Posts
Comments

Archive for September, 2007

Gr. Lawrence Tech hires Dan Habib as boys hoop coach

Posted in Basketball, Bill Burt on Sep 19th, 2007 Comments

Greater Lawrence Tech sent out a fax today announcing their new boys basketball coach.
If you’ve been around the Merrimack Valley over the last 25 years, you’ve heard the name before: Dan Habib.
The announcement is effective immediately, as Habib, is replacing four-year coach Chet Jackson, who is now an Assistant Principal at North Andover High School.
Dan is in [...]

Read Full Post »

Hot rumor of the week … MVC pressing Lancers

Posted in Football, Hector Longo, Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2007 Comments

Word around the city is spreading that the heat will be on new Lawrence High AD Tim Finn to make some kind of decision on his football team’s future.
The MVC administrators are said, according to sources, to be pressing LHS to either be a member in all sports, including football, or no sports.
Lawrence currently plays [...]

Read Full Post »

Prep-Central grid rivalry one of the best

Posted in Football, Hector Longo on Sep 16th, 2007 Comments

To some in Central Catholic’s inner-circle, Scott Darby’s postgame plaudits for the Raiders and their rivalry with his St. John’s Prep club would be considered fighting words.
“They’re not in our conference, but they might as well be,” said Darby after the Prep blanked Central, 12-0, in a gritty, defensive tussle before about 1,000 fans at [...]

Read Full Post »

Stray shots after a giant Lawrence win … Friday night notes

Posted in Football, Hector Longo on Sep 15th, 2007 Comments

OK, you heard it here first. Lawrence High junior Alex Andrews is a player, with bigtime potential.
Catch the shot of Alex in Saturday’s Eagle-Tribune hauling in a one-handed grab in the second half of the win over Amesbury. That’s athleticism. It was a huge play, a 3rd-and-13 conversion, leading to the first LHS TD.
With [...]

Read Full Post »

Weekly predictions

Posted in Dan Guttenplan, Football on Sep 13th, 2007 Comments

I’ve always thought opening week is the toughest to predict in any activity | whether it be high school football, NFL football or even the first week at a new job or school.
Too many nerves. Not enough repetitions. And too many people unsure of how they fit in.
In a new school or job, it leads [...]

Read Full Post »

“Moose” comes home Saturday

Posted in Hector Longo on Sep 13th, 2007 Comments

You won’t find it on any official schedule, but Saturday afternoon in North Andover, Brooks is hosting a three-team football scrimmage.
Coming in are Groton and Holderness, which features postgrad two-way lineman, Jesus “Moose” Moore of Lawrence.
Early reports out of Holderness were that Moore, a winner of Lawrence High’s prestigious Cregg Medal, was fitting right in [...]

Read Full Post »

Talking Raiders, Reggies and Royals

Posted in Football on Sep 11th, 2007 Comments

A couple of hidden gems culled from two of the bigger football victories on the weekend.
First, there is the Saturday afternoon effort delivered by
Georgetown sophomore Tyran Harrigan in the win over Lynnfield.
Listed on the Royals’ depth chart as the backup safety and quarterback, Harrigan came through big, the way teams with 36-man rosters often need.
In [...]

Read Full Post »

Early season big game: St. John’s Prep vs. Central Catholic

Posted in Bill Burt on Sep 11th, 2007 Comments

It’s early, probably too early, to make any preditions but we will know a lot more about who the powerhouse team North of Boston is by Saturday night.
That’s when Central, one of the MVC behemoths this year, faces off against its Catholic school rival, St. John’s Prep.
Central won a tough game over Lawrence, 35-12,  while [...]

Read Full Post »

Some QB’s to watch in N.H.

Posted in Bill Burt on Sep 8th, 2007 Comments

Amid the excitement at last night’s Pinkerton-Manchester Central, won by Pinkerton, 30-21, in the final seconds, was the play of the quarterbacks.
Manchester Central’s QB, Scott McCurdy, sort of came out of nowhere. The 6-2, 175-pounder, looked like the second-coming of BC’s Matt Ryan. Not only was he right on, completing 15-of-23 passes for 217 yards, [...]

Read Full Post »

Kickoff

Posted in Mike Muldoon on Sep 4th, 2007 Comments

Twenty-two schools, two states, eight leagues and one goal … to have a cutting-edge blog that will bring together a community of athletes, coaches, students and fans alike.
That, in a nutshell, is what we’re launching today with the Merrimack Valley/Southern New Hampshire sports blog.
It’s part of the introduction of RallyNorth.net, the first step in an [...]

Read Full Post »

« Prev