The CHS girls’ lacrosse team opened the 2013 season in impressive fashion with a 21-6 blowout win over North Attleboro on the road last Tuesday. The girls also played their first home game of the season, falling to nonleague Apponequet Regional in a high-scoring battle to end the week at 1-1 overall. With a deep […]
Apr 11 2013 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
The CHS girls’ tennis team split their first two matches of the season last week, falling to North Attleboro 4-1 Tuesday on the road and beating Attleboro 5-0 two days later at home. The sole winner in the North Attleboro match was junior Erika Nannery, who easily defeated her competitor 6-2, 6-0 despite the cold […]
Apr 11 2013 | Posted in
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Holly Erickson

The Canton High boys’ varsity lacrosse team kicked off the new season with a bang last week, storming back from a three-goal deficit against North Attleboro to win its home opener 10-9 in overtime. The Bulldogs then kept the hype train moving with a 12-7 win over visiting Franklin earlier this week to put them […]
Apr 11 2013 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Editor’s note: The following appears in the 2013 winter sports supplement that was included in this week’s issue of the Citizen. Boys’ MVP Quinn Merrigan (Wrestling) Merrigan continued his meteoric rise with a truly dominant junior season, capturing the 138-pound title at both the sectional and state meets after reaching the finals of both tournaments […]

In sports there are complementary players and there are stars. And then there are players like Canton High School’s Meghan Lennon, an elite talent with a workmanlike approach to the game who has quietly put together one of the most impressive four-year athletic careers in recent school history. A standout performer in three different sports […]
Mar 28 2013 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
The Canton High School Booster Club will hold a used sports equipment sale on Saturday, April 6, in the CHS cafeteria from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The boosters will be selling gently used sports equipment of all kinds to raise funds for CHS athletic programs. After 1 p.m., all items will be sold at […]
Mar 28 2013 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen

It was shaping up to be their year, but in a goaltenders’ duel against their Davenport Division rivals last week, the top-seeded CHS boys’ ice hockey team came up just short, falling 2-0 to No. 4 Oliver Ames in the Division 2 south sectional semifinals. For the Bulldogs, Wednesday’s loss marked the end of an […]
Mar 14 2013 | Posted in
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Jay Turner

Update: The No. 1 seeded CHS boys’ hockey team fell to No. 4 Oliver Ames 2-0 in the south sectional semifinals Wednesday night. The Bulldogs finish the season at 16-4-2 overall. It was a lot closer than many fans expected, but in the end the top-seeded CHS boys’ hockey team managed to take care of […]
Mar 7 2013 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
After cruising through the regular season with 16 wins in 20 games, the Canton High girls’ ice hockey team had its postseason dreams dashed at the hands of 20th seeded Tewksbury/Methuen, which shocked the Bulldogs 7-3 on their home ice last Wednesday, February 27. The loss certainly qualified as an upset — Tewksbury/Methuen (8-7-3) had […]
Mar 7 2013 | Posted in
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Jay Turner

All good things must come to an end, and unfortunately for the CHS boys’ basketball team, everything that went right in its first-round upset victory over Abington turned the other way last Wednesday, February 27, against fifth seeded Norton. Norton (15-5), well rested from a first-round bye, used its home crowd to seize the momentum […]
Mar 7 2013 | Posted in
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Mike Berger