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Champs & record holders: Meet the 2024 Boys Basketball Player of the Year and Super Team
It was a year to remember for SouthCoast boys basketball as Wareham became just the third local program to win back-to-back state titles as the Vikings defended their Div. 4 state title by beating Bourne. Old Rochester reached the Div. 3 state finals after getting to the semifinals in 2023 despite almost an entirely new starting lineup. ...
High School Roundup: Highlights from Monday and the weekend
Liam Monahan fired six scoreless innings and his offense provided ample support as the Clippers completed a season sweep of the Oakers. Luke Plumer drilled a two-run double in the top of the first to get it started and the visitors took off from there. Two-run singles by Josh Lyon and Tyler Hurteau in the top of the sixth help put away what was a 3-0 game.
ABC6 ‘Runs for Brayden’ at Rhode Island Half Marathon
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Members of the ABC6 News staff and more than a thousand others laced up their sneakers for the inaugural Rhode Island Half Marathon and 5K Sunday morning at Pierce Memorial Stadium. Two members of our news team ran in the 5K race, and two...
Case softball clinches SCC title, Durfee baseball wins again: Top performers (May 20-25)
SWANSEA — It was a special day for the defending Division 4 state champion Case softball team. The Cardinals offically clinched the South Coast Conference championship on Monday after grinding out an 8-4 win over Somerset Berkley at Brown Elementary School in Swansea. Lila Alvarez collected the win in the circle for Case (16-1),...
Softball Recap: Caleigh Cloonan leads a balanced attack to beat Greater New Bedford RVT
Dighton-Rehoboth Regional had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 9.3 runs), and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. They came out on top against the Greater New Bedford RVT Bears by a score of 7-2. That's more bragging rights for Dighton-Rehoboth Regional, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
A step ahead: The 2023-24 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Indoor Track All-Scholastics
Another high school indoor track season came and went in the Greater Taunton area. Bridgewater-Raynham (2-0, 2-0 Southeast Conference) led the way locally, finishing third at the SEC Championship while Taunton (1-4, 1-4 Hockomock) had some strong performers and finished fifth at the Hockomock Championship and Dighton-Rehoboth (0-2, 0-2 South Coast Conference) finished fourth at the SCC Championship. ...
Vote: 26 Softball players up for Herald News Player of the Week for May 13-18
FALL RIVER — Twenty-six softball players from the Fall River area have been placed on the Player of the Week ballot. This poll is for performances from May 13-18. Supporters of the schools — Atlantis Charter, Case, Diman, Durfee, Somerset Berkley and Westport — and student-athletes can visit heraldnews.com to vote for the person of their choice. ...
Double Header: Spotlight on two-sport varsity athletes
Nearly 1,000 students play a varsity sport at Dartmouth, each of them dedicating significant time and energy to their respective sports. Among them lies an even smaller community of 43 athletes who take their talents to two separate sports. Three athletes discussed the social, mental and physical balance that comes...
Can't Touch This: Patriots, Sea Dog Hurlers Combine for 29 Strikeouts
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - The Somerset Patriots fell to the Portland Sea Dogs 2-1 on Saturday night in game five of a six-game series at TD Bank Ballpark before a season high attendance of 6,581. Somerset’s bullpen trio of Kevin Stevens (1.1 IP), Josh Maciejewski (1 IP), and Jack Neely (1 IP) combined to throw 3.1 shutout IP of relief allowing two hits while striking out six. Starter Bailey Dees, Stevens, Maciejewski, and Neely combined to strike out 14 Sea Dogs, marking Somerset’s third double-digit strikeout performance over the first five games of the series. The Sea Dog pitching staff...
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