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BY MATT SCHOOLEY
Jim Wood strolled down
the third base line and
right into the Trinity College
history books.
The Windham native
scored the game-winning run
on a bases-loaded walk to help
Trinity College’s baseball team
to its first-ever Division III National
Championship, capping
a 45-1 year.
“It was incredible. ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR
Despite a disappointing season
for the Concord American
Legion baseball team, Post 21
manager Averill Cate wanted to
conclude the summer on a positive
note.
In fact, he said he wants to
end every Legion season like he’s
done this year.
On Thursday, Aug. 14, Concord
Post 21 and the Forty-and-
Eight Club ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNORCarrying a nine-game winning streak and a freshly minted New Hampshire state title, Bedford players packed their bats, gloves and cleats and traveled roughly 125 miles south to Rhode Island.
There, in West Warwick, the first-year Steven-Buswell Post No. 54 American Legion junior baseball squad competed against the best teams ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNORDespite a disappointing season for the Concord American Legion baseball team, Post 21 manager Averill Cate wanted to conclude the summer on a positive note.
In fact, he said he wants to end every Legion season like he’s done this year.
On Thursday, Aug. 14, Concord Post 21 and the Forty-and- Eight Club congratulated ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNORFor years, coaches of the Manchester Jutras senior American Legion baseball team have tossed Bedford, Goffstown and Manchester players into a diamond- shaped mixing bowl and consistently concocted a winning recipe.
Perhaps Tim Conway, who never played Legion ball, stole a page from the Jutras cookbook. On Thursday, Aug. 7, ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNORThe season began as most would have expected. It may end like few could have imagined.
This year, Stevens-Buswell Post No. 54 established Bedford’s first American Legion baseball team in roughly 20 years.
The junior squad, made up of local 15- to 18-year-old athletes, lost its first contest, 7-4, to Keene. The next ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR
Garde Burgess had an early
idea how Concord Post 21’s
American Legion baseball season
was going to play out.
During one of the team’s
first practices, he pulled his
nine pitchers aside and asked
each one how many high
school innings they’d pitched.
Aside from ace Mitch Philibert,
the answer was ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNORIn 2005, when Pete Kiro established Goffstown’s first American Legion baseball team in 20 years, he promised his squad would reach the playoffs by its fourth season.
Perhaps Kiro has a crystal ball. More likely, after serving as an assistant coach at perennial power Jutras Post No. 43 of Manchester, he just knows what ...
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BY RYAN O’CONNORStanding in the dugout, watching the group of 11- and 12-year-old Little Leaguers prepare for possibly the biggest game of their lives, Paul Gagne, Bob Gurskis and their fellow Goffstown coaches had but one thing to say to the eager players.
“Real men …” they shouted. “Swing wood,” came a reply ...
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BY JERRY LIPTAKCrispin’s House Inc., a nonprofit program for at-risk youths, hosts its annual one-pitch softball tournament on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Goffstown Junior Baseball Villa Augustina Fields.
First pitch is 9 a.m., but some teams have already delivered their pitch for supremacy through incendiary pre-game comments made to Al ...
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