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Game 1 of the 2024 Watertown Summer Basketball League Finals tipped off Tuesday night. (Courtesy of Watertown Recreation)
The seventh seed in the Watertown Summer Basketball League kept rolling through the playoffs and took a 1-0 lead in the finals with a win Tuesday night. No. 7 New Day defeated No. 4 More Than Different 68-57 at Saltonstall Park.
Players carry the Watertown Youth Soccer banner in the Memorial Day Parade. (Photo by Natalie Nigito Photography)
If your young athletes are inspired by the USA women’s soccer gold medal, they can join the Watertown Youth Soccer program this fall. Registration is still open for Watertown Youth Soccer’s fall season, and plenty of spots remain for third-grade and fifth-grade girls travel teams and the girls in-town skills program for grades 2-4.
See more information provided by WYS, below. WATERTOWN YOUTH SOCCER FALL 2024 TRAVEL REGISTRATION
Grades 3-8
Practices are twice a week, times and days determined by volunteer parent coach(es). Games are on Saturdays.
Charlie BreitroseThe Watertown Raiders football team will hold a golf fundraiser on Aug. 11. The Watertown High School Football boosters will hold a golf tournament to help support the program. Play a round of golf at Sandy Burr Country Club in Wayland on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024 beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Tickets are $175.00 per golfer, and include:
18-Hole round
Golf Cart
Italian Dinner
Raiders Football Koozie
Sponsored Golf Towel
Sponsorships are also available.
Registration will open for Watertown Youth Soccer’s fall season on Saturday, June 1 and will close on July 1. See more information provided by WYS, below. WATERTOWN YOUTH SOCCER FALL 2024 TRAVEL REGISTRATION
Grades 3-8Opens: June 1, 2024Closes: July 1, 2024*(*This is a very firm deadline.)
Practices are twice a week, times and days determined by volunteer parent coach(es). Games are on Saturdays. BAYS games schedule comes out late August.
Contributed PhotoNew Watertown Football Coach Joe Carroll took over the program in February and has been busy preparing for the first game in September. The first official football game is more than four months away, but new Watertown High School football coach Joe Carroll has been busy trying to bond with players, prep them for the upcoming season, and create a team culture. Since he was hired in February, Carroll has been making the most of the time he has with the team in preparation for his first season as a head coach. He takes over the Raiders after serving as assistant coach at Waltham High School for five years. Carroll has put together a schedule and to-do list to keep him focused, and each day he tries to check a few things off the list.
Watertown’s Tommy Dicker, third from left, won at match at the High School Nationals in Virginia. Here he is shown on the podium at the MIAA Div. 3 State Meet after finishing second. (Courtesy of Watertown Athletics)
A pair of Watertown wrestlers continued their seasons past the state meet, and one made the first appearance and collected the first win by a Raider wrestler at High School Nationals. Senior Tommy Dicker traveled to Virginia Beach, Virginia, on April 5 and 6 to compete at the NHSCA High School Nationals.
The fastest Watertown runner in the 2024 Boston Marathon finished in under 2 hours 35 minutes on Monday, and the fastest female runner finished in the top 115 in the women’s race. Thirty residents of Watertown started the 128th Boston Marathon. As of 5:13 p.m., 28 of the local runners had finished the race. Michael Creedon was the top male finisher, and completed the 26.2 miles in 2:34:49. He was the 207th fastest man in the race and 229th fastest overall.
The following announcement was provided by Turf and Get Lively Health & Fitness:
On April 27, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m at 25 Clarendon St., Watertown, MA, the community is invited to drop off lightly loved sports equipment their kids have outgrown. Then from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., community members are invited to shop for free sports equipment. To celebrate the launch of Turf, a new online marketplace for recreational programs, camps, and other activities, Turfgo, LLC and Get Lively® Heath & Fitness have teamed up to help community members share lightly loved sports equipment. Participants are asked to drop their sports equipment at the Get Lively® Health & Fitness Studio between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. only. “Working parents need a hand finding programs for their kids whether it’s to feed their kids’ curiosity and cultural development, improve sports and team skills, or simply finding creative child care options,” said Michelle Tempesta, founder of Turf.