Sunday, June 12, 2011
Wellesley's spring season officially ended, as all five tournament teams were eliminated.
It was a week of painful losses for Wellesley’s sports teams. All five playoff squads bowed out of state tournaments. In some cases, the defeats came earlier than expected; in others, they came against arch rivals. Boys’ lacrosse: The previously unbeaten Raiders met their postseason nemesis, Medfield, Tuesday night and for the fifth straight season were eliminated from the Division 2 East tourney by the Warriors. No. 1 Wellesley (17-1) fell, 7-5, to No. 9 Medfield (14-7) in the quarterfinal round. The Raiders beat the Warriors, 8-5, during the regular season and led, 4-2, entering the fourth quarter but could not knock off their rival. “As hard it is to say, I love playing Medfield in June,” Wellesley head coach Rocky Batty said after the …
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
The Rockets swept the Raiders, 5-0, in the Division 1 South championship.
With his team down, 2-0, and three other matches up for grabs, Wellesley senior Chris Cua executed a perfect drop shot that settled at the feet of Needham’s Aaron Segel, ending an epic second set with a 12-10 tiebreaker win, and forcing a decisive third set. Raider fans clutching the chain link fence surrounding the courts at Newton North High School erupted, but their celebration lasted only moments. Three courts over, almost simultaneously, the Needham doubles pair of Mitchell Silverman and Ben Okonow completed a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory over Wellesley’s Dylan Ironside and Nathan Nast, clinching the Division 1 South championship for the Rockets. Needham already had gotten wins at first singles and doubles. Ace Aaron Revzin, the three-time …
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Raider teams began their playoff runs with early-round games this week.
State tournament play began this week for five Wellesley teams. All are still alive, and the girls’ lacrosse and girls’ tennis squads already are in the semifinal rounds of their Division 1 South tourneys. The boys’ lacrosse team advanced to the Division 1 East quarterfinals, where the Raiders will try to beat Medfield, the team that has eliminated them in each of the last four seasons. Baseball: Wellesley, seeded fifth in the Division 2 South tournament, doubled up No. 12 Falmouth, 8-4, Thursday in the first round. The Raiders (16-5) visit No. 4 Sharon Monday at 4 p.m. in a quarterfinal game. Boys’ lacrosse: The top-seeded Raiders crushed No. 16 Burlington, 17-3, Thursday in the first round of the Division 2 East tournament. Wellesley (17…
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Behind seven-point efforts by Blake Dietrick and Abby Bunting, the No. 4 Raiders eliminated No. 13 Braintree, 17-2.
Senior captains Blake Dietrick and Abby Bunting piled up seven points apiece, goaltender Marina Guigli didn’t allow a goal over the last 36 minutes of the game, and the fourth-seeded Wellesley girls’ lacrosse team overwhelmed No. 13 Braintree, 17-2, Tuesday at Sprague Field in a Division 1 South tournament first rounder. “I hope we’re ready,” Raider head coach Chris Molonea said of her squad’s playoff preparedness. “It looks like we’re close to ready. That’s what deceiving about first-round games. A lot of times they are a bit of a mismatch, so the score is not really indicative of what tournament play normally is.” Attacker Adrienne O’Donnell began Wellesley’s offensive deluge seconds after the opening faceoff, depositing a Bunting pass …
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
The girls' tennis and boys' lacrosse teams completed perfect regular seasons.
Baseball: Wellesley reeled off a three-win week, beating Milton, 10-0, Natick, 6-1, and Newton North, 4-3. The Raiders (13-7, 10-5 Bay State Conference) close the regular season with a Saturday night trip to Norwood, hoping to improve their seed for the upcoming state tournament. Softball: The Raiders closed the season with a grueling stretch of seven games in six days, highlighted by a double-header sweep of Natick on Wednesday. Wellesley (5-17, 4-13 BSC) edged the Red and Blue, 13-12, in extra innings, then beat them again, 6-2, later in the day. The Raiders dropped their five other contests, against Walpole, Milton, Norwood, Newton North and Brockton. Boys’ lacrosse: Wellesley completed a perfect regular season Monday with a 7-2 win …
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
The Wellesley High sailors surged at the end of the two-day regatta to finish among the top third.
The Wellesley High sailing team placed eighth in a field of 24 crews Thursday and Friday at the 38th Massachusetts High School Open at MIT. The regatta consisted of 16 races — eight in each of two divisions — with points awarded according to boats’ finishes in each race (one point for first place, 24 for 24th place). As in golf, the lowest score wins. The Raiders (5-1), captained by Sage Orr, improved over the course of the two-day regatta. After placing no higher than seventh in its first five races, Wellesley’s A Division boat, with Zander Liem at the helm, took fifth, third and second in the last three. Helmsman Michael Haider and the B Division boat bounced back from a 20th-place finish in the seventh race to claim third in the eighth…
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
The local track teams competed at the Bay State Conference championships, and the boys' lacrosse and girls' tennis squads stayed perfect.
Baseball: The Raiders missed a chance to pull closer to league leader Walpole, falling, 7-2, to the Rebels on Monday. The result assured Walpole at least a share of the Bay State Conference title. Wellesley (10-7, 7-5 BSC) didn’t play again this week because of rain and remains in second place in the Herget Division. Softball: Wellesley lost an entire week of play to rain, leaving the team to sit on its four-game losing streak. The Raiders (3-12, 2-9 BSC) will play an unusual Sunday game tomorrow morning at 11 a.m., when they host Walpole. Boys’ lacrosse: The Raiders continue to crush all comers, picking up two decisive victories this week. Wellesley (15-0, 10-0 BSC) overwhelmed Braintree, 13-2, on Tuesday and topped Newton North, 10-6, on…
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Wellesley's lacrosse teams kept rolling, while the softball and boys' volleyball squads continued to struggle.
Baseball: The Raiders won two of three games this week but continue to trail Walpole in the Bay State Conference standings. Wellesley (10-6, 7-4 BSC) topped Brookline, 5-4, in 11 innings on Monday then beat Dedham, 4-0, on Tuesday before losing a 6-2 decision against Braintree on Friday. The local nine can redeem an April 27 loss and narrow the gap between themselves and the Rebels when they visit Walpole on Monday at 4 p.m. Softball: Wellesley opened the week with an 11-1 thumping of Brookline, a victory which, coupled with last Friday’s win over Natick, represented the team’s first back-to-back W’s of the season. But the Raiders (3-12, 2-9 BSC) lost four straight to close a jam-packed week: 6-2 to Weymouth, 4-1 to Dedham, 6-2 to Weymouth…
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The junior righthander threw seven innings of shutout ball and added two RBIs on offense in the Raiders' 4-0 win.
Wellesley starter Avery Brooks was five and two-thirds innings into his seven frames of shutout baseball, but he needed help. His offense had supplied not a single run in support of his cause, and his defense had just yielded an infield single. That’s when Blake Dowling provided the assistance Brooks needed. Showing remarkable range, the senior shortstop darted left in pursuit of a sharp grounder hit by Dedham’s Domingo Rodriguez, snared the ball and threw out Rodriguez from the other side of the second base bag. The Raiders (10-5, 7-3 Bay State Conference) responded to the sensational play by scoring two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and adding runs in the seventh and eighth to beat the Marauders (7-6, 4-5 BSC), 4-0, Tuesday …
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Nine Raiders tallied points in a 16-1 victory over Milton.
Sophomore Peter Hogan scored four goals, senior Sean O’Rourke added a hat trick, and the Wellesley boys’ lacrosse team ripped Milton, 16-1, Friday afternoon at Sprague Field. The Raiders (11-0, 7-0 Bay State Conference) blitzed the Wildcats (4-5, 1-3 BSC) from the outset, seizing a 3-0 lead just 1:51 into the game on goals by senior captain Sam Lawrence, O’Rourke and Hogan. Brendan O’Halloran got Milton on the board midway through the first quarter, but Wellesley led, 7-1, by the end of the opening period. The wide gap allowed Wellesley coach Rocky Batty to experiment with his playbook and his roster. “We’re trying some new offensive stuff,” Batty said. “We tried to get a lot deeper today, playing more guys. And the idea of that is we’re …
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