The Dover-Sherborn/Hopkinton girls ice hockey co-op will get a significant boost from several Hopkinton High School athletes this winter, especially on the defensive end of the ice. The program, which draws athletes from six schools, has six HHS players on the roster...
Sports
HHS basketball teams split with Norwood as winter season begins
Hopkinton High School opened the winter season this past week. The boys basketball team split a weekend series with Norwood. In the opener on Friday night, the visiting Hillers fell behind big in the early going but fought back, led by the hot shooting of senior guard...
Brown caps XC career with TVL pod MVP
The 2020 cross country season presented plenty of challenges for Hopkinton senior Nick Brown. The pandemic resulted in new rules and smaller practices, and his season began with an injury that kept him out of the Hillers’ first dual meet. But the Bates College-bound...
HHS fall all-stars named: Lundy golf MVP, Brown XC MVP, Viehl first-team all EMass soccer
Hopkinton High School placed a number of athletes on the Tri-Valley League All-Star teams for the fall season. In golf, Ryan Lundy was named MVP for the Hillers’ TVL pod, while Jack Petruney and Geoff Tocco were all-stars. In girls soccer, Alexis Viehl was named...
HHS aims for most complete winter sports season possible
After navigating the return to school and the return to high school sports during the fall, Hopkinton High School athletic director Rich Cormier said the lessons learned from that season will inform the winter slate scheduled to begin Dec. 14. Hopkinton plans to offer...
HHS’ Jones set to run off to Florida
Hopkinton High School senior Olivia Jones was looking for a big school with a thriving athletic program that would allow her to continue her running career and kickstart her professional career in dentistry. And she found it all in the northern Florida city of...
50 years ago, Hillers capped memorable season by beating rival Ashland on T-Day
Fifty years from now, historians likely will find it fascinating talking to people who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, which, among other things, forced the postponement of the Hopkinton High School football season and the cancellation of the annual Thanksgiving...
Photos: 6 HHS senior athletes announce college plans
Hopkinton High School held a ceremony Wednesday for six senior athletes who have committed to a college program for next year.
HHS fall sports schedules/results
HHS sports roundup: Soccer, cross country end seasons with wins
Hopkinton High School’s boys and girls soccer and cross country teams ended their seasons this weekend vs. Bellingham, with each team winning its finale. Boys soccer closed its campaign at 2-4-4 after a 3-1 home victory on Sunday. After falling behind six minutes into...
Resilient HHS girls soccer finds success
Coming into a season having graduated 12 seniors from the previous year would be a challenge for any team. But the Hopkinton High School girls soccer team also has had to deal with the new rules and a compressed schedule foisted on it and every other school during the...
Hillers boys soccer enjoys chance to compete
There is no sectional tournament or league title for the Hopkinton High School boys soccer team to compete for this year, but that has not stopped the Hillers from making the most of the season they get to have. “You don’t have that playoff element, but it’s still...
Registration deadline Dec. 10 for HHS winter sports season
Registration is open on FamilyID for high school students interested in participating in a winter sport. The deadline is Dec. 10, but athletic director Rich Cormier requests that families register their student as early as possible in order to plan for tryouts, as...
Parks & Rec in-town basketball registration closes Nov. 9
Monday, Nov. 9, is the final day for Hopkinton residents to register for this winter's Parks & Rec in-town basketball program. Due to the pandemic, the program is being limited to Grade 3-8 boys and girls and will consist of one practice per week. There are no...
Hopkinton’s MacDonald earns spot with TCU football
When Christian MacDonald stood in the tunnel, just moments before kickoff, what he had accomplished really started to hit him. The Hopkinton High School graduate, a sophomore at Texas Christian University, made the football team as a walk-on this fall and was about to...
HHS sports roundup: Girls soccer sweeps Norton; boys soccer earns win, tie behind Schnur (4 goals)
Freshman Johanna DuPont scored the game’s lone goal in the 64th minute as the Hopkinton High School girls soccer team completed a weekend sweep of Norton with a 1-0 victory on Sunday in Hopkinton. Tiffany Mikulis started the game-winning sequence when she dribbled up...
Hopkinton Little League 9U team completes unbeaten season
The Hopkinton Little League 9U team beat Southborough 10-0 in four innings on Sunday at EMC Park to win the Southborough Little League 9U Fall All-Star Championship with an 11-0 record. Hopkinton, which earlier this season won the Medway Tondorf Tournament, finished...
HHS field hockey adjusts to new rules
The motto for the Hopkinton High School field hockey team this year: Play smarter, not harder. The ongoing pandemic has imposed changes on many high school sports this fall, but perhaps no sport has been as upended as field hockey. Not only do players have to wear...
HHS sports roundup: Rare loss for girls XC; boys run past Holliston
The Hopkinton High School girls cross country team fell to visiting Holliston on Saturday by a score of 25-32. It marked the program’s first loss in a dual meet since September of 2013, snapping a 41-meet win streak. Olivia Jones was second overall and Autumn...
HHS girls XC prepares for unusual 2020 season
In a normal year, the Hopkinton High School girls cross country team already would have started by the middle of September and would spend the fall gearing up for the big meets at the end of the season. But nothing is normal about 2020, and instead Hopkinton will run...