TEWKSBURY — On a gorgeous Friday afternoon, the members of the Tewksbury Memorial High School fall season varsity teams — boys and girls soccer, boys and girls cross-country, field hockey, volleyball and golf — were able to finally get together after the season was pushed back three weeks du…
On Monday, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Lacrosse and Golf Committees held separate meetings to go over several suggested rule changes, and to discuss future dealings with each sport.
BILLERICA — Monday afternoon brought a welcome sight to the Shawsheen Tech campus, as well as many other schools throughout the state of Massachusetts. Instead of the empty athletic fields that have been a common sight throughout the state ever since the cancellation of the spring season and…
With the high school football season being moved to February of next year, we are going to run an archive story matching up with that current week’s game. The story below is the week two win over Wakefield coming from 2007.
TEWKSBURY-METHUEN – On Tuesday afternoon, the Athletic Directors of the Merrimack Valley Conference announced that the swimming-and-diving season will be moved to the Fall Season 2, along with football, cheerleading and unified basketball, with tryouts beginning in late February.
TEWKSBURY – A hole-in-one in golf is sort of like no-hitter in baseball.
On Tuesday morning, the MIAA Football Committee met to discuss the 2020 season – which will take place in the Fall-2 season in 2021.
On Monday night, the Billerica Board of Selectmen honored longtime Shawsheen Tech wrestling coach Mark Donovan for his 30-plus years as an outstanding coach, mentor and inspiration to so many student-athletes, by naming March 19th, "Coach Donovan Day."
TEWKSBURY — Over the last few weeks, the Town Crier has given our readers updates from the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association as well as from Tewksbury Memorial High School Athletic Director Ron Drouin on the fall high school athletic season. In addition, there have been stor…
TEWKSBURY – Often times when looking back at the past, it is easy to look at them as the “good old days” and possibly exaggerate just how good those old days were. It’s a natural tendency to look back and just imagine that everything as better way back when, even if in some cases, that is no…
BILLERICA – The recent announcement by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that high school sports would return for the fall season, albeit in a somewhat modified format, was welcome news …
TEWKSBURY – Recently it was announced by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association that there would be no football games (as well as cheerleading and unified basketball) this upcoming fall season due to COVID-19. In those three cases the athletes and teams will be allowed to pra…
TEWKSBURY — Last week the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association released its new guidelines for the fall sports – excluding football – "based upon months of meetings, discussions, research and collaboration with Massachusetts Governing entities."
WILMINGTON — Last week the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association released its new guidelines for the fall sports – excluding football – "based upon months of meetings, discussions, research and collaboration with Massachusetts Governing entities."
TEWKSBURY – Nearly two weeks ago, behind the guidelines set by the DESE (Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) and Governor Charlie Baker, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association announced its plan for the athletic year.
TEWKSBURY – Certainly the last few months have been extremely stressful for everyone, amid COVID-19 and the other events in the country, but imagine the stress level for a high school senior, who could pick any college she wants in order to continue her academic and athletic career but wasn'…
TEWKSBURY — When they were struggling along with a 2-7 record at the end of July, perhaps the only people who actually believed the Tewksbury Chiefs 14U Baseball team still had championship aspirations were the players, coaches and parents on the team.
TEWKSBURY – Among the stories in this sports section includes the changes and modifications to high school boys and girls soccer set by the MIAA and the DESE and below are the new guidelines set for cross-country, field hockey, volleyball, swimming and golf.
TEWKSBURY/WILMINGTON — There hasn’t been much good news lately for high school athletes in Massachusetts, or in most of the country for that matter. With the cancellation of the spring 2020 season due to the COVID19 pandemic, high school athletes, coaches and athletic directors, not to ment…
OKLAHOMA CITY/TEWKSBURY, MA – For the past year, Alyx Rossi has been chomping at the bit, knowing she had a personal goal to reach. The 12-year-old, who lives in Bedford, but has participated in the Tewksbury Youth Softball program since she was ten, wanted to not only tryout, but make the s…
TEWKSBURY - The second half of the season proved to be more challenging for the Tewksbury High summer softball team, but the Redmen played well in their final week of the season, one in which they won a game, tied a game, and lost one too.
With the TYF season already canceled and the possibility of no high school football this fall, we thought we would re-run an archive football story on several former TMHS Football players who participated in the Carole Classic All-Star game. This story originally ran in the July 31, 1996 edi…
TEWKSBURY - The Tewksbury High summer softball team bounced back from its lone loss of the season, last week against Amesbury, but not in the fashion the Redmen had anticipated.
On Monday, the Massachusetts COVID-19 Task Force voted to send the following recommendations to the MIAA Board of Directors for their Wednesday meeting. Any announcements from the meeting were made after the Town Crier went to press, therefore, we will have stories in upcoming editions.
Back on Sunday, August 2nd, Tewksbury's Scott Oberg, a member of the Colorado Rockies, was throwing a simulated game as he was trying to return to the Major League roster after straining his back. During that session quickly came to a halt as Oberg had injured his right pitching hand. He wal…
TEWKSBURY — After four years of being a key member of the Tewksbury High Girls’ Soccer team’s coaching staff, assistant coach Kelsey Ring is ready for the big time, a head coaching job of her own team.
TEWKSBURY — The Tewksbury High Summer Softball team was flying high coming into this week. The Redmen were a perfect 6-0 in Merrimack Valley summer league play when the good times came to a crashing halt, Monday night at Hazel Field.
The cancellation of the college spring sports season due to the COVID-19 pandemic brought an early end to the careers of many college athletes nationwide, including many of our local college athletes. Unfortunately, it appears that also may be the case for many our fall athletes as well, as…
TEWKSBURY — While many teams in the Merrimack Valley Conference are scrambling to figure out what they are going to put out on the diamond when varsity play resumes, next spring, having lost their junior and senior classes from the last time they played in 2019, Tewksbury Memorial High s…
DENVER, CO – It would be hard to think of a major league baseball player who has worked harder and overcome more obstacles than the Colorado Rockies Scott Oberg to get where he is in his career, namely being one of the top relief pitchers in the National League.
BILLERICA – As we have seen over the past several weeks when picking the All-Decade teams for Shawsheen Tech, the school has built a great tradition of winning programs with many of their teams, both boys and girls.
TEWKSBURY - The Tewksbury Redmen 12U team is off to what has become a typical blazing start for this particular group, winning 13 in a row.
TEWKSBURY - It was nearly two weeks between games, but the Tewksbury High summer softball team showed no signs of rust in an 11-0 romp over Saugus, in Merrimack Valley summer softball action, Tuesday night at Hazel Field.
Two years ago Julia Masotta was a major factor in leading the Tewksbury/Methuen girls' hockey team to its first ever Division 1 state championship title.
This is the fifth installment of our Shawsheen Tech All-Local Decade Teams. We will conclude the series next week with the football team.
Last week the Town Crier ran the story about the MIAA pushing back the start of the fall high school sports season to September 14th. The local athletic directors were all asked about their thoughts on the decision, and remarks from Tewksbury's Ron Drouin and Wilmington's Mia Muzio were incl…
Days leading up to the start of the Major League Baseball season, Tewksbury's Scott Oberg was iffy on whether or not he would be healthy enough to start the season with the Rockies after suffering a back strain. Last Wednesday, the club announced that he would start the season on the 10-day …
On Sunday, Colorado Rockies Manager Bud Black spoke to reporters about Scott Oberg's health. The Tewksbury native has been dealing with a back strain and there's a lot of question on whether or not he will start the season with the Rockies in Texas on Friday, or on the 10-day disabled list.
BOSTON — On Tuesday, in a conference call, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Association Board of Directors voted unanimously to push back the start of the fall high school sports season to no earlier than September 14th, due to the ongoing pandemic.
ANDOVER – Come September, Erica James will (hopefully) be entering her junior year at Salem, New Hampshire High School. A veteran runner on the cross-country and track programs, back in 2018 she finished 59th at the state meet, but had to sit out last year's fall season due to a hip injury, …
This past week was a real heartbreaker for many local athletes, who were hoping to compete at the collegiate level this upcoming fall season.
Part four of a seven part series on the top local male athletes of the past decade from Wilmington and Tewksbury on the Shawsheen Tech spring teams.
Part three of a seven part series on the top local female athletes of the past decade from Wilmington and Tewksbury on the Shawsheen Tech spring teams.
TEWKSBURY – Back on January 29th, Emily Velozo became the 13th player in the history of the Framingham State University women's basketball team to surpass 1,000 points in her career.
Part Two of a six-part series of the Town Crier’s Top local female athletes on the Shawsheen Tech winter sports teams through the past decade.
This story about the retirement of legendary youth coach Tony Ganchi originally appeared in the July 19th, 2000 issue of the Town Crier and some minor edits have been made.
BILLERICA – For the past 35 years, Shawsheen Tech Wrestling coach Mark Donovan has led his Rams teams to one big victory after another, building Shawsheen into one of the most successful programs in all of New England. Donovan has piled up over 550 wins overall in his remarkable career, incl…
TEWKSBURY – The sounds of the ball hitting the bat or the catcher's mitt, were certainly missed.
TEWKSBURY – Around 3 pm on Monday afternoon, Tewksbury Youth Baseball League's President Wayne Freitag was about to throw in the towel on the upcoming season. With the mixed signals from the state's guidelines on whether or not youth sports leagues could play games over the previous few days…
FRANKLIN – Back on June 29th, the MIAA Tournament Management Committee met for over three-hours to discuss future alignments for football and ice hockey. In the end, the proposed divisional alignments, which would be set in place starting in the Fall of 2021, was voted down due to the confli…
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