Juniors Abby and Rachael Baker helped run the Whitman-Hanson girls cross-country team to a state championship in the fall, and they are hoping they can do the same thing this winter with the indoor track team.

For nearly three weeks the Whitman-Hanson girls basketball team had been one win shy of earning a spot in the MIAA tournament only to watching the window close with a string a double-digit losses.

The Whitman-Hanson boys track team closed out the Patriot League indoor season in style on Friday with 17 different Panthers earning medals at the All-Patriot League Championship at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston.

The time-honored hockey gamble of pulling the goalie for an extra skater when trailing late in a game always comes with the risk that the extra offensive weapon could come at the expense of an empty-net goal.

The Whitman-Hanson boys basketball team surged through the second half of the season to make a surprise run at the Patriot League banner, but the North Quincy Red Raiders were not to be denied.

The Hingham Harbormen wanted the ball out of the hands of Dondre James and Alex Nuby in critical moments of their game against the Panthers at the high school on Friday.

The Whitman-Hanson girls basketball team dominated the boards against the Hanover Indians in Hanover on Monday; the committed fewer fouls; hit more free throws, and by a slim margin, committed fewer turnovers to lead to Indians in every major statistical category — except points.

The Whitman-Hanson wrestling team was not happy with ending their league season with a blowout loss to the Pembroke Titans in their own gym on Wednesday. The Panthers had one more chance to go out on a high note at home when Whitman-Hanson hosted the South Sectional team championship at the high school on Saturday, and they made the most of it.

The Panthers couldn’t be happier that Charlie Murphy is back on the ice.

Head boys basketball coach Bob Rodgers said he felt his team turned the corner on their season after a 58-51 loss to the Scituate Sailors on Jan. 20, and his team is backing up his every word.

The Whitman-Hanson girls basketball team put themselves in position to clinch another trip to the MIAA tournament Tuesday night with a pair of wins last week, but they will have to wait until Friday for another chance to punch their ticket.

It’s been a learning season for the young and inexperienced Whitman-Hanson boys hockey team, and their most recent lesson is that they are good enough to play with the best in the Patriot League.

Things are starting to click for the Whitman-Hanson/Pembroke girls hockey team, now it’s just a matter of consistency.

The goal for the Whitman-Hanson girls track team at the Division II State Relays on Sunday at the Reggie Lewis Center was to get the whole team involved by putting as many different runners in events as possible, even if it meant leaving points on the track.

Hanson baseball player Nick Spyropoulos hasn’t entered high school yet, but by the time he does step onto a high school diamond for the first time, he me already have something in common with the likes of Josh Hamilton, Justin Verlander and CC Sabathia.

The Whitman-Hanson boys hockey team played one of its best all-around games of the season Monday afternoon, but some costly mistakes at the beginning of the third period prevented them from leaving Rockland Rink with a win over the Westwood Wildcats.

The three-team wrestling meet at Whitman-Hanson Saturday morning seemed to get more attention for the team that wasn’t there than the teams that were. The meet was originally supposed to be a quad meet, and was the first meet that Bridgewater-Raynham was forced to forfeit after suspending their program amidst accusations of hazing.

The Whitman-Hanson boys track team wasn’t considered to be a contender in the distance events based on their seed times heading into the Division II State Relays on Sunday, but they caught the rest of the state by surprise when they left the Reggie Lewis Center with some jewelry.

The Whitman-Hanson/Pembroke girls hockey team wasn’t able to get a win in their second game of the season against the state champion Duxbury Dragons, but they were able to take a big step forward.

The first week of 2012 was a good one for the Whitman-Hanson boys track team. The Panthers got their fourth win of the season in impressive fashion with a 50-point win over the Silver Lake Lakers Wednesday and followed up with several personal bests by the team’s underclassmen at the Red Auerbach freshmen/sophomore Invitational on Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Center.