Man About Canton: Sports Updates

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The Canton High School varsity basketball team had an outstanding year. It set a CHS record with 10 straight wins and set an all-time record by scoring 97 points in a game. The team also scored 95 points in a game during the season. The Bulldogs finished the season at 14-8 overall, which was their best record in over 20 years. The team lost in the Division 2 south sectional quarterfinals to top-seeded Bishop Feehan.

The CHS hockey team finished the season 15-5-4 and repeated as Hockomock Davenport Division champions. The team was led by sophomore goalie Justin Slocum and leading scorer Matt Lazaro. Sophomore John Femia was third in points on the team, while freshman Jerry Harding was fourth in points. According to head coach Brian Shuman, “The success of the younger players this season was a result of the senior class players.” The team lost 3-2 to Medfield in the Division 2 south sectional finals.

The Canton School Committee recently approved naming the field behind the Dean S. Luce School in honor of longtime Recreation Department employee and Luce School alumna Billy Cravens.

The Bank of Canton has donated a scoreboard to be installed at the Paul Walsh Field at Canton High School. The field is used by the Canton Little League and the Girls Fast Pitch Softball teams.

Canton’s Erin Martin, a sophomore forward for the Amherst College women’s hockey team, has been named a second team selection to the All-New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) squad.

Canton native Olivia Murphy, a sophomore forward on the UMass Boston women’s basketball team, has been named to the Little East Conference First Team.

The Canton High School tennis courts will be renovated at a cost of $360,000. The Canton Community Preservation Committee has recommended funding $200,000 of that amount, while the selectmen have agreed to spend $80,000 from one of their many mitigation accounts, and the School Committee will finance the balance, also estimated at $80,000. The tennis courts are a community-wide recreational facility and are used year round by the many Canton tennis enthusiasts.

The CHS math team is at it again with another first-place finish in the Greater Boston Mathematics League.

Congressman Stephen F. Lynch recently announced that he has nominated Patrick Ward of Canton for appointment to the United States Air Force Academy. Pat is a graduate of CHS and is currently a student and member of the hockey team at Kents Hill School.

Congressman Lynch has also announced that he has nominated Christopher Sullivan, a senior at Canton High School, for appointment to the United States Military Academy. Sullivan recently won the 152-pound class at the Division 3 state wrestling meet after winning it all as a sophomore in the 132-pound division.

Quinn Merrigan, also a CHS senior, captured his second consecutive state championship at 138 pounds, making him just the second wrestler in school history to win back-to-back state titles. Both Sullivan and Merrigan also became the first and second wrestlers to reach an All-State final, while Merrigan became the first and only wrestler to reach the finals of the New England Championship.

Junior Bulldog Rob DiCalogero lost in the finals in the 145-pound class at the D3 state championship.

Children must be five years old by April 30, 2014, in order to be eligible to play in Little League. The fee for this year is $85, and it includes a uniform.

This past season, the Blue Hills Regional boys’ hockey team lost the Mayflower League title for the first time in the last 14 years — quite a winning streak!

The University of New Hampshire has signed on 6’5” wide receiver and defensive back Rory Donovan of Canton to its football team. Donovan is a senior at Cardinal Spellman High School.

Canton’s Drew Blake, a senior third baseman at Milton Academy, has been elected co-captain of the baseball team for the 2014 season.

CHS senior Sam Larson scored his 1,000^th point in the boys’ basketball team’s final regular season game. Larson and fellow senior Matt Kelley were named to the All-Hockomock first team while senior Tristin Morris was named an honorable mention all-star.

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Also needed are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm, and team play.

This is all for now folks. See you next week.

Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.

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