Here’s a few more tids and bits while watching the snow melt. Are we done now? Please?

What a weekend last weekend was for the Bishop Guertin athletic program: three state championships in about a 32 hour period.

Have we ever seen that before?

The Cardinals girls and boys hockey teams won their title games last Saturday at Manchester’s SNHU Arena, one right after the other.

After his boys team won the Division I crown, Guertin coach Gary Bishop was asked about it by a Hockey Night in Boston reporter.

“That’s huge,” Bishop said. “I just told the AD (Ryan Brown) he should just ask for a raise. You get two championships in one day.”

That did happen last spring, when the Hollis Brookline baseball team won the Division II state title and the Cavs boys volleyball team stunned Windham in the finals. Three years ago the husband and wife Rousseaus, Christine (boys swimming) and Paul (wrestling) won state titles for Bishop Guertin.

And of course it was great a couple of springs ago when the Nashua North boys and girls outdoor track teams won state titles on back-to-back nights.

But a school grabbing three in a weekend? Just about unheard of. Now, take a ride in the Telegraph Time Machine and we’ll bring you to 1986 when the one Nashua High School won not one, not two, not three, but four state titles that winter.

Bill Batte’s boys hockey team beat Berlin 3-2; John Fagula’s girls basketball team rolled over Concord 67-34, the Panthers boys indoor track team won the title, and, in the biggest upset and most dramatic game, George Noucas’ boys basketball team stunned Tyler Page’s favored Bishop Guertin squad, 66-65, to win the Class L title.

Four on the floor. But back then everything was somewhat staggered, so it all didn’t take place in a weekend. Track has always been an early February deal; girls hoop was usually over by the end of February, and hockey in early March, with boys hoop the very last to be decided, in mid-March. But not a bad couple of weeks for a school, four banners. And for Nashua’s rival, BG, 37 years later, not a bad 36 hours.

—- A shame the Patriots didn’t bring back Jakobi Meyers. They would have kept him, but at their price, and just about everyone knew that other teams would pay way more than what the Patriots would. Meyers is a great story, making the team as a rookie free agent in 2019. He’s smart, a good locker room guy, and was a favorite target of both Cam Newton and Mac Jones. The only thing: He was not a yard after catch guy, and the good Patriots teams have always had that (see Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola). We’ll see what Meyers does for the Raides. Just don’t try to throw a lateral across the field during practice with Chandler Jones anywhere in the vicinity.

—- Congrats to Rivier men’s volleyball – and former women’s volleyball – coach Craig Kolek for being selected to be inducted in August into the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. While all sports are created equal, we’ve always said that if Kolek were a Raider basketball coach, men or women, there would be statue of him out in front of the Muldoon. We’re not sure there shouldn’t be anyway – and definitely one of Joanne Merrill.

–Finally, often, when there’s a change at the top, it filters down to other changes, as we’ve said. And now that’s the case at the University of New Hampshire, as new AD Allison Rich made the decision with his contract up to not bring back longtime men’s basketball coach Bill Herrion. Herrion did bring stability, but the fact remains theWildcats never played in a conference final under his watch, and we know it hasn’t been easy at a school where hockey is king – just ask old friend Phil Rowe. You have to think there will be more changes down the road.

Tom King can be reached at tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or on twitter @Telegraph _TomK.

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