
Outstanding goaltending by senior Jon Donaruma and another dominant performance by league MVP Kevin Rooney proved to be the difference on Saturday as the CHS boys’ hockey team survived an OT thriller against familiar foe Mansfield to earn a return trip to the Division 2 south sectional semifinals. The 4-3 victory, won on a Rooney […]
Mar 4 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Canton High will be sending three members of its boys’ and girls’ indoor track teams — junior high jumper Matt Sidney, senior shot-putter Amarachi Njoku and senior sprinter Samantha Smith — to the New England Track Championships this Friday night at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston. The trio qualified for the New England […]
Mar 4 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
After blowing a two-goal lead against non-league Hanover and being forced to settle for a draw, the CHS boys’ varsity ice hockey team rebounded with a pair of solid wins last week to close out the regular season — 4-1 over North Quincy and 2-0 over North Attleboro. The victories gave the Bulldogs 15 for […]
Feb 25 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Unable to crack an aggressive defensive attack, the Canton High varsity girls’ basketball team fell 62-50 on the road against Burke High in Dorchester in the first round of the Division 3 south sectional tournament Monday night. Fifteenth-seeded Canton headed into the state tournament playing its best basketball of the season, winning four of its […]
Down by 20 points going into the fourth quarter, the CHS boys’ basketball team staged a ferocious comeback and came within five points of tying the game before falling 69-60 to an 11-7 Bishop Stang team Tuesday night in the first round of the Division 3 playoffs. The Bulldogs ended the season at 8-13. Canton […]
Feb 25 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
Both the girls’ and boys’ CHS indoor track teams finished a very respectable fifth place in last weekend’s Division 3 Indoor Track Championships, held at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston. Because of their excellent performances, several Canton individuals will continue on to the All-State Championships scheduled for Friday, February 26, also at the […]
Feb 25 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
For the second consecutive season, Canton High junior swimmer Chris LeDonne represented the Bulldogs at the Division 2 Swimming and Diving State Championship meet. LeDonne, who last year swam in the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle events, competed in the 100-yard butterfly at last Saturday’s meet, finishing 25th out of 27 swimmers with a time of […]
The Bulldog wrestling team came home with three medalists from the MIAA Division III State Tournament held at Cohasset High School on Friday and Saturday. Senior Will Alfano placed third at the 140-pound weight class; fellow senior Kyle Forte took a fourth at the 112-pound weight class while junior Kevin Connolly came in sixth at […]
Feb 25 2010 | Posted in
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Seniors Kyle Forte (112 pounds) and Will Alfano (140) and junior Kevin Connolly (125) all took sectional crowns while the Canton team repeated as South Sectional finalist for the second weekend in a row. “Canton has never had three champions at the same sectionals before,” coach Aaron Mann said. “This has been an award-winning year […]
Feb 18 2010 | Posted in
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~ LeDonne moves on to state tournament ~ Five Canton High swimmers — Misty King, Andrea Konopka, Alison McHugh and Abbey Willis for the girls and Chris LeDonne for the boys — competed in last weekend’s Central/South Sectional Swimming and Diving Championships at M.I.T. LeDonne had already qualified for Friday’s State Championship meet during the […]