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Hock Rewind: League championship meets, scoring milestones, and more

By HockomockSports Staff

It was a busy week in the Hockomock League, especially with three championship meets over the weekend. We’re going to try something new with this post, recapping all of our coverage and all of the accomplishments in the past week.

We take pride in the amount of events we go to — it’s a bit old school, but we feel its important to show up and cover as many games and meets in person that we can. Our goal is to revamp our homepage this coming summer so more of our content lives there longer. With our current setup, stories and photo galleries quickly cycle off the homepage so this weekly roundup gives us a chance to make sure our readers see all of our content.

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Player of the Week

With such a busy weekend, our Player of the Week Poll was delayed until today. Voting will last through Tuesday and we’ll announce the POTW one day late this week on Wednesday. A reminder – anyone can submit nominations for the POTW Poll!

Hock 5 Rankings

Each week, we update our Hock 5 rankings for boys and girls basketball, boys hockey, and wrestling. Monday’s update was our Boys Basketball Hock 5. Girls basketball is updated on Tuesday, boys hockey is on Wednesday, and wrestling is typically the end of the week but with the postseason around the corner, wrestling will see fewer updates.

League Leaders

We also update our four league leaders pages on Monday’s — here is this week’s most updated stats. We ask all coaches for basketball and hockey to submit their stats to us weekly and we update our leaders with those who do. We appreciate coaches who continue to send in stats on a weekly basis, and we really appreciate all of the coaches who send in scores/highlights after each game. That’s how we’re able to highlight accomplishments in our scoreboards.

Swimming Championships

The Hockomock League held its annual Bob Sondheim swimming championship meets on Friday and Saturday at Milford. After an undefeated Davenport season, Canton’s depth was on full display as the Bulldogs took the boys title without winning a single race. On the girls side, Franklin continued its dominant run with its sixth straight win.

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Wrestling Championships

All 11 Hock wrestling squads converged on Foxboro High on Saturday for the annual league wrestling championships. Milford secured its third straight team title and had three individual champions. For the second straight year, the Hock had a girls showcase as more female wrestlers had the opportunity to compete at the league meet.

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Track & Gymnastics

We still have indoor track and gymnastics championships coming up this week. We’ll have full coverage of both with photo galleries as well. Our contributor Tom O’Brien has done a great job highlighting the track and field athletes all season, including standouts from each of the dual meets plus the MTSCA meets and more. You can check all of our indoor track coverage so far this season here.

Round Up

  • Attleboro senior Ladainian Rodrigues became the second player this season to score his 1,000th career point, joining teammate Connor Houle. Rodrigues hit the milestone on Sunday in a game against Catholic Memorial.
  • The girls hockey title race is heating up with just a couple of games left, and it got a little tighter on Saturday night when Canton and King Philip skated to a scoreless tie — just the second-ever 0-0 girls hockey Hock game.
  • The girls hockey title race is heating up with just a couple of games left, and it got a little tighter on Saturday night when Canton and King Philip skated to a scoreless tie — just the second-ever 0-0 girls hockey Hock game.
  • Franklin girls basketball has pushed their win streak up to 10 after beating Milford on Sunday. Before that win, the Panthers pulled out a thrilling win over fellow division title contender King Philip with a huge shot from junior Ava Bonney in the final seconds. Check out the recap, photos, and video of the game-winning shot.
  • King Philip had to play a stretch of tough opponents without senior forward Finn Cunningham due to injury. In first game back, the Southern New Hampshire lacrosse commit scored a hat trick to lead the Warriors to a win over rival Franklin.
  • Before heading to Hocks on Saturday, North Attleboro pinned down a win over Foxboro in the final league dual meet of the season to clinch the Davenport division title for the second straight year.
  • Weather forced some schedule changes earlier in the week but the early start time on Wednesday didn’t stop OA senior Avery Gamble from continuing her torrid scoring streak in a win over Taunton.
  • Mansfield and Franklin, one of the best hoops rivalry of the last 15 years in the Hock, renewed acquaintances on Tuesday. The Hornets pulled out a tight win in a defensive battle between the Hornets and the Panthers.

Photo Galleries

We had 15 photo galleries from the last seven days, and we’re over 85 for the winter already. Check out all of our Winter photo galleries here, and use code HOCKS for 30% off your entire order.