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Cheerleaders to hold car wash

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Youth Football Cheerleaders’ Annual Bake Sale and Car Wash Fundraiser will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 at the Fire Station. Car washes are $5 and cheers are free. There is no rain date for the...

Photos: ORR girls volleyball team raises money with car wash

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School girls volleyball team held a car wash outside of the Mattapoisett Fire Station on Saturday, Sept. 14 to help fundraise for equipment, and future endeavors. Coach James Oliveira said that in...
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Bulldogs take overtime win in season opener

DARTMOUTH — It came down to strong defense followed by a big offensive push in overtime, but the Old Rochester Bulldogs scored a win to open its season against Dartmouth High School. In the opening minutes of the September 13 game, the Bulldogs took...

ORR’s first football game of the year set for Sept. 13

DARTMOUTH — The Old Rochester Regional High School football team will play its first game of the season against Dartmouth High school at their opponent’s newly renovated stadium on Friday, sept. 13 at 4 p.m. Old Rochester’s head coach Bryce...

ORR girls soccer team prepares for 2019 season

After finishing last year’s regular season with a record of 16 wins to just two losses, and advancing to the second round of playoffs, coach Jeff Lombard will look to play to his “veteran team’s” strengths in the 2019 season. This year’s varsity...

Mattapoisett Recreation to host free basketball clinic

MATTAPOISETT — The town’s Recreation Department and coaches from Baystate Elite and Basketball Money programs are offering free girls basketball clinics for children in grades 2 to 8. Clinics will be held at Old Hammondtown School on Tuesdays from 6...

ORR sports teams prepare for fall season

As the fall sports season begins, Sippican Week had an opportunity to catch up with some of the Old Rochester Regional High School coaches to talk about their athletes, their teams and their expectations for the season. Here’s what we heard. ...

Tri-town team participates in national tournament

The Tri-town sent thirteen 12-year-old boys to Cooperstown, New York’s Dreams Park for a national tournament from July 27 to Aug. 3 with the Buzzards Bay Cooperstown baseball team. Playing teams from across the country, the boys faced squads from...

Mariner Soccer registration open

Registration for Mariner Youth Soccer is open. The cost to register is $130. Registration includes participation in the fall recreational league, a game jersey, a pair of soccer socks, and one New England Revolution ticket to a game on Saturday,...

Youth soccer to start Sept. 7

The Old Rochester Youth Soccer program is still accepting registrations for its fall teams, which will start Sept. 7. The program fee of $125 will cover eight weeks of instruction, games, and shirt, shorts and socks for the uniform. Players provide...

Old Rochester sports face down triple threat

The Old Rochester Regional Athletic Program faces a triple threat to practice and game time this season: town activities bans for Eastern Equine Encephalitis, new heat index rules from the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and...

Rochester tennis player gets national tennis platform

ROCHESTER — Rochester’s Brooklyn Bindas is really good at tennis. So good, in fact, that the U.S. Tennis Association has chosen her as a youth ambassador for the sport. The national tennis group picked 17 youth tennis players across the nation who...

Track club releases August meet results

MATTAPOISETT — The town Track Club has released the results of its final meet for the summer. For decades, the Mattapoisett Track Club has given kids from age 3 to eighth grade the chance to run in the summer and high school and college runners a...

Rochester-raised college athlete earns honors

ROCHESTER — Trinity College track and field athlete Rachel Scheub made the 2018-19 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Winter and Spring All-Academic Teams. Scheub, a six-time NESCAC All-Academic honoree in cross country and...

Try out for the Gateway AAU baseball team

The GateWay AAU baseball team will host tryouts for the 2020 season at Dexter Field in Rochester on Saturday, Aug.24, and Sunday, Aug. 25. Tryouts for the 9 and under, and 12 and under teams will be on Saturday at 3 p.m. The 10 and under, and 11 and...

Gateway Babe Ruth team wins championship

The Gateway Babe Ruth Vikings got their first championship defeating the Sea Wolves 6 to 2 on Aug. 1. The team includes players from the tri-town and Wareham, mainly Anthony Steele, Danny Flynn, Matthew Eby, Michael Enos, Jaren Rose, Andre Silvia,...

Pupils become teachers at Mattapoisett Track Club

For decades the Mattapoisett Track Club has given kids from age 3 to eighth grade the chance to run in the summer and high school and college runners a steady job. Many of the older runners who now serve as teachers were once pupils in the club...

Mattapoisett Recreation hosts drop-in adult pickleball

MATTAPOISETT — The Recreation Department hosts adult pickleball sessions three days a week at the Hammond Street courts, near Center School. On Tuesdays and Thursdays players meet from 4:30 p.m. until sundown. On Saturday mornings players meet from...

Tabor basketball camp to start in August

MARION — South Coast Elite Basketball Camp will run its second camp Aug. 5 to 8 at Tabor Academy. The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to girls and boys, ages 7 to 14 years old. The focus of the camp is to teach advanced concepts to...

Gateway opens fall registration

Gateway fall registration is now open for three divisions. Players will try out for the 14/16 wooden bat varsity division, as it is a highly competitive league. Each town should have at least one team representing them in the wooden bat league...

Gateway Bulldogs take third place

The 14u Team Gateway Bulldogs came in third place in the New England AAU Championships out of 35 teams. The team also placed second in its division. The team includes Alec Marsden, Noah Sommers, Ryan Silva, Damon Smead, Owen Cassidy from the tri-...

Gateway Baseball Summer camp starting

Gateway Summer Camp registrations are now open. The summer camp is organized by Gateway Babe Ruth Baseball, Team Gateway AAU, and Wareham Post 220 American Legion Baseball The camp will take place on four Sundays, starting Aug. 11 and running...

Fall River dominates 2019 Cranberry Brawl

ROCHESTER — Old Rochester Youth Baseball team played well in the Cranberry Brawl tournament, with the 9-years-old and under team making it all the way to the championship game before losing to Fall River’s Maplewood League. The Maplewood league won...

Register for elite basketball camp

MARION — Registration is open for the second session of the South Coast Elite Basketball Camp at Tabor Academy. Session two will run August 5 to 8, from 9 a,m. to 3 p.m., and is open to boys and girls ages 7 to 14. The camp focuses on teaching the...

Athletes swim, bike, run across Mattapoisett

MATTPOISETT — At 8 a.m. on a bright July Sunday 110 athletes stood ready to swim, bike and run through town. Participants in the Mattapoisett Lions Triathlon had the opportunity to complete the whole race themselves or do the event in teams. The...

Youth baseball ‘Cranberry Brawl’ underway in Rochester

ROCHESTER — The 2019 Cranberry Brawl youth baseball tournament is officially underway, with 18 teams from across southeastern Massachusetts participating in the four-day competition at Rochester’s Gifford Park and Dexter Lane baseball fields. Teams...

Nemasket Group to hold charity golf tournament

MATTAPOISETT — The Nemasket Group Golf Tournament will be on Monday, August 26 at the Bay Club at Mattapoisett. It will feature a bramble style competition, an air cannon contest, putting contest, hole-in-one contest, lunch and a dinner reception...

Runners race through Mattapoisett on 4th of July

MATTAPOISETT — Almost a thousand runners, 978 to be exact, completed the Mattapoisett Road Race, starting at 9 a.m. on the Fourth of July. The 5 mile course started and ended at Shipyard Park, and looped around the lighthouse at Ned’s Point. Trevor...

Horses walk, trot, and canter through Washburn Park

MARION — At the Fourth of July Marion Horse Show riders in the trail classes were asked to maneuver their horses over bridges and around cones. But one “obstacle” was less a physical one and more about the feat of keeping their horses still while...

Mattapoisett baseball clinic moves to Dartmouth

The Brian Rose Baseball Clinic, usually held at Old Hammondtown School, will be moved to Bishop Stang High School this year. Rose had to move the clinic because he judged the Mattapoisett fields “unplayable,” adding, “what a shame [it] would’ve been...

Mattapoisett woman comes second in charity fishing tournament

DARTMOUTH — Mattapoisett resident Joanne Cameron has placed second in the bluefish category of the Meeting Street Fishing for a Cause Tournament on 22. Cameron hit the waters of Buzzards Bay with other fishermen on her boat the Solemate on June 21...

Marion sailboat racing program to start in July

MARION — The Town of Marion Recreation Department has launched a community sailboat racing program for summer 2019. Events will be held on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from July 13 to August 31. Participants will compete in timed races in the...

Runners compete in the Marion Village 5K

MARION — Roughly 170 runners of all ages competed in the Marion Village 5K road race on Saturday, June 22. Runners left the starting line on Front Street near Baxter House around 9 a.m. They then proceeded past Tabor Academy, looped around Ryder...

ORR runners place in top 30 at nationals.

Runners on the Old Rochester Regional High school track team competed at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, held from June 13 to 16. Meg Hughes placed 23rd in the 400 meter hurdles with...