On Saturday, July 22, the Canton Junior League baseball team won the Massachusetts Junior League state championship by defeating Whitman in a best-of-three series at Horgan Field in Oxford. Canton got to the championship by defeating Gloucester in extra innings in the sectional finals earlier in the week, sending Canton to the state championship for […]
It was an all-Canton finish atop the race leaderboard as Louis Raffetto returned to win his third Canton July 4th Road Race in 29:20 while Susan Thompson placed first among women runners and second overall with a time of 33:41. Raffetto didn’t break any records this year as his 2016 record of 28:42 still stands. […]
The following all-star selections appeared in the June 29 issue as part of the Canton Citizen’s annual spring sports wrap-up. Boys MVP Jake Wolicki (Tennis) A junior captain and a two-time All-Hockomock selection, Wolicki was sensational throughout the 2017 tennis season, dominating the majority of his opponents in the No. 1 singles spot and leading […]
As a former Division I hockey All-American whose career reached the upper levels of the minor leagues, Steve Wood knows a thing or two about passion, drive and commitment, and all those other little intangibles that are essential to chasing one’s dreams. Yet the Canton father of three would also be the first to admit […]
With a 7-2 record and a win last week over previously unbeaten Braintree, the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team is off to a great start. It’s not one player excelling but the entire squad made up of Canton, Sharon, and Stoughton players chipping in with key hits, defensive plays, or helping out on […]
Canton native and NCAA Division III national basketball champion Matthew Droney has joined the Vassar College men’s basketball coaching staff as a full-time assistant for the 2017-18 season. The appointment makes Droney, at age 23, one of the youngest full-time assistant college basketball coaches in the country. A 2017 graduate of Babson College, the former Catholic […]
The Canton A’s evened their record at 8-8 and are right in the thick of a playoff chase after winning three of four games in Cranberry Baseball League action last week. The A’s defeated Quincy 11-8 last week and swept Whitman on the road on Sunday, 8-0 and 6-1. In all three wins, the A’s […]
In a week in which the weather kept getting in the way, the Canton High boys tennis team managed to keep its composure and eke out a victory in the Division 2 south sectional tournament, knocking off Medway 3-2 on the road in a match that took parts of three days to complete. The opening […]
The boys 4×400 relay team and senior Mohammad Sambo were Canton High’s highest finishers in the Division 3 Eastern Mass. Championship Meet held Sunday in Burlington. The relay team finished fifth overall with a season-best time of 3:32.23 behind John Guenthner, Shane Graham, Sambo, and Colin Milne. Sambo finished seventh overall in the 400m with […]
Junior pitcher Robbie Wilkinson scattered eight hits and limited Sharon batters to one run as the CHS baseball team won its fifth game with a 7-1 victory over the Eagles last week. This marked the third consecutive start that Wilkinson has allowed one run or less and he is now among the leaders in the […]
