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D-CAMP: Steeves leading and learning this summer
FORT LAUDERDALE – This is a different summer for Ben Steeves. After inking a two-year, two-way deal with the Florida Panthers back in March, the 22-year-old forward participated in the organization’s development camp last week at Baptist Health IcePlex. First attending the camp as an undrafted kid in...
Hudson Home-Track Advantage Proves Potent for Polewarczyk
HUDSON, N.H. – The summer heat hanging over Hudson Speedway Sunday night might have just been an after-effect of Joey Polewarczyk’s home cooking. The 2020 Granite State Pro Stock Series champion picked up his first series win since 2021 and his eighth overall in the evening bout at the track where he first fell in love with the sport.
ON PAR: Caroline Owens and Notre Dame
Hinsdale Central star continues her career at Notre Dame. A family vacation in the mid-2010s helped change the athletic career of Hinsdale Central’s Caroline Owens. She and her older siblings, Grace and Jake, were heavily involved in swimming and figured their careers would be in the water. But a...
Exeter grad Kristen Beebe shares top moments in stellar freshman year at Endicott College
BEVERLY, Massachusetts — Kristen Beebe ended her Exeter High School career as a two-time New Hampshire Division I softball Pitcher of the Year award winner, helping the Blue Hawks capture the state championship as a junior in 2022, when she was also the state's Gatorade Softball Player of the Year. Beebe, who knew she would be stepping up a level in competition at Division III Endicott College, rose to the challenge in her freshman season in spring...
Peter Banko Shapes a Game Plan for Baystate Health
Peter Banko earned a bachelor’s degree at Notre Dame in the late ’80s. And as with most people who attend that university, his connection to it — and its football team — remains quite strong, manifesting itself in many ways. Indeed, his office on the sixth...
Manchester’s United Nations of Soccer
In June of 1974, Mom uprooted my five siblings and me from our home in New Jersey and relocated to Manchester’s North End. For Mom, it was a homecoming of sorts, having grown up on Manchester’s predominantly French-Canadian West Side. Mom’s brothers — my Uncle Arthur and Uncle...
Ahlers, Jachym Named Futures Collegiate Baseball League All-Stars
KEENE, N.H. – Keene State College baseball rising juniors Tommy Ahlers (Salem, N.H.) and Jake Jachym (Westfield, Mass.) were each named Futures Collegiate Baseball League All-Stars when the summer collegiate wooden bat league announced their 2024 selections to the game Wednesday afternoon. The matchup, which will feature rosters split...
Tampa Bay Rays Draft Northern Essex Community College’s Voelker
Northern Essex Community College sophomore right hander Jayden Voelker has been drafted in the eighth round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft. Selected by the Tampa Bay Rays as the 246th overall pick in draft taking place at the Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas. Voelker becomes the first...
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