After getting off to a slow start with four loses and a tie, it appeared a run for the place in the Div. 2 North sectional playoffs was out of sight for the 2014 Belmont High Girls’ Lacrosse team. But in the past two weeks, the team has won four straight including a 17-11 win over Wakefield […]
Last Wednesday, April 30, on a night full of wind (15 mph coming off the Atlantic), rain and cold – while the official temperature was 43, it felt like 34 degrees – the Belmont High School Rugby Club team dominated a strong Boston College High School squad to win its final home game of the year […]
Your neighbors are a quick lot! Belmont runners produced some outstanding results at Monday’s 118th Boston Athletic Association Marathon, the historic annual 26.2 mile trek from Hopkinton to Boston’s Copley Square to celebrate Patriots’ Day, April 21. Of the 42 who finished the race, 40 percent, 17, ran under four hours, a great accomplishment for […]
There will be 36,000 runners in the 2014 BAA Marathon and nearly 50 are your neighbors from Belmont. Monday’s race, the 118th edition of the world’s oldest marathon, will have special meaning for the runners, spectators and the nation as it will be the first since the terrorist attack on April 15, 2013 that killed […]
The wind was howling out of the northwest Wednesday, April 9; it was not a day that a home run was going to decide the games at the softball and at Brendan Grant Field at Belmont High School as the school’s softball and baseball teams got their Middlesex League seasons underway against arch rivals Watertown […]
They made names for themselves in Massachusetts swimming circles this season and now three members of the Belmont Aquatic Team , the Belmont-based USA Swim Team and member of New England Swimming, have begun to make their presence known on the national scene. Lead by long-time BAT and Belmont High School Girls’ Swimming Coach Ev Crosscup, Jessica […]
It was perfect conditions to play a lacrosse match in Belmont on Wednesday, April 2: bright sunshine and temperatures in the low 50s. But for a young Belmont High School Boys’ Lacrosse team, the outcome was less than ideal. After playing visiting Watertown High School to a 2-2 draw in the first quarter, “the game […]
It was the first chance for Head Coach Greg Bruce to see Belmont High School’s Club Rugby’s First XV (a team is made up of 15 players) in action. And while the game was with a very young team from Kearsarge High School from Sutton, NH and the final score, 52-0, fairly indicated the difference in […]
The good news from Friday’s season opener for the Belmont High School Girls’ Lacrosse against a talented Newton North team on March 28 was that the Marauders played the Tigers to a draw in the second half – in fact, outscoring Newton until a Tiger goal in the final 10 seconds of the 30 minute […]