Sports
Nashoba Softball Powers Through
By Craig Holt
The Central Mass. Tournament is in full swing this week and Nashoba Regional’s top-seeded softball team is in the thick of it.
The Chieftains commenced the post-season with a bang last Saturday afternoon as senior pitcher Emily Sargent took command in a Central Mass. Division 1 quarterfinal against ninth-seeded Algonquin Regional. Sargent pitched a complete game, struck out 10 and whacked a home run, powering the Chieftains to a harder-than-it-looked 3-2 victory before a large crowd at home.
Run for the Woods Raises Funds for SCT
The annual road race to benefit the Stow Conservation Trust was once again a success despite the unpredicatable weather of Springfest weekend.
Girls Lacrosse Wins in Final Seconds
By Michael James LeClair
On a night celebrating the seniors, it was a junior that came to the rescue for the Nashoba Regional girls’ lacrosse team.
With 14 seconds left in the game, and a tie score, Midfielder Kaitlyn Thorogood netted the go-ahead goal to propel the Chieftains to a thrilling 12-11 win over visiting Groton-Dunstable under the lights at Nashoba Regional High School.
Boys Lacrosse Rolls Toward End of Season
By Michael James LeClair
After a slow start, the Nashoba High School boys’ lacrosse team kicked it into high gear in the second quarter on Tuesday evening, May 6.
Young Kayakers Having a WILD Time
By Rob Kean
On early release days, students in the Nashoba Regional School District can be found engaging in any number of leisure activities. Many, for example, grab their Xbox controllers, and shoot for the highest scores they can fathom.
Youth Lacrosse Builds Skills with Fun
By Rob Kean
With it being April vacation week and the priority having fun, one might think kids would do everything in their power to avoid all things educational. Yet Friday found a dozen 6th-grade boys not just gathered behind Sawyer Middle School in Bolton, but working hard, even learning.
Nashoba Softball Rolling Along
by Craig Holt
It’s several weeks into the new season and life continues to be exceedingly splendid for Nashoba Regional’s surging softball team
Nashoba AD Rich Wins Statewide Honor
By Rob Kean
When Nashoba High principal Dr. Parry Graham first met Tania Rich – a 2001 Nashoba graduate herself, and
new NRSD athletic director — his reaction was, “Wow, she seems kind of young to be an athletic director.”
Three years later, his reaction is ten words shorter. Just simply, “Wow.”
Flag Football Kicking Off
By Rob Kean
Not long after taking office, Nashoba Youth Football & Cheer’s new president, Dan Keough, recalled bumping into his Maynard counterpart, Tim Lawton, one day last spring before a Little League game. The latter was somewhat out of breath and reflecting the sort of in-a-rush quality one busy parent and coach can recognize in another. Given the time of year, Keough assumed Lawton had just come from another baseball diamond.
Horowitz Seizes NCAA Mile Crown
By Rob Kean
Heading into the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, Stow native and Bowdoin College senior Coby Horowitz’s resume of collegiate distance running honors already required a certain suspension of disbelief. Three-time All-America in cross-country. Twice an All-America in the 1500 meters. All-America in the distance medley relay, the 5000 meters, and the mile. Runner of three of the five fastest mile times in Division III history, and newly-minted record holder for the fastest D-III mile ever run.