Ski team ready to hit slopes
Guiffre moves Lady-Raiders to 5-0
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Walpole and Wellesley High girls basketball entered the 2018-2019 season with the goal of winning their respective Bay State Conference divisions (Walpole – Herget, Wellesley – Carey), and making a run in the state tournament.
For Walpole, their potential this season relied heavily upon the two-headed double-double...
Unbeaten Lady-Raiders outlast White, Rebels
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Walpole and Wellesley High girls basketball entered the 2018-2019 season with the goal of winning their respective Bay State Conference divisions (Walpole – Herget, Wellesley – Carey), and making a run in the state tournament.
For Walpole, their potential this season relied heavily upon the two-headed double-double monster...
Wellesley High wrestlers humbled by Braintree
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While every team at Wellesley High School goes by the name “Raiders,” for decades, the school’s wrestling team has adopted the moniker “Monks,” a tradition whose origin remains unsolved despite the school’s thorough investigating.
Unfortunately, on Wednesday night against Braintree the young team didn’t have a prayer.
Wellesley dug themselves...
Dorion, Rockets, outlast McDonough, Rebels
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Senior center Matt Smith (23) celebrates with teammates following a fourth quarter dunk.[/caption]
The Needham and Walpole High School varsity boys basketball teams met for...
Needham gets redemption against Walpole
Brown leads Herons to unprecedented start
Medfielder Lindsay Brown is helping drive the William Smith College Herons to their best start, ever.
William Smith College ice hockey is off to its best start in program history. The Herons are 10-0-0 overall and 8-0-0 in United Collegiate Hockey Conference play. They enter the winter break on top of the conference standings. William Smith...
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Raiders dominate Mohawks, move to 3-1
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Senior captain and guard John Muckstadt (5) moves the ball up the floor midway through the first quarter.[/caption]
The phrase...
Injury-ravaged wrestling drops first match
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With huge swaths of their starters out due to injury and illness, the Needham Rockets wrestling squad dropped its first match of the season, 42-39.
The team started strongly early, tallying several pins in the lightest weight classes. However, as the weights became higher and higher, the Rockets could...
Kelly, Lady-Rockets blank Redhawks
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Junior right wing Charlotte Tolman...
McDonough, Wolverines blank Warriors
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off a 6-3 victory at Framingham on Friday afternoon, the Medfield/Norton High girls varsity hockey team returned home to Rodman Arena on Saturday night to open up TVL play against rival Westwood. Like the Warriors (1-2-0, 0-1-0) the Lady-Wolverines (2-0-0, 1-0-0) also entered Saturday’s tilt coming...
McDonough, Wolverines outlast Prego, Warriors
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off a 6-3 victory at Framingham on Friday afternoon, the Medfield/Norton High girls varsity hockey team returned home to Rodman Arena on Saturday night to open up TVL play against rival Westwood. Like the Warriors (1-2-0, 0-1-0) the Lady-Wolverines (2-0-0, 1-0-0) also entered Saturday’s tilt coming off...
Warriors dominate Raiders in opener
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Friday night, Dover-Sherborn just wasn’t ready for Medfield’s defense.
In what would end up ultimately being a 61-23 loss to the Medfield Warriors, the ladies of Dover-Sherborn seemed shell-shocked at the multi-faceted, hyper-aggressive defense they were facing. Early on in the game, Dover-Sherborn could barely get the ball over half-court...
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DS’ Britt makes history in two-mile
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Dover-Sherborn Regional indoor track team took on TVL foe Millis on Thursday at Wheaton College. The DS boys earned a dominant 74-12 victory to move to 2-0 on the young season, while the girls fell 53-24, but had several notable individual performances.
Sophomore Caitlin Britt broke the...
Guiffre’s 22 lifts Lady-Raiders past Revere
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Molly Cronin (10) directs traffic and sets up a play. [/caption]
Coming off a 45-27 season-opening victory at Medway on December 10, the Wellesley High School...
Rebel hockey opens season 1-1
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Mike DiCenzo (11) fights off a Mansfield fore-checker and gets the puck up the boards. [/caption]
The Walpole High School varsity...
MacTavish, Warrior hockey ready for next step
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Despite entering the tournament as the No. 8 seed, Medfield High School boys hockey nearly captured the Division II South title last season, winning their way to the sectional finals before falling to No. 3 Plymouth, 6-3.
With last season’s tough ending behind them, the Warriors enter 2018-2019 ready to...
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Paolatto, Raider hockey ready to impress
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
A new era is underway in Dover-Sherborn. Beginning this 2018-2019 season, the Raiders will be teaming up with Weston High School for a three-town varsity boys hockey program.
After a 10-8-2 regular season, DS was awarded the No. 15 seed in Division III South last winter. With several key impact...
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Schmalz, Phelan, Lady-Rockets out to prove
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off an 11-6-3 season in 2017-2018 that earned them a spot in the Division I state tournament, the Needham High School girls varsity hockey team returns to the ice this season looking to make some noise in the Bay State Conference.
The Needham girls will get two shots at...
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Dalton, Keith, Lady-Wolverines gear up
