Lampman, Raider soccer begin 2017 strong
Doyle, Maier, and DS girls ready up
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
With the summer coming to a close, soccer hotbeds such as Needham and Dover-Sherborn are readying for the upcoming season. It goes without saying that keeping your skills sharp and staying conditioned are extremely important aspects in soccer, and both the Needham and DS girls have certainly done...
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...
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...
Peck named Bentley football captain
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Sherborn and Medfield native Connor Peck was recently named one of the four captains for Bentley University football alongside Foxborough’s Mack Lowrie, Waltham’s Junior Chery, and Pawtucket, RI’s Martin Bannerman.
After playing Pop Warner for Holliston throughout his upbringing, Peck played offensive guard at Catholic Memorial from 2010-2014 and was a...
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Peck, Herman lead NEFC to national title
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
In September of 2016, local youth soccer stars Maddi Peck of Westwood and Rachel Herman of Dover and their club team, New England Football Club (NEFC), set a goal to get to the finals of the 2017 national tournament. Ten months later, Peck and Herman not only met...
Dershwitz earns silver in Madrid and Montreal
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After competing in last summer’s Rio Olympic games, local fencer Eli Dershwitz was back on the podium twice during the last two months after winning silver medals at both the World Cup on May 19 in Madrid, Spain, as well as at the Pan-American Zone Championships in Montreal,...
Local lax stars dominate All-Scholastics
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Week after week, the boys and girls lacrosse teams for all six towns within Hometown Weekly’s range of coverage in 2017 supplied seemingly endless headlines and excitement. All the hard work these boys and girls put in translated into all 12 boys and girls lacrosse squads from Dover-Sherborn,...
Sliwinski deals as Post 110 6 battles Walpole
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After a 10-1 defeat at home to Walpole two weeks prior, revenge was certainly on the minds of James Voss and Medfield Legion Post 110 6 on Thursday evening when they traveled to Bird Middle School for a rematch with Cam Martin and company. Despite a hot start...
Sliwinski, Post 110 6 battle Needham
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It took 10 innings, an eight-inning gem on the mound by Charlie Sumner, and some swift baserunning by Jake Dateo, but Needham Legion Post 14 was able to come away with a 3-2 victory at Medfield Post 110 6 on Thursday evening in dramatic fashion.
Medfield’s Ryan...
Sliwinski, Ryan take honors for DS
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
For a long while, Dover-Sherborn has been known as a lacrosse hotbed, but the spring of 2017 proved to the world that times are a changing in DS after the varsity baseball team’s magical run to the Division III state championship game, winning the South Sectional and Eastern...
Sliwinski, Reinhart, join dark side at Post 110 6
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It’s officially summertime when players from Medfield and Dover-Sherborn Regional High School put aside their differences and come together on the baseball diamond.
Because DS does not have a summer Legion team, several of the Eastern Mass Division III champion Raiders such as Hank Reinhart and Ryan Sliwinski...
Laidman earns All-Scholastic, Raider lax concludes 2017 strong
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
For the last four years, maybe no other player has meant more to their respective lacrosse team in the state of Massachusetts than DS’ Bailey Laidman. Having committed to North Carolina when the attack-man was just a freshman, it’s safe to say that in 2014, the pressure was...
Raiders win E-Mass, fall just short of state title
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
What a ride it was for the 2017 Dover-Sherborn Regional High School baseball team.
After failing to qualify for the last four MIAA State Tournaments, the 2017 Raiders put together a 12-8 regular season record and earned the No. 8 seed in the Division III South Sectionals. The...
Saturdays are for the Raiders
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Lacrosse isn’t just a sport in Dover-Sherborn, it’s a lifestyle. Four of the last five seasons, the Division III Boys Lacrosse State Championship has resided at 9 Junction Street. This past Saturday, the Raiders took home yet another Division III Central/East Sectional crown and got themselves one step...
Scurrah, Raider baseball make history, win South
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Entering the 2017 season, it had been four years since the Dover-Sherborn Regional High School varsity baseball team had even qualified for the MIAA State Tournament. The Raiders broke their postseason drought via a 12-8 regular season, and earned themselves the No. 8 seed in the Division III...
Shue, Robbins battle Warriors in state tournament
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
When the Medfield and Dover-Sherborn Regional High School varsity girls lacrosse teams were placed in the same part of the MIAA Division II South Sectional bracket on May 26, one had the sense that these two arch-rivals would be meeting up for a third and final time in...
Reinhart delivers, Raiders win thriller in extras
