Over 100 local runners braved the pre-downpours of Hurricane Arthur and in some cases set new records amidst threatening skies in the 47th running of the Canton July 4th Road Race. Louis Raffetto, 32, of Canton, set a modern-day course record with a time of 28:52 in the five-mile race. Andrea Widberg, 39, a Kennedy […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team rebounded last week with a 4-2 record and remerged as a playoff contender. However, Canton (6-8) will still have to overtake two other teams, Holbrook (9-5) and Stoughton (8-7), in order to have a chance at one of the four playoff spots in the division. There were […]
The Canton Citizen released its 2014 spring sports wrap-up issue this week and the following CHS athletes were recognized as Citizen All Stars: Boys’ MVP Ben Lodge A senior captain, Lodge was named to his second straight Hockomock League all-star team after another outstanding season in the cage for the Bulldogs. He stopped 66.2 percent […]
Canton High School alumnus Pat Ward has committed to Assumption College, where he will play lacrosse and hockey. Ward, a 2013 CHS graduate and a former Bulldog hockey and lacrosse captain, recently completed a post-graduate year at the Kents Hill School in Maine. Ward had a tremendous four-year experience at CHS. As a freshman, Ward’s last-second goal […]
Ian Walsh is a Canton Little League pitcher whose statistics in the 2014 season were among the most impressive in the league. Walsh joined the Athletics team in April after never having played organized baseball, and just a few months later he was selected to play in the All Star game. “He’s very humble, quiet, […]
Craig Breslow, a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, spent an hour on Saturday. May 31, speaking to the Little Leaguers of Canton about playing Major League Baseball, winning a World Series, and his Strike 3 Foundation, which raises money and awareness for pediatric cancer. Breslow spoke for about 30 minutes on his journey […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team opened the 2014 summer season with high hopes after an exciting end to last season. The 2013 team advanced to the south sectional playoffs — the furthest the squad has gone in team history, after finishing 13-11 in the regular season and upsetting Foxboro 3-0 and Easton […]
The CHS girls’ tennis team closed out the 2014 campaign with a 10-9 record, following a tough loss to Duxbury in the first round of the state tournament. Senior captain Erika Nannery concluded her CHS tennis career with another impressive shutout at first singles. Nannery, who hasn’t lost a single match in the Hockomock League […]
Canton A’s head coach Kee Arguimbau is optimistic that his team will be as good if not better than last year with the return of several top veterans and the addition of some talented newcomers. The team already has its first Cranberry League win after beating Rockland 8-1 in the season opener. Last year, the […]
The CHS girls’ track team wrapped up the 2014 season on Saturday as several team members competed in the Division 3 sectionals held in Pembroke. “We had pretty good results in Pembroke,” said head coach Dan Ashman. “The times and distances may not look great, but almost every girl finished better than where they were seeded on […]
