Nashua North's Curtis Harris-Lopez (2) and teammate Liam Novak were among several Titan and Nashua South athletes honored as NHIAA Scholar Athletes recently. (Telegrap;h file photo by TOM KING)

Nashua High School North’s Curtis Harris-Lopez and several other senior student athletes from North and Nashua South were recently named scholar athletes by the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Harris -Lopez, the Telegraph’s three-time Football Player of the Year, also played basketball and is headed to the College of Holy Cross in Worcester next year with a football scholarship.

But of course,there are several other very worth athletes who were honored, nominated by their school’s administration. The criteria is as follows:

Have a B+ grade point average, letter and be currently active in at least two varsity sports, participate in community service activities and serve as role models to their peers.

Here are the North scholar-athletes:

Samantha Canto (cross country, basketball, lacrosse); Lillian Brooks (soccer, basketball, lacrosse); Caroline Dobens (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Kaitlyn Laurendi (soccer, basketball, lacrosse); Makayla O’Brien (soccer, indoor track, lacrosse); Makenzie Smith (field hockey, lacrosse).

Also, Max Ackerman (football, wrestling); Samuel Anger (indoor track, outdoor track); Nickolas Drew (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Connor Dunning (indoor track, outdoor track); Ben Foley (cross country, ice hockey, lacrosse); Alex Haney (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Curtis Harris-Lopez (football, basketball); Thomas Kelly (golf, indoor track); Stephen Norris (soccer, basketball, tennis); Liam Novak (football, basketball, baseball); James Reel (cross country, indoor track, baseball); Spencer Whiting (football, wrestling, outdoor track).

The award winners for Nashua South include:

Mackenzie Betty (soccer,indoor track, outdoor track); Natalie Boyle (volleyball, outdoor track); Cali Coffin (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Caitlyn Harrington (Fall spirit, Unified basketball, lacrosse); Kaia Kirkland (Cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Shankari Lakshminarayanan (cros s country, indoor track, outdoor track); Kourtney Lopez (soccer, indoor track, outdoor track); Julianna Martin (soccer, basketball); Audra Robinson (field hockey, alpine skiing, softball); Julissa Rodriguez (Fall spirit, Winter spirit); Madeline Stevens (indoor track, outdoor track); Haleigh Swabowicz (soccer, swimming and diving, outdoor track); Mia Taylor (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Lily Vogel (soccer, alpine skiing), and Nadezhda Zhecheva (cross country indoor track, outdoor track).

Also: Eric Carlo (indoor track, outdoor track); Camden Cole (golf, ice hockey); Jason Compoh (football, outdoor track); Eddy Damis (indoor track, outdoor track); Drew Fleury (football, lacrosse); Chris Keefe (football, indoor track, baseball); Jeremy Melendez (soccer, indoor track, outdoor track); Jaden Murphy (football, basketball, lacrosse); Cam Reinbold (football, ice hockey); Michael Rossetti (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track); Kevin Tran (indoor track, outdoor track) and Aidan Walsh (wrestling, lacrosse).

DOD TO BE HONORED

Circle the date of Saturday, April 17 on your calendar if you’re a Bill Dod fan. There may be restrictions on attendance, but Dod, the now retired winningest baseball coach in New Hampshire high school history, will have the honor of having the Souhegan High School baseball field (usually called Saber Field), named in his honor. It will now be known as Dod Field.

The Sabers actually have two home games that day – 11 a.m. vs. Pelham, and then 3 p.m. vs. Portsmouth. The field dedication will take place in between the two games.

LOCATION PODS RETURN

For most sports, especially baseball and softball, teams will try to play regionally and the tournaments will have that same feel. And there will be inter-divisional games, as was the case in the winter and fall for some schools. For example Campbell is normally far away from a lot of Division III schools but will play as close to home as possible, hence a crossover to face some Division II schools like Souhegan. And usually if you play a school early in the week you will see them later.