Bedford High School Highlights

Friday, January 20, 2012

TRACK

Jan. 15: Bedford girls win

The Bedford girls recorded 79 points, two ahead of Londonderry, to win a meet at UNH, while the Bedford boys finished with 371/2 points to place fourth. Pinkerton won the boys meet with 841/2 points

Hannah Zeltner won the 1,000-meter run, finishing in 3 minutes, 10.8 seconds, and also took first in the 1,500 (4:57.8).

Jenny Mara finished first in the high jump (5-4) and Brenna Williams won the long jump (16-1/4) and was sixth in the 600.

Bedford also won the 4x400 relay (4:24.4) and was second in the 4x160 relay.

Johanna Celli came in third in the 300 and fourth in the 55 while Amanda Ouellette came in second in the shot put and teammate Madison Oliwa was sixth.

Morghan Linehan placed second in the 1,500 while teammate Kristen Larosa was fourth. Rachael Lowney took fourth in the 1,000 and Amelia Soule was fifth. Hannah Shawver placed fourth in the 55 hurdles.

Anika Hibdard was fifth and Erica Stieper took sixth in the high jump.

For the boys, Joseph Thibeault won the shot put with a throw of 44-11/4. Keelan McCoole came in third in the high jump while Tyler Krause tied for sixth.

Bedford had four runners place in the 600: Thomas Brigham (third), Ryan Wittenburg (fourth), Steve Bruno (fifth) and David Phelps (sixth).

Ryan Gancarz took sixth in the 55 hurdles and Bedford also took third in the 4x400 relay and fifth in the 4x160 relay.

HOCKEY

Jan. 12: Bedford 3, Spaulding 2

Spaulding was on a 5-on-3 power play in the final minutes of Division II action Thursday night against Bedford, but gave up the deciding goal with about four minutes to play in a 3-2 loss. Bedford, which had lost to the Red Raiders 5-1 in the Bauer Holiday Tournament, improved to 4-2.

Jan. 12: Bedford 7, Spaulding 1 (junior varsity)

The Bulldogs picked up their 10th win of the season by beating the Red Raiders. The first period was close, with only a single tally for the Bulldogs, coming from a Nate Boyd for a power play goal, which was assisted by Harrison Voloshin. But in the second period, Bedford did a lot of damage. Five goals blew the game open. Scoring for Bedford were Andrew Connelly, Voloshin (two) and Brett Veilleux (two). Tyler Murray was the only Bulldog to ring the bell in the final frame. Providing assists were Jeremy Myers, Chris Shaughnessy, Chris Briggs and Matt Sarro. Solid defense from Bedford kept the Red Raiders mostly off the scoreboard.

WRESTLING

Jan. 14: Bulldogs take ninth

The wrestling team competed at the Merrimack Hall of Fame tournament, and due to sickness, was only able to send eight out of 14 wrestlers. Bedford still finished ninth out of 17 teams. Eric Cooper was undefeated on the day, winning four matches to take first place at 145 pounds. Colin Perras and Mike Galinat both wrestled back after a loss to claim third place in their respective weight classes. Josh Belz also finished in fourth place.

Meanwhile, the freshmen wrestlers competed at the freshmen state wrestling tournament this weekend. No team score was kept, but Bedford had some great individual performances. Jake Valeri and Ryan Belz made it to the finals of their weight class and finished as runners-up. Ben Dow and Matt Houston wrestled back after a loss to claim third place. Cam Lavoie finished in fourth place.