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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-...
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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...

ORR girls tennis ends season against Martha’s Vineyard

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School girls tennis team defeated Canton High School on Thursday, June 6 to advance to the semifinals of the Massachusetts south sectional tournament. Despite rain showers earlier in the day, the...

CrossFit competition features tritown talent

WAREHAM — Dozens of athletes from the South Coast and beyond strained to lift barbells of increasing weight as Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” filled the air at Seaside Crossfit on June 9. The gym’s first ever competition, named “Wodstock” in honor...

Athletes inducted into ORR Hall of Fame

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School Athletic Hall of Fame recognized five standout athletes and one record-breaking team on Saturday, June 8. The Hall of Fame held its 2019 Induction Banquet at the Knights of Columbus Hall, and...

ORR’s Meg Hughes to race in nationals

MATTAPOISETT — While most of the team is finished for the spring season, a handful of athletes remain hard at work on Old Rochester Regional High School’s outdoor track. Junior Meg Hughes is training for the New Balance Nationals Outdoor track and...

ORR girls tennis team wins quarter final match

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School girls tennis team defeated Canton High School on Thursday, June 6 to advance to the semifinals of the Massachusetts south sectional tournament. Despite rain showers earlier in the day, the...

ORR boys tennis finishes season with record of 18-2

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional High School boys tennis team decisively beat the Nantucket Whalers five matches to zero in the second round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament. Senior Ray Williams won the...

Meet ORR Hall of Famers

The Old Rochester Regional Athletic Hall of Fame will hold its 2019 Induction Banquet on June 8. The banquet will be at the Knights of Columbus Hall starting with a cocktail hour at 5 p.m. and continuing with a dinner and induction ceremony at 6 p.m...

This tennis match will make town more beautiful

MARION — The Sippican Tennis Club will host its first charity tournament on June 15. The Open Charity Tournament organizers plan to continue the tournament in the years to come, supporting a different charity each year. This year’s tournament will...

ORR high school gets approval for unified basketball

When the Old Rochester Regional School Committee approved a unified track team a few months ago that would allow athletes with special needs to compete alongside other athletes, Principal Michael Devoll said that the team could be the model for...

Registration open for senior Gateway baseball

Gateway Senior Babe Ruth registration is now open. Players that join will be in the Cape Cod Senior Babe Ruth League. The team will have a 15-game season, with three games during the weekdays starting on June 17. The league is mostly varsity school...

High school senior attackman, Sam Austin shares sports journey

ROCHESTER — Playing sports is something Old Rochester Regional High School senior, Sam Austin has done for most of his life. Austin’s father taught him how to skate at the age of three. By age six, Austin joined the hockey team, where his sports...