On the weekend of April 13 and 14, Hanningtons of the Canton Men’s Softball League traveled to Wallingford, Connecticut, to play in a 16-team charity tournament, with all proceeds going toward the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. The reigning Canton Men’s Softball League champions, Hanningtons finished 20-1 last season and went on to [...]
From dominant rookie performances to conference championships and even a national semifinals appearance, the recent winter sports season was certainly one to remember for Canton’s college athletes and their teams. And this was especially true on the ice and on the hardwood, where over a dozen hometown stars made their mark at colleges and universities [...]
Canton resident Jacqueline Seymour, a junior defenseman on the Thayer Academy girls’ hockey team, will compete alongside three of her teammates in the upcoming USA Hockey Girls National Championship Tournament in San Jose, California. Seymour, a fifth-year varsity player and assistant captain, will be skating for the East Coast Wizards U19 team. She will be joined [...]
It was a season to remember for Canton’s Margarita Delaporta and the Blue Hills Regional girls’ basketball team as the Lady Warriors racked up win after win en route to a Mayflower Conference title and a jaw-dropping record of 23-1. Until recently the girls had been chasing perfection — stringing together 23 straight victories before [...]
Kyle Darrow of Canton, a senior at Xaverian Brothers High School, recently completed his indoor track season with a highly successful month. Over five consecutive weekends Darrow won the long jump in the Tri-County League Championships and the Division 1 State Championships, placed second in the All-State Championships and the New England Indoor Track and [...]
UMass Dartmouth basketball sensation Colleen Moriarty, a native of Canton and a 2009 graduate of CHS, was recently named Player of the Year in the Little East Conference, marking the first time in program history that a Corsair player has ever received that honor. An All-LEC first team selection, Moriarty led the conference with 19 [...]
The Canton Cobras U16 volleyball team won its first New England Region Volleyball Association tournament of the 2013 season with a series of impressive performances on Sunday, March 3, in Nashua, New Hampshire. The Cobras defeated two teams from Andover in the semifinals and finals to capture the 16A championship. Also competing in NERVA tournaments on [...]
They have been teammates and friends for almost a dozen years — going back to their earliest days in the Canton Pop Warner program — and on Wednesday, February 6, Stephen Cesso and Maurice Hurst celebrated another major milestone together when they gathered at Xaverian Brothers High School with their families for a football commitment [...]
The defending Canton Men’s Softball League champion Hannington softball team, sponsored by Attorney Glen Hannington, has accepted an invitation to participate in the Sandy Hook Memorial Softball Tournament in Wallingford, Connecticut over the weekend of April 13 and 14. Sixteen teams are competing in the tournament, with all proceeds going to the Sandy Hook School [...]
Canton Attorney Glen Hannington recently sponsored his 26th annual sports banquet at the Brookmeadow Country Club in which he honored his summer and fall baseball and softball teams. Several of his teams did very well this season, including the Hannington’s of Massachusetts Over 70 team, which has won several state, regional and national titles in [...]
