With several top-flight players returning and a roster that is dangerous from top to bottom, the CHS girls’ varsity soccer team is poised for a breakout season in 2011. And the girls certainly looked the part in their first week of action as they improved to 2-0 with impressive wins over Duxbury and division foe […]
After a postponement on Thursday due to rain, the CHS varsity field hockey team traveled to Sharon on Friday and cruised to a 5-0, season opening victory. It was business as usual for the defending south sectional champions, who return several key players from a team that went 20-1-1 and reached the state semifinals. One […]
Although there are worse things than starting a season with back-to-back draws, the CHS boys’ varsity soccer team is going to have to do better than that if it wants to achieve its lofty goal of winning the state championship this year. Ranked No. 4 in the Boston Globe’s latest Top 20 poll and boasting […]
CHS head football coach Dave Bohane expects all of his players to be available for the upcoming season opener at home this Friday night at 7 p.m. against non-league Weston. Bohane said the team had a good preseason, including a pair of wins in scrimmages against Dedham and Hanover last week. While noting there is […]
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, […]
It will be an interesting year for CHS Athletic Director Danny Erickson as he works with School Committee members to revise the athletic budget and awaits the ramifications of the Hockomock League adding two more members — Taunton and Milford — beginning next year (2012) for all sports. When the school budget debates and discussions […]
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 […]
Late last month, with his team vying for the state title at the Taunton West Little League complex, Andover Nationals manager Paul Finn spotted a familiar face in the crowd — one that brought him all the way back to his playing days as a Dodger in the Canton Little League. It was Jerry Delang, […]
The Canton High School varsity and JV cheerleading squads recently attended the nationally recognized UCA Camp. The teams came home with a total of five trophies and 13 ribbons. The trophies included a first place for the varsity squad in the dance division and a “Most Improved” award for the JV squad. The Canton teams […]
