Danvers native J.B. MacDonald was on hand for the longest baseball game in NCAA history Saturday night when his Boston College Eagles fell in 25 innings to Texas.
MacDonald could only watch, as he’d pitched in the Eagles’ NCAA tournament opener the night before, going 6.1 innings. Mere hours after their marathon against Texas, the Eagles [...]
The Ipswich High softball team took it as a great omen earlier this week when career all-star Kerry Desmond was back on the mound against Wayland in the Division 3 North Tournament.
Desmond, who has had a shoulder problem since early in the season, pitched the first two innings as the Tigers destroyed Wayland, 20-3.
Maybe coach [...]
Coach Jane Heil’s Peabody High girls basketball team always sends its student-athletes to some top notch colleges, and this year’s graduating class is no exception.
Alyssa Manoogian is off to Colgate University to play Division 1 soccer for the Red Raiders. UMass Amherst will welcome a pair of Tanners in Katie Henrick and Sylvi LaFrazia.
Kenia McKeon [...]
A pie in the face of this scribe in today’s Around the Horn baseball column.
Turns out Peter Kallas, Matt Lanza and Frank Messina weren’t just alive the last time Beverly won an NEC baseball title. They were eighth-graders and just months away from setting foot in the hallowed halls on Sohier Road.
It’s come to our [...]
This week’s Around the Horn baseball poll asks which area coach you think is most instrumental to his team’s success in 2009?
Here are the results of the “Other” cattegory:
Joe Orlando, Gloucester: 5 votes
Frank Carey, North Reading: 1 vote
Joe Marchesi, Everett: 1 vote
Joe Caponigro, Lynn English: 1 vote
Jason Tarasuik, Marblehead: 1 vote
Brendan Neilon, Lawrence: 1 vote
John [...]
Shortly after celebrating its first state tourney berth since 1999 recently, the Salem High a softball team took a big hit when it learned that centerfielder Erica Mendez broke a foot while playing soccer. Mendez has exceptional speed and was hitting .320. She is not expected to return.
“Losing Erica is a big blow to our [...]
Matt Antonelli made his 2009 pro baseball debut last night in Oklahoma City, going 1-for-4 with a double in the Portland (Ore.) Beavers’ 2-1 loss to the Oklahoma City RedHawks in Triple-A action.
The 24-year-old West Peabody native had been in the San Diego Padres’ extended spring training rehabbing a knee injury before being recalled by [...]
Beverly’s momentous win over Peabody this afternoon, coupled with a suprising win for Salem over Lynn English, has created basically a three-way tie for the top spot in the NEC Large (Both Mark Bettencourt and Dave Wilbur confirm that the Large standings count ALL NEC games).
Peer into the crystal ball and let us know who [...]
There is one thing the Beverly boys lacrosse team from 2003 has in common with the St. John’s Prep lacrosse team of 2009. Both beat very good Duxbury teams.
In fact, Duxbury went unbeaten in Massachusetts for nearly six years. The bookend losses? You guessed it, Beverly and St. John’s. Beverly defeated Duxbury in ‘03, 8-7, [...]
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