Cassell's Corner

Host Tommy Cassell talks with three seniors from the undefeated Natick girls soccer team and their coach in this episode.

Senior captains Hannah Lederman and Taylor Brown, as well as fellow senior Rachel Jasinski, discuss their experience playing together and the bound that they share. Natick is 16-0 and will hold the No. 1 seed in the Division 1 South sectional playoffs.

Third-year coach James Blackwell talked with Tommy and his players about what each contributes to the team as well as what makes this group of seniors unique.

Taylor has missed the entire season with a torn meniscus and ACL, which she injured in the playoffs last year. She talked to Tommy about how she has worked to stay close to the team and to contribute her senior year despite being unable to take the field.

Hannah and Rachel are both Bay State Conference All-Stars this season.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

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Host Tommy Cassell brought in Hopkinton sophomore golfer Matt Epstein and longtime coach Dick Bliss into the studio to talk about golf.

The group talked about the upcoming Division 2 state championship tournament as well as the past season. This fall, Matt shot a 2-over par 73 at the Division 2 South sectional tournament, which was a tie for fourth-place overall, and has led the Hillers to a Tri-Valley League Large title this season.

Hopkinton placed second as a team at sectionals.

The last time the Hillers won a state title was in 2004. Dick has coached the golf team for 38 years and has also spent time coaching girls and boys basketball, football and girls tennis teams as well as serving as the athletic director at Hopkinton High.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

Hannah Finley, a graduate of the Millis High, joins host Tommy Cassell on this week’s episode. The Medway resident is taking a gap year between high school and college as she finishes undergoing chemotherapy of Stage 3 Classic Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Hannah and Tommy talk about her cancer treatment including the fact she is now in remission. She talks about the Jimmy Fund and how it helped connect her with others in similar circumstances.

They talk about her work right now, including serving as one of the  coaches for a middle school volleyball team and doing casting calls for acting

She was accepted at UMass-Amherst during her senior year but deferred while she focused on her health this summer and fall.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

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Glen Magpiong of Wellesley joins host Tommy Cassell in the studio to talk about his cross-country bicycling trip, which raised money to help raise awareness and find a cure for ALS.

Glen and Tommy first talked earlier this summer as the cyclist was early in his journey. This new episode talks about the full trip, which started when Glen dipped his bike’s wheels into Boston Harbor and ended on the Santa Monica Pier in California.

Glen talks about his experiencing getting hit by a truck while on a highway and the logistics of continuing his trip after that, as well as all of the people along the way who helped make the trip a success.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

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The AMSA boys soccer team captains Patrick Langton, Josef Langton, Alex Lane and Calvin Fillios talk with host Tommy Cassell in this week's episode. The team is off to a 10-0-1 start on the season.  So far on the season, Patrick has 23 goals and 13 assists, while Calvin has tallied 20 goals and 13 assists.

Next week the team takes on Sutton, who has beaten them in the postseason each of the past three years.

The group also talks about what brought them to the Advance Science and Math Academy, a charter school in Marlborough, as well as why they play club soccer.  

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

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Host Tommy Cassell sits down with Andrew Mainini, who coaches the Hopedale girls volleyball team in the fall and Milford boys volleyball team in the spring.

Mainini is in the midst of the girls volleyball season as the Blue Raiders finished last season with a 17-1 record and a No. 1 seed in the Division 3 Central sectional. Hopedale is off to a 5-2 start so far this season, dropping the matches to Millbury, who kicked Hopedale out of the tournament last year, and Shrewsbury, who is in Division 2.

Mainini talks about what he has learned about being a coach over the years and how last season taught him he can (and should) diversify the strategies he teaches the girls.

A Milford alumnus, Mainini is in his fifth season coaching Hopedale girls volleyball and he will be starting his third year at Milford this upcoming spring. He talks about what it was like to coach the junior varsity program for Linda Zacchilli in Milford and then to follow in her footsteps when she retired.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

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Host Tommy Cassell sits down with two Hopkinton football players and the Hillers offensive coordinator in this episode.

Will Abbott, a senior, Ryan Kelleher, a junior, and Dan Sullivan, the Hillers’ offensive coach, shared their impressions of the beginning of the fall season as well as reflections of last year’s matchups.

Abbott, a wide receiver, has scored five touchdowns in the first two weeks of the season. Kelleher is playing his first year as a full-time starting quarterback. The junior started the final two games of the 2016 season for the Hillers.

Sullivan has coached at Hopkinton for eight years. The coach is originally from Ashland and talks about coaching against his childhood (and current) friend. He was the Ashland Post 77 Legion manager for a few years (summer baseball).

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

 

Host Tommy Cassell talks with Natick senior soccer captains Al and Dillon Arno and the Redhawks first-year coach Christian Rodriguez. 

The Arno brothers are twins and play together on the boys soccer and ice hockey teams. They will be captains for both teams.

Natick is currently 2-1 for soccer as the Arno brothers both play forward.Christian Rodriguez is in his first year as boys soccer coach but is a 1991 graduate of Natick High and is a police detective in Natick as well. 

Christian Rodriguez is in his first year as boys soccer coach. He is also a detective at the Natick Police Department and is serving as the school resource officer. He is a 1991 graduate of Natick High.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

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Host Tommy Cassell talks with Millis football coach Dana Olson. Olson's football team, which was a co-op last year as Millis-Hopedale, won a Division 4A Super Bowl with a 30-18 victory over Maynard last December. It was the co-ops final season together and only Super Bowl victory, and first for Millis since 1999.

Dana graduated from Medway High, Millis' Thanksgiving Day rival, and has coached in both towns for various high school sports.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.

 

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Host Tommy Cassell talks with Medway's girls soccer and boys basketball coach Jason Rojee.  The girls soccer team has been to back-to-back Division 3 state championship games and the boys basketball team earned the Tri-Valley League title last year as well.   Cassell talks with Rojee about his coaching style, how to get the seniors to help motivate underclassmen, and why coaches should support student-athletes who seek to play in private programs.

Cassell’s Corner

Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas. A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @TommyCassell44.

You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don’t forget to rate and review. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell’s Corner is available here on our websites.