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• Crain’s final meet as West representative includes a win at regionals

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Life without Jared Crain on West’s wrestling mats is underway. The Bedford senior completed his four-year wrestling career by placing in the top 12 at the Saturday, March 7, New England regionals by winning once in three matches Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:35 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, high school sports, Manchester, wrestling, West High School

• West wrestler from Bedford continues to regional meet

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY At least one more tournament awaits Bedford’s Jared Crain this year. The Manchester West wrestler placed second at the Meet of Champions (MOC) on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Londonderry High School to earn a place at New England regionals. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:34 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, high school sports, wrestling, West High School

• Three of five West grapplers earn trip to Meet of Champions

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Manchester West placed 15th at the Division I state tournament with 31 points, a remarkable feat since the Blue Knights sent just five competitors to the mats. During the two-day event at Nashua South that concluded on Saturday, Feb. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:12 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, high school sports, Manchester, wrestling, West High School

• Bedford High School improves at second D-II state tourney, ready to continue climb

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY During last year’s Division II wrestling state championship, Caleb Earnshaw was the lone Bulldog to earn a victory. This year, Bedford showed the overall progress it’s made in its second year of varsity competition. Head coach Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:10 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, high school sports, wrestling, Bedford High School

• West shows improvement on mat, despite numbers crunch

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Division-II Bedford High School and D-I Manchester West don’t face each other on the wrestling mats, yet the Bulldogs are proving a difficult obstacle for the Blue Knights. Although West has already improved on last year’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:36 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, high school sports, Manchester, wrestling, West High School

• Bedford High School grapplers learning to eye more-seasoned foes before, during matches

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bedford High School wrestlers are certainly studying their opponents, and a lot of the time it’s before they’re even stepping on the mats. Darrin Root said he insists his young team learn from its opponents, down to the smallest Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:10 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, high school sports, wrestling

• BHS coach impressed with first-year team’s improvement

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Prior to the Bedford wrestling team’s inaugural season, coach Darren Root had a decision to make. Should he take a conservative approach and try to build confidence among his seven freshmen and one sophomore, or should he Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:43 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, high school sports, wrestling

• West grapplers trying to pin down future success

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Adam Langlois’ demeanor was not what you’d expect from a coach whose wrestling team just suffered a 60-18 lost. The former West grappler, who now mentors at his alma mater, oozed optimism when discussing the program’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:48 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, high school sports, wrestling, West High School

• On the mat, Bedford wrestling continues to improve

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR While the rest of his team traveled to Concord to compete in a freshmen invitational tournament, Bedford sophomore Caleb Earnshaw took a much shorter trip to Merrimack. The tradeoff was one of the highest-quality fields he’ll Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:53 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, high school sports, wrestling, Bedford High

• Bedford athletes welcomed new schools, challenges in 2007

  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... Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:16 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, high school sports, football, hockey, wrestling, Softball, Baseball, Tennis, golf, Bedford High

• Coach sees later gains from current investment

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR As the leader of this year’s lone Bedford High School winter varsity sports program, wrestling head coach Darren Root said he is using the opportunity to set up the program for future success. While he was tentative at first Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:01 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, high school sports, wrestling, Bedford High

• West sophomore surprises at M of C

  BY MATT STOUT In the weeks prior to the Meet of Champions, West wrestling coach Brandon Viet touted 130-pounder Jared Crain as a sleeper entering the season’s most important tournaments. On Saturday, Feb. 24, the alarm officially went off. With Read More... Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:18 AM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, high school sports, wrestling