It was a beautiful Monday for some tennis as the Raider boys tennis team hit the road for their D1 South quarterfinal at Franklin. Could the Raiders be road warriors and keep their season alive, let’s find out!
Result for 6-6-16
Boys Tennis: Wellesley 5 Franklin 0 D1 South Quarterfinals
Boys advance to play Barnstable in D1 South Semifinals
The wet weather that came through our area today couldn’t stop the Raider girls lacrosse team who looked to keep their season alive as they hosted Hingham in the D1 South quarterfinals. The Raiders had already beaten the Harborwomen once earlier this season. Could they make lightning strike twice, let’s find out!
Result for 6-5-16
Girls Lacrosse: Wellesley 15 Hingham 8 D1 South Quarterfinals
Girls advance to play Westwood in D1 South semifinals
It’s down to the final 3 Raider teams in the MIAA tournament as both tennis teams and girls lacrosse are still going at this time. As always with tournament play this schedule is subject to change based on the result of today’s girls lacrosse game as well as the results of the two tennis matches early this week. That being said here is the current schedule!
Monday 6-6
Boys Tennis @ Franklin D1 South Quarterfinals 4 pm
Tuesday 6-7
Girls Tennis vs. Newton North D1 South Quarterfinals 4 pm
Girls Lacrosse @ Westwood D1 South Semifinals 7 pm
Wednesday 6-8
Boys Tennis @ Barnstable D1 South Semifinals 4 pm
Girls Tennis vs. Barnstable D1 South Semifinals 4 pm
Thursday 6-9
No Games
Friday 6-10
Girls Tennis vs. Sharon D1 South Finals (Rockland HS) 3 pm
Saturday 6-11
No Games
Sunday 6-12
No Games
As mentioned before it was a beautiful Saturday here in Wellesley and a perfect day for some little league action as several teams from all age groups took to the fields today. Let’s see who took home the W’s!
Junior Softball:
Weston Huskies 12 Kansas Jayhawks 11
Senior Softball:
LSU Tigers 13 Needham Wolverines 13
3rd Grade Baseball:
Rays 9 Angels 6
Braves 10 Phillies 7
Mariners 2 Cubs 1
It was a beautiful Saturday in Raider nation as the girls tennis team took to the court for their D1 south tournament opener against Brookline. Would the top seeded Raiders overcome the upset minded Warriors, let’s find out!
Result for 6-4-16
Girls Tennis: Wellesley 4 Brookline 1 D1 South First Round
Girls advance to play Newton North in D1 South Quarterfinals!
Before I reveal today’s trivia answer, I wanted to take a moment to congratulate all the members of the Wellesley High class of 2016 who graduated today both athletes and non-athletes. Hope you enjoyed today and best of luck in your future endeavours. Now for today’s trivia answer the answer is.. the Boston Red Sox, that’s right if you read an earlier post Nate Freiman signed with the Boston Red Sox a couple of weeks ago and is currently playing for their Double A affiliate the Portland Seadogs!
Well it may be a tad bit gloomy on this Friday morning but it is Friday none the less, and also graduation day over at Wellesley High School. Friday also means it is time for another edition of Raider Friday Trivia! Today’s question is… what MLB organization does Wellesley High alum Nate Freiman currently play for? Answer later tonight!
It was certainly the busiest day of the tournament season so far your Raider spring sports teams as 3 teams were in action, with boys tennis hosting Newton North and baseball and boys lacrosse traveling to Bridgewater Raynham and Xaverian respectively. Could the Raiders make it a clean sweep, let’s find out!
Results for 6-2-16
Boys Tennis: Wellesley 4 Newton North 1 D1 South First Round
Boys advance to play Franklin in Quarterfinals
Baseball: Bridgewater Raynham 9 Wellesley 5 D1 South First Round
Team finishes 11-11, congratulations on a great season and best of luck to the seniors in their future endeavours
Boys Lacrosse: Xaverian 14 Wellesley 5 D1 South First Round
Boys finish season 9-10, congratulations on a great season and best of luck to the seniors in their future endeavours
Happy June everyone! With their being no tournament games today and with there having been no little league games this past weekend due to the long weekend, I figured today would be a perfect day to do a little league recap so without any further ado here are today’s scores!
Results for 6-1-16
National League:
Diamondbacks 13 Nationals 2
Giants 9 Astros 5
Angels 7 Orioles 6
On this last day of May we had some very exciting tournament action as girls lacrosse opened up their tournament play against North Quincy at Sprague Field while Girls Golf competed in the sectional tournament this morning in Gardner. How would both fare, let’s find out!
Results for 5-31-16
Girls Lacrosse: Wellesley 20 North Quincy 6 D1 South First Round
Girls advance to play Hingham in Quarterfinals Sunday at 4 pm
Girls Golf: Qualified for States next week in Chatham
