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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The last two years, tears routinely fell in the locker rooms of Salem opponents. Not this year. After consecutive Class L state championships, the Blue Devil boys basketball team fell just short of a third straight finals appearance, Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR EJ Perry had a question for those who predicted his Salem boys hoops squad would fall, at home, to Bishop Guertin in the quarterfinals of the Class L tournament. “Do they know anything about basketball?” Salem took an Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The young Salem girls basketball team fell to Dover, 55-44, in the first round of the Class L girls basketball tournament on March 4. “It was a back-and-forth game until the fourth, when Dover stepped up and scored a bunch under Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY After three minutes in the locker room with her team at halftime of Salem’s home match-up with Bishop Guertin, head coach Elizabeth Briggs left and sat on the bench for some alone time. “I didn’t have anything positive Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY This season, the Salem boys basketball team has faced an unfamiliar opponent – adversity. Following back-to-back state championships, the Blue Devils find themselves in the middle of the Class L pack with a 3-2 record. “This Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Two days into tryouts, things changed for the Blue Devils. During the second day of auditions, the Salem High School girls basketball team lost Amanda Saab, its potent scoring threat, to an ACL injury that will keep her sidelined until Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR If you need proof EJ Perry isn’t satisfied with two straight Class L basketball titles, just ask the athletes on his five-time defending state champion volleyball team. Entering the 2009 high school hoops season, it should Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR It’s tough enough as defending state basketball champs and the lone undefeated squad in the Class L, but to face a rival in the quarterfinals – where the top seed generally earns a cakewalk against a .500 team – Read More...
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By Matt Schooley The Concord High School girls basketball team was hungry for its first win of the season, but Salem High School wasn’t letting that get in the way of its fast start to the year, cruising to a 63-47 road victory. Concord kept the Read More...
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By Ryan O’connor Now coach E.J. Perry has the unenviable task of finding not only someone to replace Savage’s clutch play, but also filling the holes created by the departure of three all-state cagers. “We try to reload rather than rebuild, Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT It’s a Sunday afternoon in late January, and Colleen and Bob Nagri plan to eventually settle in for the night to catch the New England Patriots’ playoff showdown with the Indianapolis Colts. Their Dodge Durango – its back Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK With 29.5 seconds left in this year’s Class L boys basketball title game, E.J. Perry huddled his players around him to detail what would be the final play of Salem High’s season. And the play was exactly what Stephen Savage Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK They watched as one of their own scored his 1,000th point. They spun and twirled through double- and triple-teams, finding the hoop for highlight-worthy scores. They flew around the court like madmen, stealing balls and wreaking havoc Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It began the night as Salem High’s Davis Gym. It finished as official headquarters of “Savage Nation.” And it’s now home to the No.1 seed in this year’s playoffs. The road to the top spot was marked with an Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It’s not the first team you think of when you’re talking about Class L boys basketball powerhouses. It’s not the two-time defending state champion. It hasn’t had any players receive a Division I college scholarship Read More...
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