BY RYAN O’CONNORShe played under one coach and with another. Now their peer, Kris Komisarek rolled out the welcome mat for the second straight year for her former mentors. You see, Komisarek played under local legend Peter Lally, who has spent the last 36 years maintaining a perennial girls soccer powerhouse at Manchester Central. Last ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORA 15-5 playoff loss to Pinkerton in the Division I quarterfinals aside, Bill Lawson is ecstatic about the progress his Central boys lacrosse team made this season. “We ended up 10-9, including the playoffs, but we had five losses in tight games that could have gone either way,” said Lawson, who added that ...

BY SUSANNA HARGREAVESAshley Poland, 18, says she is extremely thankful to be graduating from Central High School this June. She even knows what she wants to do with her life, which is unique from most typical high school graduates. A survivor of a traumatic brain injury from a serious snowmobile accident in March 2007, Poland said her recovery ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORAmong his 32 years coaching the Central boys tennis team, Mark Telge had to admit this season was one of the most gratifying. After all, the mentor said three of his six starters never picked up a racket prior to this season. Another had never played competitively. Yet there the Little Green were, in the state semifinals ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORBill Cannon thought – his heart racing – the defending state champs might just pull off the comeback. Down 4-2, needing three wins in doubles action, the Central girls tennis team fought handand- raquet with Concord. Central singles No. 1 Margaret Teague and No. 3 Justine Beaudoin faced match point, trailing 7-5 ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Entering the season with three starters who never played tennis before, even Mark Telge had to question his team’s chances to be competitive in Class L. Yet 13 contests into the season, the Little Green have compiled an 9-4 record and almost assuredly locked up a postseason berth. This, after the they ...

BY JENN McDOWELL With the Manchester Board of School Committee having announced several times they would not authorize the dissemination of 80 pink slips to teachers in Manchester schools this year, communities holding tuition contracts with Manchester’s school district are breathing a wary sigh of relief as they wonder how the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORAfter losing a pivotal game down the stretch and missing the 2007 playoffs, Central boys lacrosse coach Bill Lawson admitted he and his players weren’t just disappointed to be on the outside of the postseason looking in. They were angry. If their first 2008 contest is any indication, they’ll be spending the ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKThe question for fourth-seeded Central: how do we, after losing to this team by 16 points on our home court just a few weeks ago, stop unbeaten and top-seeded Salem? The Little Green found an answer – incomplete, it turns out – in the Class L boys basketball semifinals. Still, they proved they could more than compete ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORWith his fourth-seeded squad playing its best basketball of the season, Central boys basketball coach Doc Wheeler said a 16-point home loss to undefeated Salem two weeks earlier helped propel his young hoopsters into the Class L semifinals. The Little Green have won five in a row since the embarrassing setback Feb. 22, ...