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School honored for Unified Sports programs
By Cindy Zomar Education Coordinator
WESTBOROUGH - Westborough High School senior Shinya Honji was recently selected to represent Massachusetts in the swimming portion of the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games to be held in Orlando, Florida next summer.
As he and his school community celebrate this accomplishment, though, they’re also celebrating another major milestone, as Westborough High School (WHS) recently became one of only fifteen high schools in the country to be named both a Unified Champion School and a National Banner School.
That latter designation commends the school’s abil-
PHOTO/CINDY ZOMAR Shinya Honji is a senior at Westborough High School who was recently selected to participate in the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games.
ity to bring together students with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities in team events and programs to foster leadership, respect and dignity.
“Westborough High School has continually provided a socially inclusive climate, one where there is whole school engagement,” said Patti Doherty, Vice President of Schools and Community Development for Special Olympics.
WHS unified sports program grows
Catherine Caruso has been the unified sports coach for WHS since 2017.
The school initially partnered with Algonquin for its unified track and field program. It split to form its own program for the 2018-2019 year, though, Caruso said.
Westborough High launched an additional strength and conditioning program last year. Caruso said she’s now hoping participation will pick up after a pilot year limited by pandemic restrictions.
WHS student named to 2022 USA Games team
WHS Principal, Brian Callaghan, explained that while a typical student participating in sports may encounter some issues, a student with intellectual and developmental disabilities must overcome a whole different set of challenges.
That’s been the case for Shinya Honji as he has worked to earn his spot in the USA Games.
“Shinya just keeps overcoming obstacles,” Shinya’s mother, Beth said. “He was really sick a month after birth, resulting in a feeding tube for three years. In third grade he tore his ACL and was in a leg brace for years. Growth hormone shots caused scoliosis, forcing a back brace at night. He didn’t walk until he was two, nor talk until he was five, and yet here he is, graduating
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COMMUNITY SPORTS Algonquin Boys Soccer beats Tantasqua on Senior Night
By Dakota Antelman Managing Editor NORTHBOROUGH/SOUTHBOROUGH - A physical game ended in a flurry of scoring Oct. 9 as the Algonquin Boys Soccer team beat Tantasqua by a score of 3-1.
The win came on Algonquin’s senior night after players declared during their pregame huddle that they were playing for injured teammate Brian Morrisette.
“It’s absolutely huge,” said Senior Striker Charlie Hynes after the game. “It’s an amazing feeling.”
Andrew Sedzia opened the scoring early to give Algonquin a 1-0 lead.
From there, though, the game’s physicality escalated, prompting outrage on the Algonquin sideline.
Officials handed out two yellow cards to Tantasqua players in less than five minutes at one point.
Leading 1-0 at halftime, Algonquin doubled its lead early in the second half when Hynes capitalized on a free kick deep in Tantasqua territory.
Garrett Burns took the free kick and opted to pass wide to Hynes as Hynes darted around the wall of Tantasqua defenders
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Beth went on to say that, while Shinya is small in stature, he has a big sense of humor and is a social butterfly.
“He even enjoys helping other special needs students, showing them what to do [and] demonstrating his leadership skills,” she added.
‘I love challenges’
Honji has competed in unified track and field, soccer, and basketball in addition to swimming.
In Orlando, he will swim his three favorite events, which include the freestyle, the breaststroke and the backstroke.
He said he is not nervous about competing at the national level.
“I have three gold medals already in those events from States,” he said. “I enjoy it so much because it brings a lot more challenges and I love challenges. I think the other Special Olympics kids swimming also enjoy the challenges.”
When he’s not honing his athletic skills, Honji also spends time researching and visiting steam trains as well as collecting antiques. He is an avid reader and enjoys playing video games with his Buddy from the Best Buddies program at school.
Teammates mob Senior Striker Charlie Hynes after Hynes scored a goal during Algonquin’s 3-1 win over Tantasqua last week.
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set up in what would have been Burns’ lane to the goal.
Hynes said he had been speaking with his father prior to the game about taking more free kicks.
“It was a great pass by [Burns] and I was happy to get that goal,” Hynes said.
The physicality continued, but Algonquin managed to again spring Hynes on a scoring opportunity with just over 3:02 left on the unofficial game clock.
Hynes capitalized, scoring on the breakaway to establish the 3-0 lead.
Though Tantasqua answered with their own goal less than 10 seconds later, Algonquin held on for the victory.
Algonquin was scheduled to be back in action on Oct. 12 against Westborough. It was then scheduled to wrap up its regular season with games against Wachusett and Nipmuc on Oct. 14 and 16, as of Oct. 11.
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High School Scoreboard: Playoffs on the horizon
By Chris Wilson Contributing Writer
REGION - Regional schools are HIGH SCHOOL now playing some of their last regular season games of the fall SCOREBOARD sports season. Football will continue until the end of the month, but the rest of the fall sports will conclude in the next week.
Playoffs are just around the corner, so area schools are making the final push to boost their postseason positioning.
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ALGONQUIN
BOYS GOLF – OCT. 5 Algonquin – 44, Shrewsbury – 28 BOYS SOCCER – OCT. 5 Algonquin – 2, Bromfield – 0 GIRLS SOCCER – OCT. 5 Algonquin – 3, Bromfield – 1 BOYS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 6 Algonquin – 15, Leominster – 50 GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 6 Algonquin – 24, Leominster – 42 FIELD HOCKEY – OCT. 6 Algonquin – 0, Marlborough – 1 BOYS SOCCER – OCT. 7 Algonquin – 3, Shrewsbury – 0 FIELD HOCKEY – OCT. 8 Algonquin – 1, Nashoba – 7 FOOTBALL – OCT. 8 Algonquin – 21, Shepherd Hill – 14 GRAFTON
BOYS GOLF – OCT. 5 Grafton – 159, Oxford – 210 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 5 Grafton – 159, Quaboag – 210 FIELD HOCKEY – OCT. 6 Grafton – 3, Tantasqua – 1 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 6 Grafton – 269, Hopkinton – 238 GIRLS SOCCER – OCT. 6 Grafton – 4, Tantasqua – 1 BOYS SOCCER – OCT. 6 Grafton – 1, Tantasqua – 4 BOYS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 7 Grafton – 28, Millbury – 30 GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 7 Grafton – 15, Millbury – 50 FIELD HOCKEY – OCT. 7 Grafton – 2, Quaboag – 0 A Shrewsbury Boys Soccer player surveys the field during a game earlier this year.
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BOYS GOLF – OCT. 7 Grafton – 223, Algonquin – 214 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 8 Grafton – 167, Millbury – 191 BOYS SOCCER – OCT. 8 Grafton – 4, Assabet – 1 FOOTBALL – OCT. 8 Grafton – 28, Northbridge – 20
SHREWSBURY
BOYS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 5 Shrewsbury – 24, Shepherd Hill – 35 GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 5 Shrewsbury – 33, Shepherd Hill – 22 GIRLS SOCCER – OCT. 5 Shrewsbury – 1, Wachusett – 1 BOYS SOCCER – OCT. 5 Shrewsbury – 0, Wachusett – 2 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL – OCT. 5 Shrewsbury – 1, Algonquin – 3 FIELD HOCKEY – OCT. 6 Shrewsbury – 1, Wachusett – 3 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 7 Shrewsbury – 30.5, Wachusett – 41.5 GIRLS SOCCER – OCT. 7 Shrewsbury – 0, Algonquin – 2 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 8 Shrewsbury – 178, Sutton – 223 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL – OCT. 8 Shrewsbury – 3, Shepherd Hill – 0 FOOTBALL – OCT. 8 Shrewsbury – 30, Nashoba – 13
ST. JOHN’S
GOLF – OCT. 5 St. John’s – 226, Wachusett – 235 SOCCER – OCT. 5 St. John’s – 1, St. John’s Prep – 1 CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 5 St. John’s – 20, Malden Catholic – 43 GOLF – OCT. 6 St. John’s – 188, Shrewsbury – 228 GOLF – OCT. 7 St. John’s – 233, Malden Catholic – 272 SOCCER – OCT. 8 St. John’s – 5, Doherty – 0 GOLF – OCT. 8 St. John’s – 219, St. John’s Prep – 228 FOOTBALL – OCT. 9 St. John’s – 0, Catholic Memorial – 44
WESTBOROUGH
BOYS GOLF – OCT. 5 Westborough – 23, Wellesley – 49 BOYS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 5 Westborough – 32, Wachusett – 23 GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY – OCT. 5 Westborough – 47, Wachusett – 16 GIRLS SOCCER – OCT. 5 Westborough – 1, Nashoba – 0 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL – OCT. 5 Westborough – 3, Wachusett – 0 BOYS SOCCER – OCT. 5 Westborough – 0, Leominster – 2 FIELD HOCKEY – OCT. 6 Westborough – 0, Oakmont – 0 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 6 Westborough – 22, Nashoba – 50 BOYS GOLF – OCT. 7 Westborough – 35, Shrewsbury – 37
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