NASHUA – It’s a Sweet Sixteen. A lot of high school girls sports teams are thrilled if they have four or five players set to play in college in the future, either the next season or the season after. Well, how about 16? It’s an amazing number. There are nine Bishop Guertin seniors ...
DURHAM – Ed McCabe intended to try out for the University of New Hampshire basketball team when he arrived on campus in 1983. Instead, he wound up being one of the school’s most accomplished track and field performers ever, an All-American in the 35-pound weight throw. That’s the way ...
NASHUA – A year ago, they were the only game in town. Now, the Nashua Silver Knights are hoping to pick up where they left off – as a fun baseball destination, but hopefully with more normalcy. Remember, the Futures League was the only collegiate baseball league in New England, and one ...
Milford High School baseball coach Todd Robichaud recounted an extremely unpleasant experience he had a year ago. “I’m beyond happy to be back after a year away,” Robichaud said in an email. “To tell nine seniors last year that we were not going to have a season was probably one of ...
Eddy Morrissey was out of college football for a season this past year, and the former Nashua High School quarterback learned one basic thing. “I learned coaching is coaching,” he said of his time at a Catholic school in Eugene, Oregon. “It doesn’t matter what level you’re ...
By TOM KING Staff Writer The twists, turns, highs, lows and eventful emotion of the high school tourney trail in any season are always many. But this winter, given the change in the wrestling format, the regionalization of all the tournaments (like the fall), resulted in some great ...
NASHUA – The practices are intense. The only problem for the Rivier University men’s basketball team is the games haven’t been this season – because they don’t exist. Just as was the case with Raider teams in the fall, Rivier men’s and women’s basketball this winter never got a ...
The temperatures a couple of weeks ago in the Houston, Texas, area were below freezing. Snow or ice was starting to build up, just a bit. Former Merrimack High School and Nashua Silver Knight standout Mickey Gasper would look at his roommate and good friend, fellow Yankees farmhand and former ...
It’s different, new, and deemed a necessity in an open tournament due to the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean every local girls high school basketball coach has to like it. They just have to navigate their team’s way through it as things get underway on Tuesday with play-in games and ...
It’s not yet March, and already there was madness. High school boys head basketball coaches had the unusual feeling this past week of coaching games knowing in most cases exactly who their teams would face in the state tournaments that begin on Monday. “It is so strange knowing the ...
DURHAM – She’s had staying power. There have been a lot of things that could have pulled Hudson’s Amanda Torres away from being a University of New Hampshire standout basketball player. Maybe being cut from tryouts for the Hudson Memorial School team in the sixth and seventh grade. Or ...
Tommy Ameen, former Manchester West High School boys basketball coach and well-known hoop aficionado, historian and official scorer, knows quality when he sees it. So, when he bumped into Milford High School boys basketball coach Dan Murray at a couple games, he struck up a conversation, and ...
NASHUA – Louie Bernardini knows all about throwing a two-seam fastball. But his transition from pitching/associate head coach to taking over the Rivier University baseball program as its new head coach is basically seamless. When Bernerdini, the former Daniel Webster College head baseball ...
The Milford basketball community is in mourning today as Milford High School head boys basketball ball coach Dan Murray passed away unexpectedly this morning. Murray, who has been the Spartans head coach for the last 15 years, had been suffering from a brief illness and while hospitalized, ...
The quarterback is now a Quarterback Whisperer. Former University of New Hampshire and Nashua South – as well as Canadian Football League signal caller – Trevor Knight still is a talented quarterback, but right now, he’s a renowned QB guru who local high school athletes swear by. It ...
We’re hoping for smooth sailing with the abbreviated local high school boys basketball season, but that will be a tall order amidst the pandemic. But it’s underway, and a lot of the unanswered questions we had with the tournament scrapped just before the quarterfinals could be ...
For the first week of the season, they’ve been the only hockey game in town. Yes, the Bishop Guertin High School boys and girls teams, thanks to virus concerns, etc. have been the only local hockey teams to be playing right now. Not bad for teams that just over a month ago were scrambling ...
The days are long. The nights can be, too. But Nashua’s Cameron Parker doesn’t mind one bit. The call came, and he’s made it to the bigs – as in the National Hockey League. “It’s a dream come true,” said Parker, who was promoted to the position as assistant equipment manager ...
NASHUA – Hockey is in his blood. That’s the best explanation you can give for first-ever Rivier University women’s hockey coach Chris Czarnota’s involvement in the game. In fact, a family member he never knew can take the credit – Czarnota’s late grandfather, Joseph “Red” ...
The year 2020 will certainly send shudders through many years from now when the they look back on it. For the local sports community, it will go down in history for many reasons. But there was certainly some good things to remember with the bad. It’s pretty easy to choose the top story ...