Congratulations to Canton resident David Prendergast, who just finished up his first season at Bowdoin College as a member of the Polar Bears’ football team. Prendergast, a former first-team All-ISL quarterback and Boston Globe Player of the Week from Thayer Academy, split time between the defensive unit and the quarterback position for the Polar Bears. […]
Earlier this season, the Citizen highlighted some of the top female athletes from Canton who have made a name for themselves in their respective college programs. However, it’s not just the local ladies who are having success in their post-high school careers. A number of the town’s male athletes are also getting it done on […]
The Hannington’s Bay State Bombers softball team, sponsored by Canton Attorney Glen Hannington, was one of 337 teams from across the United States and Canada that descended upon Phoenix, Arizona in late October to compete in the 2011 Senior Softball World Series. On Sunday, October 23, Hannington’s emerged from the 55-plus division as winners of the USA National […]
The 2011 Ivy League Rugby Sevens tournament will be held at the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton on Saturday, November 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Brown University, the reigning Ivy League champion, will look to defend its title against national champion Dartmouth and the other six teams in the Ivy League. Representing Canton […]
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, […]
