The red-hot Canton A’s made it three wins in a row — and five of their last six — after outlasting the Acushnet Aztecs 12-8 last week to improve to 12-7 overall. The A’s currently sit in fifth place in the Cranberry League standings and entered the week just one point behind the third-place Hock […]
Canton’s Marcus Griffin, making his high school postseason debut as a member of the Blue Hills Regional varsity track team, leapt into the school record books with a long jump mark of 21’1” at this year’s MIAA Division 6 Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at Holyoke Community College. Not only did the freshman phenom […]
On Saturday, April 9, the Curry College men’s rugby team will hold its annual Maffie Memorial Rugby Tournament in memory of the late Anthony Maffie of Canton. Just 22 years old, Maffie passed away unexpectedly in his sleep in 2019 from Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). His passing left a giant-sized hole in the […]
After a highly successful senior season with the Bulldogs last fall, promising local soccer talent Abdul Barrie made even greater strides in 2021 as a post-grad player at South Kent School in Connecticut. Last month, the Canton resident and 2021 CHS graduate helped lead the Cardinals to a New England prep school championship with a […]
Former Canton High track standout Patrick Hession will be running the 2021 Boston Marathon as a member of Dougie’s Team supporting the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Hession will be raising money to help the Flutie Foundation continue to fund programs that help people and families affected by autism live life to the fullest. […]
Olivia Maffeo of Canton, one of the region’s top high school girls hockey prospects, recently got the chance to test her skills against some of the best in her age group as a participant in the 2021 USA Hockey BioSteel Girls 16/17 Player Development Camp. The week-long camp, held June 26 to July 2 at St. Cloud […]
In its 36th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade has announced that it has named Owen McGowan of Canton as its 2020-21 Massachusetts Football Player of the Year. A standout linebacker at Catholic Memorial High School, McGowan is headed to Boston College to play for the Eagles this fall. McGowan is […]
It didn’t quite play out the way he pictured that it would, but Canton’s Jerry Harding is now an NCAA hockey national champion — and a deserving one at that — after his UMass teammates came together to help finish the job at this year’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh. Harding, a key forward in his […]
Even in an abbreviated and highly atypical season marked by rule changes, postponements and the lack of a traditional playoff structure, hockey success still found its way to Canton this winter with notable achievements seen across the public and private school ranks. On one end of town, at the newly reopened Metropolis Skating Rink, Canton […]
Five players from Canton are headed to the MIAA Division 1 Super Bowl as members of the south champion Catholic Memorial team. The unbeaten Knights (10-0) will face D1 north winner St. John’s Prep (9-1) at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, December 7. Pictured above are Canton players Owen McGowan, Brady McGowan, Barrett Pratt, Shawn O’Connor, […]
