GOBIS: Ex-North swimmer spanning the globe
Former North Attleboro High School swimming standout and Division 1 State Champion Erica MacDonald has been selected captain of the Connecticut College swim team for the 2008-09 season. A distance and middle distance swimmer for the Camels, MacDonald missed the first half of last season, while studying abroad at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The international relations and economics major also earned a field research grant and continues her studies this summer in Brussels, Belgium, before returning to New London in September. MacDonald was also named to the prestigious New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Academic team in recognition of both her athletic and academic accomplishments ...
Half-dozen KP laxmen are all-stars
In the rather recent, but highly successful seasons of lacrosse played by the King Philip Regional High boys' team over the past decade, there may not have been a more productive group of Warriors than those assembled on Macktaz Field in 2008.
Bailey homer lifts PawSox to 7-6 victory
PAWTUCKET - Jeff Bailey hammered a solo home run in the eighth inning Friday to lift the Pawtucket Red Sox to a 7-6 win over Lehigh Valley in International League play at McCoy Stadium.
Boys' lacrosse all-star biographies
Matt Schairer, King Philip
Reis gets much-deserved rest
Chiefs spoil Kielty's return
PAWTUCKET - Healthy once again, Bobby Kielty is a Major Leaguer playing minor-league baseball for the Pawtucket Red Sox.
LEGION: Callan leads Post 312
SOMERSET - Brian Callan was his dominant self Wednesday evening, pitching the South Attleboro American Legion team to another victory, a 5-1 verdict over Somerset.
Pats Hall of Fame voting running out
FOXBORO - Time is running out for fans to have their voices heard in the selection of the latest member of the Patriots Hall of Fame.
Greigre running down a dream
ATTLEBORO - He is down to his last race for Beijing.
FARINELLA: Christmas in July?
For almost 40 years, I have lived according to a different calendar than the rest of you.
GOBIS: Mansfield's Collins on fast track
From Mansfield, to Charlottesville to Bydgoszcz, Poland.
KP boys top picks for tennis all-stars
ATTLEBORO - Eight area boys' high school tennis teams qualified for the MIAA Tournament this season - all but one school that takes to the courts locally - thus signifying a bounty of tremendous talent on display for the 2008 season.
LEGION BASEBALL: Foxboro rallies for victory
FOXBORO - With the 8 p.m. deadline looming, and the score tied at six, the Foxboro American Legion baseball team appeared to be heading for yet another disappointing tie Monday night.
PawSox make early lead stand
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Pawtucket Red Sox jumped out to a 5-0 lead and held on for a 5-2 win over Syracuse in International League play Monday night.
KP, Feehan lead elite girls' tennis stars
It was almost fittingly that the area's top girls' tennis teams, the Shamrocks of Bishop Feehan High and Warriors of King Philip Regional High, would meet somewhere along the line in the MIAA Division 1-South Tennis Tournament.
Post 93 fumbles, falls
WALPOLE - With a plethora of errors and lack of timely hits, the Foxboro American Legion Post 93 baseball team fell to Walpole, 9-4, on Sunday.
North leads baseball all-star selections
ATTLEBORO - A sectional finalist, a sectional semifinalist, a pair of sectional quarterfinalists - pitching, production at the plate and proficiency in the field were at an optimum rate as the 2008 Sun Chronicle All Star Baseball Team is stocked with superb student-athletes.
Baseball all-star biographies
Mike Mancini, North Attleboro
Cassel still first in line
NORTON - With two brand new intermediate-range fairway woods in hand, Matt Cassel set out earlier this week to give the new sticks a test on one of the toughest golf courses in New England, the Tournament Players Club-Boston layout.
FARINELLA: Questions, questions, questions!
Because you asked for it, and because the summer doldrums extend to the creativity levels of sportswriters, it's time for another edition of "Ask Fearless," the recurring feature of your Blue Ribbon Daily in which readers ask insightful questions of your humble scribe, and hopefully receive equally insightful responses in return.
Ralston, Revs topple Toronto
FOXBORO - Twice, the goalpost set up goals for Steve Ralston.
GOBIS: King Philip mourning death of track star
The King Philip Regional High athletic family is in mourning with the passing of one of the Warriors' all-time great athletes and trackster Lexia Calzaretta, who died Monday after battling cancer for 15 years.
ROSE: Celebrate the 4th in Arnold Mills
The question that I been asking myself, and will probably continue to ask until I make the drive to Cumberland next Friday, is, "How many Arnold Mills Fourth of July races have I run?"
LEGION BASEBALL: Post 312 outduels Swansea
ATTLEBORO - Not even Nate Koneski, who finished the season 11-0 for Dighton-Rehoboth while allowing just one earned run all year in 692/3 innings, could prevent South Attleboro's Legion team from picking up another win Thursday night.
Pawtucket's Pauley dazzles Braves
PAWTUCKET - An International League-best 10 wins, a season-best nine strikeouts, 10 straight outings without a loss ... it's been a great trip to the mound this season for David Pauley.
Beijing on their minds
MANSFIELD - Representing the United States of America in the 50 and 100 freestyle swimming events, will it be Mansfield's Nick Brunelli?
Buchholz continues dominance of IL
PAWTUCKET - It had to end somewhere for Clay Buchholz - his streak of scoreless innings, that is.
Plainville's Renner third at Portland Open
PORTLAND, Maine - Plainville resident Jimmy Renner shot a 4-under par 67 in the first round of the TD Banknorth Portland Open Wednesday afternoon at Riverside Municipal Golf Course, good for third place after the tournament's first round.
Thrasher, Post 93 slam Medfield
MEDFIELD - Sparked by a Nick Thrasher grand slam, the Foxboro American Legion team walked away from Medfield with a 15-4 victory over Post 110.
Recruiting in cyberspace
MANSFIELD - The number of Division I basketball scholarships being passed out by NCAA member institutions are few - compared to the number of boys who play high school basketball.
FARINELLA: More tid-bits from Tedy
Ponderous thoughts I was pondering as the first week of summer began my personal five-week countdown toward the end of my summer, otherwise known as the beginning of the Patriots' training camp:
Local pair selected for U-16 developmental team
FOXBORO - Foxboro's Dan Adair and North Attleboro's Devon Devoy, two of the region's premier youth soccer players, have been selected to train and participate with the New England Revolution's under-16 developmental team.
Bruschi tees it up for Spaulding Hospital
NORTON - Tedy Bruschi's relationship with the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital was in place long before he needed its services.
GOBIS: Have pencil will travel
Who's going to be using that No. 2 pencil now?
Norfolk Post 335 routs Westwood
WESTWOOD - Making the most of its 18 hits, the Norfolk American Legion Post 335 baseball team battered host Westwood, 16-1, Monday night.
Post 93 blanks Dedham
FOXBORO - Foxboro High School teammates Jake Lisowski and Joe Clegg combined on a six-hit shutout as the Foxboro American Legion Post 93 baseball team upended Dedham, 5-0, Sunday afternoon.
FARINELLA: Watching Celts fun, not work
In this profession, I don't often have the luxury of just being a fan. It's not possible during the football season, and the separation I need to have between fandom and covering football is so ingrained in me that it carries over to how I perceive other sports.
Salt Lake doubles up Revs
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Rookie Tino Nunez scored his first MLS goal and Real Salt Lake remained unbeaten at home with a 2-1 victory over the New England Revolution on Saturday night.Nunez, who entered the game in the 41st minute after Robbie Findley was injured, scored the winning goal in the 60th minute for RSL (5-5-4). Javier Morales' shot deflected off a Revolution defender right into the path of Nunez, who one-touched the ball past goalkeeper Matt Reis.
Mansfield's Callanan an All-American
GREENSBORO, NC - Mansfield High School senior Matt Callanan capped his track and field career in style this weekend as he added the title of All-American to his already lengthy list of achievements.
Post 312 still unbeaten after tie
LAKEVILLE - The South Attleboro American Legion played home run derby Friday night, but it was the longball that cost Post 312 a win against Lakeville.
Buchholz sharp for PawSox
PAWTUCKET - Clay Buchholz didn't labor hard, nor long for the Pawtucket Red Sox Friday night at McCoy Stadium.
CRANDALL: What a horse's you-know-what
And you think Big Brown had a rough go of it at the Belmont Stakes...
ROSE: Runners need to observe safety rules
There are times when even I, the Sun Chronicle running guy, can lose my patience with runners. It takes a lot to exceed my level of tolerance but there are times when runners act with such carelessness and disregard for common sense that I need to speak out.
Norton United girls take first
NORTON - The Norton United U9 girls' soccer team recently finished in first place in the South Coast Soccer League's 'A' Division.
Local man in Outdoorsman Challenge
FOXBORO - South Attleboro's Timothy Fontaine is one step closer to becoming Field & Steam Magazine's next Total Outdoorsman Challenge winner.
Attleboro mother, son get black belts
ATTLEBORO - An Attleboro mother and son have found a new way to spend time as a family by doing something they both love - Martial Arts.
Foxboro U14 soccer takes next step
FOXBORO - The future appears bright for the Foxboro High girls' soccer team, if the play of the U14 team is any indication.
Post 312 overcomes shaky start, Norton
- John Pelland didn't have to say a word, didn't even have to shoot a dirty look or two.
Attleboro's Lacasse honored as state's top track coach
With nearly two decades of service to the Attleboro High School athletic program, including 14 years as the girls' winter track coach, Peter Lacasse has been recognized by the Mass. State Track Coaches Association as the Coach of the Year.
