Archive for April, 2010

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   Look out Norwood, here comes Walpole.
   With their deep and outstanding pitching the Mustangs have to be a preseason favorite to win the Bay State Herget softball title.
   Experience and RJ Maturo’s ability to find the components to reload make the Milton Wildcats a threat as well, but both teams have to keep an eye in their rear-view mirrors for the charging Rebels.
   Among other things the Rebels have their usual strong fielding and control pitching, but what they seem to have added this year is what they’ve needed most in recent season” a consistent offense.
   Saturday’s jamboree at North Attleboro High School proved that as hitters up and down the line-up were making contact and moving base runners along.
   Granted the Rebels don’t have prodigious power, but they’ve improved at “hitting them where they ain’t,” as Wee Willie Keeler once said.
   That lack, where the whole line-up stopped hitting in unison, was the downfall of more than one recent …

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   For the Bay State League, there’s probably nothing more disturbing than realizing that Walpole High has the tightest infield in the league.
   Unless it’s the possibility that the guys that the starters beat out for their spots could be the second best infield in the Bay State League.
   What the opposition is going to have to deal with though, is what could be one of the best fielding and deepest teams ever at Walpole High.
   There was not one position on the field at Bird School that was not hotly contested, and Coach Bill Tompkins loves seeing that.
   What he also always loves to see is a team that doesn’t hand away runs and features strong pitching, and he’s got that as well. In fact Tompkins has a team, based on injury factors, what the opposition will do and if the hitting is there when he needs it, that could reclaim the Bay State Herget title.
   Even scarier is that Walpole …

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  Can the Walpole High boys’ track team defend its title with the graduation of the state’s top sprinter and New England’s tops hurdler?
   Coach Tim Giblin thinks so, and if they do, the Rebels have a chance to do what few Walpole High boys have ever done in any sport – three-peat.
   If the boys win they’ll be up there with the football, hockey and baseball programs in terms of dominance in the Bay State Herget.
   It won’t be easy, however, as it never is in the balanced Herget. Milton, which won the league this winter, will be bolstered by the addition of athletes from the powerhouse basketball team, while Natick and Wellesley are making strides toward regaining their prominence in the sport.
Norwood has always come up with good athletes, especially in the jumps and throws, and Dedham has been adding numbers to its roster. Suffice it to say that if the Rebels do three-peat, they’ll earn it.
   They will, however, have to overcome the graduation of state 100-meter champion Vinnie Lee, now at Tufts, and New England hurdling …