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Three Watertown High Athletes Sign Letters of Intent to Play Sports at College Level

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Watertown High School seniors Ava Lamacchia, Gavin Foley, and Sophia Setouhi signed their letters of intent to play college sports. (Photo by Watertown Athletics)

A boys soccer player and a pair of field hockey players from Watertown High School will continue their careers in college. This week, Gavin Foley, Sophia Setouhi, and Ava Lamacchia signed their letters of intent to play at the next level. Gavin Foley poses with his family after signing his letter of intent to play soccer at Brandeis. (Photo by Watertown Athletics)

Foley, who helped the Raiders boys soccer team reach the Round of 16 in the 2025 MIAA Div.

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JIM’S VIEW: Watertown Boys Soccer Season Comes to a Harsh End In the Round of 16

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Senior Gavin Foley scored one of Watertown’s goals in the Round of 16 game against Greater New Bedford. Here he receives the ball against St. Mary’s. (Photo by Charlie Breitrose)

There’s always another game is a common-used cliche in sports, but come tournament-time that couldn’t be further from the truth. On this night, either the Bears of Greater New Bedford (GNB), the No. 4 seed at 17-4, or the Raiders of Watertown, the No.

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JIM’S VIEW: Watertown Boys Soccer, Back in Tournament Play, Shows No Jitters On The Way to a Victory Over St. Mary’s

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Watertown senior Gavin Foley (number 6) gets congratulations from his teammates after scoring against St. Mary’s in the State Tournament Round of 32. (Photo by Charlie Breitrose)

Election Day turned into a landslide for Watertown Boys Soccer in their return to tournament play for the first time since 2019, with an impressive 3-0 blanking of St.Mary’s of Lynn. 

Watertown, the 13 seed, moves on to the Round of 16. If 29th-seed Auburn can upset fourth seed Greater New Bedford on Thursday, Watertown will accept the nomination and play another home game. Otherwise, the Raiders will face the challenge of beating a top-four seed on the road, probably Monday or Tuesday. But those are matters for another day.  Today was about stuffing the ballot box and meeting another goal in the season-long campaign to victory. Watertown senior Aidan Anker shoots against St. Mary’s.

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JIM’S VIEW: Watertown Boys Soccer Celebrates Senior Night, Gears Up For The Tournament

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It’s great to score goals if you’re a soccer team, but those weren’t the only goals Watertown Boys Soccer thought about this past off-season. They had a vision of a successful season with lofty goals, and were on a mission to live up to their own challenge. They practiced all summer long.  Five days a week. Sometimes all seven days. Captain-organized practices, rain or shine, throughout the summer heat.

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JIM’S VIEW: Watertown Boys Soccer Holds Their Own In a Physical Non-League Contest

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Watertown Boys Soccer remains undefeated through 13 games of their 18-game regular season schedule after a well-deserved win against Division 3 rival St.Mary’s. 

Watertown has met up with their Lynn foes many a time over recent years in many sports, regular season and postseason. St.Mary’s always brings it, and they brought it (a physical style of play) to the pitch this evening. While it took Watertown awhile to match the physicality in the first half, eventually the Raiders came to life and answered the bell. And once answered, they never backed down, and essentially won by TKO with 13 minutes left in the game when Pietro Marques took a Gavin Foley corner kick and headed it into the net to make it 4-2. To get to that score though took time. St.Mary’s scored first eight minutes in to make it 1-0. A series of passes and ball-reversals led to a perfect feed and a goal that Declan Chapron had no chance to save. But by midway through the first half Watertown started to find it’s game, and came oh so close to tying it off a Gavin Foley shot that hit the post. Co-Captain Aidan Anker had the rebound on his right foot, and an empty net, to make it a 1-1 game. If this game had ended differently, Anker might be having nightmares, because the ball squibbed off his foot and wide of the empty net. Trust me though, Anker made up for it the rest of the game.

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JIM’S VIEW: Watertown Boys Regains First Place Division With Victory in Soccer Night Matchup

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Soccer nights have become a “thing” and Watertown’s was last night. The nightcap featured first place versus second place in the Freedom Division of the Middlesex League, specifically Melrose at 3-0-1 and 7 points, and the Raiders in second place at 2-0-2 and 6 points. Overall, Melrose was 4-2-2 and Watertown undefeated through eight games at 3-0-5. There you go — all you need to know before a 6:30 start on a beautiful fall night before a big soccer night crowd. Much like recent games, Watertown got off to a good start and controlled the play early. The back line of Shea, Brennock, Marques and Shrestha was anticipating the play and pushing the ball up field. Galeano, Anker, Hughes, Kurth, Salvi and Foley were handling the tempo up front. And only 6 minutes in Gavin Foley, with an assist to Salvi found an opening from 25-yards out nailed a ball to the top right corner for a 1-0 Watertown lead. Twelve minutes later Foley struck again with an assist from Anker to make it 2-0.

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JIM’S VIEW: Boys Soccer Remains Undefeated After Pulling Out a 2-2 Tie

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Are you a half-empty or half-full sports fan? Wednesday night’s Boys soccer game would put that question to the test. Was Watertown the better team and just ran into some hard luck, but found a way to salvage a tie? Or did the Raiders let a win slip away because of a few lapses and are fortunate to even get a tie? Or is the truth somewhere in-between? Who knows, but ultimately all that matters is what the young men in Watertown uniforms think, and how they respond Saturday night at home versus second place Melrose.