I really love this time of year.

Trevor Foley lived up to the hype.

For the first time in this basketball tournament season, I have run into a scheduling conundrum.

I've been calling the games for the boys' and girls' basketball teams from King Philip Regional High School and Mansfield High School, as well as the girls' basketball team from Foxboro High (for Foxboro Cable Access). In the first round, both KP and Mansfield played same-site doubleheaders, so both North TV (for KP) and Mansfield Cable Access took the "two birds with one stone" approach, and Alex Salachi and I were able to lend our announcing skills to all four of those games.

The KP boys and girls won their preliminary-round games (the KP boys in a last-second thriller over Braintree), as did the Mansfield teams later in the week, and we were off to a rousing start.

KP went on the road after their prelims, so those two home games ended our North TV season. And the Mansfield girls had to travel 100 miles to the west to Northampton High for their Round of 16 game, which I did attend but we did not televise. They lost by four points, but that team is very young and will be a force next season.

To this point, there had been no conflicts with my work for Mansfield or Foxboro because the MIAA had done a very good job of keeping the Division 2 boys' games and the Division 3 girls' games on different nights. But unfortunately, that has come to a screeching halt in the quarterfinal rounds.

This Friday night, the top-seeded Foxboro girls will play host to No. 9 Pentucket at 6 p.m. 

Meanwhile, the No. 5 Mansfield boys will travel to No. 4 Somerset Berkley Regional, opening tap scheduled for 6:30.

Because my longest-standing commitment is to Mansfield Cable Access since I became a cable TV announcer in 2018, I will be heading to Somerset to announce that game. But I will be crossing my fingers and toes not only for the Hornets to win, but also for the Foxboro girls to continue their tournament quest to the semifinal round as well. And then, if past practice can serve as a guide, maybe the fact that the teams are in different divisions will prompt the MIAA to schedule their games on different nights next week.

If there ever was a time when I wish I could clone myself, and do both games at the same time, this is it.

I really enjoy watching both teams. 

Cam Collins has led the attack.

Foxboro, of course, has been on a mission during their scorched-earth path through the Division 3 field. They scored 75 points on a 4-20 Bellingham team that really had no business being in the tournament, then put up 95 on a Wilmington team that was supposed to be a lot better. And no, the starters weren't in all the time. A full contingent of substitutes played a lot in the second quarter of both games, and then drove home from midway in the third quarter to the finish.

It's clear to me that Cam Collins, Erin Foley, Kailey Sullivan, Izzy Chamberlin, Addie Ruter and the rest of the Warriors are totally focused upon one goal. They wanted to defend their Division 2 title of last year, but were dropped down to Division 3 because of their enrollment, and now they want to make a statement about that decision.

Meanwhile in my hometown, things were going swimmingly for the Hornets through their first week, but then they learned that starting senior guard Davon Sanders -- who had been having a monster season, averaging 19 points a game and having several performances in the high-20s -- would be out last night against Burlington with an illness. 

Stepping up to the plate were senior forward Trevor Foley with a career-high 31 points and 15 rebounds, and junior guard Nate Creedon, whose 18 points were just one off his career high (and that was set in the first game of this season). The rest of the Hornets showed great resolve and determination to play outstanding defense and limit one of the best players in the state, Burlington's Cedric Rodriguez, to 13 points.

I have a feeling both teams will keep advancing. And if they do, I know I could do both title games if they get to the finals, because there are no scheduling conflicts there. But I need to remember, you can take only one step at a time in tournament season.

That's why I love it so.