As the clock flips to Friday it is time for another stirring edition of Raider Friday Trivia. Today’s question will possibly land one lucky reader a Dunkin Donuts gift card. The question is… what item does WHS athletic department secretary Mary Anne MacDonald donate annually to the WHS Junior Class Auction? The answer will be announced Sunday!

So I will be away from the blog tomorrow-mid day Sunday so I won’t be able to post the tournament seedings as they happen, but I will have all the first round matchups, dates and times in the weekly schedule on Sunday. The boys and girls basketball brackets will be announced tomorrow while the boys and girls hockey tournament fates will be announced Saturday. For all the up to date information and the full brackets go to miaa.net!

Tonight was the final night of games of the 2016-17 winter sport regular season, and there was some awesome action on the docket as it was senior night for the girls hockey team taking on unbeaten Beverly/Danvers while boys hockey traveled to Waltham to try to ruin the Hawks senior night. Could both teams end the regular season on a high note heading into postseason play, let’s find out!

Results for 2-22-17

Girls Hockey: Wellesley 4 Beverly/Danvers 3

Boys Hockey: Wellesley 3 Waltham 3

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It was a busy President’s Day for Raider hoop fans as both hoop teams closed out their regular season today on day 2 of the Riley Classic in Westwood, with the boys attempting to win their second straight tournament title. Could both teams pull off the clean sweep, let’s find out!

Results for 2-20-17

Girls Basketball: Wellesley 43 Westwood 29

Boys Basketball: Westwood 65 Wellesley 52

Happy President’s Day everyone! As we begin this February vacation week it’s time for another edition of Monday Poll. Last week’s question got 11 votes and out of those votes fall got the top spot for which season people prefer to watch sports in. Today’s question is… Do you like the new Wellesley High turf field? Results next week.

It’s February vacation week for all the girls and boys of Wellesley, which also means the final week of the winter sport regular season and if tournament spots having already been clinched, these final games now become all about seeding! So without any further ado let’s see what this February vacation week holds.

Monday 2-20

Girls Basketball @ Westwood 3 pm

Boys Basketball @ Westwood 5 pm

Tuesday 2-21

No Games

Wednesday 2-22

Girls Hockey vs. Beverly/Danvers (Babson) 6:40 pm

Boys Hockey @ Waltham (Veterans) 7:50 pm

Thursday 2-23

No Games

Friday 2-24

No Games

Saturday 2-25

No Games

Sunday 2-26

No Games

It was a rare busy Sunday for Raider teams, and a big day at that, as both indoor track teams and boys swimming took part in their respective state meets while both boys and girls basketball headed to Westwood for their day 1 of the Riley Classic, with the boys still searching for that elusive state tournament berth clinching victory. Would they get it and how would everything else turn out on the day, let’s find out!

Results for 2-19-17

Boys Swimming: Finished 8th in D1 State Meet

Boys Indoor Track: Finished 6th in D2 State Meet

Girls Indoor Track: Finished 1st in D2 State Meet

Girls Basketball: Archbishop Williams 65 Wellesley 63

Boys Basketball: Wellesley 67 Silver Lake 50

The Saturday before February vacation was a busy one as both hockey teams squared off with Natick in their final Herget division contests of the season, while multiple wrestlers took to the mat for the D2 state match. How would it all turn out, we’ll find out in a minute, but first it’s time to reveal the answer to yesterday’s trivia question. The sport current Wellesley High principal Jamie Chisum coached back in his teaching days was… track and field! Congratulations to Ryan Lerman who win’s this weeks trivia contest and a Dunkin gift card. Now onto the recap!

Results for 2-18-17

Girls Hockey: Wellesley 2 Natick 1

Boys Hockey: Natick 4 Wellesley 0

Wrestling: Josh Cohen advanced to all states

The new divisional alignments were announced today and the Wellesley Raider football team finds themselves back in the D2 South bracket, a section they occupied for the first 3 years of the current playoff format, before spending last year in D1A South. The Raiders will join 10 other familiar foes in D2 South including Herget rival Natick. For a full listing of all the division alignments here’s the Boston Herald piece on today’s announcement. http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/high_school/high_school_insider/2017/02/high_school_football_new_emass_football_realignment#.WKbjn3EpSqg.twitter