Football: The Old Rochester Regional High School football team hosted Bishop Fenwick (3-3) on October 16 and won 53-18. Junior Benji Baptiste rushed for 273 yards and scored 5 touchdown runs from the 54, 22, 4, 34, and 2-yard lines. Junior quarterback Connor Nelson had 131 yards and a touchdown, as junior Logan Hiles scored a 4-yard touchdown run and had a 44-yard pick-six. Senior kicker Nolin Vieira scored 5 PATs.
“That’s a good win against a good team who was in the state semifinals last year. We are starting to click on all three phases of the game. We are proud of the boys, and it was nice to win on senior night and homecoming,” said ORR Head Coach Bryce Guilbeault.
The Bulldogs are 5-1 on the year and will play at Greater New Bedford Voc/Tech (2-4) on October 23.
Girls Volleyball: Old Rochester faced Apponequet (1-14) on October 14, and won 3-0 by set scores of 25-11, 25-17, and 25-14. Freshman Ady Chua had 10 aces and junior Lucy Lombard had 5 aces. They’re 13-2 this season and 11-0 in the SCC heading into Monday’s game against Greater New Bedford Voc/Tech (8-6), and Wednesday’s game against Joseph Case (12-3).
Golf: The Bulldogs came in first in the SCC tournament on October 13, with a score of 306 over the second-place team of West Bridgewater (15-1) with a score of 314. Old Rochester had a perfect year, winning the tournament and going 14-0 in the regular season. John Bongiorno was the second medalist in the tournament shooting a 75(+3), as August Herbert tied him shooting a 75(+3). Jack Czerkowicz shot a 77(+5) while Drew Butler and Luke Pierre shot 79(+7). Brendan Fuller rounded out the team shooting an 86(+14).
Boys Soccer: The Bulldogs played at Apponequet (5-5-1) on October 14 and won 3-1. Goals were scored by Grady Oliveira, Cole Hitchings and Noah Robitaille. Old Rochester is 6-4-1 going into Monday’s game against Greater New Bedford Voc/Tech (9-1-1), Tuesday’s game at Falmouth (6-5-2), and will host Westport (8-1-2) on October 23.
Sports Roundup
By Aiden Comorosky