Home knocks: Rockets ready for liftoff
Mangiafico, Slowe making name in hockey world
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Lacrosse has always been the purebred of Medfield athletics, both at the youth and high school levels. However, hockey is a sport that has always been popular here in Massachusetts, and the town of Medfield is beginning to flex its muscle as a hockey hotbed with some of...
Raider All Stars finish season
The Dover Sherborn 14U All Star Team competed in the Lou Tomkins All Star League this year. They had a much improved season this year with wins over such towns and cities as Cambridge, Concord, Belmont, Winchester, Framingham, and Wellesley....
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Home knocks: Ryan era underway at DS
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Of the many exciting local high school sports stories throughout the 2016-2017 athletic year, maybe none were more inspiring than the Dover-Sherborn Regional High baseball team’s run to an Eastern Mass Division III title and state finals appearance.
Baseball is a player’s game, but much of DS baseball’s success...
Strachan leads BC football into battle
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It’s been quite the journey for Boston College linebacker and Wellesley native, Connor Strachan. Since arriving in Chestnut Hill in the summer of 2014 for preseason training and conditioning, the St. Sebastian’s product has done nothing but impress and improve, and it has resulted in Strachan emerging as...
Frattasio, Goss, Damren taking over at Wesleyan
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Hockey is one of those sports where everybody knows everybody, especially here in New England where hockey is life. Oftentimes, relationships between hockey teammates and rivals can last a lifetime, and sometimes, rivalries can turn to friendship. Throughout their upbringings in adjacent towns, Westwood’s Allie Damren, Walpole’s Cici...
Local swimmers excite in summer championships
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With the summer coming to a close, the Suburban Summer Swim League held their final joint meet of the season last Saturday, with members of the Walpole Barracudas, Medfield Marlins, Sherborn Snappers, Needham Sharks, and Westwood Waves all participating.
Walpole’s Lindsey Ahmed and Bridget Abril, as well as Julio Borto, helped guide the...
Westwood’s Damren more than hockey tough
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
In 2017-2018, Westwood resident Allie Damren will look to accomplish one of the hardest feats there is in collegiate athletics, and that is to play on two athletic teams (hockey and lacrosse) while also balancing her studies as a biology major at one of the nation’s toughest academic...
Local swimmers excite in summer championships
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With the summer coming to a close, the Suburban Summer Swim League held their final joint meet of the season last Saturday, with members of the Walpole Barracudas, Medfield Marlins, Sherborn Snappers, Needham Sharks, and Westwood Waves all participating.
Walpole’s Lindsey Ahmed and Bridget Abril, as well as Julio Borto, helped guide the...
Needham Gold team takes title
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The Needham Gold 8-year-old summer team won the Friendship Summer League’s Bay State National Division title on Aug. 6 with a 21-4 win over Canton at Booth Field in Foxboro.
The Needham Gold team went undefeated during the regular season (8-0), and along with the Needham White 8-year-old team (4-4) won the Friendship...
Frattasio, Goss, Damren taking over at Wesleyan
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Hockey is one of those sports where everybody knows everybody, especially here in New England where hockey is life. Oftentimes, relationships between hockey teammates and rivals can last a lifetime, and sometimes, rivalries can turn to friendship. Throughout their upbringings in adjacent towns, Westwood’s Allie Damren, Walpole’s Cici...
Local swimmers excite in summer championships
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With the summer coming to a close, the Suburban Summer Swim League held their final joint meet of the season last Saturday, with members of the Walpole Barracudas, Medfield Marlins, Sherborn Snappers, Needham Sharks, and Westwood Waves all participating.
Walpole’s Lindsey Ahmed and Bridget Abril, as well as Julio Borto, helped guide the...
Local swimmers excite in summer championships
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With the summer coming to a close, the Suburban Summer Swim League held their final joint meet of the season last Saturday, with members of the Walpole Barracudas, Medfield Marlins, Sherborn Snappers, Needham Sharks, and Westwood Waves all participating.
Walpole’s Lindsey Ahmed and Bridget Abril, as well as Julio Borto, helped guide the...
Strong summer showing by DS Youth Baseball
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Following a record-breaking season in 2017 that saw a Division III state championship game appearance for Steve Ryan’s varsity team over at Dover-Sherborn Regional High School, DS continues to flex its muscle on being an emerging baseball hotbed.
This past summer, two Dover-Sherborn youth baseball all-star teams at the 12-year old and 10-year old...
Frattasio, Goss, Damren taking over at Wesleyan
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Hockey is one of those sports where everybody knows everybody, especially here in New England where hockey is life. Oftentimes, relationships between hockey teammates and rivals can last a lifetime, and sometimes, rivalries can turn to friendship. Throughout their upbringings in adjacent towns, Westwood’s Allie Damren, Walpole’s Cici...
Thorbjornsen 2017 Pre-Junior Amateur champ
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Michael Thorbjornsen continues to make his mark on the golf world at the young age of 15 after winning the 2017 Massachusetts Pre-Junior Amateur Championship on August 2 at The Orchards Golf Course in South Hadley (ages 14 and 15).
The Wellesley resident shot 214 overall across three rounds,...
Barefoot Soccer raises AIDS funds, awareness
By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Last weekend, Wellesley United Soccer Club hosted the 7th annual 24 Hours of Barefoot Soccer in Wellesley. Due to severe weather on Saturday, the event was shortened to a nine-hour event on Sunday. Run by volunteers each year, 24 Hours of Barefoot Soccer is a fundraiser to support Grassroot Soccer Inc....
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Westwood Youth Track concludes successful summer
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By Ned Sheehan
Hometown Weekly Intern
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Football Academy announces awards
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Medfield football recently held its annual Jr. Warrior Football Academy. The Academy has announced its award winners:
Camper of the day I: Eddie Viles
Camper of the day II: David Hill
Camper of the day III: Jackson Foscaldo
Camper of the day IV: Colby Guarnagia
Spirit: Will Griffin
Leadership: Nick Caro
Hard work: Ryan Murray
Most Improved: David Hill
Camper of Week:...
Walpole’s Carlow named National Lacrosse All-Star
