So with the beginning of the summer season, comes the always anticipated Williamsport tournament as both of the Wellesley Williamsport teams will compete beginning in early July with dreams of a trip to the little league world series. Now who can forget that magical 2012 Wellesley South team who won the town’s first state title, but since then no Wellesley team has made it out of districts but this years teams will look to change that. Below find the schedule for both Wellesley North and Wellesley South!

Wellesley North:

7-6 vs. Newton American (Lyons Field, Newton) 5 pm

7-8 vs. Waltham (Billings Field, West Roxbury) 5 pm

7-10 vs. Parkway National (Albermarle Field, Newton) 5 pm

7-12 vs. Newton Southeast (McDonough Field, West Roxbury) 5 pm

Wellesley South:

7-6 vs. Newton National (Casey Park, Watertown) 5 pm

7-8 vs. Brookline (Lyons Field, Newton) 7:15 pm

7-10 vs. Parkway American (Albermarle Field, Newton) 1 pm

7-12 vs. Watertown (Casey Park, Watertown) 5 pm

So now that another year of Wellesley High Athletics has come to an end, some of you may be wondering what will happen with this blog during the summer time. Don’t you worry there will still be plenty of content to go around. My plan is to post a weekly Little League schedule each Sunday much like I do during the school year but also adding a new wrinkle of posting a daily schedule along with continuing to do little league recaps whenever possible. Also next week I will be recapping each of the 3 high school seasons and also posting the schedule for the little league Williamsport teams that begin play early next month. Lastly if anyone is interested in contributing to this blog about anything Wellesley sports related whether it be a one time thing or on a regular basis, please send me an email at robbie90@comcast.net. Happy summer everyone!

This morning I asked the question who was the AD at WHS prior to John Brown and the answer is… Andy Levin, who also was the head coach of the last super bowl championship for the Raiders back in 1999. Levin served as AD up until 2006 when he retired and was replaced by Brown. No one answered this week’s question correctly so the Dunkin Donuts gift card will have to wait another week. Also a quick little league update, a big congratulations to the Giants who captured the National League title this evening at Reidy Field, defeating the Braves 10-4!

Happy Friday everyone, and that means it’s time for another edition of Raider Friday Trivia, where once again we have a Dunkin Donuts gift card up for grabs. Today’s question is… prior to John Brown who was the athletic director at Wellesley High School? Answer later tonight!

We all hear the term “Raider Pride” thrown around when it comes to Wellesley Sports, but what does it really mean. A term like this I’m sure can have several different meanings to several different people and so I want to put it out there to you the reader, what does Raider pride mean to you? Send me your responses!

Today was the big day for the Raider girls tennis team as they squared off with Nashoba for the Division 1 State Championship! For the girls a perfect season was on the line as they entered the match 24-0! Could the girls end their season perfectly and capture the ultimate prize, let’s find out!

Result for 6-15-16

Girls Tennis: Wellesley 3 Nashoba 2 D1 State Final

Congratulations to the girls on an amazing, perfect season and for capturing the ultimate prize the state title! Also best of luck to the seniors in their future endeavours!

Tomorrow will be a day that the Raider Girls tennis players have dreamed of, as they take to the court one final time with the D1 State title on the line. The girls will square off with Nashoba tomorrow at 4:15 at St John’s High School. Before that however I wanted to take a quick look at how each team got here.

Nashoba: D1 Central Champions (1 Seed)

15-1 Regular Season Record

Beat Algonquin 5-0 in D1 Central Quarterfinals

Beat Wachusett 4-1 in D1 Central Semifinals

Beat Shrewsbury 3-2 in D1 Central Finals

Beat Longmeadow 5-0 in D1 State Semifinals

 

Wellesley: D1 South Champions (1 Seed)

18-0 Regular Season Record

Beat Brookline 4-1 in D1 South First Round

Beat Newton North 4-1 in D1 South Quarterfinals

Beat Barnstable 3-2 in D1 South Semifinals

Beat Sharon 3-2 in D1 South Finals

Beat Westford Academy 3-2 in D1 State Semifinals

Today on this glorious Monday, the Raider girls tennis team had a chance to accomplish one of every high school student-athletes dreams and that is making it to state championship match. The girls took to the Lexington High courts to take on Westford Academy in the D1 State Semifinals. Would the Raiders get it done, let’s find out!

Result for 6-13-16

Girls Tennis: Wellesley 3 Westford Academy 2 D1 State Semifinals

Girls advance to D1 State Championship match against Nashoba!

We have reached the final week of the spring sports season at the high school level, and there is still one Raider team hanging around and that is girls tennis who will play in the state semifinals tomorrow. Should they win I will update the schedule with their state title match information. That being said this weeks schedule is a bit different as I have also included the little league schedule as they enter the final full week of their season. You may notice some TBD’s on that schedule and once I get more information on the teams playing in those games I will update. Anyway, here’s the schedule!

Monday 6-13

Girls tennis vs. Westford Academy D1 State Semifinals (Lexington HS) 3:30 pm

Senior Softball:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Lee) 6 pm

National League:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Reidy) 5:30 pm

Tuesday 6-14

Senior Softball:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Wayland HS) 6 pm

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Lee) 6 pm

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Sprague) 6 pm

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Weston HS) 6 pm

3rd Grade League:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Reidy) 5:30 pm

Wednesday 6-15

Girls Tennis vs. Nashoba D1 State Finals (St Johns HS) 4:15 pm

3rd Grade League:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Brown) 5:30 pm

National League:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Reidy) 5:30 pm

Thursday 6-16

Senior Softball:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Hunnewell) 6 pm

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Lee) 6 pm

Friday 6-17

Senior Softball:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Hunnewell) 6 pm

National League:

TBD vs. TBD Playoff Game (Reidy) 5:30 pm

Saturday 6-18

1st Grade League:

Hot Rods vs. Bandits (Kelly 1) 1:30 pm

Lugnuts vs. Bluerocks (Kelly 2) 1:30 pm

Raptors vs. Scrappers (Kelly 3) 1:30 pm

Rivercats vs. Rockhounds (Kelly 4) 1:30 pm

2nd Grade League:

Rockhounds vs. Tincaps (Brown) 9 am

Bluerocks vs. Iron Pigs (Kelly 1) 9 am

Mudhens vs. Hot Rods (Kelly 3) 9 am

Bandits vs. Scrappers (Ouellet) 9 am

Grasshoppers vs. Riverdogs (Reidy) 9 am

3rd Grade League:

TBD vs. TBD Championship Game (Reidy) 7 pm

Sunday 6-19

Kindergarten League:

Bandits vs. Lugnuts (Kelly 1) 12:30 pm

Raptors vs. Bluerocks (Kelly 2) 12:30 pm

Rivercats vs. Bats (Kelly 3) 12:30 pm

Rockhounds vs. Tincaps (Kelly 4) 12:30 pm

Thunder vs. Scrappers (Upham) 12:30 pm

 

 

Despite the rain this afternoon the weather cleared up and there was little league action to be played including game 2 of the AL finals and the 3rd grade league playoffs. Let’s see how all the action played out!

American League:

Reds 9 Pirates 7

Reds win series 2 games to 0

Third Grade:

Rays 9 TBD 4

Dodgers 6 Mariners 4

Angels 5 Giants 0

Pirates 1 Braves 0