WATERTOWN — The Chuck Robinson-coached Reading LTA A Division team won its division in the Tournament of Champions round in the Lou Tompkins Association on Sunday.

MIDDLEBORO — The amazing journey of the Woburn 12-year-old All-Stars came to an end, Saturday evening, with an 8-6 loss to Holden in the Massachusetts Little League state tournament which was held at the Field of Dreams Complex in Middleboro.

ANDOVER — The Woburn 12-year-old Little League All-Stars did it, rallying from a 2-0 deficit to defeat North Andover, 3-2, to capture the Section 4 title, last night at Deyermond Field.

WOBURN — The amazing rise of 17-year-old Woburn junior Brooklyn Manna from a novice competing in outdoor track just two years ago, to now competing, not just at the state, but at the national level, took her to new heights even she couldn’t have imagined before.

LYNN — The most successful season in 41 years for the Woburn High baseball team came to an end, Saturday afternoon, as St. Mary’s of Lynn handed the Tanners their first shutout of the season, 5-0, in the MIAA Div. 2 North final, at Fraser Field.

LYNN — Just when you thought Ryan Qualey could not do anything more to help the Woburn High baseball team’s pitching staff, yesterday’s 6-3 MIAA Div. 2 North semifinal victory over Wakefield happened at Fraser Field.

WOBURN — The Woburn High baseball team did not need extra innings to gain a tournament victory, this time, but the Tanners did need all seven to gain a 4-3 walk-off quarterfinal victory over Marblehead, in the MIAA Div. 2 North tournament, yesterday at Carroll Field.

MEDFORD — While it was a winnable game despite going up against a three-seed, the Woburn High softball team just made a few too many mistakes and handed over too many runs, which put a sudden and disappointing end to both its tournament run and its season as well.

WOBURN — The Woburn High baseball team knew the postseason would be a different animal from what it had become accustomed to in the regular season, but the Tanners did not realize how quickly they would realize it.

READING — The year 1978 marked the last time Woburn had achieved at least a share of a Middlesex League baseball title and also the last year that Reading finished with a regular-season record of below .500.

READING — The Reading High girls’ lacrosse team took a large step towards toppling Woburn as Middlesex League Liberty champions with an 11-8 victory, yesterday at Hollingsworth Field.

Two years ago when the coaching staff at UMaine asked Drew Belcher to switch from quarterback to tight end, the football future of the Reading High Class of 2014 graduate seemed in doubt.

When Woburn native Emily Arredondo moved on from pitching for the Woburn High softball team to continue her softball career at Westfield State, she noticed a big difference in the levels of intensity and aggressiveness among the players and coaches at the college level compared to what she e…

WOBURN — Led by an experienced group of seniors, the Woburn High softball team won a third straight Liberty Division title last year with a 12-3 league record (14-4 overall).

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BOSTON — The anticipation lasted an extra two hours for the Winchester High boys’ ice hockey team, and maybe that took the Sachems a little bit away from their usual approach as Winchester fell to Duxbury, 3-1, in the MIAA Div. 1 State final, last night at TD Garden.

LOWELL — The Winchester High boys’ ice hockey team did not have to come from behind in the MIAA Div. 1 North final, last night at Tsongas Center, but its 4-1 victory over St. John’s Prep may have been the Sachems’ most impressive thus far in the tournament.

BELMONT — While the final result was as expected between the top seed and the ninth seed, the Woburn High girls’ basketball team gave Belmont all it could handle through three quarters before a lack of shot making caught up to them.

WATERTOWN — The two-time MIAA Div. 1 state champion Woburn High girls’ hockey team has been dethroned, but coach Bob MacCurtain can live with that considering how far the Tanners came along this year after losing almost all of their offense to graduation.

ANDOVER — An early run and another surge kept the Reading High girls basketball team close into the third quarter.

GLOUCESTER — Despite playing a strong defensive first half played at its pace, the Reading High boys basketball team couldn’t hit enough shots in the second half while seemingly Gloucester lived at the free throw line.

READING — The Reading High girls hockey season came to end after a tough battle against Needham.

WOBURN — Based on its first two meetings with Arlington, the Woburn High girls’ hockey team figured it would have to generate a lot of shots to score on Spy Ponder goalie Jordan Toomey, thus making a victory a difficult challenge.

STONEHAM — The Reading High boys hockey team gave it everything it had, but came up short in the end.

CAMBRIDGE — Despite playing great defense throughout the game, the Woburn High girls’ basketball team found itself in a seven-point deficit, its biggest of the game, midway through the fourth quarter.

WAKEFIELD — In a game of runs that could have swung the outcome either way, the Reading boys basketball team made one last run in the final minute, which proved to be decisive and lifted the Rockets to a big tournament win.

READING — About the result you would expect with a No. 5 seed hosting a 12 in a first-round tournament game.

The last three years we have been able to watch either the Woburn girls or Woburn boys make runs to the MIAA North basketball finals.

READING — After a shaky start, some tough second-half defense cured all ills for the Reading High boys basketball team which earned its coveted 10th win.

With turnout for the local high school wrestling teams being a little low for this particular winter, the dual meet season was rather lackluster, with duals often being decided on forfeits, not necessarily on the mat.

The year before Haley Lightbody joined the Reading High girls’ basketball team as a freshman, the Lady Rockets went 2-20. Since then they have won five games her freshman year, 15 her sophomore year, 12 her junior year, and now Reading is 13-4 heading into Thursday night’s game with Arlington.

With all of the four area high school boys basketball teams out of their respective Middlesex League title chases, each of them are now going all out just to get into the tournament.

There is a sound familiar to those who have followed Middlesex League boys’ basketball over the last couple of decades that had not been heard in awhile at Winchester High games on occasion this winter.

With the league schedules reaching the halfway point in the next week, it is time for something of a progress report on our local teams. Graduation hit pretty hard for some teams and for the Woburn and Winchester boys, plus the Woburn girls, the effects have been felt.