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Friday, April 19, 2013

Bombing Suspect Played Intramural Indoor Soccer at UMass-Dartmouth

Former teammate surprised Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is suspect in Boston Marathon bombing.

The second Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev played intramural indoor soccer at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Mark Hassin, a former Dartmouth resident, played on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth intramural indoor soccer team with Tsarnaev for about a year. He said it was a surprise when he woke up Friday morning to calls informing him that his former teammate is allegedly responsible for not only the marathon bombings, but for killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier. “He was really nice,” Hassin said. “You couldn't tell he had a single bad bone in his body.” Hassin played on the team with him a year and a half ago as a sophomore. During the year they played together, …

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Stoughton's Okeke Among Hockomock Runners on UMass Dartmouth Women's Track Team

Stoughton's Ifeoma Okeke is one of five from Hockomock League schools competing for the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth's women's indoor track team this winter season.

The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth women's indoor track team has a Hockomock League flavor to it. Stoughton's Ifeoma Okeke is a freshman sprinter for the Corsairs. The 2012 Stoughton High grad was one of the top performers on the SHS track teams. In her first year at UMass Dartmouth, she has competed in the first two meets of the winter season, running in the 60-meter dash and 200-meter dash at the UMass Boston Indoor Invitational and running in the 55-meter dash at the Harvard Open. She's joined on the UMass Darmouth team by former King Philip standout Lauren Roache, a junior sprinter; Foxborough's Caitlin Dorr, a junior high jumper; Attleboro's Meghan Cutler, a sophomore mid-distance runner and high jumper; and Dana Foley, a …

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