The Canton High School girls’ soccer team split the week with a 1-0 loss to Bishop Feehan and a 1-0 win over Oliver Ames, bringing the Bulldogs’ record to 1-2. According to coach Paul Turner, the team started slow in the game against Bishop Feehan and looked nervous. “It took us 20 minutes to settle […]
Sep 23 2010 | Posted in
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Jeffrey Cattel

The scores were the same, but the CHS boys’ cross country team was the winner in a 24-31 meet against Foxboro, while the girls lost to their Warrior counterparts by the same margin in the first dual meet of the year. “Being on our home course, we went into the meet expecting to be very […]
Sep 23 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
The CHS football team did not perform well in its first game of the season, as Weston’s Wildcats dominated the Bulldogs 35-7 Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats raced to a 28-0 halftime lead, while Canton’s only touchdown came late in the fourth quarter when Anthony LaRose scored on a five-yard run on a drive set up […]
Sep 16 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
Fresh off capturing back-to-back Hockomock League championships, the Canton High boys’ soccer team essentially picked up right where it left off, with a 3-1 win at Duxbury last Saturday to kickoff the 2010 season. “Anytime you go to Duxbury and come away with a win, it’s really a good result,” head coach Danny Erickson said. […]
After finishing last season with a 17-2-1 record, the CHS girls’ soccer team entered unfamiliar territory Saturday, losing its first game 4-1 to Duxbury. Paul Turner, a first-year coach at CHS, noted that Duxbury, in the midst of a peak season with many club soccer and college-bound players, would be one of the Canton’s hardest […]
Sep 16 2010 | Posted in
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Jeffrey Cattel
The Canton High boys’ cross country team finished third in a nine-team competition, with four of the top 40 runners in the 3.1-mile Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Cross Country Invitational race, held at Oak Bluffs on September 11. Senior Jimmy Paschal finished sixth overall and was Canton’s top runner, finishing in 17:11.52 — seconds […]
Sep 16 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
The CHS girls’ cross country team started the season with a seventh-place finish in the Hockomock League Jamboree, followed by a fifth-place finish out of 12 teams in the Martha’s Vineyard Invitational. Sophomore Kelsey Sayers was Canton’s top runner at the Vineyard meet, as she finished 15th out of 100 runners to earn a medal. […]
Sep 16 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger

St. Louis Blues executive vice president and general manager Doug Armstrong announced last week that the club has named Canton native Dan Brooks as an assistant coach for the Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. Brooks begins his professional coaching career with the Rivermen after 14 seasons as an assistant coach at both […]
After two weeks of practice, CHS head football coach Jim Goff described his team as a “work in progress” as the Bulldogs prepare to play in its season opener at Weston this Saturday, September 11, at 4 p.m. Last week, the Bulldogs played Milton to an even scrimmage, with both teams managing two touchdowns on […]
Sep 9 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
The Canton Junction softball team is giving Hannington’s all it can handle as the teams entered this week tied 2-2 in the Canton Men’s Softball League’s best-of-seven championship series. Games were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, and the seventh and final game, if necessary, was scheduled for Thursday (tonight) at 6:15 p.m. at Devoll Field. […]
Sep 9 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger