The general notion about high school football on the North Shore is that you can’t bank on a passing attack for the entire season because the weather is too brutal for the final few games. And with so many teams playing at night, that would seem like a sound policy. For decades, head coaches had [...]
We couldn’t squeeze this into Friday’s newspaper, so here’s a capsule look at each of this weekend’s North Shore football matchups, starting with tonight’s games:
Intent on proving it’s a serious contender in 2009, Marblehead faces its first test against one of the Northeastern Conference’s big boys when Lynn Classical comes to Piper Field (7 p.m.). [...]
How do you replace a legend?
Melikke Van Alstyne isn’t walking thorugh that door, and to be honest, even though he was the leading rusher in Salem High history and maybe the most talented back the Salem News has covered this decade, his reign didn’t produce wins.
It was an odd season last year for Salem, which [...]
How do you replace arguably the grestest running back the North Shore has seen in the last 10 years?
Davis Kendrick is a good place to start. Salem’s junior-to-be is the latest in our list of ball-carrier to watch this fall, after a sophomore season spelling record-breaking Melikke Van Alstyne.
Kendrick is a speed back, no doubt [...]
The 31st annual Shriner’s Football Classic, held Friday at Bentley, didn’t leave a lot to brag about for the North side, which fell to the South 27-6.
The bright spot came from Salem’s own Melikke Van Alstyne, the record setting running back who scampered 45 yards into the end zone in the second quarter. The scoring [...]
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 [...]
Seven players in our readership area — Stephen Russo and Clay Cleveland of Masconomet; Andrew McHugh and Andrew Valeri of St. John’s Prep, Melikke Van Alstyne of Salem, and Stephen Moran and Chris Cameron of Swampscott — have been chosen to play in the 31st annual Shriners Football Classic at Bentley University on Friday, June [...]
It’s good to know they’re reading us in some parts of Texas.
Former Salem High coach Dennis Skeadas checked in after seeing my column on the most dominating high school girls basketball teams in North Shore history. Swampscott, which went 23-2 this season and won its five Division 3 state tourney games by an average of [...]
The Salem boys basketball suffered a difficult 66-58 loss to East Boston in the Division 1 North first round Wednesday night. What made it so difficult to watch was that the tournament Witches looked very different from the regular season Witches.
Even in losses this year, Salem was able to get offense however they wanted — [...]
First off, let me state that picking all-star teams is not easy.
I don’t envy the coaches who have to gather in a room, hem and haw and try to pick out a squad that best represents their particular conference while maybe only seeing certain players play once or twice over the course of a season.
Having [...]
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