The Canton Men’s Softball League has a new champion, and for the first time in the league’s 66 seasons, Halfway Café has captured the crown. Halfway, which finished third in the regular season at 15-5, won the title in a back-and-forth seven-game series over Hannington’s, a perennial past champion of the league. Hannington’s won the […]
Considering the way the Canton High School field hockey team has dominated the competition over the past several seasons, it should come as little surprise that so many program alumnae have made the jump to the college level. In fact, at last count, there were at least nine former Bulldogs playing field hockey at colleges […]
Canton native Jessi Gould, a senior forward on the Westfield State University field hockey team, scored two goals and her 100th career point to lead the Owls to a 3-1 victory over Becker College in the season opener on September 1. Gould’s golden goal came in dramatic fashion as she scored off a rebound of […]
Halfway Cafe and Hannington’s are battling it out for the Canton Men’s Softball League championship, with the best-of-seven finals getting underway on Tuesday, September 6. Halfway Café, which finished the regular season at 15-5 and was given the third seed in the playoffs, beat second-seeded Golden China (16-4) in the semifinals with three wins. Hannington’s, […]
American Legion beat the Fire Department 16-9 to win the Canton Men’s Over-30 Softball League championship. Two weeks ago, Schneiders — the No. 1 seed and two-time defending champs — were bounced from the playoffs after falling to both the Legion (19-18) and the Fire Department (16-13) in consecutive games, thus paving the way for […]
3 eliminated from Men’s Softball League playoffs ~ Centerfield’s, Lewis and Beckett’s were all eliminated from the Canton Men’s Softball League playoffs last week, while Hannington’s and T & B Pub ended the week locked in a duel for a top-four spot. As of August 21, the top five seeds were, in order: Canton Junction, […]
Shortstop Drew Blake has just completed a terrific year of baseball. First, the sophomore led the CHS Bulldogs with a .389 batting average and a team-high 17 RBIs. He then went on to have a record-setting debut season with the Canton American Legion team, becoming the first 15 year old in Post 24 history to […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 recently held a dinner and awards ceremony at the Legion hall to honor the achievements of its baseball team, which reached the playoffs for the first time since 2007 with a 9-9 record. Selectman Bob Burr and Canton A’s head coach Kee Arguimbau, along with past Legion players and […]
The Hannington’s of Massachusetts Over-55 softball team traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, for the Senior Softball-USA Eastern National Softball Tournament and came away winners for the second consecutive year. Hannington’s had previously qualified for the Eastern Nationals by winning tournaments in Palmer (Mass.) and Syracuse, New York, earlier in the year. Hannington’s started the tournament […]
Canton resident Tom Lane and Bill Duplisea were both winners of the 2011 ABCD Invitational Golf Tournament, held each year at Hales Location Country Club in North Conway, New Hampshire, on the last Saturday in July. Lane, a C player, and Duplisea, a B player, both netted a score of 82. This year, 40 golfers […]
