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All of todays MIAA Tournament Games Have Been Postponed Due to the Weather.

Hillers Girls Basketball is now scheduled to host Medfield Saturday Night (Tomorrow) at 6pm

Hillers Boys Hockey VS Dover-Sherborn will now take place Saturday March 3rd 4:30pm at Pirelli Veterans Arena in Franklin, MA.

-On Monday February 26th, the Hopkinton Hillers hosted the Medway Mustangs in a 1st round playoff game. It was a back and forth battle throughout the first 3 quarters. Hopkinton outsored Medway in the 1st quarter 13-12 but the 2nd quarter was 17-12 in favor of Medway. The 3rd quarter was in favor of Hopkinton 15-14 which made it a 43-40 Medway lead heading into the 4th. In the final 8 minutes the Hopkinton offense struggled from the field and Medway outscored the Hillers 19-5 and took the game 62-45.

Long after you may have been asleep, the USA Women's Olympic Hockey team took the Gold Medal with an overtime shootout 3-2 win over Canada. The game was absolutely amazing throughout. USA scored a goal in the 1st period, Canada answered with 2 of their own in the 2nd period and led 2-1 heading to the 3rd. USA tied it up in the 3rd and it remained tied throughout the 20 minute overtime period. USA took the win in the shootout, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored the winning goal and gave USA the 3-2 Shootout win.

Scoring Summary

-Hopkinton Hillers Hockey took on East Longmeadow in their finally regular season game. It was another scoring-fest for the Hillers. Hopkinton took the 9-1 victory over East Longmeadow and finishes regular season play with 17 wins 2 losses and 1 tie. They will head to the Division 3 South Sectionals with a very high seed.

-The Hopkinton Hillers Alpine Ski Team sent 6 athletes to the state championship which will take place March 6th. The Hillers ski team has 20 athletes in total, 18 boys, 2 girls. The Boys finished 5 place overall out of 12 teams. The Top 20 Girls and Top 24 Boys in the league qualified for the state finals. Representatives in the finals from the Hillers include both the Girl members of the team Allison Marr (Ranked 4th), Cate Barry (Ranked 6th) for the boys. Max Rodgers (Ranked 13th), Jordan Hanna (20th), Jackson Schlussel (23rd) and Kyle Perkins (24th).

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The most competitive TVL boys basketball season in years is reaching its conclusion this week. While some questions about which teams will qualify for the MIAA tournament and what seeds they will get remain unresolved, champions of the TVL Large and TVL Small divisions will be celebrated before we fall asleep Friday night.

-On Saturday February 3rd, the Holliston Panthers met up with the Hopkinton Hillers for a crucial TVL showdown at New England Sports Center. The Hillers got things started off quickly, with a goal by Sean Walsh less than 2 minutes in at 13:06 left. Hillers stuck again with another goal by Matt Lindquist at 3:16 left in the period. Will Abbott would put the icing on the cake at 4:15 left in the 3rd period. The Hopkinton Hillers get a step closer to clinching the TVL as they take down Holliston 3-0. Hopkinton improved to 12-2-1 with the win while Holliston falls to 11-4-1.

On Wednesday January 31st, the Hopkinton Hillers Swimming team hosted Senior Night Festivities during their meet versus Foxborough. In the meet, the Hillers boys captured a 91-70 win while the Girls won 95-67. The Hopkinton Hillers also captured the Girls and Combined TVL Swim titles this past Sunday. View the senior night festivities and meet versus Foxboro below.

Senior Night Festivities:

The Hopkinton Hillers Girls posted a total score of 91 to take the TVL Indoor track title this past Sunday (2/4). Hopkinton finished 45 points above 2nd place Medway.

Girls Final Results: 1) Hopkinton - 91, 2) Medway - 38, 3) Millis - 37, 4) Westwood - 34, 5) Holliston - 32, 6) Norton - 27, 7) Medfield - 19, 8) Dedham - 18, 9) Ashland - 7, 9) Dover-Sherborn - 7.