So only two contests today as both boys and girls indoor track were in action taking on rivals the Natick Redhawks at the Reggie Lewis Center. Could they pull both off a victory and both start the season 2-0, let’s find out!

Results for 12-17-15

Boys Indoor Track: Natick 60 Wellesley 31

Girls Indoor Track: Natick 53 Wellesley 47

As first mentioned by the Swellesley Report Wellesley’s own Nate Freiman was released by the Oakland Athletics where he has spent the last 3 years, but no need to worry Wellesley baseball fans, reports say Nate has been picked up by the Atlanta Braves, so the dream lives on!

Calling all Wellesley Middle and High School students, Community Investors is looking for middle and high school students to DJ both boys and girls varsity hockey games this season, it pays $30 if you work solo, $40 if with a friend. To sign up please go to communityinvestors.org.

So tonight was a huge night in Raider nation as it was the annual hockey doubleheader at Babson, with both the boys and girls taking on archrival Needham. Would the Raiders be able to pull out a sweep for a 4th straight year, let’s find out!

Results for 12-16-15

Girls Hockey: Needham 6 Wellesley 0

Boys Hockey: Wellesley 3 Needham 0

So tonight was a big night for boys and girls basketball and both took on their archrivals the Needham Rockets. Meanwhile wrestling was also in action as they traveled to Dedham. Would the Raiders make it a perfect night, let’s find out.

Results from 12-15-15

Boys Basketball: Needham 54 Wellesley 38

Girls Basketball: Wellesley 48 Needham 29

Wrestling: Lost to Dedham

So I was finally able to find the loan score from tonight as boys swimming hosted St John’s, how did they do let’s find out.

Result from 12-14-15

Boys Swimming: Wellesley 100 St John’s 81

So I’m still waiting on the boys swimming score from tonight so as soon as I get that I will post my Raider Recap but I did want to at least post the answer to today’s Raider Friday Trivia (Round 1) question. The location of the boys and girls indoor track meets is the Reggie Lewis Center as is the location of all the Bay State Conference Indoor meets.

So I realized that last week I forgot to do a Raider Friday Trivia so this week i’m doing a two fer, meaning there will be 1 trivia question today and 1 on Friday. So the question for round 1 of this week’s Raider Friday Trivia is where do the boys and girls indoor track meets take place? The answer in tonights Raider Recap.

We enter the first full week of winter sports game action, with multiple teams home openers among the action, so without further ado let’s see what lies ahead this week.

Monday 12-14

Boys Swimming vs. St John’s (Babson) 7 pm

Tuesday 12-15

Wrestling @ Dedham 6 pm

Boys Basketball @ Needham 6:30 pm

Girls Basketball vs. Needham 6:30 pm

Wednesday 12-16

Girls Hockey @ Needham (Babson) 6 pm

Boys Hockey @ Needham (Babson) 7:45 pm

Thursday 12-17

Boys Indoor Track @ Natick (Reggie Lewis Center) 4:30 pm

Girls Indoor Track @ Natick (Reggie Lewis Center) 4:30 pm

Friday 12-18

Boys Swimming vs. Bishop Feehan (Babson) 4 pm

Boys Basketball vs. Weymouth 6:30 pm

Girls Basketball @ Weymouth 6:30 pm

Saturday 12-19

Girls Hockey @ Weymouth (Weymouth MDC) 5 pm

Boys Hockey vs. Weymouth (Babson) 8:30 pm

Sunday 12-20

Gymnastics vs. Weymouth (Exxcel) 7 pm

 

 

So the final batch of Raider winter sports season openers were today as boys and girls hockey and wrestling opened up their 2015-16 campaigns. Lets see how they did.

Results for 12-12-15

Boys Hockey: Wellesley 5 Dedham 1

Girls Hockey: Wellesley 8 Dedham 2

Wrestling: Essex Tech 48 Wellesley 36: Triton 54 Wellesley 18