On this second to last day of our fall sport season reviews, we take a look at Girls Swimming and Boys Golf, both of whom had another successful season in 2016. Girls Swimming finished 8-3 in the regular season and then took 4th place in the Bay State Championships, and 6th overall in the Sectional Meet. The girls still have one more meet to go and that is the state meet which is this Sunday at Harvard. Boys Golf meanwhile enjoyed a perfect regular season with a 17-0 record, winning the Bay State Conference. The team then went on to finish 3rd in the sectionals, and competed at the state finals match as well. Stay tuned tomorrow as we roll out our last season review, with a look at the football team!

This was a very successful 2016 campaign for both the Wellesley Boys and Girls Cross Country teams as both teams advanced all the way to the state meet that is actually taking place this weekend, but I wanted to take a look back at what this team accomplished during their very memorable fall season. The boys team finished a perfect 11-0 in the regular season and then won both the Bay State Conference Meet as well as the D2 Eastern Mass meet. The girls meanwhile finished their regular season 8-3, and then finished 3rd at the Bay State meet and 2nd at the D2 Eastern Mass meet. Good luck to both these teams this weekend, and check out the blog tomorrow for our Boys Golf and Girls Swimming reviews!

Today on day 2 of our fall season review, we take a look at Field Hockey and Girls Volleyball who both earned postseason berths during the 2016 campaign. The Field Hockey team earned a 10-2-4 regular season record good for second place in the Herget division, and earned themselves a home game as the 8th seed in the D1 South Bracket. The girls defeated Braintree in the first round at home before falling on the road to top seeded Dennis-Yarmouth in the quarterfinals. Meanwhile Girls Volleyball was just able to get into the tournament with a 10-10 overall record and a 5th place finish in the Herget. The girls pulled the road upset as the 10 seed knocking off 7th seeded North Middlesex in the first round before falling in the quarterfinals at 2nd seeded Acton-Boxborough. Stay tuned tomorrow as we will be taking a look at both the Boys and Girls Cross Country teams!

A big Wellesley Sports Blitz congratulations to PT Donato, son of Wellesley High Boys Hockey coach Paul Donato, who was recently named the head girls coach replacing George Campbell. Donato is a graduate of Babson College (13) where he played for the Beavers, interestingly enough along side former Raider Zeke Testa. After graduation Donato joined his dad’s staff for the Raider boys, coaching them up until last winter. Donato will inherit a team that has made the state finals at TD Garden the last 3 seasons, and fallen all 3 times including a 3-1 loss to Notre Dame Academy last season.

With Thanksgiving nearly upon us and the fall season pretty much at a close this week we will take a look back at the fall season starting today with both the Boy’s and Girl’s soccer teams. The boy’s finished up their regular season 6-6-4 good for third place in the Bay State Herget Division. That record landed the team the 14th seed in the D1 South bracket, where they went on to upset Silver Lake before falling 1-0 in overtime to archrival Needham in the quarterfinals. Meanwhile on the girls side it was a season of growing pains as the team finished 2-9-3 and in 5th place in the Herget. That being said the team gained a lot of experience and confidence which they can use to build towards what will hopefully be a very successful 2017 campaign. Stay tuned tomorrow as we will be looking back at Field Hockey and Girls Volleyball.

Wellesley High Student/Athlete Drew Gallerani passed on a link to a GoFundMe page for Wellesley High teacher and coach Mark Yanchewski. Coach Chew as he is referred to by his players and students has been battling medical issues and is looking for help in renovating his home to make it more handicapped accessible. Let us all help this Raider in need and give back to one who has given so much to students over the years! The link is below.
https://www.gofundme.com/handicapped-access-for-coach-chew

So this week’s schedule will be in a bit of a different format this week, as with the fall season pretty much over and there being no games most the days during the week, I’m just going to post the days that there are games. I’m also including JV and Freshmen football games being held this week including their annual pre Thanksgiving meeting at Needham on Saturday. Let’s take a look at what’s on tap!

Monday 11-14
JV Football vs. Braintree 3:15 pm

Saturday 11-15
Cross Country @ State Meet (Gardner) TBD
JV Football @ Needham 10 am
Freshmen Football @ Needham 12 pm

Sunday
Girls Swimming @ State Meet (Harvard) TBD

Today was actually a decent showing in terms of Raider action as Cross Country traveled to the D2 Eastern Mass meet and Girls Swimming headed into BU for the sectional meet. First things first here’s the answer to yesterday’s Raider Friday Trivia question. The Raider football team has posted 3 shutouts this season, coming against Framingham, Natick, and Norwood! Now onto the recap!

Results for 11-12-16
Boys Cross Country: Finished 1st at D2 Eastern Mass meet
Girls Cross Country: Finished 2nd at D2 Eastern Mass Meet
Girls Swimming: Finished 6th at Sectional Meet

On this Veterans Day afternoon there was one contest on the docket as the Raider football team headed to Brockton for their final contest prior to the Thanksgiving game. The Raiders were looking to bounce back from a tough playoff loss last week against Bridgewater-Raynham and head into their annual clash with Needham on a high note! Would they be successful, let’s find out!

Result for 11-11-16
Football: Wellesley 27 Brockton 20

It’s a beautiful Friday morning, and Veterans Day to boot, so first want to take a second to thank all the brave men and women who have put their lives on the line so that we can live in the greatest country in the world! That being said Friday is also a day for another installment of Raider Friday Trivia! First however, it’s time to answer yesterday’s Raider Trivia special edition question. The number of sports Wellesley and Bridgewater-Raynham have played in since 2014 is… 6 meeting in Boys Hockey, Boys and Girls Basketball, Boys Lacrosse, Baseball, and most recently Football. Now for today’s Raider Friday Trivia question. The question is… how many shutout victories did the Raider football team post this season? The answer will be posted tomorrow!