AMHERST – The feeling was all along that this would be a good team. “Based on paper, and with experience, it’s not hard to say we’re going to be a very good team,” Souhegan High School football coach Robin Bowkett said back in early September, when teams were allowed to ...
It all began several years ago at the indoor sports center of the Souhegan Valley, Milford’s Hampshire Dome. Little did anyone know that when Elisabeth Jacob’s parents signed her up when she was 5 years old for a preschool indoor soccer program at the popular facility that a budding ...
NASHUA – Practice makes perfect. The problem is, at Rivier University, that’s all their athletic teams can do this fall. But it’s better than what happened last spring, when all the seasons were scrapped and the campus shut down due to the pandemic. Now, there are students on ...
NASHUA – There are all sorts of little details that get recalled here and there about a championship season that often get overlooked. There’s no one better than one of only two people still in the area from the Nashua Pride 2000 Atlantic League of Professional Baseball championship team ...
Sometimes, winning one championship in a season isn’t enough. Sometimes, you need two. That was James Lofton’s thinking back in the late summer of 2000, when, after winning a title with the Tri-City Posse of the independent Western League, he sought to do the same thing with the ...
The games are few, so the expectations may be many. That’s the look of local high school boys soccer this fall. With a shorter preseason, fewer games and an open tournament, teams can use the time to work out the kinks with no pressure moving toward late October-early November. It’s a ...