LOCAL SPORTS NEWS & EVENTS

Hudson - James Martin didn's run track or cross-country or do other sports in high school. It wasn's until his sophomore year at Lasell College that the Hudson resident was egged into running for the school's cross-country team by his roommate. Martin laced up his shoes and completed his first race in just over 38 minutes for five miles. He was instantly hooked and turned into a successful athlete and team leader. After college, he helped start a Boston-area trail running club, joined the International Sky Running Federation (ISF), and he's now Lasell's head cross-country coach. Thinking back on his start to running, Martin remembers cringing when he found out how long the race was. But that all changed

Team: Algonquin Regional High School wrestling (senior captain). Team stats: 3-1 in league matches and 5-3 overall. Individual stats: 4-0 in super quad against North Attleborough with 3 pins and one Technical Fall. 20-3 overall. Coach: Brian Kramer

Marlborough Panthers vs. Hudson Hawks Marlborough - Marlborough High School's (MHS) Steve Lampedecchio (#17, left) pins Hudson High School's (HHS) Connor West (#22, right) against...

Southborough – Korey Dropkin proudly wears the bronze medal his team, Team Dropkin, earned at the First Inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games (for 16- to 18-year-olds) in Innsbruck, Austria, Jan. 24. Korey is an award-winning curler and an Algonquin Regional High School junior.

Westborough – Fall holds different meanings for different people. It could be the coming of cooler days to some, while others think of football. Last fall, Westborough offensive lineman Max Silverman had more on his mind than clearing a path for his quarterback. He was thinking about the troops serving our country overseas.

Hudson - The Hudson Park Commission/Division of Recreation has announced that registration is now being taken for the 2012 winter youth baseball/softball clinics, which...

Marlborough - The Red Sox are hitting the road to get ready for a new season, and the 2012 Red Sox Road Trip will...

Background: 2010 selected as a Mid-Wach A League All Star and member. Third year on varsity and member of 2009 League, District and State Championship team. Posted a score of 79, which counted toward the winning team total in the state tournament. Featured as one of the top 12 junior golfers in Massachusetts in Mass Golfer Magazine. Tournaments: AJGA Deutsche Bank Partners for charity shootout (first place). AJGA Rochester Junior Open (eighth), US Public Links Qualifier (fourth).

Region - It's not every day that high school hockey players get the chance to play on the same ice as future NHL talent, but the Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS) and Shrewsbury High School (SHS) hockey teams had that chance recently at the third annual High School Hockey Showdown at DCU Arena in Worcester.

Gymnastics teams flying high Region - Shrewsbury High School's (SHS) Megan Yuen leaps on the balance beam during a quad meet at Algonquin Regional High...

Westborough - The Westborough Youth Lacrosse Association (WYLA) is starting to plan for the 2012 boys spring season for first- to eighth-graders. Practices will...

Algonquin gets on board(s) Region - Shrewsbury High School (SHS) sophomore defenseman Cole Ambach mixes it up on the boards with Algonquin Regional High School...

Team: Shrewsbury High School Girls Basketball Coach: Erin Largess Background: Three-sport star for the Colonials. Playing softball for Providence College next year.

Hudson loses slow starter Hudson – Hudson High School's (HHS) Ryerson Ciesluk (front, #13) puts it up for two as Marlborough High School's (MHS)...

Algonquin scores win Region - Algonquin Regional High School's (ARHS) Dylan Connelly (#11, left) unleashes a shot on goal past Westborough High School's (WHS)...

Westborough – When most 12-year-olds are typically busy with their iPods, school activities, and after-school sports, Kaz Grala spends most of his weekends perched in a racecar, speeding around tracks at up to 120 mph. In fact, Kaz has been speeding up and down hills and around racetracks since he was 7.

Tomahawks drop close contest Northborough - Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS) girls" basketball hosted Nashoba Regional High School (NRHS) in a non-league matchup Dec....

Northborough/Southborough - For Algonquin Regional High School junior and Southborough resident Korey Dropkin, curling has been a family sport as far back as he can remember. His father, Keith, started curling in college. He introduced the sport to his then-girlfriend, Shelley, whom he later married, and they have been curling ever since. For the Dropkins, Broomstones in Wayland is their home club and their home-away-from-home.

Region - History runs deep in New Englanders who proudly recall the significant role that Massachusetts played in history - from the Boston Tea Party protest against taxation in 1773 to the Minutemen who started the American Revolution by battling British troops at Lexington and Concord in 1775.

Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Pop Warner Football and Cheerleading has announced that its Unlimited Weight football team is the 2011 Division 1 Central Mass Regional...