Hopkinton High School's fall sports teams — aside from golf, which already is off to a 3-0 start — open the season this weekend with contests against Medway. The sports will play with modified rules designed to limit contact, and only play against a "pod" of five...
Hopkinton native Sean Farrell was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the fourth round (124th overall pick) of the National Hockey League draft on Wednesday. A 5-foot-9, 175-pound forward, Farrell was ranked 62nd among North American skaters in the final 2020 NHL...
For the first time since the beginning of the Hopkinton High School golf program, the Hillers will not have Dick Bliss as coach when the 2020 campaign begins. Bill Phaneuf is taking the reins after Bliss guided the team to multiple state titles and sent players to the...
Hopkinton High School athletic director Rich Cormier, in a presentation to the School Committee on Thursday night, said fall sports tryouts have been pushed back to Sept. 26, volleyball has been moved to the new fourth season that starts in February, and middle school...
A Boston Marathon turned virtual has not kept a pair of Hopkinton moms from continuing to train and fundraise for youth sports as if they’d be running down Boylston Street this fall. Ali Balster and Amy Dorfman are running to raise money for Hopkinton Boys Youth...
The governing body for high school sports in the state unveiled its plan for competition in the 2020-21 academic year, putting forth a four-season sports schedule that moves football to the late winter and aims to get everyone in action during the COVID-19 pandemic....
Tim Kilduff, executive director of the 26.2 Foundation, announced Tuesday that the proposed substitute Boston Marathon race for Hopkinton charity runners will not be held next month. Kilduff and former Select Board vice chair John Coutinho had introduced the idea in...
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s COVID-19 Task Force on Monday recommended adjusting the entire high school sports calendar and moving football to a season that would run from late February through late April, according to a report from the...
Hopkinton’s foray into the Central Mass. Senior Babe Ruth League may be short-lived, but for this summer the season has given Hopkinton High School 2020 graduates who saw their final baseball season scrapped by the pandemic a chance to take the field one more time....
Hopkinton High School 2020 graduate Matt Epstein advanced to the final of the Massachusetts Junior Amateur Championship on Thursday at Cranberry Valley Golf Course in Harwich before falling in a sudden-death playoff. Epstein, representing Hopkinton Golf Club, fell...
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA), which governs high school sports in the state, announced earlier this week that tryouts/practices for fall sports will not start until Sept. 14. Fall sports had been scheduled to start on Aug. 24 (with...
After having his college season cut short and amid a busy training schedule at West Point, Hopkinton’s Tim Simoes was more than willing to drive halfway across the country for the chance to get in a couple weeks of summer baseball. Simoes spent two weeks with the...
Hopkinton’s Tim Simoes drove out to North Dakota to participate in a collegiate summer baseball league there before returning for his senior year at West Point. In his debut for the Bismarck Larks on Thursday night — in his first at-bat, no less — Simoes hit a grand...
Hopkinton High School baseball standout Joshua Fischer, who just completed his junior year, announced that he plans to play collegiate baseball at Division 1 Fairfield University. Fischer, a left-handed pitcher, helped the Hillers go 16-6 and reach the Division 2...
Hopkinton High School athletic director Rich Cormier is not entirely certain what high school sports will look like when they return in the fall — assuming they do — but he’s confident there will be significant changes compared to when the last HHS teams suited up...
The senior-laden Hopkinton High School baseball team never had the chance to take the field this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so when coach Steve Simoes saw an opportunity to get the group one more opportunity to play together, he took it. “I never get...
Hopkinton High School recently announced its athletic award recipients. Cami McDonald, who lettered in field hockey, basketball and lacrosse, and Drew Rancatore, a member of the basketball and baseball teams, were named Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Schuyler Gooley...
Hopkinton High School freshman Chris Delaney is about to embark on a very different high school experience than his friends. Selected in the eighth round of the United States Hockey League draft, Delaney is set to move to the Midwest in a year and take another step...
The Boston Athletic Association annually holds short races for high school and middle school runners from towns on the Boston Marathon course on the weekend of the marathon. This year's races were scheduled for April 18 but were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Like all spring sports programs at Hopkinton High School, the girls tennis team was disappointed to lose its season to the coronavirus pandemic, and the Hillers wanted to give their seniors some kind of recognition. Last Sunday, May 3, the team's coach and younger...
