LOCAL SPORTS NEWS & EVENTS

Marlborough - Marlborough High School (MHS) senior Willy Cowdrey said the team's Aug. 21 football practice started out rough, with the team messing up assignments and communication. It didn't get any easier when a group of soldiers from the U.S. Marine Corps showed up and took over practice. “We didn't think they were coming because it took a while, and then they came and we were just like, ‘damn,’” Cowdrey said.

What are your earliest hockey memories? "My earliest hockey memory is learning to skate at the Lake Ave. rink in Worcester, back when there was open ice time on Sunday mornings. My dad would tie my skates in the lobby, strap my helmet, and skate around with me, holding me up, with my feet barely touching the ice."

Shrewsbury - Saint John's High School hosted the fourth annual Ryan Moore New England High School Powerlifting Championships March 9, closing out the high school powerlifting season. More than 80 male and female athletes from 15 New England high schools competed in the meet, including Saint John's and Shrewsbury High School. Saint John's won the team titles in both the Junior Varsity and Varsity raw divisions, in which athletes are allowed to wear a lifting belt and wrist wraps for extra support.

Northborough/Southborough – The Northborough/Southborough Special Education Parents Advisory Council (NSPAC) has announced it will host a presentation Wednesday, Oct. 5 on "Sports Concussion: Current...

Northborough/Southborough - The Algonquin Regional High School boys" hockey team held its fourth annual Dodgeball Tournament at the school Nov. 23. The tournament was...

Region – The Algonquin Regional High School Tomahawks boys’ lacrosse team defeated the Shrewsbury High School Colonials by a score of 5-4 in a game played April 14 at Clark University.

Playing tennis after school Southborough - Fourth-grader Simone Fiore returns a serve during the Sept. 19 session of Tennis, an after-school program offered by Southborough...

By Laura Hayes, Senior Community Reporter NORTHBOROUGH/SOUTHBOROUGH - Northborough Southborough Regional School Committee Vice Chair Daniel Kolenda noted at a Sept. 14 meeting that some residents...

Maddie Mrva’s second goal of the game, 1:39 into the second overtime, lifted the Shrewsbury girls’ hockey team into the Division 1 Final Four.

Sean Parker, a senior right-winger for Hudson High School’s champion hockey team, is this week’s Athlete of the Week

By Jeff Slovin, Contributing Writer Grafton -  The visiting sixth-seeded Westborough Rangers boys’ basketball team defeated the third-seeded Grafton Indians by a score of 69-47...

By Nance Ebert,Contributing Writer Southborough - For the past 38 years, Shirley Taylor has spent countless hours at ice rinks across the country, judging skaters...

Region – Westborough now has a new cricket pitch. Spearheaded by Nishit Mehta, the idea for the pitch was conceived out of necessity for the Westborough Cricket Club, an adult cricket team that competes in a 32 team league against other groups from around the state.

Northborough/Southborough - Team members and coaches of Algonquin Youth Wrestling gather at one of the 12 sessions of the spring program's Youth...

Northborough – The Algonquin Regional High School Tomahawks boys' basketball team fell to the Wachusett Regional High School Mountaineers by a score of 60-52 in a game played on February 22.

By Jeff Slovin, Contributing Writer Westborough – The Westborough High School Rangers boys’ basketball team defeated the Marlborough High School Panthers by a score of...

Region - Jesse Colman of Shrewsbury competes in the 10th George Street Challenge for Major Taylor July 24. Colman raced in the Men's 15...

Carpenter models her game after AP Player of the Year Caitlin Clark, who has wowed the basketball world with her three-point prowess.

Southborough - The Southborough Recreation Department has released information on the town's fall activities including this weekend's Heritage Day Celebration. For further details go...

Shrewsbury – Senior forward John Fay lofted a perfectly placed corner kick into traffic in the opening minutes of St. John’s High School varsity soccer team’s Oct. 17 matchup with powerful Doherty High at Worcester’s Commerce Bank Field at Foley Stadium. Passes of that nature are often hit and miss, but this time it was a hit - a bang-bang, one-timer that fellow senior Sam Burns would not miss.