This year’s July 4th Road Race proved to be unique and memorable in many ways. For the first time in recent memory, it rained heavily at the start of the race before clearing up midway through. Also, the five-mile adult race was decided by the stretch of a hand, and a 10-year-old Brockton girl became […]
With three wins last week to go along with improved hitting and pitching, the Canton A’s baseball team has put itself in a good position to make a run during the second half of the season. Now at the midpoint, the A’s are 6-8-1, good for seventh place in the nine-team Cranberry League. Last week […]
With half of the season still to be played, the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team finds itself in seventh place at 5-7 and just two games out of the fifth and final playoff spot. Last week the Legion team endured a rough stretch, losing to Franklin 1-0, Norwood 5-0, and Needham 5-3. The […]
Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball historian, former head coach and general manager Bob “Brownie” Brown figures it was about 40 years ago that the team last beat Walpole. That’s why so many fans stood and applauded after Canton’s 4-2 victory at the Bird Middle School in Walpole Sunday evening. “Walpole is so rich in […]
The Canton A’s, a semi-pro baseball team that competes in the Cranberry League, had mixed results last week as the team beat South Shore 4-2 but fell twice to Middleboro in a Sunday doubleheader by scores of 5-1 and 8-5. The A’s are now 3-8-1 and in eighth place out of nine teams in the […]
Inconsistent hitting has plagued the Canton American Legion baseball team at the start of the season as the squad fell to 1-3 with a 1-0 loss to Norfolk Sunday afternoon at Canton High School. Earlier in the week, Canton fell to Needham 3-0 but won its first game of the season 3-1 against Franklin. Sunday’s […]
Canton A’s head coach Kee Arguimbau hopes the wins will begin to come now that he has a full lineup, with some of his hitters returning from injury and a few players being added to the roster. As of Sunday, the A’s, a semipro baseball team playing its home games at Canton High and made […]
The Hanningtons of Massachusetts Senior 70 Division softball team, sponsored by Canton attorney Glen Hannington and managed by Canton resident and Canton Citizen columnist Joe DeFelice, won the prestigious Atlantic Coast National Qualifier for the second year in a row at the spectacular four-field Potomack Lakes Sportsplex in Loudoun County, Virginia, during the week of […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team opened its season on Saturday afternoon with a 10-1 loss at home to perennial powerhouse Walpole. Walpole took advantage of 12 walks off three Legion pitchers, combined with several singles, to produce four runs in the third inning and five in the fourth. Canton took a 1-0 […]
On Sunday, March 4, Canton resident Damian Kozak placed 10th in a slalom race at the J3 Vermont State Ski Racing Championships. That finish helped qualify him for the Eastern Regionals held March 15-19 at Sugarloaf in Maine. There he was one of 85 racers from the East Coast competing for 10 spots at the […]
