Despite mother nature's reluctance to cooperate, the Spring athletic season started off this week with all of our teams seeing action.
Boys Lacrosse earns gutsy win in home opener- Wednesday saw the Boys Lacrosse team begin its Hock Davenport title defense as they hosted the Mansfield Hornets. The Boys played timid through much of the first 3 quarters of the game and trailed 5-2 at that point. However, something caught the attention of the squad in the final quarter as they ran off 4 straight goals, the final one coming from Tom Galvin with less than 20 seconds remaining to lead the Bulldogs to a heroic 6-5 win over the Hornets. The team couldn't capture the momentum from that win on Friday as they fell in their second game against Norwell.
Girls Lacrosse ties up Kelley-Rex power Mansfield- The Girls Lax team found themselves down 12-9 on the road at the half on Wednesday to the powerful Mansfield Hornets, but the team showed no quit and gutted out an impressive 17-17 draw. Sam Sullivan (4), Kellie Stigas (2), Jackie Merrigan (6), and Mary McNeil were multiple goal-scorers on the day.
Girls Tennis have up and down week- The first opponent of the season couldn't have been more difficult for the Girls Tennis team as they hosted Kelley-Rex power North Attleboro on Tuesday. The team fell 4-1 to the Red Rocketeers. Thursday saw the squad travel to Attleboro to face the Blue Bombardeers and this time the 4-1 score would be in favor of the Bulldogs. Erika Nannery led the way for Canton with two wins at first singles this week.
Track teams fall to Foxboro despite some great performances- The Boys and Girls Track teams traveled to Foxboro on Thursday to face the Warriors in the opening track meet of the season.
The Girls team fell 76-60. Standouts on the Girls' side were Rachel Campagana, who scored in all 4 of her events including first place in the long jump (qualifying for the states). Alana Murphy won both the shot put and the discuss setting new PR's in both. Freshman Selena Cho was impressive in here debut, placing in 3 events.
The Boys fell 96-40. Liam Collins won both the mile and 800- his first mile of the season was 2 seconds faster than his best from last year. Aaron Faber placed 2nd in both the shot put and discus- both performances much better than his previous best efforts. Joe Clancy won the 2 mile in a new PR as well.
Softball team starts off season- The softball team started off 0-2 vs. NA and Attleboro. With 4 of the starting 9 new to Varsity softball much progress has been made in just the first 3 weeks of practice and now games.
Next week will feature the annual charity double header against Boston Latin Academy. On Saturday at 10 and 12. Come on down and buy some baked goods, pizza and drinks for a great cause and watch the lady dogs try to win 2 games. This year's theme is Catch it for the Cravens and the money will be donated in memory of longtime Canton athletic supporter Mr. Cravens.
Baseball and Boys Tennis in search of first wins- The Baseball and Boys Tennis teams were winless in 4 combined contests this week. Both teams will look for that elusive first win this week.
