BY MATT SCHOOLEY Momentum has yet to join the Salem girls lacrosse roster. Aside from a 10-6 victory over Nashua North, the Blue Devil offense has been stymied in the early going, including a 19-2 loss to Central on Monday, April 27. The contest with the Little Green was never in doubt, as Kaleigh Gibbons notched three goals of her ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY For roughly three minutes of game play, Salem boys lacrosse coach Chris Keleher was happy with the effort his team gave. The rest of the contest was a different story. The Blue Devils lost a 6-2 halftime lead and fell in overtime to Memorial on Saturday, April 25, despite clawing back with two goals in the final minutes ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY It took Mike Ball an intramural football game to find out that he could bounce back from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. After suffering a knee injury in the first half of his first-ever Southern New Hampshire University men’s lacrosse game, the Salem resident rehabbed and returned as one of the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Faith Wahlen thought they might have a shot. The No. 6 Lady Blue Devils, who compiled a 9-6 regular season record, forged a two-goal lead in the first half of the Division I quarterfinals against 13-3 Londonderry, the No. 3 seed. But a barrage of second-half goals by the Lady Lancers – seven in the first ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY SALEM – Timeouts are designed to give teams the chance to catch their breath, regroup and grab some momentum. When Salem High School called a timeout midway through the second half of its girls lacrosse game against visiting Bow High School, the Blue Devils caught their breath, but it was the Falcons who ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR  For Aly Higgins, Sara Halbich, and Taylor and Tatum Dyer, it was another year, another field hockey title. The senior quartet – along with juniors Nicole Rozumek and Kyleigh Keating and sophomore Chelsie Muldowney – led the Lady Blue Devils to a third consecutive state championship in the ...

BY MATT STOUT A little more than three weeks ago, when the Salem girls lacrosse team huddled together for one of its first practices in May, Blue Devils coach Faith Wahlen sensed frustration, disappointment and, perhaps, broken confidence. Losers of four straight at the time, Salem had just stepped face to face with all but one of the top teams ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK They know how to take the lead. Now they have to learn how to hold it. And until Salem’s boys lacrosse team figures out how to stay ahead of opponents until the final whistle blows, Chris Kelleher’s postgame talk will sound like a broken record. “They think the game’s over before they even played ...

BY MATT STOUT The Salem girls lacrosse team owes a lot of where it is right now to Meagan Schadlick and Christina Miano. The pair hopes that one day the Southern New Hampshire University women’s lacrosse team can say the same thing. After picking up lacrosse as freshmen in high school and, in turn, helping to lift the Blue Devils to a ...

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 windshield plastered with eight metallic silhouettes of different athletes, representing the ...