Turnpike Café, which finished fifth in the regular season with a record of 5-8, went 3-0 on championship Sunday to win the Canton Men’s Over 30 Softball League title. Turnpike Café beat Loughran Electric and Emma’s Pub — the top two teams in the regular season — to take the championship. Turnpike co-manager Ryan Shaughnessy […]
On Tuesday, August 13, the American Legion Post 24 honored its regular and junior baseball teams at an end-of-season banquet and awards ceremony held at the Canton Town Club. Both squads made the playoffs while playing exciting baseball and giving their fans a lot to cheer about throughout the season. The senior team, under head […]
Congratulations go out to Canton residents Brooke and Taylor Alessi, age 10, who were crowned 2013 Junior Tournament tennis champion and runner-up, respectively, at the Ballymeade Country Club in Falmouth. Brooke and Taylor are pictured above with their tennis instructor, Andrew Zappala. Brooke and Taylor are the granddaughters of Canton Citizen columnist Joe DeFelice.
The Canton High School athletic year officially got underway this week with the first football practice on Monday, August 19, with most other fall teams beginning practice today, Thursday, August 22. The 2013-14 year begins with many changes, including three new head coaching hires; a switch for most teams from Division 3 to Division 2, […]
Members of the Canton High School cheerleading team recently attended the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) camp held August 2-5 at Mount Ida College in Newton. This four-day camp provided opportunities for cheerleaders to learn and participate in new cheers, dances, jumps, stunts and team-bonding activities. Several Canton cheerleaders made their mark at the camp, including […]
The Canton A’s semipro baseball team recently completed an outstanding summer season, and the amazing thing, according to general manager Cab Devoll of Canton, is that the coaching staff “didn’t know what [they] had when they started the season.” Devoll helped draft the players on the current roster, which finished the regular season with a […]
On Sunday, September 8, 10 residents from Canton will walk up to 26.2 miles along the historic Boston Marathon route in the 25th anniversary of the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai. They will be among the 8,500 walkers expected to participate with the collective goal of raising more than $7 million to support lifesaving adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Since […]
Congratulations to the Southeast girls’ volleyball team, winners of the gold medal at the Bay State Summer Games. The team included three girls form Canton: Avery Devoe (back row, third from left), Olivia Devoe (front row, far left), and Jenny Weston (back row, far right). The head coach was Gary Patch.
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team advanced to the south sectional playoffs last week — the furthest the squad has gone in team history — before being eliminated with two losses in three games. Canton lost to Brockton 6-0, beat Easton 16-6 (the first-place team from District 9 North), and was ousted again […]
Congratulations to the Bulls, winners of this year’s Canton Junior League baseball championship. The Bulls put together an outstanding season, finishing with an overall record
