Wellesley Little League is holding 4 all-star games, plus a home run derby at Reidy Field on Washington Street this weekend. Here’s the schedule: Friday, May 17 5:00pm – 7:00pm National League All-Star Game #1 7:30pm – 9:30pm National League All-Star Game #2 Saturday, May 18 7:30am – 2:30pm Pancake Festival at [...]
Emily Willrich, a Hunnewell Elementary School 5th grader and self-described “freedom fighter,”makes her case as to why Wellesley softball teams deserve more respect, starting with a field along the lines of the town’s beautiful Reidy Field (shown here), which is used for day and night baseball games. A reader wrote in to us, letting us [...]
From The Wellesley Youth Track and Field Club: The Wellesley Youth Track and Field Club, a USATF-certified club, is now accepting registrations for its Girls Summer Track and Field Summer Program. The Summer Program is open to girls entering 5th-10th grade in Fall 2013. The Club will practice on Sunday evenings in June and on [...]
Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray, who for 40 years has run the course after others have finished, obviously didn’t get a chance to do his traditional thing on the most recent Marathon Monday. A week-and-a-half later though, McGillivray traversed the course, seen here on Rte. 125 in Wellesley. He’s among a handful of runners [...]
The Swellesley Report joined forces with well-connected Wellesley Little League dad Chris Cavallerano to arrange for a pool of cub reporters from town to descend upon Fenway Park before the Red Sox game Tuesday to interview Wellesley High and Duke University alum Nate Freiman (pronounced FRY-man… something NESN broadcasters struggled with) about his breaking into [...]
Congrats to a couple of young Wellesley hockey players for putting on a show and winning the boys 8-and-under Mini 1-on-1 competition, shown during a NESN broadcast of a Boston Bruins hockey game.
The volunteer-run Sustainable Wellesley group is urging sports leagues in town to encourage parents and players to make the switch from disposable plastic bottles to reusable ones — and to refill them at new water fountains at many of the town’s playing fields (Ouellet and Philips Park as slated to get drinking fountains next year). [...]
