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Watertown High School’s girls lacrosse team will host their first round State Tournament game on May 30. The eighth-seeded Raiders will take on ninth-seeded Medway at Victory Field at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Watertown finished the regular season with a record of 11-5. Medway comes in with a record of 11-6. The winner of the Div. 2 East Section game faces top seeded Walpole in the on Thursday in the quarterfinals.
This weekend, Watertown’s Danny Loprete will take the field at Gillette Stadium with his Merrimack College teammates to play for the NCAA Div. II lacrosse national championship.
The WHS graduate is a senior on the Warriors team which will make the school’s first ever appearance in the national championship game. The midfielder and face-off man scored two goals and had two assists this year. He also won 56 of 101 face offs and 26 ground balls. Merrimack, ranked fourth nationally, beat No.
With field space difficult to find in Watertown, Recreation Director Peter Centola told the Town Council Thursday that lighting at fields is one of the main priorities for his Fiscal 2018 budget.
Some fields would get new lights, while others would get the ones already there in better working shape, Centola said. Finding practice and game time has become a problem for Watetown youth sports groups, so lights would enable the fields to be used longer. Centola noted that discussion about Phase II of the Victory Field renovation is about to start, but is not in his budget for Fiscal 2018. Updating the electrical boxes at Casey Park’s baseball field, Filippello Park and Saltonstall Park are key projects, Centola said. The three are part of one project.
After more than two and a half years, the discussion about how to renovate the track and courts area of Victory Field will begin once again.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Victory Field Renovations will meet on Wednesday, May 31 at 7 p.m. in the Council Chamber of Town Hall. The group is made up of two Town Councilors, two Town officials, and five residents representing the surrounding neighborhood and sports groups (see the members here). The committee will discuss what is being called Phase II of the Victory Field renovation. The first phase was the installation of artificial turf on the football/baseball fields at the complex. Artificial turf was among the reasons the first attempt to do Phase II stalled in October 2014.
On April 29-30, seven rhythmic gymnasts who train at Boston Rhythmic in Watertown, represented the USA by competing in an international competition in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Our Level 4 and 5 girls earned top awards across all age groups. In total, our girls brought home 14 gold medals. The competition hosted elite to beginner gymnasts from ten countries. Boston Rhythmic gymnasts attend this competition each year, because of the warm atmosphere and hospitality offered by the local citizens.
{CHANGE IN TIME: The Watertown AAU Baseball games originally scheduled for Saturday night will be moved to 11:30 a.m. at Filippello Park. No food will be served.}
Watertown Youth Baseball’s AAU teams will be playing a double header under the lights at Victory Field on Saturday night, and invite the public to come down to enjoy a cookout as part of the fundraiser. Last year, the program started a 12 and under AAU team to give Watertown players better competition, said Ken Swift, coach and founder of the AAU team. This year they added a 10 and under team. They play AAU teams from other towns and programs such as New England Blazers and Northeast Longhorns.
The Watertown Public Schools are seeking a new mascot (i.e. logo) and the Mascot Screening Committee is looking for submissions to be considered. School officials sent out the following announcement:
The Watertown Public School district has begun a process to identify and select a mascot/logo for Watertown High School. The high school has a nickname – the Raiders – and school colors – red, white and black – but it does not have an official mascot/logo. The nickname and school colors provide a common identity and connection to the traditions of the school, teams, and community. A mascot/logo adds to this by presenting a graphic image of that identity and connections.
The Watertown High School softball team is on a hot streak, with the Raiders winning their last six games. The season started with four loses, all close games, but then the squad then got on the winning track with a big comeback win over Stoneham. Down 7-1, the Raiders tied the game up and won 9-8 in extra innings. Against Northeast Regional the team again fell behind, this time 6-0, but rallied back to win 11-10. After that the team claimed victories over Weston 15-3, Marian 18-1 and Canton 16-2.