Sports

Watertown Basketball, Hockey Teams Get Ready for Home Openers

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The Watertown winter sports teams will have quite a time coming up with a better encore for the 2015-16 season, after the boys hockey team won its first state title and the girls basketball team made it to the Garden for the EMass final. 

The Raiders hockey and basketball teams will hold their home openers this weekend, with the hoops squads tipping off Friday and the pucksters teams hitting the ice on Saturday. Both sports opened their seasons on the road this week, but only one of four teams came away with a win. Hockey
The defending Div. 3 State Champion boys hockey team is ranked 22nd in the ESPN Boston poll and has experienced forward lines, but an inexperienced defense and goalie. The Raiders fell on the road to Arlington by a score of 6-2 on Wednesday night.

Cross Country

Two Raider Athletes Excelling in College, See Who Made the League All-Stars

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Two Watertown High School grads have found success on the college athletic fields this fall. 

Former Raiders quarterback Joey Farrar has switched sides of the line of scrimmage and “is now wreaking havoc for his opponents on defense playing in the safety spot” at Salve Regina according to the profile on Wicked Local Watertown written by Frank Santarpio. Farrar made 47 tackles and four interceptions for the Seahawks, who went 8-2 and won an ECAC bowl game. Over at Babson College, former Watertown field hockey goalie Kayla Costa has enjoyed her time on the field and off. She started her junior and senior year, and was named to the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Div. III All-America Second Team after giving up only 10 goals and going 17-3 this year, according to a story on story on Wicked Local Watertown by Scott Souza.

Sports

Watertown’s Kennedy Named Field Hockey Player of the Year, 2 Others All-Scholastic

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The Boston Globe named Watertown’s Kourtney Kennedy the Div. 2 field hockey player of the year. 

The junior has scored 69 goals and added 66 assists in her career, and helped the Raiders capture their seventh-straight State Championship and set the national record for consecutive games unbeaten (now 160). She has already committed to play field hockey at UConn. The Globe also named senior Ally McCall to their All-Scholastics list. The University of Vermont-bound player ended her career with 29 goals and 21 assists.

Sports

Erika Kelly Ends College Field Hockey Career With A Number of Honors

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Stonehill College senior and All-America forward Erika Kelly, of Watertown, has collected two more Player of the Year honors as the postseason awards season for field hockey is in full swing, according to Stonehill College Athletics. Kelly, who became the Stonehill field hockey’s first Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Year this season, has been named the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II East Region Player of the Year for the second straight year, and has also collected Division II Offensive Player of the Year honors from Synapse Sports for the first time. Kelly was the first Stonehill field hockey player to collect regional player of the year honors when she was named the award recipient as a junior. Kelly, the first three-time first team All-American in program history, is also one of two student-athletes in program history to collect first team All-NE-10 honors three years. She was the top scorer in Division II this fall with 65 points, scoring a Division II high 27 goals to go with 11 assists to rank third nationally.

Sports

Watertown Softball Heads Indoor to Play Ball During Winter

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Stormy weather does not keep the Watertown Youth Softball players from getting in some games. 

Youth Softball sent out the following announcement:

Indoor Softball season is underway and our 14U and 16U Raiders are off to a great start. The 14U club currently stands at 2-1 while the 16U gals are holding onto a 3-1 record. The 14U Winter Raiders are Haley Bass, Jacquie Furbish, Stella Papadopoulos, Alyssa Carroll, Amelia Doyle, Christine Zhu, Molly Egan and Gianna Sciarappa. Missing from the photo is Knar Krafian, Grace Shanley and Mairead Walsh. The 16U Winter Raiders are Grace Deraney, Jacquie Furbish, Courtney Sollis, Stella Papadopoulos, Sam Arseneau, Gianna Sciarappa, Julianna McGovern, Kate Cardarelli, Molly Egan, Lane Ward and Jillian Girard.

Sports

See the Watertown High School Winter Sports Schedules

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The winter sports season is about to kick off, and Watertown High School will look to have another successful year. Last year, the boys hockey team won the state championship and the girls basketball team got to the EMass final at the Garden. Boys Basketball
(Home Games at WHS Gym, 50 Columbia St.)
Tuesday, Dec. 15, 5 p.m. Away @ Arlington
Friday, Dec. 18, 5 p.m. Home vs Winchester
Monday, Dec.

Around Town

See Photos from the 10th Annual Donohue’s Turkey Trot

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The weather on Thanksgiving morning was perfect for a nice run around Watertown – and more than 800 showed up at Donohue’s Bar & Grill to do just that at the 10th annual Turkey Trot. The Turkey Day tradition raises money for the Watertown Boys & Girls Club. The winner of the race was 19-year-old Roger Lacroix of Waltham who ran the 5K race in a time of 16:45. He finished just three seconds ahead of Watertown’s Jason Dunklee. For the second year in a row, Michelle Taverner, 28, of Winchester, was the top female finisher.

Sports

Last Minute Field Goal Lifts Watertown Over Belmont on Thanksgiving

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Watertown’s 24-22 win over Belmont wasn’t pretty, but a Thanksgiving Day win is always satisfying. 

The Raiders (7-4) let an 11 point second half lead slip away, and seemed like they were heading for defeat at their hands of their archrivals after Watertown failed to convert on fourth down and Belmont (4-7) began running out the clock. Watertown finally stopped the Marauders and got the ball back at its own 19 with 1:45 left in the fourth quarter. broadstreet.zone(17399);

Junior quarterback Deon Smith drove the Raiders to the Belmont 18. Along the way avoiding turnovers twice – first falling on his own fumble and then a Belmont defender dropped an interception in the end zone. On came Watertown kicker Conor Kennelly with 18 seconds left. He split the uprights and had plenty of length to spare.