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Milford firemen enjoying workouts

Sunday, May 27, 2012

It’s been years since I’ve watched the movie “Backdraft,” but when I picture firefighters, I still see Kurt Russell and William Baldwin. But that’s not …

Unwelcome critters can ruin outdoor enjoyment

By GORDON LEWIS Outdoor Notebook | Sunday, May 27, 2012

The arrival of warm weather and the migration to get outdoors after the winter is over is an annual ritual long enjoyed by the people …

Golf offers peace for one American Hero

By WAYNE MILLS Putting Around | Sunday, May 27, 2012

One of the great things about golf is you get to meet all kinds of people from all different kinds of backgrounds. Doctors and lawyers …

Sudden impact: Nashua underclassmen are difference-makers in track and field

By GARY FITZ Staff Writer | Friday, May 25, 2012

If the Nashua High School North boys track team finds a way to upset Pinkerton Academy on Friday night and repeat as Division I track …

Milford’s Morgan Andrews named Gatorade girls soccer player of the year

By JOE MARCHILENA Staff Writer | Friday, May 25, 2012

MILFORD – Cyberbullying is a hot topic in schools these days. It’s so hot that Milford High School was to have a schoolwide assembly Thursday …

Hollis Brookline softball aims for state title

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

HOLLIS – The game was postponed and a steady rain continued to fall on Tuesday afternoon at Hollis Brookline High School. The school’s undefeated softball …

Daniel Webster College baseball program turns corner

Monday, May 21, 2012

J.P. Pyne had already started reflecting on just how monumental a spring it’s been Daniel Webster College baseball, a program he built from scratch. “It’s …

Sneakers don’t burn calories, exercising does

Sunday, May 20, 2012

I’ve learned a lot of lessons since starting the “90 Day Commit to Get Fit” program, and one of my favorites has to do with …

Peter Reilly was in Ann Arbor, Mich., this weekend, wrapping up his collegiate golfing career for the Naval Academy goal team at the NCAA Midwest Regionals. He would have loved to have seen his team advance to the national championships, but he knew the odds were long before the 13-team event, that included golf powers USC, Oregon, Baylor and TCU. He was right. The Navy team wound up dead last in Ann Arbor, but Reilly got better with each round, going from a 10-over 81 on Thursday to a 76 on Friday and 73 in Saturday's final round. He posted the second best score on his team. But Reilly, who grew up in Merrimack, led Bishop Guertin to the high school title five year ago and was one of the top young amateur golfers in the state, knows there will be times in the near future when the mere act of swinging a golf club will be impossible. It's tough to take a full swing on a submarine. Maybe, O'Reilly joked, he'll still be able to putt. Reilly, who said he may enter the New Hampshire Amateur Championship this summer, if he can squeeze it into his schedule, will spend the next year or so at Nuclear Power School in Charleston, S.C. He'll spend 12-18 months becoming a Junior Submarine Officer. Being a Division I college athlete at many schools can be all consuming, taking nearly as much time as classes and study. For Reilly, golf at the Naval Academy has been a welcome diversion, but never very high on the priority list. He spent part of the summer after his freshman year learning to sail. He's spent other summers on other vessels where playing golf wasn't an option. But when he does get to play he's played well, including a senior year when he led his team in stroke average and to the Patriot League title. "It's been a good four years, a great ride,'' said Reilly, who graduates from Annapolis on June 1 when he'll be commissioned an Ensign. "Winning the Patriot League was awesome, a great way to finish.'' Reilly's ability in the classroom and on the course put him on the 2012 Academic All Patriot League Golf Team, one of just five players selected. To be eligible, you need to have a grade points average of at least 3.2 and be a key contributor to a team. He scored high in both categories. His 3.48 GPA puts him in the top 21 percent of his class and he recently won the McMurtry Award for the best honors history thesis. On the course his 75.1 average topped his team and was the fourth lowest at Navy in the last nine years. In 11 events, he had five top-10 finishes and four top-5s. He finished sixth, individually, at the league championships. Reilly is committed to at least five more years in the Navy, and large chunks of that time will like be spent under water. "It's a real close knit community,'' Reilly said of life as a submarine officer. "The missions are interesting and can be exciting.'' A history major, Reilly is particularly interested in naval history. His senior thesis was on the First Barbary War, fought between 1801 and 1805 and pitting the US fleet against pirate ships from the North Africa states of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers and Tripoli. Over 200 years later, there are still pirates attacking merchant ships and Navy vessels out to stop them. Reilly said golf was the perfect complement to life at a service academy. "It was a huge positive,'' Reilly said, "because of the close friendships with teammates.'' Two of those teammates, seniors Tyler Kuhn and Tim Shield, will be joining Reilly at Nuclear Power School in South Carolina this fall. Reilly, who won both the New Hampshire Golf Association Junior Championship and NHIAA Individual title in 2007, has always been trying to qualify for something. His next and biggest challenge will be to qualify as a submarine officer.

With life on Navy submarines ahead, Reilly getting in as many golf swings as possible

By GARY FITZ Staff Writer | Sunday, May 20, 2012

Peter Reilly was in Ann Arbor, Mich., this weekend, wrapping up his collegiate golfing career for the Naval Academy at the NCAA Midwest Regionals. He …

Rico traded in bats for clubs, diamonds for links

By WAYNE MILLS Putting Around | Sunday, May 20, 2012

Today, the Boston Red Sox are a sports marketing juggernaut, boasting over 730 consecutive sellouts at 100-year-old Fenway Park – which annually attracts over three …

‘Insightful Player’ project expands to online gaming

By TOM KING Staff Writer | Saturday, May 19, 2012

Following a conversation with one of her book subjects, Chrissy Carew put the phone down and began to sob. She fought back tears, but it …

DWC eliminated on Day 2 of tournament

Friday, May 18, 2012

LAKEWOOD, N.J. – The greatest season in Daniel Webster College baseball history came to a close Thursday afternoon as Neumann College of Pennsylvania used a …

Lack of playing time never held Nashua’s Mulcahy down

By GARY FITZ Staff Writer | Thursday, May 17, 2012

When she was a senior at Nashua High School North, playing college lacrosse 3,000 miles from home was the furthest thing from Cara Mulcahy’s mind. …

KEYSTONE 13 DWC 7

Eagles lose opener in slugfest

Thursday, May 17, 2012

LAKEWOOD, N.J. – Daniel Webster’s initial NCAA Division III baseball tournament experience didn’t go as the Eagles hoped, but they didn’t go down without a …