TEWKSBURY – Last Wednesday, the Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' hockey team defeated a solid Billerica club, 5-2, which brought the team's record to 8-1 on the season.
TEWKSBURY – After sporting North Andover to a 16-2 lead early on in Tuesday night's first round match-up of the consolation bracket of the inaugural Merrimack Valley Conference Playoff Cup, the Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' basketball team stormed back to take a one-point halftime lea…
TEWKSBURY – Over the years the Town Crier has said it a thousand times and will continue to say it a thousand more in the future and that is when it comes to high school sports, it's very difficult to beat the same team three times in one season.
METHUEN – When you are a hockey coach, certainly a satisfying feeling is when your team plays a complete game and comes out with the ‘W’.
METHUEN – On Wednesday night as this paper is hitting the streets, the Tewksbury/Methuen co-op girls' hockey team was taking on Andover for the fourth time in this abbreviated COVID-19 season in the semi-final round of the inaugural Merrimack Valley Conference Playoff Cup.
TEWKSBURY — Before the season begun, the Tewksbury Memorial High School girls' basketball team knew it was going to be in for a dogfight with its gruesome schedule, facing Central Catholic and Chelmsford — two of the top three teams in the league — a vastly improved Dracut squad and also a s…
Over the past few weeks and this winter season, we started a series looking past at the best winter sports teams in TMHS history. Previous stories have been done on the 1989 wrestling teams, the three consecutive TMHS Boys Hoop team in the mid 1970s and the 1974-'75 boys hockey season. Below…
TYNGSBORO – Head coach Jessica Wilkey is not sure when the last time, or if it has ever happened before.
LOWELL – While the season didn’t end quite the way the Shawsheen/Tech Bedford Girls Hockey team would have liked there is no denying that the Rams made tremendous strides this season, finishing with a 4-5 record after suffering a 6-2 loss to Latin Academy this past Saturday afternoon at Jana…
BILLERICA – Emily Sartori has seen the good and the bad for the Shawsheen Tech/Bedford Girls Hockey team over her four years with the club, the last three of which she has served as one of the team’s captains.
BILLERICA – It had been a remarkable season for the Shawsheen Tech Boys Basketball team, and with three more wins this past week, the Rams kept that remarkable season going, improving to 10-1, with just one game left in their abbreviated campaign.
TEWKSBURY – Emma Cole has been participating in gymnastics for a long time. She has spent countless hours on a number of different mats, starting out in youth classes and advancing to a Club team. Today she is in her sixth season of the Tewksbury Memorial High School Gymnastics team.
TEWKSBURY – Back before the 2018-'19 season, Tewksbury Memorial High School gymnastics coach Jessica Wilkey had a handful of strong potential newcomers, including Maddie Wheeler.
TEWKSBURY — Tewksbury native Samantha Taber has received a lot of attention in recent years and deservedly so. This ice hockey phenomenon has been a force to be reckoned with and promises to continue that trend for some time to come.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA/TEWKSBURY – This past weekend, two Tewksbury Memorial High School track athletes took another trip to Virginia, to take part in the East Coast Invitational Track Meet held at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
In what seems like a different meeting/vote/decision/outcome nearly every month, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association's Football Committee reversed its decision in regards to the new state wide playoff format.
BILLERICA - For a little while on Monday night against Greater Lowell, it looked like the Shawsheen Tech Boys Basketball team might be suffering a bit of a letdown after their biggest victory of the season last Friday night when had pulled out a dramatic win over Lowell Catholic.
TYNGSBORO – If you have been following along at all with the Shawsheen Tech Girls Basketball team this season, then you that defense has been the key to their tremendous season to this point, where they have now won seven of their first eight games. This was never more true than on Monday ni…
In last week’s edition, we started the series on the most dominating WHS winter sports teams from previous seasons. The series started with the 2001-2002 Boys Basketball team.
TEWKSBURY – The Jekyll and Hyde show seen last year for the Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' basketball team appears to have peaked its head back again for this abbreviated COVID-19 season.
TEWKSBURY – After taking it on the chin with four straight losses to league powers Chelmsford and Central Catholic, the Tewksbury Memorial High School girls' basketball team was hoping to put a stop to the four game losing streak against a pesky, athletic Dracut team back home last Wednesday night.
TEWKSBURY – This past Friday and Sunday, the Tewksbury Memorial High School girls' gymnastics team faced a powerful Dracut squad in a home-and-home league meet series, and the Middies remained undefeated at 7-0 with two wins, 135.05-129.75 and then 132.82-127.625.
LOWELL – As well as the Shawsheen Tech/Bedford Girls Hockey team has been playing as of late, it is sometimes easy to forget that they are still a very young team and are going to have some bumps in the road on their way to becoming a true contender.
BILLERICA – Back on January 11th, the Tewksbury/Methuen co-op girls hockey team opened the season with a 5-0 loss to Billerica/Chelmsford. On January 23rd, the two teams met again and that time the Red Rangers were defeated 3-0.
LOWELL – After splitting two games with Central Catholic, the Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' ice hockey team returned to action this past week with a home-and-home series with Dracut/Tyngsboro.
In last week's edition, we told the story of TMHS Hall of Famer Colin Ahern, as part of our 'Where Are They Now Series'. He was instrumental in the TMHS Boys Hockey team's ride to the Division 2 state semi-final game, losing a heartbreaker to Austin Prep.
TEWKSBURY – Back when Madison Guy was in the seventh grade, she put on ice skates for the first time. Her younger brother Jackson was playing at the youth level at that time, and their father built a hockey rink in the family's backyard.
TEWKSBURY – For quite some time we have been saying that if the progression of the Tewksbury Memorial High School gymnastics team continues, this program is going to be a force.
Late Friday morning, high school football (and other sports depending on the town) players and coaches from the state of Massachusetts received great news when the MIAA Board of Directors voted to approve Fall Season 2, which will start on February 22 and end on April 25th.
ANDOVER – The Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' hockey program started in 1968, with this being the 53rd season. Along the way, this program has built itself into one of the top in the state (for Division 2), year-after-year, winning two state championships, winning 20 league titles from …
TEWKSBURY – When Will O'Keefe came out for the Tewksbury Memorial High School Boys' Hockey team as a freshman, head coach Derek Doherty said that the ninth grader “was opening up some eyes.”
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA/TEWKSBURY – When COVID-19 canceled the indoor track season, Tewksbury Memorial High School senior and UNC commit Makayla Paige was hoping to be able to compete somewhere, somehow. She participated in several open invitational meets held at Wheaton College, run by the Massa…
TEWKSBURY – For the fourth time in the past five games, the Tewksbury-Methuen Co-Op girls' hockey team came away as winners. On Saturday morning, in a freezing Breakaway Ice Arena, the Red Rangers held off a much improved Central Catholic team by a 5-2 score.
TEWKSBURY – You knew right away that this would be a classic, 12-round type match-up.
LOWELL – Just two days after defeating previously undefeated Central Catholic in order to remain undefeated themselves, the Tewksbury Memorial High School Boys' Hockey team traveled next door to the beautiful Tsongas Arena to play in a rematch against the same Red Raiders' team.
BILLERICA — If it is indeed true that defense wins championships, then the Shawsheen Tech Girls Basketball team looks well set up to make a run at the CAC title this season. Thanks to another stellar defensive effort, the Rams improved to 5-0 on the season this past Thursday night with a 42-…
The state of Massachusetts, in particular the hockey world, has been saddened by the news of Bishop Feehan High School senior A.J. Quetta, who is in the hospital after suffering a devastating injury during the team's previous game against Pope Francis.
NORTON – Four local athletes competed in the final track meet, hosted by the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association. On Saturday, Wilmington residents Amanda Broussard, Katie McLaughlin and Angelina Zaykouskaya, as well as Tewksbury's Alex Arbogast, participated in the MSTCA Cup Meet,…
TEWKSBURY – Just three days earlier on the same gymnasium floor, the Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' basketball team trailed Central Catholic by four points with three minutes to go. Turnovers set in and that helped the Red Raiders stretch the lead and close out the game with a 64-51 victory.
TEWKSBURY – In order for teams to be successful in the game of hockey, you need depth. That, the 2021 Tewksbury Memorial High School boys' team has, and that depth prevailed this past weekend.
TEWKSBURY – A few hours before Saturday night's game, Tewksbury Memorial High School boys hockey coach Derek Doherty got a phone call from Athletic Director Ron Drouin.
BILLERICA - There will no doubt be tougher games this season for the Shawsheen Tech Boys Hockey team than their two games this past week against a rebuilding Nashoba Tech team, but there is also no doubt that they are playing at the top of their game at the moment.
Several weeks ago, the Town Crier started a 15-part series on legendary coaches at both TMHS and WHS, while several from Shawsheen Tech will be included. In Wilmington, the series started with a story on Mark (and Al) Donovan and continued with stories on Evelyn Wells Carter, Mike Pimental, …
TEWKSBURY – After starting out with a sweep over North Andover, the Tewksbury Memorial High School girls' basketball team faced the iron of the league this past week, facing Chelmsford twice and Central Catholic once on Monday night.
TEWKSBURY – At last week's Tewksbury School Committee Meeting, the board once again recognized the truly incredible accomplishments of Tewksbury Memorial High School senior three-sport athlete, who was named to the Boston Herald's All-Scholastic girls' cross-country team from this past abbre…
TEWKSBURY – There's nothing like the friendly, comfortable Tony Romano Memorial Gymnasium.
TEWKSBURY – In their first two games – sporting a roster of mostly first-year players including many middle school kids and freshmen – the Tewksbury/Methuen Co-Op Girls' Hockey team was defeated by Andover, 7-1 and then Chelmsford/Billerica, 5-0.
CHELMSFORD — When you have an extremely young and inexperienced team, the one thing you really want to see over the course of a season is improvement and/or development.
BILLERICA – Like virtually every other high school sport, there is a much different look to swimming/diving meets this season and the Shawsheen Tech Co-Ed Swim team is no different, as all meets will be held virtually this season as a safety precaution due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as of…
BILLERICA – Despite some outstanding individual efforts, the Shawsheen Tech co-ed Swim team saw their season get off to a rough start last Wednesday afternoon when the suffered a 92-72 loss to traditional CAC powerhouse Mystic Valley in a virtual meet with each school swimming in their home …
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