Wednesday, January 1, 2020

It's a Happy New Year in Bulldog Country

It's been a great start to the 2019-20 season for Bulldog fans. Lot's to cheer about! Here is an update on each of our Winter Sports teams as 2019 hands things off to 2020.

The Girls Hockey team is off to a blazing and perfect start to the season as a busy December schedule resulted in a 6-0 start.  The team has scored 26 goals while only allowing 3 to this point- an amazing stat.  The team has been paced by the goal scoring of freshmen Olivia Maffeo (8 goals, 2 assists) and the providing of assists by Maria Femia ( 2 goals, 7 assists).

The Boys Hockey team is also unbeaten after five games (they are taking the ice at Smithfield, RI as I publish this post), with 3 wins and 2 ties against top-class competition.  The highlight of the young season may have come in a 3-3 tie with D1 State Champion Duxbury as the 'dogs scored twice in the final 1:10 of the game to earn a gutsy 3-3 tie.

The Girls Basketball team finds itself sitting at 1-1 after a light December schedule. The team defeated Attleboro to kick things off before falling to D1 Central Champion Franklin. The silver lining in the Franklin game was the 'dogs kept their high powered offense to about 20 points under their average.

The Indoor Track teams are off to a great start, and breaking records along the way.  Although both teams have not earned a full team win yet, there have been many person best performances and many athletes ranked in the top 10 in the Hockomock League. On the Boys side, junior Jonathan Chery set a new school record in the 55 meter dash in the first meet with a blaxing 6.68 which ranks him #1 in the Hock and top 10 in Massachusetts. Our boys 4x200 of Deyontai Dennis, Cam Sanchez, Zach Goldstein and Chery recently broke the school record with a time of 1:33.97, winning the MSTCA Speed Classic Invitational and ranking them #1 in the Hock and 4th in the state! On the Girls side, senior Bronwyn Mahoney continues to impress with a career best throw in the shot put of 33'6.25" ranking her #1 in the Hock!

The Gymnastics team sits at 0-1 after falling to Franklin in their only meet while posting a team score of 112.  Incoming 9th graders added to a strong roster of returners resulted in a score which was the highest Bulldog score of the past two seasons. More good things to come for this group.

The Boys and Girls Swim teams are off to great starts once again this season. Both teams have already qualified relay teams for the Sectionals and States. Jessica Hart and Shana Harney have also already qualified as individuals. All of this is happening while everyone is improving their times.

The Wrestling team is off to a good start with earning a 2-2 record so far this season. Sophomore Zach Peters earned his first championship at the Marlboro Tournament while senior Eddie Marinilli became the program's first two-time Lowell Holiday Tournament Champion. Many wrest lingers earned their first varsity wins in December and the team is looking to building on that in 2020.

It's been an up and down start for the young Boys Basketball team as they have earned two big non-league contests over Southeastern Regional and Norwood, but have dropped the rest of their games. They currently sit at 2-4 with a big Davenport battle come up Friday at Stoughton.

The Cheer team will be hitting the ground running in 2020 as they get their season started.