Sports at the Break

It's been one month since spring sports took over the athletic scene at Medfield High. So far, this spring has been unlike another at MHS. According to first year Athletic Director Eric Scott, varsity teams through the first 48 games, combined with all girls and boys sports, own a 43-5 record against the competition. It is the best start in recent memory to any season's sport schedule. 

Baseball owns an undefeated record at 6-0 (5-0 TVL) with two games that really stick out. A 1-0, 12-inning win over preseason favorite Hopkinton was, according to the umpire, "The best high school game he has seen in 14 years." A week later in the last game before April break, the Warriors downed Wellesley for the first time since 2010 with a come from behind 5-4 win over the Raiders.

Baseball and softball have had a strange scheduling quirk to start the year. The Diamond Warriors will play their first seven games at home. This is due almost 100 percent to the fact that the infield is an artificial surface. The two teams were supposed to travel to Dover last Wednesday, but due to weather the game was moved to Medfield where the fields were playable. Baseball will play their first road game on Friday at Westwood. Softball has played one road game, a 9-2 loss at Norton.

Girls’ lacrosse notched the first win of the spring for any sport, a 12-11 thriller over Ashland in late March. Currently, they are 7-1, second in the Tri-Valley League, and are ranked 10th in the state on LaxPower.com. Their one loss came to number one ranked Westwood.

The boys’ lax team, according to ESPN Boston, is "as dangerous as ever" and a number two state ranking over at LaxPower.com only confirms that. A 9-0-0 record sees the Warriors on top of the TVL. Like baseball, there are some games that really stick out. Last week, Medfield topped Xaverian 7-4 at home before cruising past Moses Brown (R.I.) in blowout fashion. Oh yeah, then there was the California game. After trailing 5-0 to Foot Hills (C.A.) at the half, the Warriors stormed back, scoring eight of the next nine goals to win 8-6.

Both volleyball and boys’ outdoor track are undefeated. In fact, no boys’ sport has lost a match/game/race, yet.

When asked at the start of the spring, Scott said, "The biggest transition from winter to spring [sports] is moving from indoors to out." Furthermore Scott said, "It's usually fairly easy [to transition] but having that late snow really made it more difficult for our fields and grounds to get ready."

The 43-5 record to start the spring shows the talent of the athletes at MHS and strong coaching at each respective sport, but it also shows that Scott has done a tremendous job in his first year. A question that he gets asked a lot (no matter the season) is how does he choose which games to go to. Scott stated that he treats sports "like his kids" and "tries to attend all of them equally." Additionally, Scott said he wants to "go to everything I can and I feel every student athlete should play in front of an audience."

Of course as April comes to an end, sports will go on. Will the impressive amount of wins continue to pile up? Hopefully. Who knows, though? That’s why they play the games.

This article was written by Matt Dresens, a Medfield High School student and member of the student newspaper, The Kingsbury Chronicle. The piece is part of Medfield Patch's weekly series, "Warrior Weekly," helping provide information about MHS to the local community.