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The Watertown Youth Lacrosse Turkey Shoot is coming up soon.
The 2015 Turkey Shoot features raffles, a silent auction, a 50/50 raffle, and trivia, will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Sons of Italy, 520 Pleasant St. in Watertown. It is also a chance to register for the 2016 season, and get information on team apparel. There will be a cash bar, and please bring your own food.
The post season begins this week for the streaking Watertown field hockey team, which seeks an eighth straight State Championship. Coach Eileen Donahue’s squad has not been beaten in 155 games and set a new national record. The streak includes a perfect 17-0 in 2015. Top seeded Watertown will have a first round bye, and then hosts with winner of the game between eight-seed Wilmington (10-6-2) and nine-seed Wayland (8-5-3). The MIAA Div.
The Raiders hit the road as the sixth seed of the state tournament, and handed Lynnfield only its second loss of the season Friday night.
Watetown went up 6-0 in the MIAA Div. 4 North Section quarterfinal when Tyler Poulin scored on a 31-yard run in the first quarter, according to the Boston Globe roundup. Then third-seeded Lynnfield scored twice in the quarter to go up 14-6. The Raiders pulled within two with a 1-yard Anthony Damato touchdown, but trailed at half 17-12 after Lynnfield hit a field goal. Watertown’s Vasken Kebabjian scored a pair of touchdowns – a 1-yard run in the third and a 4-yard run in the fourth – to pull away for the 25-17 win.
With two goals on Tuesday, Stonehill College field hockey player and WHS alumna Erika Kelly set a new Northeast-10 Conference scoring record. The senior All-America player’s 92nd goal broke the conference record of 91 goals by UMass-Lowell’s Sammy Macy. The goals came in a 4-3 loss to Merrimack. A 3-0 win over Mystic Valley at Victory Field earned Watertown a trip to the state tournament. WHS Girl’s Soccer Team Makes Tourney
Hannah Cook scored the first goal with five minutes left in the first half, and junior captain Sidar Akisik added two more for the Raiders, according to the report on Wicked Local Watertown. While Coach Kaz Keuchkarian’s team struggled for wins this season, the Watertown earned the postseason berth after finishing at the .500 mark against Div.
The Raiders made it back to the State Football Tournament for the third straight year and will face Lynnfield of the Cape Ann League. Watertown (4-3) will play at Lynnfield (6-1) at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 in the quarterfinals of the MIAA Div. 4 North Tournament. The Raiders got the sixth seed, and Lynnfield is the third seed.
The Watertown football team looks headed to the MIAA Div. 4 playoffs for the third year in a row after the Raiders beat Stoneham Friday at Victory Field. In a key game for the playoff picture, the Middlesex League contest was a back and forth affair, with junior quarterback Deon Smith providing the late heroics. Watertown fell behind in the first quarter, but in the third quarter, Raiders’ quarterback Deon Smith put the Raiders ahead 7-6 with a 6-yard touchdown run. Zach Rimsa scored on his own 6-yard run in the third to give the Raiders a 14-6 lead.
The Watertown Youth Softball teams wrapped up their fall season during a weekend in which they had to wrap up tight to beat the cold. The 10U, 12U and 14U Fast-Pitch softball teams finished their Fall Season this past weekend. With morning temperatures in the 30’s and slowly warming to the low 40’s the girls competed with the Wellesley Raiders in double-header action on the frost covered fields. The 10U girls lost the twin-bill but had two very competitive games going 7-5 and 5-3. The 12U girls were able to finish their season with two ‘W’s in a slugfest with scores of 16-15 and 13-12.
Watertown’s field hockey players hugged and danced on the field after setting a new national record for the most straight unbeaten games by a high school team Wednesday afternoon, but they were also quick to acknowledge the players that game before them. After beating Melrose 6-0 and extending their unbeaten streak to 154 games, the Raiders invited all the former players in the stands to come down to pose with them for the throngs of media at Victory Field. They came in droves, some with children in hand. Coach Eileen Donahue was glad to see her former players in attendance. “Once you are a Watertown player, you are always a Watertown player,” Donahue said.