FITCHBURG – The Oakmont Regional girls basketball team hit the floor Wednesday evening with little margin for error. Still alive in their pursuit of a postseason berth, the Spartans need to catch fire and stay hot until the end of the season. Hitting the road, the Spartans traveled to the Doug Grutchfield Field House to take […]
FITCHBURG The effort was unquestionable. For all 32 minutes of Friday evening’s game against Groton-Dunstable, the Fitchburg High girls basketball team gave all it had to give. Unfortunately for the host Red Raiders, the hard work didn’t translate into points for the third straight contest. The visiting Crusaders turned up the offensive intensity in […]
BOSTON With the backdrop of the Green Monster behind them and the splendor of Fenway Park laid out before them, it would have been easy for the Leominster High football team to get caught up in the grandeur of playing at such a historic venue. A slow start would have been understandable. But as […]
In 1994, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder sang the following lines on the song “Corduroy” off the band’s third album, “Vitalogy”: “The waiting drove me mad. You’re finally here and I’m a mess.” He may very well have been describing the build toward Wednesday night’s rivalry tilt between Leominster High (5-5) and Fitchburg High (0-10) at […]
Coming into his first season at the helm of the Fitchburg High football program, head coach Paul DiGeronimo knew what he was getting into. Numbers weren’t what they once were, experience was lacking and losses were lined up in bulk. Still, DiGeronimo’s goal wasn’t to immediately come away with a winning season. His sights were […]