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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Samantha Jean doesn’t like to lose, especially to her sister, Kirsten. The feeling is mutual, said the younger sibling. Though each was the top tennis player for their respective high school this season, they never met in Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Bruce Berk said he doesn’t keep track of his Derryfield School boys tennis team’s successes from year to year. Maybe he’s just lost count. The Cougars have reached the state final 15 of the last 18 years, and they Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Winning a state tennis championship is a tough enough task. Six individual players have to do their part, then change their approaches and play doubles – generally immediately following an intense singles match. Now, take Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR He was expecting the call, but he still had his fingers crossed it wouldn’t come. It did. CJ Beck picked up the phone. “Remember that bet you made,” said the voice on the other line. “We didn’t forget.” Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR It was an otherwise routine conversation between Danny Gorman, the uncle, and Danny Gorman, the nephew. “Are you looking forward to the upcoming tennis season?” asked the elder Gorman. “Can’t wait,” Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR After five increasingly successful seasons as Manchester West boys tennis coach, including a 13-1 record and trip to the Class L finale in 2007, Shawna Morley was offered an opportunity at Bedford High she couldn’t refuse. Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR A team of freshmen and sophomores should not be able to compete against junior- and senior- year opponents. Try telling that to the Bedford High School girls tennis team. The Lady Bulldogs could care less about conventional wisdom. Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Steve Houle and his Lady Blue Knights aren’t happy with last year’s playoff result, and they plan on spending this entire season rectifying it. After a fine 2007, West tennis fell in the Class L semifinals to city rival Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR It was a year of near-misses and so-closes on the 2007 Bedford sports landscape, though there were a few spot-ons mixed in. While dozens of local teams and individuals competed for the top prize in their respective class and/or Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Say it as many times as you’d like. The boys of Derryfield tennis won’t get sick of it. In fact, they’re quite used to it: another season, another state championship. In no surprising fashion, the Cougars grabbed their Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT In droves they’ve come, challengers to the Concord boys tennis team’s throne in Class L, and time after time, they left beaten, bruised and empty-handed. Manchester West, though, was different, the only team to beat the Tide Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT In perhaps the most anticipated head-to-head match-up of the Class L girls tennis regular season, it was the Manchester West Blue Knights who blinked first. But they haven’t flinched. After playing to a 3-3 tie in singles play, unbeaten Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Leading up to its early season match on Friday, April 20, Shawna Morley needed only three words to get her West’s boys tennis team fired up: Concord vs. West. A simple mention of the longstanding rivalry and Morley’s motivational Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT Terry Wilson laughed after he said it, but the Gilford coach, like many of his peers in Class M-S, isn’t thrilled to notice it. “Hi, I’m Coach Wilson,” he said during player introductions prior to his team’s Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT It doesn’t matter that it lost its top four players. It doesn’t matter that it opened with its first loss since 2005. For the Derryfield School girls tennis team, the faces change, but the skills, expectations and, in some cases, Read More...
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