The Salem Saints began their second season in the Valley Hockey League. Nine Saints teams play there, while the Midget 1 team competes in the Granite State League. During games played the week of Sept. 14 to 20: The Mites beat S & S, 7- 2, with Mason Drouin and Nick Peters garnering two goals apiece. Brendon Banks, Michael Drouin and Jake ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYFor years, Tyson Akl has been called psycho. And that’s OK with him. When your job is to step into a caged-in ring and punch, kick and grapple your opponent into submission, it’s actually not a bad nickname to have. The 36-year-old Akl, a Salem resident for the last four years, makes his professional mixed martial ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYFive years ago, when Jamie Naylor heard about an all-women’s football league, she thought, “I could do that.” She was right. Naylor, a 2000 Salem High School graduate, recently finished her fifth year with the Manchester Freedom, where she has filled nearly every role in a sport she had never played until she ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYBrett Barrett helped Salem American’s 11- and 12-year-old all-star baseball team end the Fraser Tournament in style. Barrett, the starting shortstop, made a diving stop in the hole, then threw to first baseman Pat McCarty, who picked the ball out of the dirt, capping a 14-0 win over Manchester North and the tournament ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYSalem National’s bats went silent in its final two games, but the locals still made plenty of noise during the Little League District 1 baseball tournament. The 11- and 12-year-olds were eliminated following an 8-3 loss in the losers’ bracket final to eventual District 1 champion Bedford on Thursday, July 16, ending a ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKThree days prior to their winners’ bracket setback to Windham, Salem National overcame an early 2-0 deficit to nip Bedford, 3-2, at Joseph A. Bergeron Memorial Field in Salem. Jeremy Bagley earned the win for National, throwing a complete game for the locals. Salem fell behind in the bottom of the first inning when Bagley ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYSalem National is making a pitch for a deep tournament run, hoping to ride its duo of strong arms past the semifinals of the Little League 11- and 12-year-old District 1 tournament. The locals outlasted Auburn, 4-2, in the first round of the bracket on June 29 to earn a match up with Hooksett. Salem won the baseball game, 5-4, on ...

American Steel Cagefighting makes its professional mixed-martial-arts promotional debut July 31 with a 10-fight card scheduled at the Icenter in Salem. The main event pits Lance Everson, 11-6-0 and fighting out of Mansfield, Mass., for The Boneyard, against U.S. Navy veteran and Nashua resident Woody Weatherby, 7-1- 0, representing Renzo Gracie ...

Spectators at the New Hampshire Flag Football League’s early-round playoffs watched some stunning developments in games played Friday, June 19, and Sunday, June 21. In the 12- to 15-year-old division: The previously winless and eighth-ranked Browns handed the top-ranked Ravens their first loss in a 15-14 final, despite fine play from a ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYDuring its regular-season meetings with Hudson and Londonderry, Woodbury Middle School won by a combined five runs. The postseason was a different story. After a first-round bye in the Tri-County tournament, the Warriors pounded out 33 runs in two games to cruise to the league title. On June 2, Woodbury blasted Londonderry, ...