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The ASA Mass Wildcats AAU basketball team will hold tryouts for girls and boys in grades 4-11 in January. The tryouts will be held on Jan. 16 – click here to see the schedule. The girls program is led by Watertown High School girls basketball coach Pat Ferdinand, and will have tryouts at the Meadowbank School in Weston. The boys will have tryouts in a variety of locations, including Newton, Framingham and Southborough.
The Watertown boys hockey team won a high scoring affair at the John A. Ryan Arena on Wednesday night.
The Raiders took the non-league game 6-5 over visiting Westborough. The win improved Watertown’s record to 2-3 on the season. The Raiders’ next game is Saturday at 12:30 p.m. against Burlington at Ryan Arena. Herald All-Stars
Several Watertown fall season athletes made the Boston Herald’s Middlesex League All-Stars. Girls Cross Country – Katherine Tolman, Elizabeth Powderly and Janaki Thanagaraj
Boys Cross Country – James Piccirilli and Amin Touri
Football – Farid Mawanda, Stevie Mey and Deon Smith
Golf – Sean Peshier
Volleyball – Shannon Murphy
Note: The Herald did not have Middlesex League All-Stars for boys soccer, girls soccer or field hockey.
The Watertown girls basketball team won’t be able to complete another undefeated regular season after falling in the final of the Hutchinson Tournament. The Raiders lost their first game of the year 40-36 to Coyle & Cassidy (5-0) in the final of the holiday tournament in Bellingham. Watertown recovered from a slow start to pull even at the end of the first quarter, but the Raiders could never take the lead, according to the report on Wicked Local Watertown. Junior Shannon Murphy led the Raiders with 17 points. Watertown plays in the Div.
Sometime in January, Boston College hockey coach Jerry York will get his 1,000th win as a college hockey coach.
The man who grew up in Watertown and still calls the town home was featured in a long piece in the Boston Herald this week. He already has the most wins of any college hockey coach, and Boston College remains one of the best teams in the country, currently ranked No. 4. While he spent years at Clarkson and Bowling Green, York is best known for his time at the Heights, where he also attended college and played hockey. What is the key to his success? The Herald’s Ron Borges writes that it is his ability to live in the present.
Watertown-native Lauren Kelly’s hockey abilities led her to be recruited by Div. I program Northeastern, where she has become a big part of the Huskies defense. Kelly attended the Winchendon School, where she played ice hockey, soccer and softball. Now a sophomore, Kelly has become a playmaker for the Huskies, with 10 assists in 18 games for an improving Northeastern women’s hockey team. The Boston Globe interviewed Kelly, who said she benefited as a young player by competing with her sister Erika, who was better known as a Watertown field hockey star.
The Watertown basketball teams both claimed home victories Wednesday night in a day full of action for the Raiders. The boys basketball team grabbed its first win of the year. Watertown beat visiting Burlington 57-43 and improved to 1-3. The Raiders will return to the WHS Gym on Jan. 2 to take on Waltham at 7 p.m.
Senior forward Felicia Korte scored 11 points to help the Raiders girls basketball team beat Burlington 43-27.
Former Watertown field hockey standout Erika Kelly continued to star in college, and in her senior year the Stonehill College player was named the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II National Player of the Year. Kelly wracked up some stellar statistics for the Skyhawks, scoring 98 goals and 21 assists – for a total of 217 points. Her goal-scoring was the second highest in NCAA Div. II ever, and sets the mark as the highest scoring player all-time in the Northeast-10 Conference. She is one of just five players ever to eclipse the 200 point mark.
Saturday was a day of celebration for the Watertown High School hockey teams as they each unveiled championship banners, but the day’s games did not leave the teams in a cheery mood. Last March, the Raiders boys hockey team won the school’s first state championship. Before the first home game against Winchester, Watertown unveiled the new championship banner at John A. Ryan Arena. The Raiders showed the same spirit that won them the title for most of the game, but the short bench caught up with them in the third period of the 4-2 loss. After Winchester went up 1-0 early in the second period on a goal by Joseph Lepore, Watertown battled back.