Sun Stars of the Week
22 May 2012, 5:58 am
BASEBALL AUSTIN CUMMINGS, MIKE BOWSE, JOE TOWER, PAT GALLAGHER Shawsheen Tech Undefeated lanky senior left-hander Cummings fired his first career no-hitter -- and near perfect game -- at the right time as the Rams slipped past

C-C tennis players victorious
21 May 2012, 5:56 am
Concord-Carlisle unbeaten sophomore Julia Cancio defeated Hopkinton's Denny LaMachia, 6-1, 7-6, to capture the girls tennis North sectional championship at Lexington High on Sunday.

High school baseball, softball linescores
20 May 2012, 6:07 am
BASEBALL PELHAM 7, WINDHAM 4 (Friday Game) Windham 301 000 0 -- 4 Pelham 040 030 x -- 7 Pelham Hits: Alex Newton 2, Chris Gamble 2, Nick Roussel.

Shawsheen defeats the Wildcats
20 May 2012, 6:01 am
WILMINGTON -- The visiting Shawsheen Tech softball team erased a 2-1 deficit with 4 runs in the fifth inning and 2 more for insurance in the seventh as the Rams registered a 7-2 non-league win Saturday night at Aprile Field.

Boebel bolsters Bedford softball
16 May 2012, 5:59 am
Marina Boebel homered, tripled and knocked in 4 runs as Bedford beat Boston Latin, 11-8, in a Dual County League softball game.

The Mafia wives who want out
14 May 2012, 6:36 pm
When Maria Concetta cacciola drank the bottle of acid that would kill her in August last year, one can only imagine what was going through her mind.

Students explore the possibilities
13 May 2012, 9:30 pm
TIOGA COUNTY, N.Y. - Lockheed Martin partnered with the Kopernik Observatory and Science Education Center in 1997 to hold an annual Space Day for students in Tioga County as an answer to the question of how to interest young people in science, math and e

Grace M. cacciola, at 84, a resident of Stoneham
6 May 2012, 11:01 pm
Grace M. cacciola of Stoneham, formerly of East Boston, a retired gas station clerk, died Thursday at her nephew's home in Tewksbury. She was 84. Born in Boston, she...

Baseball, softball linescores
30 April 2012, 6:21 am
BASEBALL LOWELL CATHOLIC 18, CRISTO REY 3 Cristo Rey 020 01 -- 3 Lowell Catholic 008 (10) -- 18 Lowell Catholic hits: Chris Underwood 2, Aaron Crandall 3, Jim Mullaney 2, Chris Regan, Craig Maxfield.

The Most Evocative Terms for Male Facial Hair
27 April 2012, 4:31 pm
In Friday's Wall Street Journal there's a deeply evocative piece on the many and varied mustaches styles of baseball players, ranging from John Axford's Robert Goulet Memorial-winning "lip sweater" to the facial fringes of players like Al Hrabosky (angry), Rollie Fingers (handlebar), and Derek Holland (a stash that writer Scott cacciola describes as "really awful"). These are just a few of the ...