Around Town

Sign Up Open for the Challenger Baseball, a League Designed for Children with Special Needs

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Registration is now open for a baseball program in Watertown for children with special needs that begins in the spring. Organizers sent out the following announcement:

The Watertown Challenger Division, sponsored by Mount Auburn Hospital, is a division of Little League baseball especially designed for boys and girls ages 8-22 with special needs. Join us in our sixth year of providing this wonderful opportunity for everyone to be a part of a team and community! The Challenger Division program is dedicated to providing children of varying experiences and abilities to have fun learning to play baseball while also providing a chance to be part of a team in their community! Along with their baseball skills, all children will work on social pragmatics, team collaboration, and much more!

Basketball

Watertown Basketball Team Dominates in First Round State Tourney Win

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The Watertown High School boys basketball team came out for warmups for the first round State Tournament game Tuesday night wearing shirts emblazoned with “#SLEEPER.” After the 77-32 win over Essex Tech, however, it will hard for opponents not to take notice of the Raiders. 

Senior center John Korte said the shirts were inspired by Boston Herald high school sports writer Danny Ventura, who called the Raiders a sleeper in the MIAA Div. 3 North bracket. “It was kind of a fireback, because we think we are the best team in D3 North and we wanted to show that, like we did tonight,” Korte said. “And, also, I feel like outside Watertown people don’t really believe in us to be able to go very far –especially with the seventh seed.”

Sports

Watertown Runner Shows He can Compete With the Best in Massachusetts

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Watertown junior sprinter Mange Camara ran against the best high school competition Saturday in the All-State Meet and showed he was among the elite. In the 55-meter dash Camara got to the finals at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center. He ran a 6.65, which got him eight place. He was a little off his personal best and school record time of 6.58, last week at the Div. 5 Meet.

Basketball

Watertown Boys Basketball Team Grabs Home Game in First Round of State Tourney

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As Watertown High School’s boys basketball team tries to return to the State Semifinal for a second straight year, the Raiders will host a first round game in the MIAA State Tournament on Tuesday. 

The Raiders, who finished 14-6, earned the seventh seed in the Div. 3 North Section bracket, which was released Friday. Watertown will host 10th seed Essex Tech (10-10) at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27. The winner of the Watertown-Essex Tech game will likely face second seeded Lynnfield (17-3), which takes on Swampscott in the first round.

Basketball

Watertown Boys Hoops Team Waits for State Tourney Seed After 46-Point Win

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Senior center John Korte scored 34 points for the Raiders in just three quarters to lead the Watertown High School boys basketball team to an 81-35 victory over visiting Boston United on Tuesday afternoon. The Raiders now await the release of the MIAA tournament brackets to see if they can make another deep run in the Div. 3 playoffs. With the win, Watertown finished the regular season with a 14-6 record. The team has won three straight and six out of the last seven, giving head coach Steve Harrington somethings to be optimistic about.

Sports

Watertown High Grad Receives College All-Conference Hoops Honors

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The Commonwealth Coast Conference announced its all-conference women’s basketball teams and one of those honored was a Watertown High School graduate. 

Senior Gabriella Coppola, a guard at Endicott College, was named to the All-CCC second team. Coppola averaged 10.3 points per game for the Gulls this season and also led the team in assists per game with 4.9, according to Endicott Athletics. Earlier in the season, she moved into second place on the all-time career assists list at Endicott and currently sits at 370 total assists. Coppola has recorded 12 double-digit scoring efforts throughout the season as well. Endicott (14-4) earned the No.

Dean's List

310 Endicott College Athletes Make Dean’s List, Including One from Watertown

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A total of 310 Endicott College club and varsity student-athletes have been named to the 2017 Fall Semester Dean’s List for obtaining a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.50 in the fall semester, including Watertown’s Gabriella Coppola who plays basketball for the Gulls. 

All 21 Endicott varsity programs and all seven club programs are represented throughout the list, Endicott Athletics announced. The breakdown of student-athletes named to the Dean’s List is solely based on the information provided by the Endicott Athletics Compliance Office, which reflects grades posted as of February 12, 2018. The list provided by the Endicott Athletics Compliance Office is subject to change at any time. NOTE: In order to qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must obtain a minimum grade point average of 3.5, receive no grade below a “C”, have no withdrawal grades, and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits for the semester. See the full list of athletes from Endicott who made the Dean’s list by clicking here.