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Last modified: Friday, September 5, 2008 1:30 AM EDT
GOBIS: Hunt will be chasing amateur title
North Attleboro's Roberta Hunt, the reigning women's club champion at the Wannamoisett CC in nearby Rumford, R.I., will be heading to the U.S. Women's National Amateur Championship Tournament over the Sept. 20-21 weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hunt, also the reigning AAGA Women's Tournament champion, has had to limit her days out on the links now that she is back to school, a kindergarten teacher at the Olive Day School in Norfolk.
- It didn't take very long for former Bishop Feehan High goal-scoring whiz Jen Leaverton to score her first collegiate career goal, in the 77th minute in the second match of the season for St. John's University, and the match-winner to boot! Leaverton laced a left-footed shot in a 1-0 win over Towson.
- The third hole-in-one of the summer season at the Stone-E-Lea Golf Course was recorded by Norton's Nick Schleicher, the 22-year-old acing the par-3 No. 7 hole with a 6-iron, playing in a twosome with Mike Mahoney.
- A hip, hip, hooray and happy 22nd birthday to Foxboro High's No. 1 fan Mike McCarthy.
- Junior Dylan Myers was been superb at both ends of the floor for Foxboro High's entry into the Mass. Premier boys' summer basketball league, while Joe Clagg has shown a lot of improvement at point guard. Upfront, Francisco Alicea and Jake Lisowski were stalwarts as the Warriors played at both the Assumption College Invitational and the Boston University Shootout.
- The Bridgewater State College football team has a distinctive Hornet flair to its offensive backfield what with Mansfield High products senior Tyler D'Ambra starting at quarterback, senior captain Bruce Burley starting at tailback and Springfield College transfer Jeff Creeden likely to be the fullback.
- With the addition of Stoughton High as a volleyball playing member of the Hockomock League, North Attleboro had to drop two matches and shelved the Shamrocks of Bishop Feehan. And when the Bishop Feehan golf team sought one or two non-league matches with the Rocketeers to round out its schedule, the Shamrocks got shelved again.
- Katherine Ellen, who ran a 51.7 seconds in the 300 hurdles, threw the javelin 104-feet and clocked a 12.8 in the 100 sprint was tabbed the MVP of Peter Boucher's King Philip High girls' spring track team, while Katie Burns was named the Unsung Hero. Captains-elect for the 2009 team will be hurdler-jumpers Amanda McVay and Maria Piazza, thrower Katie Kelleher and distance runner Renee Rodrigues.
- Mansfield boxing manager David Keefe has high hopes for 141-pounder Dan O'Connor of Framingham, an alternate to the U.S. Olympic Team, the 23-year-old left-hander boxing out of the Seminole Club.
- "I'm just so impressed with her, her drive and her desire," said North Attleboro High field hockey coach Christine Goyette of freshman goalie Autumn Ivory.
- The Most Improved member of Mike Rubin's Dighton-Rehoboth High girls' spring track team were Jasmine Medeiros in the 800 and the Rookie of the Year was freshman sprinter-jumper Sara Harris, who scored over 130 points.
- Captains-elect for the 2009 King Philip High girls' softball team will be catcher-pitcher Maggie Quealy, second baseman Krissy Cannon and first baseman Cara Daly.
- Bill Cute will be back for a 36th season as the Dighton-Rehoboth High golf coach. "We had nobody to give it to," said Cute, who retired from his teaching post at D-R and had planned on turning the keys to the golf cart over as well.
- "We have a great crew of freshmen, some really good athletes," related North Attleboro High volleyball coach Lorraine Weymouth, who has two rookies of influence in her daughter Kelsey Weymouth and Megan McHugh.
- "We should be a little stronger than last year," said Wheaton College women's tennis coach Lynn Miller about a squad that was 11-6 overall but 3-4 in NEWMAC play. Miller and several of her players were interviewed during an American Express info-commercial at the U.S. Open last week. "We don't have a lot of depth; 10 people for a women's team is very risky, especially if injuries or major class conflicts become a factor."
- RIP, Walter "Killer" Kowaslski.
PETER GOBIS may be contacted at 508-236-0375 or via e-mail at pgobis@thesunchronicle.com |