Old Colony Freshman Earns First Win

            Breanna Arruda’s performance in net against Diman Voke on April 6 has been the highlight of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical’s girls soccer season to this point. The freshman goalkeeper saved each of the 11 shots on goal the Bengals fired her way to deliver the Cougars their first win of the season and […] Read more »

Old Colony Golfers Ahead of Their Time

            If you take a quick glance at the Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School golf roster, it might seem like the Cougars are at the beginning of a rebuilding process. But that is not the case with Kathy Peterson’s sophomore-heavy team.             “They’re going to be good; they work at it,” Old Colony’s […] Read more »

Humbling Opener for ORR

            Old Rochester Regional High School’s first crack at March football did not go as well as the Bulldogs would have liked. On March 27, at New Bedford High School, Dighton-Rehoboth’s Jaren Ramos did whatever he wanted on the ground, rushing for over 200 yards, and ORR suffered a 42-15 loss as a result.             […] Read more »

Fall II in Full Swing

            Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical football was the first high school team in the Tri-Town area to begin its Fall II slate of games, falling 30-16 in the Cougar Cup to Tri-County at New Bedford High School. The Cougars will next visit Bristol-Plymouth with kickoff set at noon on Saturday at Taunton High School.             […] Read more »

Leap of Faith Has ORR Junior Back on Track

            Soccer has been such a big part of Jen Williams’ life for so long that it’s no wonder deep into this blinking-yellow, inside-out and upside-down academic year of everything in calculated, cautious steps that the 17-year-old junior from Rochester got her head mixed up with her heart and wound up at the Fall II […] Read more »

An Unusual Kickoff to Spring: Football

            Football is finally back in the Tri-Town area with the MIAA’s Fall II season underway. Old Rochester Regional and Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School have not begun regular-season games just yet, but both teams are back to work and have each scrimmaged in preparation for their abbreviated campaigns.             However, just because […] Read more »

ORR, Old Colony Set for Fall II Season

            After successfully maneuvering through the winter sports season, the first since the beginning of the pandemic, Old Rochester Regional High School is set to take on another challenge: hosting winter sports in the middle of March. Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School will also have student-athletes playing football, soccer, and field hockey instead […] Read more »

ORR Made Most of Opportunity

            It would be hard to blame any athlete or coach for turning on cruise control and coasting through the 2020-21 winter season. Given everything that went on in 2020, simply having the chance to participate in sports again could have been enough. During a point in time when the world is still in an […] Read more »

Girls Basketball Title Run Height of Winter

            Old Rochester Regional High School could have very easily decided against offering sports this winter after postponing fall sports to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s designated Fall II season set to begin in early March. But the Bulldogs found a way as a community to come together and give the seniors one last campaign […] Read more »

Pause Couldn’t Break Horan, Bulldogs

            Although Old Rochester Regional girls basketball’s regular-season record may indicate this season was an easy one for the Bulldogs, that was far from the case. The Bulldogs turned their season-opening three-game winning streak into an undefeated 7-0 regular season after they were forced to put things on pause and quarantine for seven days, missing […] Read more »