What a weekend for Damien Jones. The University of New England junior running back and Fitchburg native had a career day in a 47-30 loss at Curry. The former St. Bernard’s standout racked up career-highs with 267 rushing yards and four touchdowns. making some program history. Jones scored on runs of 12, 27, 47 and […]
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Local roundup: Blue Devils win and advance
The Leominster High football team never looked rattled Friday night. Despite falling behind by a touchdown early, the eighth-seeded Blue Devils battled back and held off No. 9 Franklin, 42-21, at Doyle Field in the opening round of the Division 1 tournament. The Blue Devils advance to the Division 1 quarterfinals where they will face […]
Fitchburg hurt by turnovers in loss
FITCHBURG — Halloween was a week ago, and Thanksgiving in only three weeks away, but with the way Fitchburg gave the ball away to Maynard Friday night, it might as well have been Christmas. Poor giveaways on fumbles and bad snaps was the theme of the game for the Red and Gray’s second consecutive game, […]
Palermo powers Nashoba to win
BOLTON — Happy birthday, Gabby Palermo. The senior captain celebrated her 18th birthday on Wednesday with a hat trick to lead the Nashoba Regional field hockey team to a convincing 7-0 victory over visiting Notre Dame of Hingham under the lights at Nashoba Regional High School. With the win, the second-seeded Wolves (19-0-1) advance to […]
Fitchburg boys win prestigious soccer title
It should come as no surprise that soccer at Fitchburg High has been on the rise for the past couple seasons. After all, the youth soccer ranks in the city have been finding plenty of success and providing a quality feeder system to the Red Raiders. Last weekend was the most recent milestone for the […]
Unbeaten Wolves win in rout
BOLTON — Just in case the rest of Central Massachusetts doesn’t already know, the Nashoba Regional field hockey team is for real. The Wolves have been a buzzsaw through the competition this fall and on Wednesday night against visiting Grafton, it was more of the same. Six different players found the back of the net […]
