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HHS tabs Skiba as girls soccer coach

HHS tabs Skiba as girls soccer coach

Tom Skiba knows he will have plenty to live up to as he takes the reins of the Hopkinton High School girls soccer program next fall. The new head coach inherits a team coming off the program’s first sectional title and an appearance in the state title game, and he...

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Girard resigns as HHS football coach

Girard resigns as HHS football coach

Jim Girard, who guided the Hopkinton High School football team to the Division 4 state semifinals in 2017, has stepped down after nine years at the helm of the Hillers and an overall record of 64-36. “It was simply the right time,” he explained. The Hillers went 6-4...

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Hamblet helps fuel Bentley hockey

Hamblet helps fuel Bentley hockey

The Bentley Falcons surged through a month and a half of hockey, earning points in 11 straight games and rattling off seven wins in a row in January/February, and Hopkinton’s Brendan Hamblet has become a key cog for the Division 1 program. The streak gave the Falcons...

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Balanced Hillers hoops heads to tourney

Balanced Hillers hoops heads to tourney

After 19 seasons as the Hopkinton High School boys varsity basketball coach, Tom Keane experienced a “first” heading into the final week of the 2018-19 regular season: not a single player on his team was scoring more than 10 points per game on average. The Hillers,...

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Farrell makes his mark with USA Hockey

Farrell makes his mark with USA Hockey

Two years ago, Sean Farrell made the decision to move nearly 700 miles away to pursue his hockey goals. That choice has taken him around the world with the U.S. National Team Development Program and allowed him to earn a chance to play hockey at Harvard after the...

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Sweet 16 for Timlin

Sweet 16 for Timlin

Event registration opens Jan. 31 The Sharon Timlin Memorial Event began in 2004, when the Red Sox were still seeking their first Word Series title in almost nine decades. Like the Red Sox, who have won four championships since then — with the most recent coming this...

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Evans perseveres to earn wrestling captaincy

Evans perseveres to earn wrestling captaincy

Senior returns to mat despite neurological issue Davin Evans was thrilled to find out he had been named one of the Hopkinton High School wrestling team’s captains. It wasn’t too long ago when he wondered whether he would even be able to wrestle at all. Evans, now a...

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Gooley sets pace for Hillers

Gooley sets pace for Hillers

Junior distance runner continues to excel Schuyler Gooley started running in the third grade, when a gym teacher challenged students to run at least a mile every day. Now a junior at Hopkinton High School, she hasn’t stopped running, and she has multiple school...

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Walsh siblings’ success has familiar rink to it

Walsh siblings’ success has familiar rink to it

Sean stars for Hillers while sister Riley provides spark at Vermont Academy Neither Sean nor Riley Walsh is exactly sure when they started skating. It was probably when they were around 3 or 4 years old, however, on a homemade rink in the Hopkinton family’s backyard....

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College Sports Notes

College Sports Notes

Shelby Aarden, URI ’19, led her team at the Atlantic 10 Cross Country Championship in Richmond, Va., Oct. 28. She covered the 5k in 18:10, finishing 29th. Jimmy Adams, Hobart ’21, had two solo tackles and one assist, and caused one fumble in his football team’s 52-7...

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Sports Roundup: HHS trio honored at Girls and Women in Sport Day

HHS girls soccer wins first sectional title

The Hopkinton High School girls soccer team captured the first sectional championship in program history by beating Notre Dame Academy, 1-0, on Nov. 5.    The ninth-seeded Hillers pulled off four straight upsets without allowing a single goal, including a win over...

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Sports Roundup: HHS trio honored at Girls and Women in Sport Day

Hillers look to serve up Turkey Day revenge

The century-old Thanksgiving rivalry between the Hopkinton and Ashland football teams will feature a new twist this year, a rematch. The Clockers’ move to the Tri-Valley Large division this year set the two teams up for their first ever regular season matchup, an 8-7...

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Hopkinton Middle School soccer team unbeaten

Hopkinton Middle School soccer team unbeaten

Keith Verra was not entirely sure what to expect from his eighth grade soccer team after tryouts earlier this fall, but once he saw his team rally to tie a strong Milford squad in the season opener, he started to get the sense he had a special group on his hands....

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Sports Roundup: HHS trio honored at Girls and Women in Sport Day

HHS girls soccer finishes strong

The Hopkinton High School girls soccer team experienced some changes at the start of the season, but the Hillers were able to adapt and secure positive results in nearly every match through the month of October and earn a spot in the sectional tournament.    “Overall...

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Sports Roundup: HHS trio honored at Girls and Women in Sport Day

Hopkinton golf wins back-to-back state titles

The Hopkinton High School golf team won its second straight Division 2 state championship, becoming the first Hillers’ golf team to repeat in more than a decade.    Senior tri-captain Mitch Marcou and sophomore Ryan Lundy carded 3-over par rounds of 75 in cold, windy...

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