Archive for April, 2009

From the Wicked Local Walpole website:

   The Walpole High girls’ lacrosse team finally got its biggest test of the season thus far when it hosted Middlesex League power Reading at Turco Field yesterday, and although the Rebels suffered their first defeat of the season (against seven wins) they more than proved they belonged.
   Only their lack of experience on defense, compared to the veteran Reading team that gave Div. 1 North champion Framingham fits in last year’s state tourney, was the difference in an 8-7 loss.
   The difference in experience showed in the second half when the Rockets kept getting the ball back in Walpole’s end after shots and misconnected passes, thus keeping the ball in the Rebels’ end for long stretches of time.
   Although they got the ball back repeatedly, however, the Rockets had as much trouble scoring on Walpole in the second half as the Rebels had in clearing them out of their zone. Between hitting the post three times, getting stopped point blank …

From the Wicked Local Walpole website:

   Last year it was the defending league champion Wellesley boys’ lacrosse team that was hearing footsteps getting inexorably closer, footsteps that eventually overtook and trampled them as Walpole won its first-ever Bay State Herget title.
This year, it’s the Raider girls.
   One third of the way through the season both the Wellesley and Walpole High girls, off to their best start in program history, sit deadlocked atop the Herget with identical 7-0 records.
   Granted the upstart Rebels still haven’t seen the league iron, and the powerful Raiders have been stingy with goals allowed (5 or fewer in 5 of those games), but the mere record itself has to have Wellesley at least thinking about Walpole. Especially since the teams will be having a showdown this Monday (April 27, 3:45PM) in Wellesley.
   The main difference between the teams at this point might be experience, but the Rebels have shown signs of catching up in that department, especially in their own zone. After surrendering nine goals each to Braintree and Newton North, two struggling teams, to start the season, the Rebels finished the week of play by …

From the Wicked Local Walpole website:

    The Norfolk Agricultural Summer Enrichment Program, located in Walpole, is now accepting applications for session one, July 6 to July 10 and session two, July 13 to July 17.
    The Aggie summer camp is safe, nurturing, fun and educational. The beautiful 365-acre campus at 400 Main St. is a fantastic setting for a unique program for children ages 7 through 13 (or entering 8th grade in the fall). It is a great opportunity for your child to have a positive experience learning and working with dedicated and knowledgeable staff in a picturesque, rolling farm setting, including the school’s classrooms, fields, forests, three ponds, streams and barns. 
    If you are interested in registering or obtaining more information contact camp director B.J. Caouette at 508-668-0268 ext. 205 or email: summercamp@norfolkaggie.org.
    The school’s website is at: www.norfolkaggie.org
 

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From the Wicked Local Walpole website:

   While the Massachusetts High School baseball season officially began at the beginning of April, for perennial Bay State Herget challengers and archrivals Walpole and Norwood, it doesn’t really begin until they face each other for the first time.
   That happened on Friday at Walpole’s Eldracher Field and as usual, it was a thrilling nail-biter which the defending league champion Rebels took by a 6-5 score. The game had everything. Along with excellent pitching, the teams added great fielding, including outstanding plays by both shortstops, Walpole’s Sonny Mastromatteo and Norwood’s Brian Williams. However there were also struggles afield as Norwood committed five errors and had trouble on the mound in the decisive ninth. There were also three calls that could have gone either way, including a photo finish foot race to the first base bag when Walpole hurler Kyle Meredith fielded a ball in the infield.
   Like the vast majority of meetings between the two the past decade, it was close from start to finish, keeping a large crowd glued …