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...
Normally the Hopkinton High School Athletic Department hosts a breakfast event for all seniors planning to play college sports. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, that was canceled. Instead, HHS athletic director Rich Cormier has been spotlighting the student-athletes...
Below is a list of Hopkinton residents registered for the 2020 Boston Marathon. For those who are raising funds for charity, we have included that information. For a list of Hopkinton organizations that have individuals running to raise money on their behalf, click...
Below is a list of Hopkinton organizations that have individuals running in the 2020 Boston Marathon to raise money on their behalf. For a list of Hopkinton residents running in the 2020 Boston Marathon, click here. The Boston Marathon is scheduled for Sept. 14, after...
When Bowdoin College senior Kara Finnerty and her lacrosse teammates gathered before their March 12 game against Colby, their coach, Liz Grote, delivered a sobering and startling message. That game, only the fourth of the season, would mark the end of the 2020...
Mike Rabinovich has been playing basketball in Worcester and going to school there for the past four years, so the chance to stay in his adopted city and be part of a rebuilding program led the Hopkinton resident to commit to Holy Cross to continue his hoops career....
In the fall, Eastern equine encephalitis forced all town activities to end at dusk. It created a challenge for scheduling fall sports, but compared to this spring’s developments, that was a minor inconvenience. On March 16, with students already being kept out of...
