ConVal alum Julia Donovan of Antrim is making a name for herself on the collegiate lacrosse field this spring at Plymouth State, racking up accolades and leading her team on the offensive end. “We haven’t had someone come in and be so immediately.
ConVal’s Madelynn Plourde signed her national letter of intent to play lacrosse at Salem State University on Tuesday. Plourde, a senior attacker for the Cougars, plans to study medical imaging, an interest she developed after tearing her ACL and.
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Published: 5/24/2021 12:49:07 PM
The NHIAA spring season enters the final stage this week with the first few postseason competitions slated and the remainder of the tournament brackets announced and ready to start Monday.
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Mascenic, Conant set for opening round matchup
The Orioles and Vikings will square off for a fifth time this season on Monday, as the NHIAA’s random draw places the two rivals together for a Round One game to open play in Division III, Region Two.
Mascenic is 4-0 against Conant this spring.
The winner of Monday’s game will play at Bishop Brady in the next round – a tough draw, as the Vikings found out Friday when they traveled to Concord and lost to the Green Giants 16-8 for just their second loss of the season.
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Published: 5/3/2021 1:43:27 PM
Change the outcome of just one or two possessions, and the ConVal girls’ lacrosse team would have pulled off the win over Lebanon Saturday. But the Cougars just let too many little things pile up, and the Raiders won in overtime, 9-8.
Derek Sorbello’s Cougars have just 10 players with varsity experience; the rest are sophomores or freshman who never took the field before last week, or are new to the sport entirely. Couple that with ConVal’s perennial preseason limitations – snow and rain aren’t kind to their fields, which cuts down on practice time – and it says lot about the Cougars that they were even in a game this early in the year, let alone in position to win one. Nonetheless, mental mistakes were the key to ConVal’s downfall Saturday morning.