George Carlin, who died Monday morning of heart failure, will be remembered by most as a comedian with a finely tuned sense of outrage, a nose for the truly ridiculous and the utterer of the Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television. (No link there; this is a family blog.)
But Carlin was also a [...]
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Masco vs. Plymouth North state semi live blog
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2008 Comments Off
9:07 That does it. Martinsen strikes out Riordan for the final out and 13-1 is the final score. Check out tomorrow’s Salem News and the main site for much more on this one from myself and Matt Jenkins later on.
9:02 Wow. Just not Masco’s night. A Splinter fly ball bounced off the second baseman’s glove [...]
10:31 Double play ends it. Very tough way for a class act like Dean to end his career. Masco gets the title they missed out on last year. See Monday’s Salem News for more on thisw instand classic form myself and Phil Stacey.
10:30 What goes around comes around? Jake Korthas reaches on a throwing error [...]
Ipswich softball team could be even stronger next season
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2008 Comments Off
When you’re still playing softball in June, it means you’re one of the top teams in Eastern Massachusetts. Ipswich High was still hanging around in June, but next year it wants to be playing when the weather is even hotter.
The Tigers made a strong bid to win the Division 3 North championship this season, finally [...]
Today’s day-long rains have forced the postponement of all of today’s local state tournament games — and moved the starting times of others scheduled for Thursday.
Here’s an updated list of what’s going on involving our North Shore postseason squads on Thursday:
BASEBALL
Division 2 North semifinals
at Fraser Field, Lynn
Masconomet vs. Madison Park, 5:30
Danvers vs. Belmont, 8
SOFTBALL
Division 2 [...]
Peabody High softball coach Butch Melanaphy will miss his six seniors – Tawny Palmieri, Michelle Grifoni, Sam Terenzoni, Sam Lerner, Stephanie Fodera and Jen Leavitt — following yesterday’s season ending loss to Methuen, 5-4, in the Divsion 1 North quarterfinals.
“It will be hard to replace them, but that is what high school softball is about,” [...]
Originally scheduled as a night game at Fraser Field in Lynn, the Danvers High baseball team will now face Belmont in the Division 2 North semifinals Wednesday at 4 p.m.
This will be the fifth time in the last eight years that the Falcons have reached the North semifinals. However, since their state championship season of [...]
This week’s column focuses on last week’s Peabody fire, and how the paper is using new tools to report the news…
Ten seniors brought life back into Salem baseball program
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
Salem baseball coach Mike Ward got a little emotional in the postgame huddle after the Witches’ 4-3 loss to Westford Academy in the Division 1 North quarterfinals yesterday. Who could blame him?
Salem’s 10 seniors — Dan Reddy, Aiden Church, Colby Boulay, Harry Noone, Beau Theriault, Justin Williams, Matt Paine, John Pegnato, Matt Bertone and Connor [...]
Our Masconomet High School interns, Kristina Bond and Maria Costigan, have finished up for the summer (and will be graduating Friday).
You’ve probably seen their bylines in the paper, including an interesting point-counterpoint on voting in last Saturday’s paper.
They’ve also left us with a pretty cool video on the monetary costs of teen smoking.
We’re not the [...]
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