Every high school is dealing with adversity as it navigates the winter season through the COVID-19 pandemic so, as usual, Old Rochester boys basketball head coach Steve Carvalho is not interested in excuses when it comes to the Bulldogs’ recent scheduling flux.             After the first game of the season was postponed, Old Rochester […] Read more »

            Unlike most other Old Rochester Regional High School interscholastic sports teams, girls ice hockey is not a member of the South Coast Conference; the reason being a lack of girls varsity hockey programs within the conference. In prior years, Bourne hosted the coop program until 2019 when ORR became a member of the Southeastern Massachusetts […] Read more »

            The Old Rochester Regional High School boys basketball team was initially slated to start its shortened 2021 season on January 5, but players were forced into quarantine, leading to the cancelation of a scheduled season-opening matchup against Seekonk. During the week-and-a-half-long quarantine, the Bulldogs were also disallowed from practicing together.             Despite only getting […] Read more »

            Girls who play hockey are among life’s elite problem solvers.             If they’re from southeastern Massachusetts, they grew up skating on boys’ teams and clomping that extra 150 feet off the ice to a dressing room far removed from the epicenter of camaraderie, that sacred place where a team becomes a team.             Adjusting […] Read more »

            Despite not winning any of their 20 games last winter, the Old Rochester Regional/Fairhaven boys hockey team was in many of those contests only to fall on the wrong side of the fine line between winning and losing with an inexperienced decision or an untimely penalty. Conventional wisdom says the growing pains of 2019-20 […] Read more »

            After delaying the fall sports season to the designated Fall II due to COVID-19 concerns, Old Rochester Regional High School is back to hosting interscholastic athletics. The Bulldogs’ winter teams have held tryouts and started holding practices ahead of the designated start of the 2020-21 South Coast Conference sports calendar, which begins on January 5. […] Read more »

            Old Rochester Regional’s girls soccer players still want the chance to dominate South Coast Conference play when the MIAA’s Fall II season rolls around later in the 2020-21 academic year. Still, if that falls through, some of them will be just fine — even seniors.             That’s all thanks to the Mariner Youth Soccer […] Read more »

            Just like the other Tri-Town-area high schools, Old Colony and Old Rochester, Tabor Academy is not holding interscholastic sports in the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while the MIAA gave schools the option to opt for a “Fall II” season in which Old Colony and Old Rochester plan to participate, Tabor student-athletes are […] Read more »

            Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School has something special going on in the athletic department.             For the second time in the last three years, the Cougars have been awarded the Division II Walter J. Markham Award. The honor was also bestowed upon them in 2017-18 when they had the best win-loss record among […] Read more »

            The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association fall sports season is set to start soon, but many schools have chosen to opt for the “Fall II” season. Old Rochester Regional High School had hoped to play fall sports during their normal months, but like Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School, the Bulldogs have opted to play their […] Read more »