{"id":305193,"date":"2025-11-25T04:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305193\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:32:06","slug":"austin-raymer-scores-and-assists-in-wmass-class-a-b-boys-soccer-all-star-game-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305193\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Raymer scores and assists in WMass Class A, B boys soccer All-Star game (gallery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPRINGFIELD \u2014 The Fall 2025 boys soccer season officially wrapped up on Monday at Pope Francis Preparatory School with the annual Western Mass. Senior All-Star Game. <\/p>\n

Buoyed by a two-point performance from Belchertown\u2019s Austin Raymer, the designated Red Team defeated the White Team, 2-1. <\/p>\n

Raymer assisted Longmeadow\u2019s Sam Tyson just before the end of the half with the opening goal of the match. The Lancers\u2019 forward has become a key figure in Longmeadow\u2019s attack since joining varsity as a sophomore, registering 10 or more points in each of the last two seasons. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a pretty cool journey… we kind of had a rough season in my sophomore year,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cMy junior year we tied a lot, (but) my grade, we\u2019ve been talking about our senior season and we were looking forward our whole life because we knew with that group of guys, we were going to do good. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt ended up kind of rough, but I\u2019m satisfied with our season, we did well.\u201d<\/p>\n

10 minutes into the second half, Jasper Cantor connected on a close-range opportunity from the left side of the box to level the scoreline. The match remained tied for close to 15 minutes before Raymer capitalized on a mistake and scored the go-ahead goal. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a great year for me, getting the opportunity to be a captain of belchertown soccer has really improved everything about me,\u201d the Orioles\u2019 midfielder said. \u201cI\u2019ve become more mature, more responsible, all things that you need going ahead in life. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy teammates, (I) love them. I\u2019m going to remember them for the rest of my life… the opportunity to be All-State and play in this game, it\u2019s a great opportunity and I\u2019m super grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raymer highlighted how much he enjoyed playing alongside childhood friends he\u2019s had to face as rivals over the past few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a blast \u2015 I mean, yea, these guys have been my \u2018enemies\u2019, but there\u2019s always been a connection on the field,” Raymer said. \u201cI\u2019ve known a lot of these guys for most of my soccer career and I have a family friend that I got to play with tonight on Frontier, Ian Paciorek<\/a>, and I was super glad that he was on my team for this.”<\/p>\n

\"WMassThe Western Mass. Class A\/B Senior All-Star Game was held at Pope Francis Preparatory School on Nov. 24, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Zachary Siano)Zachary Siano<\/p>\n

The hard work and effort these student-athletes put in to earn minutes on varsity is an invaluable lesson in itself of how far those two traits can take you. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a very developmental process for me, as I stopped playing soccer when I was in about fifth grade,\u201d Pope Francis\u2019 Teddy Dandurand said. \u201cWhen I started (as a freshman), I was just getting back into it on JV and then finally I was getting pulled up my sophomore year, then junior and senior year working to get those minutes on the field. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been fun, I\u2019ve really enjoyed the process, getting to know the coaches and getting to just enjoy the team sport. Hanging out with the guys, going to team dinners… regardless of what you think about the coach, listen to them, because they will have notes for you that will impact your game. Even if you think they\u2019re not always right, they\u2019ll have good notes for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WMassThe Western Mass. Class A\/B Senior All-Star Game was held at Pope Francis Preparatory School on Nov. 24, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Hugo Destapado)Hugo Destapado<\/p>\n

While some of these student-athletes will continue playing athletics in college, Monday\u2019s game will be the final opportunity for others to play organized sports. As they each get set to embark on the next chapter in their lives off the pitch, the memories of their time spent amongst one another will remain with them for years to come. <\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying at Central these four full years was amazing,\u201d Gloireadeau Manyegezi. \u201cI really had fun playing with the people today, some people that I\u2019ve played against and it was really fun just playing with them and bonding with them in our last game of the high school year. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had a lot of fun playing here (at Springfield Central) and I wouldn\u2019t change for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD \u2014 The Fall 2025 boys soccer season officially wrapped up on Monday at Pope Francis Preparatory School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-305193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}