Throughout the past month, it seemed like everybody in New England caught Super Bowl fever after watching their Patriots win three straight playoff games to get to the big game in Santa Clara, Calif. last Sunday, Feb. 8. The results notwithstanding, it’s time to get back to work, and
As the calendar flipped to February to begin the stretch run, the Winchester High girls basketball team (13-7) took on four Middlesex League rivals, and ended up splitting with them to maintain their winning record. The Red & Black first lost to visiting Woburn on Jan. 30, 52-39, but they
The long wait is over for New England Patriot fans. They had to endure a “long” six years without their team in the Super Bowl, but now under new management the Pats are back. With new head coach Mike Vrabel and second year quarterback Drake Maye, Bob Kraft’s team
The Winchester High Nordic (cross-country) ski team came into existence only 15 years ago in 2010. Scott Carlson, a western Pennsylvania native, started the program, and remains in charge to this day. His boys team won the Mass. Bay West League championship in 2020, while the girls just wrapped up
The Winchester High wrestling team had a fun week of exciting matches and wins, as the regular season winds down, beginning with the Jan. 28 matchup win against visiting Lexington on Senior Night, 60-12. “We (honored) our 15 seniors, who have been grinding it out with the usual ups and
As the month of January winds down, the Winchester High girls hockey team is on fire, winning five out of six games to extend its record to 9-6. Altogether, the Red & Black went 7-3 this month with still one more scheduled game on tap against host Arlington on Jan.
Before the blizzard hit on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 25, the Winchester High boys hockey team (8-5) was shutting out non-league Franklin at the Canton Ice House, 6-0. At the time, it was the greatest number of goals that the team has scored in a single game this year until three
Since we last checked in on the Winchester High girls basketball team, they were 7-2, and authors of six straight wins. Momentum was on their side, and it continued against Reading (54-53, Jan. 9), Malden Catholic (41-35, Jan. 11) and Watertown (50-45, Jan. 13), before Belmont clipped them in a
After the Winchester High wrestling team dropped a close match to visiting Arlington on Jan. 14, 39-28, they didn’t waste any time to return to their winning ways during a weekend tournament in Brookline. The Spy Ponders brought a large squad with lots of JV wrestlers to the first
Sometimes it’s not bad to lose a game every now and then, and that happened to the Winchester High boys basketball team on Jan. 20 at home, 57-54. The loss dropped them from the unbeaten ranks after 12 straight wins. The latest Division 1 power rankings came out prior
Winchester High gymnastics head coach Candice Lentini Maher began her 25th year along the Red & Black sidelines against host Woburn and Reading in a tri-meet on Jan. 8. Her gymnasts ended up defeating Woburn, 132.95-125.35, but lost to the Rockets, last year’s Middlesex League champs, 137.
The Winchester High wrestling team (2-1) recently concluded one of its busiest parts on its regular season schedule, and it all centered around the town of Belmont. On Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Red & Black were at Belmont High for a dual meet, and by the end of the night,
As the calendar flipped to a new year, nothing changed for the Winchester High boys basketball team (8-0) after winning its first two home games in 2026 over non-league Acton-Boxborough (59-58, Jan. 2) and Wakefield (78-45, Jan. 6). “We survived the (Acton-Boxborough) game,” said coach John Fleming. “They are a
On the third day of the new year, Coach Gino Khachadourian’s Winchester High boys hockey team was back on the ice at Woburn’s O’Brien Arena to take on Middlesex League rival Arlington. They ended up defeating the Spy Ponders, 2-1. It was the exact same score – only
The Winchester High varsity wrestling team (1-1 in the Middlesex League) was back on the mat two days after Christmas to participate in a tri-match against Franklin and host Leominster on Dec. 27, while the JVs traveled to Natick with Coach Ryan Errico for their own tournament. In the meet
Both Winchester High School basketball teams could not have asked for any better results during this year’s Bob Bigelow Tournament, held for the first time in the new WHS gym on Dec. 29 and 30. The boys defeated TechBoston and Franklin to complete the championship sweep after the girls
