Grafton Globe Newspaper
Winter 2020 Edition
New faces vault boys’ basketball to strong start
Having lost six seniors from last season, you could understand the boys’ basketball team getting off to a slow start. Apparently, the team forgot they were supposed to slip after seeing several starters graduate. The Indians have rocketed to a 4-1 start, winning their games by an average of 22 points. Kyle Sawtelle, averaging 19 points a game, and Will Herndon, adding roughly 14 of his own, have been at the forefront of the team’s hot start to the 2017-2018 season. The team is a perfect 4-0 at home in the Grafton gymnasium, the team’s only loss coming to Tantasqua on the road by the score of 70-58. The boys’ next home game is against Burncoat High, at 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, January 10th. Lacking any seniors, girls’ basketball in playoff hunt The girls’ basketball team is coming off its best season yet, having come within a single point of its first division title in history last year. But, much like the boys team, the girls team lost many of their seniors. No matter. Thanks to strong performances by juniors Abby Rogers, Anya Kopyra, Jenna Gordon, and Taylor Paulauskas, the Indians find themselves 2-3 after five games, in the middle of the playoff race, just as in the two seasons prior. Rogers has scored the fifth-most points in the Southern Worcester County league so far this year, averaging almost 14 per contest. Kopyra adds slightly more than 10 per game, while Gordon averages almost nine. The girls look for their first victory at home on Tuesday, January 9th at 6:30 p.m. against Millbury, a powerhouse SWCL team that is a perfect 6-0 so far. Looking to go back-to-back, GVT boys strong out of the gate Last season, the boys’ hockey team took home their first-ever state championship. Now, after a strong start to this season, a second straight title looks like it may very well be in the cards. Much of the strong core from last year's championship team has returned to compete this year. The success has returned with last year’s talent. The boys are off to a 6-0 start, ranking fourth in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette’s media poll taken on January 2nd. The team is complete from top to bottom. Starting goalie Cam Powell is tops in the Coughlin Conference with a 1.8 Goals Against Average(GAA) and a .915 save percentage. The trio of Tyler Hart, Jake Baker, and Charlie Farrah is ever-dangerous on offense. Hart and Farrah are tied for the team lead with six goals apiece. Baker has five goals of his own and leads the team in assists with six. The hockey team’s next home game is at Buffone Arena in Worcester on January 24th, in which they’ll face Oakmont.
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