The Souhegan High School athletic department settled some family business before heading into the annual winter break. The school Friday announced the hiring of Robin Bowkett as its new football coach, replacing Mike Lochman, who resigned in December after four seasons on the job. Bowkett, a ...
Amherst’s Devin Gilligan is on top of the Northeast-10 men’s basketball world. Gilligan, the senior guard for the Southern New Hampshire University Penmen, was named the conference’s Player of the Year on Thursday. Gilligan had a breakout season, averaging 20.2 points a game, shooting ...
NASHUA – It’s the best against the best. The second phase of the state high school wrestling postseason takes place Saturday at Nashua High School South at 9 a.m. with the annual Meet of Champions. Top finishers from last week’s Division I, II and III championships compete for the right ...
By TOM KING Staff Writer Amherst’s Devin Gilligan is on top of the Northeast-10 men’s basketball world. Gilligan, the senior guard for the Southern New Hampshire University Penmen, was named the conference’s Player of the Year on Thursday. Gilligan had a breakout ...
Dave Faucher was always an intense coach when he ran the show at Daniel Webster College. He always tells it like it is. And the picture he paints right now is not a pretty one. "You know," he said on Sunday, "I'm the winningest coach in history of Daniel Webster ...
NASHUA - It's now quite possible that Saturday's final game of the Daniel Webster College regular season at the school's Mario Vagge Gym will be the Eagles' final men's basketball game, period. That's because the school received word on Friday it loses five wins in the New England Collegiate ...
It looks like an old airplane hanger from the outside. But inside, the Mario Vagge Gymnasium on the campus of Daniel Webster College is filled with history and memories. Saturday will be another emotional day for Daniel Webster College athletics - perhaps the saddest next to whatever the last ...
NASHUA – The Daniel Webster College men’s basketball program’s finale was ruined by mayhem on Saturday at the school’s Mario Vagge Gym. A brawl broke out between the Eagle and Southern Vermont players with 14:34 remaining, and two Eagle players, ...
NASHUA - Fans, players and managers love home runs. But when it comes to having home runs solely deciding an extra-inning game, Nashua Silver Knights manager B.J. Neverett would rather find a better way. The Futures Collegiate League announced last month that it was instituting a new rule in ...
Paul LaBarre walked through the doors of Conway Arena late Saturday not exactly knowing how he would feel. His wife, Beverly, said she couldn't come. A big sigh. "She said, 'I'll just cry the whole game,'" LaBarre explained. That's because the final men's hockey game in the ...
NASHUA - They know there's only about a month left in not only their season, but their existence. Thus, the Daniel Webster College women's basketball team may be saving its best for last after a horrendous start to the 2016-17 season. The Eagles beat New England Collegiate Conference foe ...
NASHUA - Late-night, extra-inning marathons for the Nashua Silver Knight at Holman Stadium will be a thing of the past. That's because of a historic rule created by the Futures Collegiate League in which regular season games tied after 10 innings decided by a timed home run derby. The change ...
All around us are stories waiting to be told - good ones, bad ones and, unfortunately, others that are more on the ugly side of life. Over the last couple of weeks Greater Nashua has witnessed a few of the first two, and one prime example of the latter. As is customary when asked to choose, ...
Every year has its own special moments; some carry over, some don't. Some stand out right away; some you have to discover in the memory vault. Trying to isolate 10 top local sports moments for any January-to-December period is almost impossible, but we attempt it every year. Remember, these ...
Well, here we are on the eve of one of mankind's greatest holidays. Children are getting all snuggled in their beds with thoughts of computer games and hi-tech gadgetry whirling about in their heads. The past several weeks has seen the crowds of parent "elves" bustling eager ...
NASHUA – It’s official: The Futures Collegiate League will be down to nine teams for the 2017 season. The Torrington Titans, for at least this summer, will go dark and as a result one team will be off each night during the seventh FCBL campaign as the schedule was released ...
In case anyone needs a reminder that youth is not always wasted on the young, consider the following story out of the most rabid football state in the country. (That would be Texas. Any state that spends tens of millions of dollars on high school football stadiums merits the title.) As ...
In pondering this week's column I was at an impasse about a topic to concentrate on and put into words. While there is still some hunting to be enjoyed for the hardier among us, it is not true for those devotees of the hole in the ice gang. A tad too early for ice augers and tip-ups. ...
Receiving awards and accolades was the norm throughout Erica Vendituoli's high school career. After two years of fighting for playing time at Bryant University, the Nashua North graduate and 2013 New Hampshire Volleyball Coaches Association Division I Player of the Year is finally starting to ...
Just how good can the Daniel Webster College men’s basketball team be in its final season? “I think they’re good enough where they can compete to get into the NCAA tournament,” Eagles coach Donald Morris, Jr. said. “If they stay together, do ...