The American Legion team are the 2012 champions of the Canton Men’s Over 30 Softball League. The team finished with an overall record of 8-4 and entered the playoffs as the second seed. The team won the championship thanks to several exciting comebacks in the late innings. In the first round, the team came back […]
In a turbulent season shortened by the recent mosquito threat, the American Legion team defeated Angelo’s Place to win the Canton Women’s Softball League championship — the first in recent history for the Legion team. American Legion player/manager Erin Costello said the team has been to the championship series many times before but won in […]
Drew Blake, an infielder from Canton, was named the outstanding position player at the recent Summer Rivalry Classic at Bentley University. The tournament is held every year and features 80 of the top high school baseball players in the northeast. Blake led all players with a .555 batting average for the tournament. He will be […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team honored four departing players and celebrated the team’s 2012 achievements at a recent awards dinner held at the Canton Town Club. The team finished the season at 10-12, good for sixth place in the District 6 West Division standings and just seven points shy of the final […]
On Thursday, July 19, Excel Studios at 583 Washington Street awarded its first two black belts to Shaina Forte of Canton and Caroline Sun of Sharon. Forte, a 2012 graduate of Canton High School, is pictured at left with studio owner and master instructor Sensei Kris Rapp, her teacher since she was 6 years old. […]
Women’s Softball League Teams did not play on Wednesday, July 25, due to the threat of EEE from infected mosquitoes. The Board of Health is recommending that everyone refrains from outdoor activities after 6 p.m. As a result, league official Christine Wadel stated that the league has “lost [its] softball fields” and is in a “mad scramble […]
The Canton A’s have completed their summer baseball season after getting swept last week by first-place Braintree in the opening round of the Cranberry League playoffs. The A’s lost the first two games of the best-of-three series (3-0 and 1-0) and finished in sixth place out of nine teams with a 10-14-1 record. Although Canton […]
On Monday and Tuesday, July 30 and 31, Blue Hill Country Club in Canton will host the Golfweek New England Junior Invitational, featuring some of the best junior golfers in the country. Since 2001, Golfweek Magazine has conducted national junior invitational events that have attracted many of the elite junior players in the country — […]
A bases-loaded single by Steve Delanian in the eighth inning against Plymouth last weekend lifted the Canton A’s to a 2-1 victory and propelled the team into the Cranberry League playoffs. Earlier in the day, Tyler Hitchcock had pitched the A’s to a 4-0 win in the first game of a home doubleheader, and the […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team ended its season on a high note last week, beating rival Norwood 3-2 and Westwood 8-4 to finish 10-12 overall, good for sixth place in the District 6 West Division. Although Canton did not make the playoffs, it did beat the league’s top two teams — Norwood […]
