Riding a seven-game winning streak, the Canton A’s have vaulted into the thick of the Cranberry League playoff chase with just a few games remaining in the regular season. Heading into Monday’s game against first-place Braintree, the A’s were clinging to the fifth and final playoff spot with a record of 10-9; however, they will […]
Over 100 local runners braved the pre-downpours of Hurricane Arthur and in some cases set new records amidst threatening skies in the 47th running of the Canton July 4th Road Race. Louis Raffetto, 32, of Canton, set a modern-day course record with a time of 28:52 in the five-mile race. Andrea Widberg, 39, a Kennedy […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team rebounded last week with a 4-2 record and remerged as a playoff contender. However, Canton (6-8) will still have to overtake two other teams, Holbrook (9-5) and Stoughton (8-7), in order to have a chance at one of the four playoff spots in the division. There were […]
Canton High School alumnus Pat Ward has committed to Assumption College, where he will play lacrosse and hockey. Ward, a 2013 CHS graduate and a former Bulldog hockey and lacrosse captain, recently completed a post-graduate year at the Kents Hill School in Maine. Ward had a tremendous four-year experience at CHS. As a freshman, Ward’s last-second goal […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team opened the 2014 summer season with high hopes after an exciting end to last season. The 2013 team advanced to the south sectional playoffs — the furthest the squad has gone in team history, after finishing 13-11 in the regular season and upsetting Foxboro 3-0 and Easton […]
Canton A’s head coach Kee Arguimbau is optimistic that his team will be as good if not better than last year with the return of several top veterans and the addition of some talented newcomers. The team already has its first Cranberry League win after beating Rockland 8-1 in the season opener. Last year, the […]
Between turning 18 in April and turning heads with his play at the highest levels of American junior hockey, Canton native Liam Pecararo is having himself one heck of a spring. Playing for the Waterloo Black Hawks of the United States Hockey League — the nation’s only Tier I junior hockey circuit — Pecararo took […]
Canton native Brittany Lyons recently returned home after a banner first season playing professional hockey overseas as a member of the Neuberg Highlanders of Austria. A former three-sport standout athlete at Canton High School who went on to star at Quinnipiac University, Lyons led the Highlanders in scoring and finished second overall in the Elite […]
Canton’s Meghan Lennon has earned her third straight Commonwealth Coast Conference Rookie of the Week award after leading the Endicott College women’s lacrosse team to two big wins last week. Lennon tallied an impressive four goals and two assists in a 14-9 victory over the University of New England and also had a goal and […]
* Kate D’Orazio of Canton is running in the 118th Boston Marathon as a member of the Harvard College Marathon Challenge team. D’Orazio, a 2011 CHS graduate and a junior at Harvard, is hoping to raise at least $2,620 for Team HCMC. All funds raised will benefit the Phillips Brooks House Association Summer Urban Program, […]
