In one of the more astonishing games in Hanover's long history, the Varsity trailed Bishop Guertin by three goals with 27 minutes to play, and scored eight goals, including five in a five-minute span, to beat the Cardinals 8-3. The win gives Hanover am 11-3-1 record and all but locks them into a top four spot in the Division One standings, providing they can get a result in Thursday's Senior Day clash with Winnacunnet. Going into the match with Bishop Guertin, a team likely to finish out of the playoffs, Hanover expected to score a lot of goals and play everyone on the team. That all happened, but hardly to way the anyone might have anticipated. Hanover started the game flat, trailed after eight minutes, conceded another shaky goal on the 23rd minute, and then after Eric Ringer missed a penalty kick the would have cut the deficit in half, conceded a shocking third goal with five minutes to play, the second by the speedy Rayaan Hameed. Trailing by three at halftim...
Hanover played a brilliant match in the NHIAA D1 Finals, losing to unbeaten, nationally ranked Nashua South in the 11th round of a penalty kick shootout. Hanover rallied to tie the game 2-2 in the second half and them dominated the two overtime periods, hitting the post late in the second overtime. Nashua South prevailed in the PK shootout to claim their first title, finishing 19-0-1. They are the first D1 team to be unbeaten since Hanover did it in 2013 with the same record. The match was played in front of a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 in chilly Stellos Stadium. The Hanover road crew more than offset the Nashua South home field advantage, and were rewarded by a performance to make them proud. This was the final match for 11 exceptional seniors. A match of this quality and excitement deserves a careful, detailed writeup, which will be coming soon in this space. Your editor has a very early wakeup call before a long day at work on Saturday, and...
Dear Friends and Supporters of DR Projects - This is the first in a series of Blog Posts for the DR Projects trip in April, 2022. I'm hiding out as part of the 2019 trip blog because I am not getting along with Blogspot with regard to starting a brand new blog. We'll make sure that everyone finds their way to this one! After two successful trips in 2019 (the one chronicled here below and the one led later in the year by Frank Perotti), we had big plans for our next trip in 2020, with the particular goal, of continuing the reading program at the Altagracia elementary school in Cotui. Everything was in place: we had seen the curriculum in action, we had two dedicated teachers, and we had a cadre of volunteers ready to take things to the next level. On a larger scale in the DR, our ally and inspiring role model Juan Valdez, was making significant progress in his visionary goal of helping every underserved child in his country to learn English. It's...
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