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Stern, Wallace lead Rocket volleyball to South title

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor In 2017, the Needham High School varsity boys volleyball team was about as dominant as they come. Led by senior captain and right-side hitter Brady Orozco-Herman, junior captain and setter Eli Wallace, senior captain and outside hitter Will Nowlan, and senior outside hitter Gabriel Stern, the Rockets compiled...
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Sumner deals, Dateo delivers in Post 14 victory

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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...
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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...
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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...
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Weycker, Kane take Wellesley baseball honors

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The spring of 2017 will forever be remembered in Wellesley as the year of the Cinderella Raiders. Entering the tournament as a humble 13 seed, the Raiders won four games away from home (three away, one neutral) en route to a South Sectional title. The Raiders continued their...
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Raider rundown: Weycker, girls golf shine in 2016-2017

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor From start to finish, 2016-2017 was an incredibly successful year for Wellesley High School and youth athletics. All of the athletes who competed did so with honor, pure class, and extremely hard work. However, it would be a disservice to these boys and girls not to recognize the...
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Kraus mashes as Walpole Legion cruises

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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...
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Voss, Medfield Legion battle Walpole

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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...
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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...
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Westwood baseball concludes Cinderella run

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor 2017 has been the year of the Cinderella team in the MIAA State Baseball Tournament, with towns such as Dover-Sherborn (DIII) and Wellesley (DI) all making long runs and earning sectional crowns despite their low seeds. The Westwood Wolverines (14-9) were no different, especially after earning the No....
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Westwood ballplayers win division

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Westwood's 13 year-old Babe Ruth baseball team has won its division. The team beat the Walpole D team to do so. This marks the first time in the seven years since this age group has participated in Babe Ruth that this has happened - prior to this year, the age group had never...
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Westwood little league Cardinals finish season

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On Sunday, June 11, the major league Cardinals made it to the championship game. The team, made up of fifth, sixth and seventh graders, played hard all season long and found themselves in the finals. Although they came up short, all of the boys played well and should be extremely proud of themselves....
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Rockets take home Division I lacrosse title

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Needham High School varsity girls lacrosse team concluded an absolutely dominant 2017 season with an 8-5 win over Longmeadow on Saturday afternoon at Boston University in the MIAA Division I state championship game. Following an 18-3 regular season that saw zero conference defeats and an outright Bay...
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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...
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Nevins, Warriors finish successful season

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Medfield High School boys varsity lacrosse team completed a successful season on Tuesday afternoon at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in the MIAA Division II state semifinals. After winning the South Sectional in dramatic comeback fashion against Walpole last Saturday night in Ashland, the Warriors (12-6) fell to...
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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...
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Raiders win E-Mass, fall just short of state title

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Wellesley High School’s phenomenal run through the 2017 MIAA Division I State Baseball Tournament came to an end on Saturday at Fitton Field in Worcester, as the No. 13 seed and Eastern Mass champ Raiders fell to Western Mass champ Taconic High School (Pittsfield) 5-1 in the state...
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Rebel girls lax 2017 state finalists

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor 2017 was a banner year for the Walpole High School girls lacrosse team, as the Rebels put together an 18-2 regular season and finished as Bay State Conference runners-up, with their lone conference defeat on the season coming to eventual Division I state champ, Needham. Walpole’s efforts throughout...
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Rebel girls win south, on to state title game

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Following a dominant 18-2 regular season, the Walpole High girls varsity lacrosse team won the South Sectional title this past week via wins over Medway (10-6) in the quarterfinals, Medfield (18-8) in the semifinals, and Foxboro (12-10) in the South Final. On Monday, the lady-Rebels (22-2) traveled to...
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Lacrosse battles Medfield in state tournament

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Growing up separated by just a popular ice cream place and a hairline of Dover, the players of the Westwood and Medfield High school varsity boys lacrosse teams have come to know each other extremely well, especially after their years upon years of playing against one another in...
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