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The Amherst Patriots Pee Wee Team Wins State Championship

Amherst – The Amherst Pa-triots Pee Wee team won the New hampshire Pop Warner state Championship on sunday beating Bedford 28-6. The team improves to 10-0 on the season. The offensive and defensive lines controlled the line of scrimmage the whole day, and after stopping the Bulldogs on their opening possession, the Patri-

ots took over, driving down the field with Zach Bossi punching the ball in for a touchdown. sam ezequelle capped off the drive by kicking the extra point giving the Patriots an 8-0 lead in the first quarter. Bed-ford’s only score came in the sec-ond quarter when a Patriots turn-over lead to 6 points. The Patriots quickly got that score back sparked

by a long run by Brendan Cray and a touchdown scored by tim hinrichs on a quarterback sneak. The half-time score was 14-6.

In the second half the Patriots de-fense got tough and kept the Jr. Bull-dogs out of the endzone for the rest of the game. Key fumble recover-ies by Nick Zell and Zach Bossi kept Bedford’s offense off the field, and

touchdown runs by Brendan Cray and Liam Greene helped seal the victory.

The Patriots now move on to the regional Quarterfinals where they will face the Westwood Wolverines (10-0) for the chance to continue on in regional play. The game will be held at Community Field in North Attleboro, massachusetts.

Jimmy Fund Golf Raises $6.4 Million for Cancer Research(L to R): Dennis Ford of Amherst, John Faherty of Hopedale, Mass., Randy Hamilton of East Hartford, Conn., and Ronald Tregoning of Rocky Hill, Conn. were at the 28th annual Jimmy Fund Classic at The International Golf Club in Bolton, Mass. on October 4 to celebrate another season of raising funds on the links for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund Classic is an annual event that recognizes tournament organizers and sponsors who helped raise more than $6.4 million in 2010. Jimmy Fund Golf’s presenting sponsors include American Airlines, Callaway Golf, Dunkin’ Donuts, Forty Seven Brand, The International, and GateHouse Media New England. Visit www.jim-myfundgolf.org

Granite FC GU13 Play in State Championship

Bottom Row: Hailey Johnson and Anna Sparks Middle Row: Addie Stevens, Allison Chapman, Abigail Pike, Maggie Tule, Jordan Kania and Kassiana Gagnon Top Row: Coach Amy Sparks, Jessica Lapsley, Caroline Boudreau, Alana Barretto, Hannah Chick, Hannah Smith, Juliane Donahue, Bree Johnson, McKenna Hopp, Zoey Shapiro, Maura Rapposelli, Assistant Coach Marie Tule

Jimmy Fund Classic

Amherst Patriots Junior Pee Wee Team Wins State Championship

Amherst – The Amherst Pa-triots Junior Pee Wee Blue team captured the Nh Pop Warner state Championship on sunday after-noon by defeating the Bedford Ju-nior Bulldogs red team. It was a close game with the score tied 0-0 through the first half. The Patriots

defense was stifling and in the 2nd half the offense came alive on a 60 yard run for the first score of the game. The Patriots added a second score in the fourth quarter on route to the 13-0 victory. The Bulldogs gave the Patriots a tough game and by defeating the seacoast titans

the week before captured the run-ner up spot in the Junior Pee Wee division. With the 13-0 victory, the Patriots capped a 10-0 season and the team now moves on to face Fox-boro, mA in the Pop Warner re-gional’s in North Attleboro, mA.

Amherst Business Golf League Completes 42nd Year

Amherst - In 1968, eugene Barretto, a League Charter mem-ber who loved the game of golf, saw an opportu-nity to organize a group of like minded business golf enthusiasts and to-gether they formed the Amherst Business Golf League which recently concluded its 42nd year of play with a league scramble tournament, followed by the Annu-al meeting and Awards Banquet.

This year’s very com-petitive season saw only 24 points separating the first and last place of the six teams that play at the Amherst Country Club.

The top team consisted of Capt. Gene Connor, Dick stout, Paul Cooper, Ken miller and tom silio, partially due to Ken miller and tom siio sharing first place in the Indi-vidual Points competition with 202 points each, the first time in any-one’s memory of there being a tie.

The highest average points per match was won by Bob murphy, while the lowest gross average and the lowest net average for the season

were both won by Bob smith.Last year’s sportsman of the Year

recipient and long time League Pres-ident Charlie Vars, is shown present-ing this year’s morrison sportsman of the Year Award to mel reever, the only other Charter member of the Amherst Business Golf League.

Also notable was a unanimous endorsement of a motion to pres-ent a $500 donation from the league treasury to the Irma marie Leonard memorial trust to help benefit the two young children left motherless by the tragic death of their mother last spring.

The Derryfield School’s Soccer Girls Win Championship Again!BY KATRINA HOLMAN

mANChester – The Derryfield

school’s girls varsity soccer team, who were seeded third this year in Division 4, won their third straight state championship on Nov. 6 at sNhU in manchester. true team-work produced shut-out victories with comfortable margins though-out the play-offs.

The Derryfield girls were play-ing better on natural grass, despite the fact that Derryfield has its own synthetic turf, so they contested the quarterfinal game on their home grass to beat sixth-seeded Cole-brook 2-0. But the semifinal and final games are played on neutral-territory synthetic turfs of differ-ent sizes, and there too the Cou-gars won – both times 2-0. In the semifinal on tuesday Nov. 2 at ha-nover, they defeated second-seeded Gorham (whom they had bested in a preseason scrimmage), and four days later, at their only meeting this year, Derryfield vanquished top-seeded sunapee in the tournament final.

The three defenders – wings Alisa de Bruyn Kops (10) of Amherst and emilyann Keller (5) of Bedford, and center back Kimberly Pollock (16) of Bedford, all seniors – were in large part responsible for those shut-outs, playing every second of the fast-paced semifinal and final games with fine-tuned synergy. In between powerful kicks and well-directed headers, co-captain Kimmie direct-ed her teammates and called out steady encouragement. Alisa and emmy saved their share in front of the net – Alisa notably with a dra-matic header in the semi – but often

they neutralized their opponents by coming far forward, even as far as the center on those large fields, and regaining control for their team. Ju-nior midfielder Carla Nyquist (6) of New Boston also saved a close-call in the semi with a header from the goal line. The turf at hanover is lon-ger and narrower than Derryfield’s, and the pitch at sNhU is bigger in both dimensions than any oth-er field the high school teams play on, so some balls are bound to get through the defenders. Freshman goalie hannah menakaya of man-chester proved her worth! In the second half of the final alone, I not-ed four dramatic saves.

In the semifinal, sophomore for-ward roz KennyBirch (4) of exeter scored the first goal 8 minutes into the second half with a shot that went high over the head and gloves of Gorham’s goalie, who would ul-timately have 10 saves to her cred-it. With 6:25 minutes remaining on the clock, junior forward mimi Coppinger (2) of North hampton capitalized on a throw-in to boot the ball into the net from about 18 yards out. It was gratifying to see mimi get this glory because game after game, time after time, this pe-tite dynamo would zoom with the ball for a long stretch through the obstacles right down to the base line before passing it off to a teammate.

In the championship game, roz again scored the first goal, this time 25 minutes into the first half. Der-ryfield’s second goal came with just 8 minutes remaining: co-captain se-nior midfielder Aislinn smith (14) of henniker was in position for a cor-ner kick but instead used a fake-out short pass away-from-net to mimi; that led to an opportunity seized by freshman striker Chloe Warner (3) of Windham.

Aislinn, who had the most total season goals, and mimi were named to Division 4 First team; Kim and senior forward macKenzie Logan (7) of Windham, who scored the 2 quarterfinal goals, to second team.

Congratulations to the 2010 N.H. Champions of Division 4 – The Derryfield School’s Girls Soccer Team. Among the seniors in the front row are (from r to l) Emmy, Aislinn, Kim, and Alisa; standing at far left is Coach “Doc” Jack Sanford next to junior Tessa Greer of Amherst, back-up goalie; at far right is assistant coach Michelle Coombs.

After an successful regular sea-son, the Granite FC GU13 team entered the Granite state Youth soccer League playoffs with a 6 – 2 record. They saved some of their best soccer for the playoffs, first beating Oyster river in the quar-ter- finals 3 – 0 on goals by hannah Chick, Juliane Donahue and maura rapposelli. In the semi-finals, they faced salem but with some strong

defense by Anna sparks and Zoey shapiro and goals scored by hailey Johnson (2), mcKenna hopp, and Allison Chapman, they prevailed again by a score of 4 – 2. As division 2 defending state champions, they were ready for the match against sanborn. With the game tied at 2 – 2 after regulation on goals by han-nah Chick and Caroline Boudreau, the defense stayed strong behind

the commanding play of Alana Bar-retto and Bree Johnson. Overtime could not resolve the tie and the game went to penalty kicks. han-nah smith provided strong goal keeping but sanborn finally pre-vailed on the 9th penalty kick. The team showed great skill and heart throughout the season and was thrilled to be one of the top 2 teams (out of 23) in the division.

Tom Silio, Ken Miller, Paul Cooper, Dick Stout and Gene Connor.

Charlie Vars and Mel Reever