Historic summer for Needham Sharks
Medfield football out to prove
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Last season was a tough one for Medfield High football; the team lost to DS on Thanksgiving and failed to qualify for the postseason.
In 2019, though, the Warriors hope to change that - and they certainly have the talent to do it. Leading Medfield this season will be...
Niit, Raider soccer gear up
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After a 9-5-4 regular season and a gut-wrenching 1-0 defeat to TVL rival Norton in the Division III South sectionals last November, Dover-Sherborn boys soccer enters the 2019 season ready and motivated.
With John Muckstadt departing to play at Colgate, the DS backfield is going to look...
Westwood’s O’Dwyer named Academic All-American
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
When forced to deal with the void of Jed Cappuccino (knee) in the midfield for a significant chunk of the season, Westwood High lacrosse needed to find ways to get other guys involved and produce on offense. In 2019, one of those guys was senior Justin O’Dwyer. According...
Westwood 12As win Sandwich Summer Blast
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The Westwood 12A baseball team recently traveled to Sandwich, MA, to participate in the annual Sandwich Summer Blast Tournament.
The Westwood Little League 12A team played in the 16 team tournament and won the championship. The boys had to play four playoff games on the final day, beating Hingham in game one, Canton in...
Abby Lothian competes in Junior Olympics
Wellesley teen Abby Lothian competed along with thousands of top young athletes from around the nation in the AAU National Junior Olympics in Greensboro North Carolina last week.
Abby took a strong third during her qualifying heat with a time of 13.25. Although she did not advance to the finals this year, she was ranked...
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Guiffre wins Shot For Life Challenge
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The state’s best high school basketball shooters gathered at Starland Sports Complex in Hanover on Saturday to compete in the A Shot For Life Challenge. The event, a two-hour shooting marathon with both a boys and girls division to benefit brain cancer research, has featured star local basketball...
War-Hawks take first place
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The Medfield Youth Baseball Babe Ruth Majors team, comprised of players from Medfield and Millis, finished in first place. The team, known as the War-Hawks (a combination of Medfield Warriors and Millis Mohawks), finished with an impressive 9-2-1 record. The team suffered a tough 3-2 nail-biting loss in the league semi-finals, but had...
Raider lax fills All-State team
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports
After taking home the Division III state championship back in June with a 7-4 win over rival Grafton at Babson, Dover-Sherborn lacrosse is back in the headlines after making up approximately a sixth of the BostonLax Division III All-State team.
Along with being named Boston Globe Division III player of...
New era, same expectations for Wellesley soccer
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off a tough 1-0 defeat to Ludlow in the state finals, the Wellesley High School soccer team returns to the pitch this fall looking to replicate their historic 2018 season that included a Division I South and Eastern Massachusetts title.
With head coach Tim Mason stepping down, the...
Influence of ‘Coachie’ beyond playing field
By Linda Thomas
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
It was at the brink of the Great Depression, and there were no organized leagues or manicured ballfields when Natalie McComb was growing up in East Walpole.
She and the neighborhood kids created their own teams and played in places like the playground at Francis William Bird Park — or just on...
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Abby O’Sullivan wins McCabe Award
Walpole's Abby O'Sullivan, who will enter her junior year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) this fall, has been awarded the Carolyn McCabe Award. The McCabe Award is presented to the most outstanding female athlete in the sophomore class.
O'Sullivan, a field hockey player, paced the NEWMAC with 1.25 goals per game overall and tied for second...
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Keegan takes home first in Ehrlich Mile
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Local youth swimmers from all across MetroWest competed in the Jim Ehrlich Mile Swim at Dug Pond in Natick on Friday. Among the towns and Suburban Summer Swim League teams competing were members of the Sherborn Snappers, Walpole Barracudas, and Needham Sharks, as well individuals from Medfield and...
Walpole Legion rallies past Braintree
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Walpole and Braintree High baseball met three times this past spring, twice in the regular season and once in the Super Eight tournament, with Walpole prevailing 4-1 in the tournament’s opening round.
Despite high school season now being in the rear-view and the majority of the players that...
Post 14 outlasted by Hyde Park
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It was a tough end for Needham Post 14 Legion on Sunday afternoon in Braintree. Less than 24 hours after a miracle 10-9 comeback victory against Norwood to keep their season alive, No. 4 seed Post 14 took on No. 2 seed out of the East Division, Hyde...
Needham Little Leaguers take state championship
Needham’s 10-year-old “Williamsport” Tournament team won the 2019 Massachusetts 10-Year-Old Little League Tournament on Sunday, July 21, with a 9-1 win over Mansfield at O’Grady Field in Salem, Mass. The victory represented the first state championship for a Needham baseball team participating in a Little League-sponsored state or national tournament in decades.
In 1954, Needham’s...
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Medfield’s Murphy makes Team USA lacrosse
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Representing your country in an event is a dream most Americans never get the opportunity to fulfill.
For Medfield’s Owen Murphy, though, that dream became a reality this past week. The 18-year-old Johns Hopkins-bound lacrosse star was selected to the 2020 United States training team, set to play in the...
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Champs honored at Fenway
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After capturing the school’s first-ever Division III state championships in boys basketball this past winter, the Dover-Sherborn boys were honored at Fenway Park for their winning ways on July 15 ahead of the Red Sox game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
The event capped off an absolutely incredible...
9U boys win Tondorf Tournament
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Spring baseball led to summer baseball, and the 9U boys of summer made it count. Eleven players from DS were selected to play in the prestigious MetroWest Tondorf Tournament. The league included teams from Ashland, Bellingham, Holliston, Hopedale, Hopkinton, Medway, Millis, and Dover Sherborn.
The team played well in the regular season, going 5-5...
24 Hours of Barefoot Soccer coming
24 Hours of Barefoot Soccer will take place at Wellesley’s Honeywell Fields from noon on Saturday, August 10, through noon the next day, Sunday, August 11 - the event goes on for a full 24 hours. Anyone, regardless of soccer skill level, is welcomed to play fun soccer scrimmages and games to benefit Grassroots Soccer,...
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