LOCAL SPORTS NEWS & EVENTS

Ferretti scores hat trick Region - Westborough High School (WHS) senior forward Nick Ferretti (#28, front) unleashes his shot despite the efforts of Algonquin Regional...

Shrewsbury – Online spring registration at Shrewsbury Parks & Recreation opens March 7 at 7 a.m. Town residents should make sure to log into...

Hill is the co-captain of the hockey team at Marlborough High School (MHS). Statistically, he is one of the best players in all of Central Massachusetts. Josh has also played for the Minuteman Flames, the Marlborough Thunder and the Junior Shamrocks Elite team in the International Junior Hockey League.

Southborough - Scott Young has experienced a lot of success in his life. He's a two-time Stanley Cup champion, a three-time Olympian and 2002 silver medalist, and 40-goal scorer over the course of an 18-year professional hockey career. He was also a star player in at St. Mark's High School in Southborough, alongside future NHL players Doug Jarvis and Greg Brown.

Westborough - In many ways, Emme Ostrander is a typical preteen girl. The 12-year-old Westborough resident attends Venerini Academy in Worcester. She has two supportive parents, Laura and Al, an older brother, Nick, with whom she shares a bit of sibling rivalry, and two small dogs that she dotes on.

Shrewsbury - Get ready to sweat and have fun as you tone and work out with Burn'sm BootCamp. The bootcamp will help prepare you...

Shrewsbury - Come join Pop Warner families for a fun day of bowling Sunday, March 4, from 1 to 3 p.m., at AMF...

Hudson - In his first year as Hudson High School boys basketball coach, Mike Mercuri has stressed doing things the "Hudson Way," both on and off the court. There are five areas in which Mercuri shows his players how to be champions of character,

Team: Westborough Girls Basketball (senior captain). Individual Stats: 9 games, (106 points), three-pointers, (27-65), rebounds, (3.2 percent). Scored 14 points, including 4 three-pointers to lead Westborough (2-6, 1-1) in a MidWach B loss at North Middlesex.

Algonquin rises to the challenge Region - - Algonquin Regional High School's (ARHS) Patrick Murphy (#4, left) drives past Shrewsbury High School's (SHS) Jeffrey...

Shrewsbury - Lucas Moelk, 4, spent many of his days hanging around a skatepark even before he could walk. The main reason is because his father, Jason, owns Subliminal Skatepark in Shrewsbury. Lucas has become one of the youngest skating sensations.

Northborough/Southborough – Southborough's Emily Brown (left), currently a senior at Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS), joins her teammate Ryann Handley from Northborough, also a...

Team: Marlborough High School (MHS) soccer captain Coach: Samantha Cramer Background: A junior at Marlborough High School, Sarah Purcell was recently selected to the Central Massachusetts All-Star team. Over the years, she has received many awards, including: the Coaches Award, the Champion Skills Award, and Unsung Hero Award. She also plays for the Delta FC club team.

Marlborough takes another at home Marlborough - Marlborough High School's (MHS) Marissa Flynn (#3, left) looks around the defense of Quabbin Regional High School's (QRHS)...

Southborough/Northborough - The wrestling program at Algonquin Regional High School welcomed two new coaches this year, head coach Brian Kramer, and assistant coach Derek Grant. It also welcomed the first and only female wrestler to take to the mats for the Tomahawks, sophomore Sarah Crothers.

Marlborough - Marlborough sisters Kaya and Natalia Dorogi both finished the first ski race of the season with silver in their respective age divisions at Bradford Ski Area in Haverhill. The sisters, who are three years apart, also finished their last race of last year's season April 2, 2011, with silver medals at the New England Mountain Dew Championships at Mount Snow, Vt.

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.