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Two Watertown Teams Playing for North Section Titles This Weekend

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Raiders fans have a busy weekend, with two teams playing in North Section finals – the boys’ hockey team and the girl’s basketball team. Friday night, the Watertown boys’ hockey team faces Bedford at the Chelmsford Forum in the MIAA Div. 3 North Section final. The puck drops at 6:30 p.m.

Follow Watertown News’ Twitter – @WatertownMANews – for live updates from this weekends games! Watertown head coach Mike Hayes said his team has really come together this year.

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Watertown Girls Hoops Books Trip to Section Final by Beating Belmont

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Lowell’s Tsongas Center is becoming a familiar place for the Watertown girls’s basketball team, which will play there for the third straight year in the North Section final after defeating Belmont Wednesday night. The top-seeded Raiders (20-0) beat their rivals for the second time this year, but the fifth seeded Marauders (16-7) did not go quietly. Watertown head coach Patrick Ferdinand expected a tough game in the Div. 2 North Section semifinal at Mystic Valley in Malden. “(Belmont) did a really good job adjusting,” Ferdinand said.

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Watertown/Belmont Girls Hockey Ends Season in State Quarterfinal

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The Watertown/Belmont girls hockey team ran into a tough Austin Prep squad and the Maraiders fell in the quarterfinals of the MIAA Div. 1 tournament for the second straight year. The two teams skated evenly and ended the first period of the game at Woburn’s O’Brien Arena tied 0-0. The fifth seeded Cougars (17-2-3) came out in the second and pressured fourth seeded Watertown/Belmont coop team. Maraider freshman goalie Jonna Kennedy (in her second year after starting as an eighth grader) made several saves before Austin Prep’s Meghan Hanlon scored from point blank range on a pass from Kylie Currier with 12:23 left in the second period.

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Watertown Going Where Few Raider Boys Hockey Teams Have Gone

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The Raiders dominated Wayland most of the game in the 4-1 MIAA Div. 3 North Section semifinal win reached a round that Watertown has not visited in decades. Watertown (13-3-2) fell behind early Tuesday evening at the Chelmsford Forum, but junior Nick Martino tied the score less than three minutes later with 6:25 left in the first with an unassisted goal. Junior Tyler Gardiner scored the first of his two goals 4:22 into the second period when he took a pass from junior Tyler Poulin and beat Wayland goalie Andrew Ludwig with a backhand move. The goal provided some redemption for Gardiner and the Raiders who fell last year in the same round to Wayland 1-0 in overtime.

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Big Week for 2 Watertown Hockey Teams & Girls Basketball Team

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Three Raiders teams will play to go deep into their respective MIAA state tournaments on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

The boys’ hockey team begins Tuesday with revenge on the players’ minds. Watertown faces Wayland, the squad that eliminated the Raiders in overtime last year in the same round – the section semifinals. The game will be at 5:10 p.m. at the Chelmsford Forum. A win gives them a birth in the Div. 3 North Section semifinals, back at the Chelmsford Forum on Friday at 6:30 p.m. against the winner of the Bedford-Weston game.

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Watertown/Belmont Girls Hockey Skates Into State Quarterfinals

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Goals by senior captain Erin McLaughlin and sophomore Aurora Fidler provided the margin of victory as the Watertown/Belmont combined high schools girls’ ice hockey team skated by a resilient Andover High School (19-3-1) squad in a first round match in the Division 1 state championship tournament at Watertown’s Ryan Arena on Saturday. “It was a very exciting game. Maybe too exciting. But we got one under our belts,” said Watertown/Belmont Head Coach Steve Russo to the Belmontonian as his 4th-ranked team advances to the MIAA Div. 1 quarterfinals where it will meet fifth-seed Austin Prep of Reading.

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Watertown Boys Hockey Team Rolls Into Section Semifinals

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Watertown’s boys hockey team routed Northeast Regional Friday afternoon and moved on to the semifinals of a wide open Div. 3 North Section tournament. The Raiders led 1-0 after one period and then netted two more in the second against the No. 2 seeded team. The game at Chelmsford Forum ended 4-1, improving seventh seeded Watertown’s record to 12-3-7.

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Watertown Girls Hoops Holds Off Tewksbury, Sets Up Clash with Belmont

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{Note: the day of the next girls’ basketball game has been changed, see below}

The Raiders girls basketball squad held on to defeat a pesky Tewksbury Thursday night and now have a clash with their rivals in the MIAA Div. 2 North Section semifinals. Undefeated and top seeded Watertown trailed at halftime, 21-19, to eighth seeded Tewksbury (13-9), and led by just one after three quarters Thursday, according to the Lowell Sun. The Raiders, who were led by Shannon Murphy’s 15 points, pulled away to win the section quarterfinal 49-45, according to the Boston Globe report. The Raiders (19-0) now have a rematch with Belmont, the team they beat on the opening day of the season in December.