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Once again, Walpole has enjoyed the annual summer Porker field hockey camp, which got its start under retired Hall of Fame coach Penny Calf and continues to thrive under current Walpole High Head Coach Marianne Murphy, who took the camp over 11 years ago when Calf stepped down as Porker head coach.

Numbers were down a little from last year, but not by much, an impressive feat based on the facts that the camp still is almost mainly comprised of Walpole residents (although they don’t necessarily have to be) and that the nation is still in an economic downturn.

This year’s camp brought out 118 eager young ladies, four from out of town, who spent over a week on Turco Field learning techniques from current and former Porkers, many of them now Div. 1 intercollegiate stars, playing supervised and referred games and participating in skills contests that not only offered gold, silver and bronze medals to the most polished, but also gave coaches, parents and fans a glimpse at future high school field …