Who should be the top-ranked team in the Hometeam football media poll: No. 1 Nashoba, which scored two second-half TDs to pull away from Marlboro, 28-14; No. 2 Auburn, which dismantled No. 5 Shepherd Hill, 35-6; or No. 3 St. John's, which plays rival Shrewsbury today? Click on the links below for complete coverage of last night's games, including live updates, results, recaps and box scores, as well as today's schedule and live results.
• HOMETEAM SECTION: Complete CMass high school sports coverage
• FRIDAY SCOREBOARD: High school results, recaps and box scores
• FOOTBALL VIDEO: Postgame interviews from the Auburn-Shepherd Hill game
• SATURDAY SCOREBOARD: High school results, recaps and box scores
• LIVE UPDATES: Follow all the action from today’s football games
• FOOTBALL VIDEO: Jim Wilson breaks down the weekend’s games on Ch. 3
• FOOTBALL PICKS: Jim Wilson predicts the scores of this weekend’s games
• STANDINGS: Updated for football, soccer, field hockey, cross-country, volleyball
• STATISTICS: Updated for football, soccer, field hockey
St. Joseph Basilica to celebrate 125th
WEBSTER - The 125th anniversary celebration of St. Joseph Basilica Parish on Whitcomb Street will be held at 3:30 p.m. today.
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Columbus Day Parade Oct. 7 on Shrewsbury Street
WORCESTER - This Sunday, everybody's Italian and invited to a festive afternoon at the annual Columbus Day Parade, with Grand Marshals Geraldine (Rossetti) Arakelian and Joseph Rossetti. The parade begins at Aitchison Street at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 7, marches down Shrewsbury Street and ends at Washington Square. For more information, visit http://columbusdayparade.homestead.com.Gaels fall to Crusaders; Chieftains remain unbeaten
The Clinton High School football team failed to get much going on either side of the ball in a rare afternoon game, at Groton-Dunstable, on Friday.Lions make it five wins in a row
BALDWINVILLE - The West Boylston/Tahanto Regional High School football team roared to its fifth consecutive victory on Friday afternoon, downing Narragansett Regional, 28-14, at Arthur L. Stuart Memorial Field in a Midland-Wachusett League D Division contest.Crusaders win first game of season
WORCESTER - John Macomber kicked two field goals and Holy Cross’ defense held Bucknell to just 145 total yards as the Crusaders defeated the Bison, 13-6, today in a Patriot League matchup. Holy Cross (1-4, 1-0) snapped a four-game losing streak and defeated the Bison for the seventh time in its last eight meetings.Security is tight for writing jobs report
The unemployment rate’s sharp fall from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September, reported a month before the election, led some Republicans to question whether the numbers had been manipulated to benefit President Barack Obama.For Sam James, 'The Voice' is a place to be heard
Not two years ago, local indie-rocker Sam James was singing “Imagine” at a tribute to John Lennon at Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner. Fast forward to July of this year, and he was in New Jersey, singing the same song in front of music heavyweights Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera — the judges for NBC-TV's “The Voice.”Cases of meningitis up to 47 in 7 states
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A week after her annual steroid shot for back pain, Janet Russell began getting unbearable headaches. A fever followed. Doctors admitted her to the hospital, but couldn’t say what was wrong.