In their first action of the 2018 regular season, the Canton High varsity volleyball team showed a good mix of poise and promise en route to a convincing road win last week over Attleboro. Fighting through some season-opening jitters, the lady Bulldogs fell into an early 8-1 hole before clawing their way back to win […]
Congratulations to the Canton Grade 8 Mass Premier Boys Summer League team, winner of the 2018 Division 1 championship. The Canton boys defeated Attleboro 43-40 to advance to the finals, where they dispatched Westwood to claim the title. Also advancing to the finals in the Mass Premier Summer League were the Canton seventh grade boys […]
Sports fans won’t want to miss the chance to hear Jerry Thornton discuss his new book, Five Rings: The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots, on Thursday, September 13, at 7 p.m. at the Canton Public Library. Since 2001 the Patriots have played in eight Super Bowl championships and won five, a run […]
With the first practices of the 2018 season getting underway this week, CHS head football coach Dave Bohane recently announced the winners of the team’s offseason weightlifting and strength awards. The weightlifting program began in early December and was held throughout the winter and spring and continued this summer with daily 6:30 a.m. workouts Monday […]
A close semifinals loss to Walpole in the American Legion District 6 baseball playoffs ended an exciting and productive season for the Canton Post 24 team last week. The July 24 evening at Braintree High began with a 9-7 win over regular season champion Quincy and ended with a 5-4 defeat to No. 2 Walpole, […]
On June 28, Canton High School Class of 2018 graduates Colleen Boucher and Molly Colburn were named to the 2018 US Lacrosse High School All-Academic Team and received their awards at halftime of the Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game at Harvard Stadium in Boston. Boucher and Colburn were two of the captains of this year’s […]
For an unprecedented three years in a row, Canton’s Junior League all-star baseball team won the Massachusetts state championship and will be heading to Freehold Township, New Jersey, to compete for the Eastern Regional Championship on the road to Taylor, Michigan. With big shoes to fill, Canton’s top 13-14 year olds came out strong and proved […]
Canton-based American Grit MMA welcomed Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Kenny Monday to its Turnpike Street facility last week for an intensive, four-day wrestling clinic geared toward middle and high school students. The clinic featured live wrestling sessions as well as drills and skill development under the tutelage of Monday — a former All-American, NCAA champion, […]
Highlighted by a dramatic comeback win over perennial power Braintree, the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team closed out the regular season in impressive fashion last week, finishing in second place in the District 6 East Division at 13-4-1 overall. Canton won four of five games last week and will likely be seeded third […]
The Canton Little League 8-year-old summer team played in the Sandwich Summer Blast Tournament the weekend of June 30 to July 1 on Cape Cod. Historically for ages 9-12, the tournament expanded a few years ago to include 8 year olds, and this year Canton Little League made a decision to send an 8-year-old team […]
