On Thursday, July 19, Excel Studios at 583 Washington Street awarded its first two black belts to Shaina Forte of Canton and Caroline Sun of Sharon. Forte, a 2012 graduate of Canton High School, is pictured at left with studio owner and master instructor Sensei Kris Rapp, her teacher since she was 6 years old. […]
Women’s Softball League Teams did not play on Wednesday, July 25, due to the threat of EEE from infected mosquitoes. The Board of Health is recommending that everyone refrains from outdoor activities after 6 p.m. As a result, league official Christine Wadel stated that the league has “lost [its] softball fields” and is in a “mad scramble […]
The Canton A’s have completed their summer baseball season after getting swept last week by first-place Braintree in the opening round of the Cranberry League playoffs. The A’s lost the first two games of the best-of-three series (3-0 and 1-0) and finished in sixth place out of nine teams with a 10-14-1 record. Although Canton […]
On Monday and Tuesday, July 30 and 31, Blue Hill Country Club in Canton will host the Golfweek New England Junior Invitational, featuring some of the best junior golfers in the country. Since 2001, Golfweek Magazine has conducted national junior invitational events that have attracted many of the elite junior players in the country — […]
A bases-loaded single by Steve Delanian in the eighth inning against Plymouth last weekend lifted the Canton A’s to a 2-1 victory and propelled the team into the Cranberry League playoffs. Earlier in the day, Tyler Hitchcock had pitched the A’s to a 4-0 win in the first game of a home doubleheader, and the […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team ended its season on a high note last week, beating rival Norwood 3-2 and Westwood 8-4 to finish 10-12 overall, good for sixth place in the District 6 West Division. Although Canton did not make the playoffs, it did beat the league’s top two teams — Norwood […]
Canton wrestler Chris Sullivan took home the gold for the second straight year at the 2012 Bay State Games. He knocked off two New England prep champions — John Anderson in the semifinals and Christian Vallis in the finals — to win the 126-pound weight class. A rising junior at Canton High School, Sullivan went […]
With a recent stretch of five consecutive victories, the Canton A’s have vaulted into position for the sixth and final playoff spot in the nine-team Cranberry League. A key doubleheader with Plymouth, which sits just a half-game back, will be held this Sunday at CHS and will likely decide who will earn the last playoff […]
With three losses last week, the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team has fallen out of the District 6 playoff hunt. Canton lost to Medfield 8-4 at home and were defeated by Needham 18-3 and edged by Brookline 6-5 in two away games. As of Monday the team was in seventh place in the […]
With less than a week remaining in the regular season, the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team needs to win all of its remaining five games and hope that fifth-place Medfield loses some games in order for Canton to seize the final playoff spot. As of Monday morning, July 9, Canton was tied with […]
