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 […]
CFD advances in Over 30 Men’s Softball playoffs The Canton Fire Department softball team awaits the winner of the Schneiders and Schneiders and Legion teams before advancing to the next stage of the Canton Over-30 Softball League playoffs. CFD defeated Red Ball 18-16 in the final game of a double-elimination tournament. Schneiders and Schneiders and […]
The Boston Gaelic Athletic Association’s 2011 season is reaching its climax at the Irish Cultural Center in Canton. There are 23 clubs under the umbrella of the Boston Northeast Divisional Board, fielding in excess of 40 teams. Clubs have been competing since May for the Gaelic football and hurling championships. In football, there are four […]
Momentum wasn’t on the side of the Canton A’s this weekend as they lost a pair of very close games to fall out of the Stan Musial playoffs. Canton lost 2-1 to Kingston, NH, in extra innings in Haverhill on Saturday and 1-0 to Horan Building of Rhode Island at Canton High Sunday afternoon. The […]
With two weeks to go in the regular season, Canton Junction, with a 15-1 record, has a three-game lead over Golden China, who is in second place with a 14-4 record. As of Sunday, July 24, Halfway Cafe was in third at 11-4, followed by Hannington’s at 9-4, T ’n B Pub at 8-7, and […]
The Canton A’s, having finished one of their best regular seasons in years, will start the Stan Musial postseason tournament this weekend with an away game on Saturday followed by a home game on Sunday at 1 p.m. at CHS. The first playoff game will be an entry from the North Shore League, either at […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team gave it their all, but would have had to play near-perfect baseball to beat a powerful Braintree team in the opening round of the District 6 playoffs. Unfortunately, Canton was swept out of the postseason last week, losing 11-3 and 3-0 in the best-of-three series. Braintree used […]
Canton wrestler Chris Sullivan captured the gold in the 112-pound weight class at the 2011 Bay State Games. Sullivan, a sophomore at Canton High School, defeated Jacob Powell in the semifinals 11-2 and then Marcel Laplante 2-0 in the intense overtime gold medal round. Also, congratulations to Canton resident Rory Donovan, a student at Cardinal […]
