It’s championship week for the majority of the fall sports, and multiple Raider teams are still alive, with boys soccer, girls swimming, and both cross countries vying for the crown. Two notes about this week’s schedule is it is subject to change based on how boys soccer fares and I’m only posting the dates that have games on them to keep it simple. Here’s a look at the week ahead!

Monday 11-12

Boys Soccer vs. BC High D1 South Finals (Hingham HS) 12 pm

Wednesday 11-14

Boys Soccer vs. Lincoln Sudbury D1 State Semifinals (Manning Field, Lynn) 7 pm

Saturday 11-17

Boys Soccer vs. Ludlow D1 State Finals (Manning Field, Lynn) 4 pm

Sunday 11-18

Girls Swimming @ State Meet (Harvard) 8:45 am

Cross Country @ State Meet (Stanley Park, Westfield) TBA

It was a big day for the girls swim team as they headed into MIT for the South Sectional meet. The girls were looking to defend their sectional crown and advance to the state meet next weekend. Could they pull it off, lets find out!

Result for 11-11-18

Girls Swimming: Finished first at sectional meet

Team advances to state meet!

It was certainly an exciting Saturday in Raider action as boys soccer took on Silver Lake in the D1 South semifinals while both cross country teams headed to the Eastern Mass Championships. Before we get to the results however lets answer the latest Raider Friday Trivia. The assistant athletic director at WHS is… Courtney Albin. Now onto the recap!

Results for 11-10-18

Boys Soccer: Wellesley 3 Silver Lake 0 D1 South Semifinals

Boys advance to face BC High in South finals

Girls Cross Country: Finished 4th at Eastern Mass meet

Team moves onto States

Boys Cross Country: Finished 2nd at Eastern Mass meet

Team moves onto States

It was a cold, rainy night for football tonight as the Raider football team made the trip down to Braintree in its final pre-Thanksgiving game. With a win the Raiders could clinch yet another winning season. Would they be successful, lets find out!

Result for 11-9-18

Football: Braintree 24 Wellesley 7

It may be cold outside but this new edition of Raider Friday Trivia is just getting warmed up. Today’s question is…Who is the assistant athletic director at Wellesley High School? Answer tomorrow!

So finally after some schedule adjusting due to weather boys soccer found out tonight their opponent in the D1 South Semifinals. The boys will take on Silver Lake Saturday at noon at Hingham High School for a berth in the D1 South finals. The weekly schedule has been updated to reflect this. That being said I thought I’d take a quick look at how both teams got here.

Wellesley:

12-3-2

5 seed

Beat Weymouth 2-1 (OT)

Beat Needham 1-0 (PK)

Silver Lake:

18-0-1

1 seed

Beat Hingham 3-0

With a couple of days in between Raider events I thought I’d fill the time by previewing a couple of the upcoming contests. Today I’ll preview football’s last pre-Thanksgiving tilt with Braintree coming up Friday night at Braintree. Here’s a look at both teams seasons to this point.

Wellesley:

5-4 (3-2)

4th seed in D2 South (Fell to Barnstable 35-0 in quarterfinals)

Lost to Newton North 27-14

PPG: 27.9

PAPG: 21.4

Braintree:

5-4 (1-2)

6th seed in D2 South (Fell to King Philip 21-7 in quarterfinals)

Beat Stoughton 26-0

PPG: 22.9

PAPG: 18.8

It was a cold and wet Monday night at Needham’s Memorial Field but tensions were red hot as Wellesley and Needham squared off in the boys soccer D1 South quarterfinals. Needham beat the Raiders 1-0 back in September, could they make lightning strike twice, or would Wellesley exact revenge on the biggest stage, lets find out!

Result for 11-5-18

Boys Soccer: Wellesley 1 Needham 0 D1 South Quarterfinals

Boys move on to face winner of Hingham/Silver Lake in semifinals!

It’s the first full week in November, and with a new week comes another edition of Monday Poll! Last week’s poll saw 2004 squeak out a win as most enjoyable Red Sox title. This week’s question is… if you could own one of the 4 major Boston Sports teams which one would it be, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics? Comment with your answers!

Another week is upon us, and even though several Raider teams saw their seasons end last week, there is still a lot of action left to be played. This week’s schedule is subject to change depending on boys soccer and also the announcement of football’s game time and location for this week. That being said here’s what we have so far!

Monday 11-5

Boys Soccer @ Needham D1 South Quarterfinals 7 pm

Tuesday 11-6

No Games

Wednesday 11-7

No Games

Thursday 11-8

No Games

Friday 11-9

Football @ Braintree 6 pm

Saturday 11-10

Boys Soccer vs. Silver Lake D1 South Semifinals (Hingham HS) 12 pm

Cross Country @ Eastern Mass Championships (Wrentham Development Center) TBA

Sunday 11-11

Girls Swimming @ Sectionals (MIT) 4:15 pm