After Arlington Catholic celebrates Grim Reaper Day with the Cougars' girls soccer squad squaring off against Salem High School at 3 p.m., Arlington High School is holding a celebration of its own under the lights of Peirce Field with the Spy Ponders' boys' soccer Senior Day battle with Weston at 7 p.m. Arlington has 13 seniors hoping to go out with a bang including forwards Trevor O'Brien-Jones, Joseph Lafyatis, Kevin Casey and Nicholas Mongold, and midfielders Christian Fischer, Nicholas Coleman, Yannick Doyle, Sam Mintz, Otto Briner, Lewis Band, Joseph Owayda. Adam Long and stopper …
It seems Arlington High's toughest opponent isn't even listed on the schedule as Mother Nature has wrecked havoc on high school sports lately. She hasn't always been unkind to the Spy Ponders. Arlington's field hockey team was singing in the rain after scoring four goals against Newton South to secure its first win of the season last Tuesday. This week Mother Nature wasn't so kind, as rain washed out Wednesday's scheduled games while turning Arlington Catholic's soccer pitch into a pond. Last Friday's deluge delayed football a day, but you won't hear any members of Arlington High's team …
It was a tough weekend for both local football squads as Arlington Catholic dropped its second straight game, falling 28-14 on the road at Franklin High, while Arlington High was beaten by Burlington 43-28 on its home turf of Pierce Field as the Spy Ponders surrendered 29 points in the final four minutes. Despite coming up short against Franklin and falling to 0-2 on the season, Arlington Catholic appears headed in the right direction after an inspirational second half effort Saturday that saw the Cougars outscore Franklin 14-7, shutting down the Panthers powerful offense while the offense …
The first week of the fall sports season was a successful one for the girls' volleyball team as well as the Spy Ponders football squad. The boys' and girls' soccer teams and the golf team followed suit with wins over Boston Latin on Monday, with the boys' soccer team rolling to a 4-1 while the golf team eaked out a 46-40 win. The Spy Ponders's field hockey team opens play today, hosting Bishop Fenwick at 4 p.m. Jennifer Scharf's Jeckyle & Hyde volleyball team won a pair of games in the opening week of action, wasting no time at all before enjoying the sweet taste of victory, sweeping visiting…
With the start of the high school athletic season looming on the horizon, it is sure to be an exciting week at Arlington Patch. Both Arlington High and Arlington Catholic start the new year with volleyball action Tuesday, as Arlington hosts Cambridge, while Arlington Catholic hosts Bishop Fenwick. Both matches are scheduled to start at 5:15 p.m. Arlington's boys' golf team and co-ed cross country squad join the action on Wednesday with the Spy Ponders golf team hitting the links at Waltham High School, while cross country hosts Medford. Arlington Catholic's football team hosts Shawsheen Tech …
Since last Monday, when Arlington High and Arlington Catholic's football teams took the field for the first time this fall, we've seen a little Arlington baseball add the cherry to the top of one sundae of a summer on the baseball diamond. The Arlington 14-year-old Babe Ruth team shutout the host Loudoun County club in their second game of the 2010 Babe Ruth World Series in Virginia as they wrapped up a long, successful season on the biggest stage possible, surviving to be one of the last eight, 14-year-0ld Babe Ruth teams in the country playing baseball. A pair of slightly older Arlington …
The past week, if not the entire summer, was one that is certain to be remembered by quite a few Arlington baseball players. Arlington provided three members of the Middlesex Babe Ruth All Star squad that enjoyed a trip to the Babe Ruth World Series in Newark, Ohio earlier this month while the Arlington 14-year-old All Star team is currently prepararing for a Babe Ruth World Series trip of their own later this week after capturing the Regional title last week in Pittsfield. And that's not all. Arlington's 13-year-old Lou Tompkins C Division All Star team reached the championship game in the …
Mercy. Arlington's 14-year-old Babe Ruth All Star team didn't just win the Massachusetts Babe Ruth EMass state championship this week, they absolutely crushed their competition. Neither of their final two tournament games even got beyond the minimum five innings due to the Babe Ruth run-ahead rule, commonly referred to as the mercy rule, which mandates a game be halted if a team holds a double-digit lead in the fifth inning or beyond. After five full innings facing Arlington pitcher Dan Kelly in the semifinals Plymouth had yet to score a single run while Arlington had worn out the way around …
While Arlington Babe Ruth 14-year-old All Stars have been stealing the spotlight with their spectacular postseason run to Tuesday's State Semifinals, their female counterparts on the Arlington Crimson Tide 14-year-old softball squad have quietly been putting together a pretty good season as well. The Tide rolled through Lynnfield last Thursday, recording a 9-7 win to bounce back from an 11-8 loss to Chelmsford on Tuesday and improve to 5-3 this summer with six games remaining - remaining in the hunt for a postseason berth in their first year competing in the talented Middle Essex Softball …
To say Arlington is a baseball town is a bit of an understatement. The town boasts seemingly more baseball teams than Major League Baseball's entire National League. With an American Legion team, two Senior Babe Ruth squads, and a first-year Intercity League team, not to mention the multitude of teams at the younger levels, there has been near constant action on all of the diamonds dotting the Arlington landscape this summer and last week was certainly no different despite some of Mother Nature's meddlesome storms. After splitting a two-team, day-night doubleheader last Sunday with a win over…
It was a wild week in Arlington for all of its many baseball teams. The Arlington Pond Rats Senior Babe Ruth squad nearly pulled off an epic, come-from-behind win over front-running Malden on Monday, rebounding after quickly falling behind by three runs to challenge for the win before a seventh inning offensive explosion by Malden put the game out of reach. Medford made the Pond Rats pay for stranding runners in scoring position on Wednesday with a 7-3 win, spoiling the squad's first inning offensive outburst. The Pond Rats weren't the only Arlington team to suffer the sting of stranding base…
Many high school tennis players use their tennis racket only for the duration of the school season. Some continue to play in tournaments throughout the year, honing their craft in competition with other dedicated players. Few qualify for elite tournaments like the New England Jr. Section Championship help at Yale University this week. Only 32 players in four ages groups are eligible for the elite event where winning even one match is just icing on the cake of the experience. Arlington rising senior Matt Lipinski, considered a 3-star recruit who plays out of the Winchester Indoor Lawn Tennis …
While the American League champion Red Sox and National League champion Braves battle for the Cal Ripken Baseball AAA Town Title at 7:15 p.m. tonight at Buck Field, some other Ripken League teams have already sewed up their respective Arlington Town titles. In the 12-and-under Major League, the American League champion Indians, sponsored by the Arlington Touchdown Club, beat the National League champion Rockies 2 out of 3 at Buck Field to claim the 2010 Baseball Majors Town Championship. Members of the championship Indians squad included Peter Scheschereg, Kevin Oullette, John Delano, John …
