The unbeaten Amherst Patriots found themselves trailing for the first time in two years before scoring the winning touchdown with just a minute to go, handing the Bedford Jr. Bulldogs Pee Wee Silver team a heartbreaking 13-12 setback in the state final. Down 7-0 in the second quarter, Saiku Bah followed blocks from Zach Wallat and John Kiernan to ...

Jay Heaps, a Major League Soccer player with the New England Revolution and former Bedford resident, was a special guest at the Bedford Athletic Club’s recent player appreciation night. Approximately 85 boys and girls from the BAC, a new Bedford travel soccer league, enjoyed a questionand- answer session, one-oneone drills and soccer games ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY A theme developed near the top of the Windham Invitational cross country meet’s individual standings: Bulldogs, and plenty of them. The Bedford High School boys cross country team finished the race on Sept. 22 with four of the top five times, and seven of the event’s top 12 individual results. Thanks to a ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYArriving at the field for a marquee match with one of the top teams in Class I, Michelle Winning wasn’t sure what to expect from her Bedford High team. It didn’t take the girls soccer head coach long to discover the answer. Despite taking on Goffstown the day before, Winning’s Bulldogs came out full of energy ...

Swimmers from the Greater Manchester Tiger Sharks recently impressed at four championship meets in Dover, Cambridge, Mass., and College Park, Md. During the New England 14- and-Under Long Course Championships at the Jenny Thompson Pool in Dover from July 23 to 26, Nina Levine of Bedford ranked sixth in individual scoring for 10-and-under ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYSummer heat hasn’t slowed down Bedford distance runners, as local athletes have excelled in races in recent weeks. At the sixth annual Bill Kelley Memorial Road Race, in Manchester on July 23, 18- year-old Scott Jones nearly found himself atop the list of 172 participants in the 5-kilometer portion of the race. Jones placed ...

Christopher Giraldi, 16, competed in the Eastern Zone Super Sectional swim meet in Buffalo, N.Y., and competed in the 50-meter freestyle. The competition, which took place August 5 to 8 at Eerie Community College, featured the fastest swimmers from New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland. In the week leading up to the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYBatters launching home runs over the fence at the Villa Augustina field complex in Goffstown didn’t get a leisurely stroll around the bases. Instead, they got a lonely walk back to the dugout. During the annual Crispin’s House one-pitch softball tournament, the rules don’t allow home runs, as balls traveling ...

BY DARRELL HALENThe first time Bill Dube played in a National Amputee Golf Association tournament, he was nervous and didn’t score well. But for Dube, who was unhappy about losing part of his left arm two years earlier, the competition also had a positive effect – it lifted his spirits. “The first (tournament) I played in ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYSponsored by Indian Head AthleticsKyle Andersson isn’t the biggest athlete on the field, but he managed to lift an entire team of all-stars this summer. Andersson led Bedford’s 11- and 12-year-old District 1 baseball champions at the plate and on the mound, earning him the Indian Head Athletics Athlete of the Month ...