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 […]
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 […]
A few Canton residents had notable performances at the Bay State Summer Games last week. On July 7 at Waltham High School, Colby Gavigan, the starting goalkeeper for the CHS boys’ soccer team, collected a shutout in net for the Southeast team in a 0-0 tie against Northeast. Gavigan was also instrumental in Southeast’s 2-1 […]
For the first time since 2007, the Canton Post 24 American Legion baseball team qualified for the playoffs, coming from behind with some important wins last week. Post 24 finished in fourth place in the District 6 West Division with a 9-9 record and now face 14-3 Braintree, who is second in the East Division, […]
The Canton A’s, having won nine of its last 11 games, are on their way to the Stan Musial state baseball playoffs. With a win last week against first-place Braintree and two more on Sunday against second-place Middleboro and fourth-place Weymouth, the A’s are now tied for third place in the Cranberry League at 12-8-1. […]
