Melrose Sports

Melrose clubs Wakefield 35-0; one game to go

Published April 23, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

MELROSE—The Melrose Red Raider football team are once again Middlesex Freedom League champs. 

Melrose laid a blow to rival Wakefield in a 35-0 shutout last Saturday at Fred Green Field in a relentless thumping that improved Melrose to 5-0 as they…

14th straight ML title for unbeaten volleyball (11-0)

Published April 23, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

MELROSE—It was a milestone that the Melrose High varsity volleyball team wanted to reach on April 19, when they finished their regular season unbeaten at 10-0 as the sole winners of the Middlesex Freedom League, and then topped it off with a…

Melrose finishes 3rd straight unbeaten season

Published April 23, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

WAKEFIELD—The Melrose High girl’s track team are on a 18-meet winning streak and have secured their third consecutive Middlesex Freedom title by beating Wakefield last Saturday to finish a complete sweep of the league and sole ownership of the ML Freedom title. Melrose is…

18 game winning streak continues; Melrose 4-0

Published April 16, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

BURLINGTON—The Melrose Red Raider football team’s winning streak continues at 18 after a 37-6 blowout over Burlington last Friday evening at Burlington High. Melrose remains a flawless 4-0 on the season and this weekend will host Wakefield, in a not-so-Thanksgiving game that…

Spikers (8-0) earn a share of ML Freedom title 

Published April 16, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE 

MELROSE—It was all the more fitting that the most intense competition of the season should come on Senior Night for the Melrose Red Raider volleyball team, who remains unbeaten at 8-0 following a 3-1 win over Wakefield (6-3) on…

Melrose clinches a share of league title 

Published April 16, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

BURLINGTON—The Melrose High girl’s indoor track team has earned another share of the ML Freedom League and remain unbeaten at 4-0 going into their final weekend of play this Saturday. They continued their flawless season with a solid win over Burlington last Saturday…

Waltham pulls away late for 65-49 win

Published April 16, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

MELROSE—The Melrose High Unified Basketball team is wrapping up their season and enjoyed one of their last home games in their Fall 2 schedule by hosting a tough Waltham Hawks team on Tuesday, April 13 at the Melrose Middle School gym…

Volleyball (6-0) sweeps Burlington in battle of unbeatens

Published April 9, 2021

By JENNIFER GENTILE

BURLINGTON—The Melrose High girls’ volleyball team remains the lone undefeated team in the Middlesex Freedom League after sweeping rival Burlington, 3-0, in sets of 25-23, 25-14 and 25-20 on Tuesday, April 6 at Burlington High. Both teams came into the…

Published April 9, 2021

By DAN PAWLOWSKI

MELROSE — For three quarters of a sunny, Saturday springtime football game at Fred Green Field, the 2-0 Wilmington Wildcats looked like a team determined to snap Melrose football’s 17-game winning streak dating back to the 2018 season. 

Mirroring UCLA basketball’s National Semifinal snail-paced strategy against undefeated Gonzaga later…