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Bulldog basketball team faces ‘growing pains’ in close loss to Wareham

MATTAPOISETT — After three minutes, Wareham High School led Old Rochester Regional High School’s boys basketball team 8-2 on Friday, Dec. 27. The six-point Wareham lead matched the largest advantage either team would have for the remainder of a back...

ORR ice hockey falls to Dartmouth in overtime nail-biter, 5-4

The Old Rochester Regional High School Bulldogs faced a “tough loss” on the ice Saturday night, Dec. 14, going against Dartmouth High School in the first game of the season. It was a close game with a lot of action as both teams took turns tying up...
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Old Colony’s Max Finney scores 1000th point

ROCHESTER — Max Finney’s youth travel basketball coach once told him he’d be the next player to score 1,000 points at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School. That was in eighth grade, his mother Stasia Finney said. It’s a goal he’s...

Alumni defeat Old Rochester boys soccer for 10th straight year

MATTAPOISETT — For 10 years, Old Rochester boys soccer players of the past and present have come together to play an annual game around Thanksgiving. In each of those 10 years, a team of program alumni have defeated the current high school team. On...

Under sheets of rain, Old Rochester football season comes to close

MATTAPOISETT — Under endless and cold sheets of rain, Old Rochester Regional High School’s football season came to a close. The Bulldogs lost 26-14 to Apponequet Regional High School on Thanksgiving Thursday, Nov. 28. Seniors Jack Leconte and Devin...

Old Rochester handily wins powderpuff game

WAREHAM — Old Rochester Regional High School ran to victory Wednesday, Nov. 27 in the annual powderpuff game against Wareham High School. The Bulldogs won 36-8 in the girls flag football game traditionally played before Thanksgiving. Old Rochester...

‘We kept fighting’: Old Rochester football loses in tournament semifinals

SCITUATE — In 2022, Old Rochester Regional High School lost to Shawsheen Valley Technical High School in the quarterfinals of the MIAA Div. 5 football playoff tournament. In 2023, the two schools met again in the quarterfinals. Shawsheen won again...

Old Rochester cross country athletes compete at Meet of Champions

Competing at the MIAA Meet of Champions, several athletes on the Old Rochester girls cross country team improved their course times on Nov. 16 at Fort Devens. The team competed in the Meet of Champions for the second year in a row after qualifying...

Bulldogs keep on rolling to state semifinals

MATTAPOISETT — With eight seconds and fourth down showing on the scoreboard, it looked as if Old Rochester Regional High School would take a close 14-10 lead over Norton High School into halftime on Friday, Nov. 15 in the Div. 5 state quarterfinals...

With ‘Marion Mile’ roots, Tabor boys cross country runs to undefeated championship season

MARION — The roots of the undefeated regular season recently achieved by the Tabor Academy boys cross country team began, it could be said, in Marion all the way back in 2002. That’s the year head coach Chris Adams began the “Marion Mile,” a series...

‘This is amazing’: Unified Bulldogs best Tri-Town police in annual game

MATTAPOISETT — In front of a full house at Old Rochester Regional High School, the school’s unified basketball team capped off its second consecutive undefeated season with a victory over a team of Tri-Town first responders on Wednesday, Nov. 13...

Old Rochester girls cross country to compete at state championship

DEVENS — After snagging seventh place at the Division 2 Cross Country Championships, the Old Rochester Regional High School girls varsity cross country team will progress to the next stage of competition. Both the girls and boys varsity teams...

Shutout win kicks off postseason for Old Rochester football

MATTAPOISETT — Whatever rust the Old Rochester Regional High School football team may have had coming off a bye week between the end of the regular season and first round of the MIAA Div. 5 postseason tournament was shaken off relatively quickly. On...

Playoffs underway for Old Colony athletic teams

ROCHESTER — The regular season has wrapped up and Old Colony athletics have gotten underway in postseason play. The Cougar football team will travel to Narragansett Regional High School on Friday, Nov. 8 as the first round of the Division 8 playoffs...

Bulldogs march into postseason tournaments

MATTAPOISETT — Months of grueling practices and games have paid off for Old Rochester’s fall sports programs as they enter postseason play. It has been a successful start to the school for Bulldog sports teams as all five varsity team sports...

‘Kept us on our toes’: Old Rochester volleyball wins first game of postseason

MATTAPOISETT — Eleven days separated the end of the regular season for the Old Rochester Regional High School volleyball team and their first game of the postseason. They held practices, head coach Jimmy Oliveira said, but there’s only so much to do...

Alumni run raises more than $500 for Old Rochester cross country, track

MARION — More than 30 participants raced 5 kilometers around Washburn Park on Sunday, Oct. 13 to raise money for the cross country and track teams at Old Rochester Regional High School. Altogether, 36 runners and walkers competed in the “alumni fun...

Old Rochester volleyball hangs on for thrilling victory, improves to 13-2

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School volleyball team found themselves hanging on for dear life towards the end of a decisive fifth and final set against Dennis-Yarmouth High School on Wednesday, Oct. 9. On three separate occasions,...

Old Colony football “plays with enthusiasm” on way to second straight win

ROCHESTER — The Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School football team found themselves in an unfamiliar place after opening the season with two losses to out of conference foes. In 2022 and 2023, the Cougars finished the regular season...

‘You’ve got to keep fighting’: Old Rochester cross country becomes cohesive through competition

MARION — The sheer difficulty — physical and mental — of competitively running long distances has brought the Old Rochester Regional High School cross country program together like a family. The boys and girls teams each defeated Apponequet Regional...

Old Colony volleyball has effort ‘to be proud of’

ROCHESTER — The Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School volleyball team faced a formidable test on Friday, Sept. 20 as undefeated Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical High School entered the Cougars’ den. Old Colony showed they can...

Old Rochester girls soccer is perfect to begin the year

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School girls soccer team talks a lot. They talk about positioning, like where defenders or midfielders should stand. They tell each other if there’s an opposing defender guarding nearby. They talk to...

Two comebacks, two overtimes, two ‘craziest’ wins begin Old Rochester football season

MATTAPOISETT — For the last four minutes of the fourth quarter, Old Rochester senior quarterback Gavin Martin was on one knee praying. Old Rochester Regional High School had earlier in the second half deleted a two-touchdown deficit and taken the...

Two Tri-Town teams scrimmage in last test before season

ROCHESTER — The Old Rochester Regional High School boys soccer team made the approximately 20-minute drive over to Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School for a preseason scrimmage between Tri-Town teams on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The...

Old Colony girls soccer kicks off season

ROCHESTER — The Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School girls soccer program grew from 18 players last year to 28 players for the 2024 season. Head coach Paul Soucy believes there will be plenty of growth on the field as well. The...

First sign of fall: Bulldogs are back on the gridiron

MATTAPOISETT — The start of September means getting back to school and the end of summer for some. For others, turning the page to September means another thing: football season. The Old Rochester Youth Football 14 and under team took the field just...

From hallways to hall of fame: Old Colony superintendent to be honored for wrestling career

ROCHESTER — In addition to serving as the superintendent-director of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School, Aaron Polansky works as a keynote speaker. But Polansky couldn’t find the words during a particular conversation, the one in...

Golfers swing away to help Troop 31

LAKEVILLE — Fore! Friends and families of Rochester Troop 31 took the fairways of Poquoy Brook Golf Club in Lakeville for a fundraising tournament on Thursday, Aug. 22. Forty golfers competed in teams of four to help out the scouts. Scott Orlowski,...

Old Colony superintendent to be inducted into Massachusetts chapter of National Wrestling Hall of Fame

The superintendent of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School is heading to the hall of fame. Aaron Polansky, superintendent-director of Old Colony in Rochester, was announced Tuesday, Aug. 20 as one of seven to be inducted next year...

‘Next generation of sailors’ go head-to-head

MARION — With the Bourne Bridge visible in the distance of a picture-perfect afternoon, around 250 kids and teens raced laps around Sippican Harbor on Tuesday, Aug. 13 for the first day of the Beverly Yacht Club Junior Regatta. “This is one of the...

Last minute layup seals league title at Silvershell Beach

MARION — Seven seconds remained in the summer when a bucket with a foul brought a roar to Silvershell Beach. In the championship of the Embargo League, Ruby Room Salon led Cio’s Auto Detail nearly the entire way. Or, as the many spectators along...

Photos: Old Rochester plays ball at Cranberry Brawl

ROCHESTER — Old Rochester ballplayers across two different age groups faced off simultaneously against visiting towns Saturday morning at Gifford Park. The two games on July 27 composed part of the annual Cranberry Brawl baseball tournament hosted...

Strokes, wheels and feet: Triathletes race through Mattapoisett

MATTAPOISETT — Three years ago, Heather Peckham’s son gave her a bicycle he found in a dumpster. The bicycle, plus the suggestion of a friend soon after, catalyzed Peckham to compete in a triathlon for the first time. “I got hooked, but it was my...

Summer athletics club for kids stays on track

MATTAPOISETT — The 2024 Summer Olympics begin in just a few days, and the world’s greatest in track and field will soon flock to Paris’s Stade de France to compete. Those Olympic events begin in August. In Mattapoisett, track and field greatness has...

Coastal Team ‘spikes’ gold at Bay State Games

After three years of just barely missing the mark, Jimmy Oliveira, head coach of the Coastal Region volleyball team, and his assistant coach Ryan Grace oversaw the win of their first gold at the Bay State Games over the July 13 weekend. The Bay...

Marion resident medals at Massachusetts Special Olympics

MARION — Thomas Grondin spent his first nights away from home for the Massachusetts Special Olympics in Boston in early June. Three swim events later, Grondin had three medals. He was one of more than 1,5000 athletes competing at the Massachusetts...

From the hardwood to the gridiron: Embargo League adds football

Currently in its fourth summer of hosting basketball games: an unlikely “coincidence” has helped the Embargo League add a flag football league to its repertoire. Embargo League co-founder and CEO Dylan Cantara shares a workplace, Cask & Pig in...