Melrose Sports

Published August 2, 2019

By STEPHEN MARTELLUCCI

SAUGUS — The Saugus Post 210 American Legion (ages 19 and under) baseball team, which features seven players from Melrose, ended its season a couple of weeks ago as they lost 4-2 at Newburyport on July 15.

They ended up coming in last place in District 8 with a…

Published July 26, 2019

WELLESLEY HILLS — MassBay Community College is pleased to announce Melrose resident Donald Morris Jr. as the new Head Men’s Basketball Coach. Coach Morris has been a college basketball coach for the past 13 years, coaching at Newbury College, Lesley University, Suffolk University, and Daniel Webster College.

During his time at…

Published July 26, 2019

MELROSE — This past June, Melrose Youth Soccer presented six players with the newly established MYS Leadership and Sportsmanship Award.

More than 1,000 children participated in youth soccer this Spring with over 425 playing on a travel team.  The award is given to one player from each grade group in our travel…

Published July 12, 2019

MEDFORD — Melrose defeated Medford 10-0 to win the second game of a three-game playoff series to determine the District 12 11-Year-Old Champions. Medford took the first game with a thrilling 11-10 victory.

Game two was played at Gillis Park in Medford on a sunny and very hot afternoon.

The game…

Published July 12, 2019

LANCASTER — Let’s just say Melrose was well-represented at the Middlesex Youth Soccer League’s Commissioner’s Cup on the weekend of June 22.

Melrose Youth Soccer sent eight teams to the tournament and brought home plenty of highlights along with two championship trophies.

The girls’ 3rd/4th grade Team Five and the girls’ 7th/8th…

Published July 12, 2019

MEDFORD — Melrose defeated Medford 7-1 in a rain shortened game in what was their first game of District 12 play at the 10-Year-old level at Gillis Field in Medford.

Melrose got out of the gates quickly with four runs in the top of the first with Liam O’Brien and Brody…

Published July 5, 2019

MELROSE — The Melrose Little League Major Division Nationals captured the 2019 City Championship on a perfect morning for baseball on Sunday, June 23 at Lewis Monk Field. The Nationals finished the year winning 10 of their final 11 games, including an unbeaten run through the double elimination playoff tournament that culminated on Sunday…

Published July 5, 2019

By ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHER

Special to the Melrose Weekly News

MELROSE — Tattoos, piercings and baggy T-shirts.

“Skaters looked cool, and I wanted that look,” said Hon Carolan, a Melrose resident and mother of two, about the 1990s’ rebel image that first attracted her to skateboarding as a teen.

Carolan immigrated to America…