It was a big early season tilt for baseball today as they made the trip to Silver Lake High School for the Commonwealth Classic for a state finals rematch against Taconic. Also on tap today girls lacrosse hit the road as well looking to stay undefeated on the year as they traveled to Lincoln Sudbury. We’ll get to those results in just a moment but first it’s time to answer yesterday’s trivia question. The number of Wellesley runners that ran/finished the marathon last year was…75. Now onto the recap!

Results for 4-14-18

Baseball: Wellesley 13 Taconic 2

Girls Lacrosse: Wellesley 8 Lincoln Sudbury 5

It was all about the diamond on this Friday afternoon as softball looked to remain undefeated on the young season taking on rival Needham while baseball looked to bounce back from a season opening loss as they traveled to King Philip. Could both come up with a win, lets find out!

Results for 4-13-18

Softball: Wellesley 12 Needham 5

Baseball: Wellesley 7 King Philip 1

Happy Friday the 13th to all you superstitious folk out there. It’s now time to unveil another edition of Raider Friday Trivia! Today’s question is…how many Wellesley residents ran and finished last year’s Boston Marathon? Answer tomorrow!

It was another full afternoon of Raider action on this Thursday with 5 events to report on, with teams looking to remain undefeated as well as notch their elusive first win of the season. How would it all play out, lets find out!

Results for 4-12-18

Boys Volleyball: Newton North 3 Wellesley 0

Boys Tennis: Wellesley 3 BC High 2

Girls Lacrosse: Wellesley 9 Braintree 6

Boys Lacrosse: Wellesley 17 Braintree 4

Coed Sailing: Manchester-Essex 3 Wellesley 2

On this hump day edition of the Raider Recap it was a very busy day in Raider sports, including the final season opener for a Raider spring team as baseball opened its regular season slate at Brookline. How would all the action turn out, lets find out!

Results for 4-11-18

Boys Volleyball: Framingham 3 Wellesley 1

Girls Track: Wellesley 114 Norwood 21

Boys Track: Wellesley 112 Norwood 24

Girls Tennis: Wellesley 3 Brookline 2

Baseball: Brookline 2 Wellesley 0

Boys Tennis: Brookline 5 Wellesley 0

Softball: Wellesley 11 Brookline 8

Despite the cold and bit of rain that fell this afternoon, all scheduled athletic contests did take place, as girls golf looked to remain undefeated on the year with a second straight tai-match against Notre Dame Academy and Saugus, while both boys and girls lacrosse also looked to remain undefeated as they faced off against Norwood. Could all 3 make it a clean sweep on the day, lets find out!

Results for 4-10-18

Girls Golf: Notre Dame Academy 5.5 Wellesley .5, Wellesley 5 Saugus 1

Girls Lacrosse: Wellesley 17 Norwood 2

Boys Lacrosse: Wellesley 24 Norwood 0

As we opened up the second week of spring sports regular season play girls softball finally was able to open their season as they took on Weymouth while boys volleyball looked to finally notch their first win of the year as they took archrival and always tough Needham, and lastly girls golf looked to keep their early season successes going in a tri-match against Cohasset and Braintree. How would it all turn out, lets find out!

Results for 4-9-18

Softball: Wellesley 10 Weymouth 1

Boys Volleyball: Needham 3 Wellesley 0

Girls Golf: Wellesley 4 Cohasset 2, Wellesley 4 Braintree 2

As we enter the second week of the regular season and the week before April Vacation, some Raider teams are looking to keep impressive starts to the 2018 season going while others are trying to turn things around. Without any further ado lets see what this week has to offer!

Monday 4-9

Girls Golf @ Braintree and Cohasset (Scituate Country Club) 3:30 pm

Boys Volleyball vs. Needham 4 pm

Girls Softball @ Weymouth 4 pm

Tuesday 4-10

Girls Golf @ Notre Dame Academy 3:30 pm

Boys Lacrosse vs. Norwood 4 pm

Girls Lacrosse @ Norwood 4 pm

Wednesday 4-11

Track @ Norwood 3:45 pm

Softball vs. Brookline (Lee) 3:45 pm

Boys Tennis @ Brookline (Waldstein) 3:45 pm

Girls Tennis vs. Brookline 3:45 pm

Boys Volleyball vs. Framingham 4 pm

Baseball @ Brookline (Warren) 4 pm

Thursday 4-12

Coed Sailing @ Manchester-Essex (15 Tucks Point Rd, Manchester) 3:30 pm

Boys Tennis vs. BC High 3:45 pm

Boys Volleyball @ Newton North 4 pm

Boys Lacrosse vs. Braintree 4 pm

Girls Lacrosse @ Braintree 4 pm

Friday 4-13

Softball @ Needham (Claxton) 3:45 pm

Baseball @ King Philip 4:30 pm

Saturday 4-14

Girls Lacrosse @ Lincoln-Sudbury 11 am

Baseball vs. Taconic (Silver Lake HS) 12 pm

Sunday 4-15

No Games

 

The Boston Globe today released their annual All-Scholastic lists for the 2017-18 winter season. Several Raiders players and coaches made it to the list, and we would like to recognize them for this tremendous achievement. In terms of the list below, “POY” indicates that the player earned player of the year honors and “COY” indicates coach of the year honors.

Girls Hockey:

Erin Fleming (POY)

Jenna Harrison

PT Donato (COY)

Boys Swimming:

Andrew Scherrer

Girls Indoor Track:

Abby Comella

4×400 Relay (Jojo Kennedy, Comella, Anna Jordahl-Henry, Charlotte Freniere)

John Griffith (COY)

It was a cold and blustery Saturday morning but that didn’t stop girls lacrosse from hosting Norwell in a non-league affair as the girls looked to remain undefeated on the young season. Before we get to that result however, here is the answer to yesterday’s trivia question. The first spring sports game played at the new stadium was.. girls lacrosse appropriately enough. The girls kicked the first full season on the new turf as they fell to Walpole exactly a year ago 9-7. Now onto the recap!

Result for 4-7-18

Girls Lacrosse: Wellesley 8 Norwell 5