Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter
The Westwood turf field was shrouded in darkness due to ominous clouds that loomed overhead. While it had been a cloudy day, the rain had decided to subside for the day's scrimmage. The Wolverine girls' soccer team embarked on their first...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
August has slipped away, marking the final days of summer. As the hot temperatures begin to give way to a chill, the fall season is fully underway. Athletes are fastening their laces and taking to the fields and courts, aiming to...
The Westwood 11A summer baseball team secured the championship title at the 2023 annual Summer Blast tournament held in Sandwich, MA from July 20th through July 23rd, surpassing a field of 14 teams from Massachusetts and Connecticut. This victory marks the first time a Westwood team has won the tournament at any age...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter
In the spring of 2023, Westwood student-athletes experienced an extraordinary season brimming with talent, triumphs, and unwavering determination to compete against the best. Every athlete acknowledges the challenges inherent in their pursuits, but above all, each season brings rewarding moments,...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter
Westwood girls’ lacrosse is a powerful group of girls who gave their all in their third-straight year at the division one state championship, a team that never gave up even during their last minute of competition. The girls’ lacrosse team...
By Max Clifford
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Westwood High School Varsity Boys Lacrosse played a pair of close contests in the MIAA
Division II tournament, outlasting North Attleborough at home on Monday, June 5, before falling just short against Duxbury in the round of 16...
By Max Clifford
Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter
Riding an 11-game winning streak, Westwood High School Girls Varsity Lacrosse welcomed Lincoln-Sudbury for their final game of the regular season on Thursday evening. The visiting Warriors applied the pressure but the Wolverines came away victorious by a final score of 8-7.
By Max Clifford
Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter
Medfield Varsity Boys Lacrosse traded goals with Xaverian Brothers early on Friday night, but the Hawks overwhelmed on both sides of the ball in the second and third quarters to secure a 19-7 victory on their home field.
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Community is the best part of sports; in sports it’s not only about getting the best play or being a starter on the field, but it is truly about the connections and memories players make from their youth. An athlete will always remember the guidance...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Greater Boston Junior Bruins team set out to Quebec City, Canada in mid-February to participate in a competition against the Ukrainian Selects team. The competition took place in an arena with 18,000 spectators watching. The game resulted in favor of the Ukrainian Selects after...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter
Spring is here… well at least spring season is! Although it might have been a cooler, rainy evening on Friday, March 31st, the weather didn’t put a damper on the boys’ lacrosse team for their first game of the season. The boys hosted the...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
There was an astonishing fourth-quarter comeback from the Westwood Wolverines on Monday, March 6th. This gave Westwood the jump on the scoreboard ahead of Walpole in the Sweet 16 round of state playoffs. Polishing off a final score of 62-57, Westwood...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The ice glimmered on Norwood’s Skating Rink of Boston’s arena, where the Westwood Wolverines took on the Mustangs for the competition’s senior night match-up on February 15th. The Wolverines fought hard against the Mustangs but ended up falling to them 4-2. This loss closed out...
The Westwood boys varsity hockey team has clinched a spot in the Division 2 MIAA Playoffs for
the 40th consecutive year.
The Wolverines are lead by head coach Matt Sebet and two assistant coaches. The captains of
the team are #12 Danny Sullivan, #13 Paul Dyson and #23 Thomas Hamilton.
At the time of print, the Wolverines...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
A monumental win took place Friday, February 10, at the Den.
The Wolverine boys varsity basketball team made a second-half comeback to win, 63-60,
against the Hopkinton Hillers in the final seconds of overtime. It was a perfect way to celebrate
the seniors on their special night, with friends and families...
By Avonlea Cummings
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The bleachers were abuzz Friday evening in the Westwood gymnasium as the Medfield Warriors boys varsity basketball team went head-to-head against the Westwood Wolverines. The Wolverines battled hard against the Warriors, ravenous for victory, and celebrated a 55-44 win.
A full atmosphere...
By Max Clifford
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
A thrilling first half of football in Medfield took a turn for the unusual when a broken floodlight left the field only 3⁄4 illuminated and unsafe to play on in the Warriors' tilt against the Westwood Wolverines last Friday night.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last year, TVL softball was played with conference games only, and most of the preseason “what-ifs” revolved around COVID outbreaks, cancelled games and coaches dealing with a roster full of players staying home sick. Now back to a normal season, after speaking with Westwood’s Tom...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After splitting during the regular season, it was only fitting that the No. 1 St. John’s Prep Eagles and No. 2 Xaverian Hawks ended up being the last two teams standing in Division I.
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
From 2017-2019, Xaverian’s Dylan Gardner and Andrew Perry were two of the top high school lacrosse players in the state of Massachusetts.
Gardner quarterbacked Xaverian’s defense as the team’s starting LSM and top cover option on close...
