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Joe Marchilena

Joe Marchilena
MILFORD – Overconfidence? Check. Anxiety? Check. Luck? Yeah, there was probably some luck involved, too. All that and more were rolled in to 32 minutes of basketball on Tuesday night, and in the end, the top-seeded Milford High School boys team walked away with a 71-55 win over No. 16 …
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
SIGN-UPS/TRYOUTS BASEBALL GRANITE STATE GATORS: The AAU U13 Granite State Gator Baseball team is looking for two or three more players. There are on-going weekly practices and indoor games being played in the Hampshire Dome in preparation for the Spring AAU season. Call Richard Howell at 620-9999 or e-mail granitestategators@gmail.com …
Thursday, March 11, 2010
AMHERST – During the first half with his team seemingly in control on Thursday night, Souhegan High School girls basketball coach Wiley Billings turned back to his bench and said, “I’m going to run out of gum – that’s a bad sign.” Hard to believe at the time, but as …
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | By TOM KING Staff Writer
ALPINE SKIING Lambert qualifies for Eastern team at Meet of Champions FRANCONIA – Milford High School’s Ben Lambert and Bishop Guertin High School’s Tucker Gettel recorded the top runs for local skiers at the 2010 Alpine Meet of Champions at Cannon Mountain (located within Franconia Notch State Park) last week. …
Thursday, March 11, 2010
SALEM – In the case of Saturday night’s Division II quarterfinal matchup between Merrimack High School and Timberlane Regional, the upset was that fourth-seeded Timberlane beat fifth-seeded Merrimack, 4-2. The lower-ranked Tomahawks had beaten the host Owls twice during the regular season (6-3 season opener, 4-3 regular-season finale). Two age-old …
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | By MATT LORDAN Correspondent
SIGN-UPS SOCCER MYA: MYA Soccer is holding registration for the 2010 spring season, for all ages from 41⁄2 to 18 years old. Registration is open until March 19. Visit www.myasoccer.org for information and registration. AMHERST SOCCER CLUB: ASC, open to players from any town, is now taking registrations for boys …
Thursday, March 11, 2010
An all-star night of comedy will be held to benefit Merrimack lacrosse programs. Las Vegas performer and New England headliner George Hamm and Comedy Central’s Harrison Stebbins and Ryan Gartley will be at Alpine Grove in Hollis. The comedy night will be March 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 …
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Three Bedford High wrestlers took part in the state Meet of Champions on Saturday at Nashua North. …
Friday, March 5, 2010
HOLLIS – There was one message Bob Murphy sent to his Hollis/Brookline High School girls basketball team Monday night. The coach wanted to have practice on Tuesday. That message was understood. The fourth-seeded Cavaliers opened up an early lead and never looked back, knocking off 13th-seeded Merrimack Valley, 61-34, in …
Friday, March 5, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
•MCAA is hosting the fourth annual Souhegan Valley Umpire Clinic March 31-April 3 in Milford. A three-day clinic for baseball and/or softball umpires, new or experienced, everyone is welcome to participate. Go to www.mcaa.us for more information. Must be 13 years or older. •MCAA will be holding our annual preseason …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Milford Christian Academy boys team was victorious in four straight games in the four-team tournament at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Mass. The team was marked by an outstanding defensive effort by playing an intense flexible help defense. The offense was anchored by senior co-captain Ryan Bourgeois, who …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
WRESTLING MEET OF CHAMPIONS Milford’s Kilgore comes up short in 189-pound final Merrimack’s Tyler Baulier was the area’s sole champion at Saturday’s Meet of Champions, which had been shifted from Londonderry High School to Nashua North on an emergency basis as Londonderry’s gym was in use as a shelter. At …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
It’s been 14 years since Souhegan High School won its last girls basketball championship, the second of back-to-back titles in 1996. In those intervening years there hasn’t been a single trip back to the finals, which seems strange because the Sabers always seem to put a pretty good team on …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
MILFORD – In terms of following the game plan, the Lebanon High School boys basketball team was doing just about everything right in Tuesday night’s pre-tournament showdown with top-ranked Milford. The tempo was to their choosing, the Raiders preferring a half-court game to the up tempo, full-court pandemonium Milford prefers. …
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | By GARY FITZ Staff Writer
Merrimack’s Tyler Baulier was the area’s sole champion at Saturday’s Meet of Champions, which had been shifted from Londonderry High School to Nashua North on an emergency basis as Londonderry’s gym was in use as a shelter. At 215 pounds, Baulier pinned Steven Dwight of Manchester Memorial at the 3:22 …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
LONDONDERRY – The Merrimack High School girls basketball team did the one thing every high-seeded team doesn’t want to see in the preliminary round of the playoffs. The No. 14 Tomahawks made things interesting. After falling behind 11-0 in the first two minutes of Tuesday’s Class L playoff game against …
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
BEDFORD – Caleb Earnshaw is heading to the Meet of Champions and this time, he’s not alone. The Bedford High School senior wrestler finished second in the 119-pound weight class at the Division II Championship Meet last Saturday, earning a spot in the MOCs this weekend, along with four of …
Friday, February 26, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
Milford highlights BOYS BASKETBALL MILFORD 74, BEDFORD 62 Kyle Nelson and Mike O’Laughlin combined for 35 points on Feb. 19 as the host Spartans (14-1) were in control the entire way, leading 41-30 at the half. Nelson finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds while O’Laughlin had 15 points on …
Thursday, February 25, 2010
BEDFORD – Josh Kilgore was in big trouble. For the second time in Saturday’s 189-pound championship final, Kilgore was squirming on his back, cradled by his opponent, Plymouth’s Jake Bissell. Kilgore kicked and rolled as Bissell seemed to squeeze his way to a pin. But each time it seemed the …
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
AMHERST – Mike Heaney can breathe a little easier now. The Souhegan High School boys basketball has seen Milford for the last time this season. Well, unless they meet in the playoffs. In Heaney’s two years as coach, the Sabers and Spartans have played six times – four in the …
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
Top four advance to MOC 103: 1. Tyler Dustin (Plymouth) p. Kyle Brissette (Con-Val), 3:09. 3. Zach McPherson (H/B) def. Codi Gaudreau (John Stark), 13-10. 112: 1. Josh Medeiros (Pelham) def. Zach Schofield (Goffstown), 6-0. 3. Carelton Kleinscrodt (White Mountains) def. Jake Debow (Ply.), forfeit. 119: 1. Greg Jones (JS) …
Thursday, February 25, 2010
WILTON – There was one matchup that Wilton-Lyndeborough coach Sean Young was worried about heading into Tuesday’s Class S boys basketball preliminary round game. Who was going to guard Lisbon center Jamsie Myers when the Warriors’ big man, Steve Heck, wasn’t in the game? Turned out, all that worrying was …
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By JOE MARCHILENA Correspondent
NASHUA – Merrimack came in as one of six contenders to finish second, but had to settle for eighth on Saturday at the NHIAA Division I wrestling championships at Nashua North. Merrimack’s Tyler Baulier reached the finals at 215, but was pinned by Manchester Memorial’s Steven Dwight with just seven …
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By GARY FITZ Staff Writer
Wednesday, Feb. 17, was a day for hockey; let’s play two. It featured the two biggest games of the regulars season, Merrimack going up against Division II-leading Bow at Manchester’s West Side Arena. The ’Hawks went in with a 10-3 mark, looking to avoid a three-game skid. Then, at Skate …
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Merrimack Cardinals Football and Spirit program seeks head coaches for the 2010 fall season. Those interested in coaching football should contact Steve Anderson, football coordinator, at football@merrimackcardinals.org by March 24. Those interested in coaching cheerleading should contact Kitt Rondeau, spirit corrdinator, at spirit@merrimackcardinals.org by March 24. For more information …
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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