the number of sets she played, she went from 0.6 blocks per set as a freshman to 0.7 b/s as a sophomore. She had 16 solo blocks out of her 75 total blocks during her second season. She also had 41 blocking errors in her 108 sets last season.
She has had some good showings in this year’s club tournaments. USA Volleyball named her to the all-tournament team for the 16 Freedom group at the 2025 Girls Junior National Championship last week. Her team came in ranked ninth, but she helped lead them to a second-place finish in 16 Freedom.
Pope’s highlights from her time with TAV can be found on her HUDL page. More recent personal highlights are on her Sports Recruits profile. Team highlights for Dallas Premier from recent tournaments can be found on the club’s Sports Recruits page.
Bibby’s name is known to every Wildcat fan. Her father Mike Bibby helped lead the men’s basketball team to its only national title in 1997.
The younger Bibby started her high school career at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale but transferred to Scottsdale’s Saguaro High before her sophomore year. She plays club volleyball for Arizona Storm Elite, which regulary produces some of the best volleyball players in Arizona. Bibby plays alongside some of the top players in the country on the Arizona Storm Elite 16 Thunder roster.
While Bibby is listed as an outside hitter and opposite on the Storm’s roster, she also lists herself as a libero/defensive specialist elsewhere. With a listed height of just 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10, depending on the source, it’s open to debate whether she will be able to play at either pin at the Power 4 level. Her height would seem to make L/DS a more likely landing spot.
On the prep level, Bibby will be entering her second year at Saguaro but her third year of varsity volleyball. During her freshman season at Shadow Mountain, she played in 82 sets, averaging 2.8 kills per set on a .156 hitting percentage. She had 0.3 aces per set with 8.7 percent of her serves going for aces. She had a 90.1 serve percentage with 263 serve attempts.
On the defensive side of things, Bibby had 0.2 blocks per set and 2.5 digs per set as a freshman. On serve receive, she received serve 4.0 times per set with 0.3 reception errors per set.
Bibby did not play as many sets after transfering to Saguaro her sophomore year, but her stats improved. Her kills almost doubled to 5.0 per set. Just as important, she was more efficient with a .252 hitting percentage.
Her aces doubled to 0.6 per set and her ace rate shot up to 14.7 percent. The only negative movement came on her serve percentage, which dropped to 86.6 percent.
Bibby had 0.3 blocks per set in her second season, slightly better than her rookie year. Her digs were dramatically higher at 3.5 per set.
She received the ball more often as a sophomore with 5.4 receptions per set. Her reception errors also increased, going up to 0.4 per set.
Her father isn’t the only one in the family with college sports experience. Bibby’s older sister Janae Bibby played NCAA volleyball for one year at Division II Fresno Pacific in 2019.
Additional highlights can be found on Bibby’s HUDL profile.
Lead photo by Photo by Rebecca Sasnett / Arizona Athletics
Former William Carey Volleyball player Lainey Brumfield has been hired as the Southwest volleyball assistant coach. She will be working with head coach Chris Laird in the sport’s first season back on campus since the early 1970’s. Brumfield is no stranger to the sport, bringing nearly a decade of experience to Summit. The goal of […]
Former William Carey Volleyball player Lainey Brumfield has been hired as the Southwest volleyball assistant coach.
She will be working with head coach Chris Laird in the sport’s first season back on campus since the early 1970’s.
Brumfield is no stranger to the sport, bringing nearly a decade of experience to Summit. The goal of being a coach in the college ranks is one that she has had on her radar for multiple years.
“It’s a big change for my life,” she said. “I’ve been wanting to be a collegiate coach for years now.”
The volleyball journey started for Brumfield, a native of Foxworth and an alum of West Marion High School, when she began playing the sport in middle school.
“I’ve been playing for eight years now,” she said. “When I was a sophomore in high school I tried out for a club team in Hattiesburg. Eventually I moved on to play for Matrix down on the Coast. The club years were my sophomore, junior and senior years in high school.”
During that time, Brumfield not only worked on her game but also met someone who would play a big role in her career.
“I actually met the coach that influenced me the most, Kelly Pitre,” she said. “She was my biggest influence as a coach. Someone I looked up to and who I wanted to be as a coach. She also helped me get in contact with a few colleges. Moving into my senior year I got an offer from (William) Carey to go play. It felt like home for me. I ended up going there playing indoor and beach.”
The want to coach for Brumfield came during her senior year in high school and by the next year, she was coaching club ball, a job she held throughout the next two years before spending the 2024 season at Petal Middle School.
Brumfield feels like her age and being able to relate more with the girls on the team is a big advantage for her.
“I feel like am very mature for my age,” she said. “I feel like with that I won’t get into a friendship with the girls and I’ll keep it professional but also I’ll be able to relate their current life events that they are going through because college can be a big change.”
Being a former student athlete herself, she understands the importance of academics and will help implement it on the team.
“At the end of the day, you are a student athlete and the student has to come first before the athletics,” she said. “Volleyball will not last forever. You have to have your degree to go further into life and into your future job. My goal is to make these girls ready for their future job and life.”
Coach Laird said that he is very happy to bring Brumfield on board adding that with her experience, she can be a huge help in pushing the renewed program it in the right direction.
“It is great that there is someone who played on the collegiate level both indoor and outdoor,” he said. “The thing that I love about Lainey is that she is super organized and she will relate well with our players. She has already been in the club season and realizes the importance of reaching out to club coaches as well as high school coaches to improve our recruiting area.
He also says that she brings both lead-by-example and vocal leadership qualities.
“We will sit down and and discuss what the program will look like, where it needs to go and then after that, I expect her to be vocal on the coaching staff as well as being on the court to demo some stuff.”
SINGAPORE – The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4. Canada is playing in a four-team pool comprised of Brazil, Singapore and the […]
SINGAPORE – The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4.
Canada is playing in a four-team pool comprised of Brazil, Singapore and the U.S.
Canada’s next game is Monday against Singapore, while the United States plays Brazil on Sunday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2025.
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It was another close fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano — and another Katie Taylor victory. The Irishwoman defeated Puerto Rico’s Serrano by majority decision to retain her undisputed super lightweight titles and go 3-0 in their historic trilogy on Friday night at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement […]
It was another close fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano — and another Katie Taylor victory.
The Irishwoman defeated Puerto Rico’s Serrano by majority decision to retain her undisputed super lightweight titles and go 3-0 in their historic trilogy on Friday night at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York.
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The opening two fights in the Taylor vs. Serrano series, first in 2022 and then again in 2024, were leading candidates for Fight of the Year. Fight fans expected the third to be every bit as good as their previous two epic thrillers, but they were left severely disappointed.
Taylor (25-1-0, 6 KOs) and Serrano (47-4-1, 31 KOs) combined to land 330 punches in their first fight, 541 in their rematch, but just 140 in their trilogy bout, per boxing stat-tracker CompuBox. To put it further into perspective, Serrano landed more punches in the 10th round of her rematch with Taylor than she did in the entirety of the third fight.
Serrano said in her post-fight interview that she chose to box Taylor at long range, rather than be the pressure fighter and do her best work on the inside, because the strategy had been unsuccessful in her first two fights against the two-division undisputed champion. Unfortunately for her, Taylor is a master at boxing on the outside and landing with crisp, accurate, eye-catching shots.
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It was a slow start between the future Hall of Famers in their third affair, with one good shot determining the winner of the early rounds. The first half of the fight was very close, with neither woman letting their hands go.
Things started to heat up in the sixth round as the pair began to exchange and punch in combinations. But that intensification was short-lived, with the action lulling again in the following rounds. Taylor had her strongest round of the fight in the 10th and final frame, consistently connecting with long right hands and left hooks on Serrano to cement her victory.
One judge couldn’t split the pair, scoring it 95-95, but that scorecard was overruled by the other two judges, who awarded Taylor seven rounds out of 10, leading to a duo of 97-93s.
“I want to thank Amanda Serrano. What an amazing fighter. We made history three times,” Taylor said after her win. “This was a historic fight, it was a privilege to share the ring with her. We’re history-makers forever, my name is embedded with Amanda’s forever, and I’m so happy about that.”
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Both fighters ruled out the possibility of a fourth fight.
Catch full Taylor vs. Serrano 3 results and highlights below, as well as Uncrowned’s play-by-play of the main card.
Undisputed super lightweight championship: Katie Taylor def. Amanda Serrano via majority decision (95-95, 97-93, 97-94)
Undisputed super featherweight championship: Alycia Baumgardner def. Jennifer Miranda via unanimous decision (98-92, 98-92, 97-93)
IBF/WBO super middleweight championship: Shadasia Green def. Savannah Marshall via split decision (95-94 Green, 96-93 Marshall, 96-93 Green)
IBF/WBO/WBC super bantamweight championship: Ellie Scotney def. Yamileth Marcado via unanimous decision (100-90, 98-92, 98-92)
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Undisputed bantamweight championship: Cherneka Johnson def. Shurretta Metcalf via ninth-round TKO | Watch video
WBC interim super lightweight title: Chantelle Cameron def. Jessica Camara via unanimous decision (99-91, 98-92, 99-91)
Super bantamweight: Ramla Ali def. Lila Furtado via unanimous decision (77-75, 77-75, 78-74)
Middleweight: Tamm Thibeault def. Mary Casamassa via fifth-round TKO | Watch video
Story Links Singapore – July 12 – The USA Men’s National Team delivered a convincing effort to open play at the World Championships in Singapore, defeating Canada 18-9. Max Irving scored four goals and earned player of the game honors. Adrian Weinberg recorded 10 saves in net in more than three […]
Singapore – July 12 – The USA Men’s National Team delivered a convincing effort to open play at the World Championships in Singapore, defeating Canada 18-9. Max Irving scored four goals and earned player of the game honors. Adrian Weinberg recorded 10 saves in net in more than three quarters of work before Bernardo Herzer came on to close things out, adding one save. Team USA returns to action on Sunday at 9pm et/6pm pt against Brazil. Live streaming of all USA matches will be available on Peacock (login required).
Scoring – Stats
USA 18 (3, 4, 5, 6) M. Irving 4, H. Daube 3, N. Saveljic 3, R. Dodd 2, C. Dodd 1, J. Larsen 1, D. Woodhead 1, D. Brown 1, R. Ohl 1, B. Liechty 1
CAN 9 (0, 2, 2, 5) A. Oussadou 3, D. Lapins 2, R. D’Souza 2, A. Gardijan 2
Saves – USA – A. Weinberg 10, B. Herzer 1 – CAN – B. McKnight 4, M. Radenovic 2
6×5 – USA – 1/3 – CAN – 0/2
Penalties – USA – 3/3 – CAN – 3/3
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