Div. 1, 4A Bowls moved out of Foxboro

The largest schools in the state will not get an opportunity to vie for a Super Bowl title at Gillette Stadium. Neither will the smallest schools for that matter.

The MIAA Football Committee voted 19-0 yesterday in favor of moving the Division 1 and 4A Super Bowls away from Gillette Stadium. The move was made necessary when the football committee expanded from six to eight divisions in the latest realignment, thus creating a scheduling logjam.

While some venues were tossed about as potential sites, the MIAA said nothing was finalized. As a concession, the two games that won’t be played at Gillette will use the normal 11-minute quarters and a full complement of timeouts.

The proposal was put forth by MIAA assistant executive director Richard Pearson.

“We discussed what the options were for our association,” Pearson said. “We thought taking the largest and small (divisions) was the fairest thing to do. It was the best thing we can do.”

In other football-related matters, the committee voted 19-0 in favor of an adjusted factor used to determine which divisions the urban schools, the private schools, the co-op schools and vocational schools belonged in. The sub-committee looked at school enrollment as well as participation numbers in making a final determination as to which division a school belonged in.

“We looked back and saw the kind of things that people appealed before, the kind of things came up for discussion,” said committee member Jim O’Leary of St. John’s Prep. “We just subjectively put a value on what would make sense and placed teams in a reasonable spots not too far from where they’ve been before.”

In yesterday’s high school football action:

A four-touchdown night on the ground from Shawn Noel Jr. (11 carries, 134 yards) led Bridgewater-Raynham to a 34-6 win over

Chelmsford in a nonleague matchup.

Besides his 75-yard punt return touchdown, Travis Denby ran the ball for 65 yards and a touchdown on four carries and nabbed an interception on defense to lead Nantucket (4-0) to an easy 34-0 victory against

Monomoy in a Mayflower League game.

Manny Alves rushed for a pair of touchdowns and

Essex Tech (3-1) blanked Minuteman, 34-0, in a Commonwealth Athletic Conference crossover.

Girls volleyball

Led by 29 service points, 11 kills and seven digs from from Sydney Phillips, King Philip (7-1) knocked off Franklin, 3-2, in Hockomock League play.

Kiki Ryan had 15 kills to lead Norwood (7-3) to a 3-1 win over Framingham in the Bay State Conference.

Boys soccer

Austin Ward scored to push North Andover (5-2-1) past Central Catholic, 1-0, in a Merrimack Valley Conference matchup.

Jake Valcich had a goal and two assists to pace Newburyport (3-3-3) to a 5-2

win over Georgetown in the Cape Ann League.

Lukas Drahos scored four consecutive goals to close out a 6-2 victory for Mystic Valley (5-2-1) over Essex Tech in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference. Girls soccer Meg Zien netted a hat trick to lead Hamilton-Wenham (5-1-1) to a 4-1 win over Triton in Cape Ann League action.

Field hockey

Ashley Frank scored four goals and Lucas Crook added a hat trick to lead Somerset Berkley (6-01) to a 7-0 win over West Bridgewater in a nonleague game. . .. Kenzie Madden scored two goals to propel

Lincoln-Sudbury (7-1-1) to a 4-0 victory over Waltham. . . . Senior captain McKenzie Plante scored a pair of goals as Hamilton-Wenham (4-3) cruised to a 5-0 victory over Arlington Catholic.

Emily Hawley’s hat trick powered Natick (4-4-2) to a 3-0 win over Brookline in Bay State Conference action.