Alan Greenwood

JUNE 10, 1947 – “Earle McKeown, with a batting average of .348 compiled in 14 contests, has replaced Fernand ‘Fudgy’ Gamache as the leading hitter of the Nashua High School baseball regulars.

“Gamache is not far behind at the .300 mark and will probably finish in that class since the team has two more games to go.”

JUNE 11, 1962 – “Becoming the 1962 baseball king turned out to be an easy task for Nashua High on Saturday night in Manchester, at the Purple crushed crushed Stevens of Claremont, 21-3, in the finals of the NHIAA tourney.

“The Nashuans unleashed an unprecedented hitting attack, a la the New York Yankees, and their southpaw hurler Bobby Lebrecque turned in a neat one-hit pitching performance, holding the desperate Cardinals helpless.

“… Hitting stars for Nashua were many. Steve Doris and Gary Gilbert led the parade with three apiece.”

JUNE 12, 1967 – “Nashua High has once again proven its complete dominance of schoolboy track and field in New england with a clear-cut victory in Lewiston, Maine, on Saturday in the annual New England Interscholastic Track and Field Championships.

“… Scott Conrad, winding up his high school athletic chores with a bang, turned in one his finest performances as a member of the Purple track team when he and Connecticut’s Dick Chotckowski both cleared the high ump bar ay 6-feet, 3-inches a Nashua High record. … The other Nashua High record to fall was in the relay when was in the relay when Dave Biron, Don Tyler, Steve Urban and Pat Lessard raced the distance in 1:30.4.”

JUNE 13, 1977 – “Dick Piwowarski, a guiding light behind the tremendous growth and success of the Bishop Guertin High School athletic program as coach and athletic director, has announced his resignation as AD effective immediately.

“William Dod, assistant football and head baseball coach, will fill the athletic director’s position.”

JUNE 14, 1982 – “Bishop Guertin athletes lost one of their strongest supporters Saturday night with the death of John Hassan, 3 Strawberry Bank Road, Nashua.

“Hassan, 49, a longtime Bishop Guertin fan and former two-year president of the school’s Men’s Club, was stricken with an apparent heart attack at about 10 while attending the Class L baseball championship game between Guertin and Spaulding High School at Gill Stadium in Manchester. Witnesses said he collapsed just as the Cardinals completed the game’s final put-out.”

JUNE 15, 1987- “Don Reid teamed with former state amateur champion Phil Pleat to capture the championship flight in the Nashua Country Club’s 1987 Invitational Tournament. … Pleat and Reid had to fend off the tandem of Jeff and Bill Lindquist on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.”

JUNE 16, 1952 – “Pitching good ball all the way, Bill Black of the Nashua Hermits limited the Fort Devens Medics to four hits at Holman Stadium last evening to help the Nashua team to a 2 to 1 victory.”

Contact Alan Greenwoood at agreenwood#nashuatelegraph.com

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