This weekend, the women’s Division II and Division III Collegiate Rugby regional playoffs will hit the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton. Student athletes have been competing all fall to qualify for the national playoffs. The East Regional playoffs feature two days of rugby with teams playing national Round of 16 matches on Saturday followed by […]
Nov 22 2024 | Posted in
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The 2024 Canton Men’s Over 30 softball season ended on Sunday, September 29, in front of a capacity crowd at Messinger Field with the Waterfall Bar & Grille Guppies repeating as league champions. After starting the season 0-2, the Guppies powered back, winning their next 12 regular season games and earning the No. 2 seed […]
Oct 11 2024 | Posted in
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Under cloudy skies and at times a light drizzle, more than 11,000 runners — including 82 from Canton — powered their way to the finish line at the 52nd annual ASICS Falmouth Road Race on Sunday, August 18. Runners and walkers from 45 states and 12 countries ventured to the Cape this year to experience […]
Aug 22 2024 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
After three seasons of nonstop winning as a member of one of the most successful dynasties in American sports, Kyshani Dummott, for the first time in her professional career, felt the full agony of defeat as her Boston Renegades fell to the St. Louis Slam in Sunday’s Women’s Football Alliance (WFA) title game. “This one […]
Aug 2 2024 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Strong pitching performances by a trio of promising CHS ballplayers helped lift the Canton Post 24 Junior Legion baseball team over .500 with recent wins over Sharon, Quincy and North Attleboro. Now at 8-6 overall, Canton currently sits at third place in the District 6 standings and is firmly in position to secure a postseason […]
Jul 19 2024 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
It was another winter to remember for Canton’s Colby Ciffolillo and his Endicott College roller hockey teammates, who again found themselves in the thick of a title chase with another strong showing at last month’s National Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships. Coming off back-to-back trips to the national semifinals, the Gulls would again make it to […]
May 10 2024 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
The Canton Dolphins swim team wrapped up another stellar season at the Summer Suburban Swim League Championships held on Saturday, August 12. Competing against swimmers from 10 area communities in and around greater Boston, the Dolphins, led by coach Sandy Hart, finished fifth overall in the standings this summer with a final record of 6-4. […]
Aug 25 2023 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Entering as the No. 3 seed with an 18-8 regular season record, the Canton A’s took care of business at home in the opening round of the Cranberry Baseball League playoffs with a dominant, 9-1 victory over the No. 6 Northeast Lions. The Lions, who are based in the Marshfield/Duxbury area, had gone into the […]
Jul 28 2023 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
In a strange week for the hometown team in Cranberry Baseball League action, the Canton A’s dropped three of four games to lose their grip on second place, yet they also came away with arguably their finest win in several seasons as they outlasted previously unbeaten Braintree, the defending CBL champs and a perennial league […]
Jun 30 2023 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
This weekend at the Canton Ice House, the memory of Reo Todesca will be front and center as Xaverian Brothers High School hosts the sixth annual “Hockey Fights Cancer” event to raise funds for cancer prevention, screening, treatments and support. Reo, a beloved friend to many in the Canton hockey community and mother of Xaverian […]
Feb 2 2023 | Posted in
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