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The defining sports moment of the year on the Seacoast? There were abounding to accept from.
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There was Portsmouth built-in Eric Jenkins advancing up aloof abbreviate — by 0.06 abnormal — of authoritative the U.S. Olympic aggregation in the 5,000-meters during Olympic Trials in Oregon.
But best of our top belief go above one moment. They are added sagas than snapshots, with aback history and generally added yet to come.
Here are our 10 bigger of 2016.
1. Authoritative noise, movin’ up
It wasn’t aloof the Portsmouth Aerial Academy boys basketball aggregation catastrophe a four-year accompaniment championship aridity that fabricated it our bigger story.
It was additionally that the aggregation backward in the news, or at atomic the thoughts of basketball fans, for all 12 months, starting aftermost January, aback the NHIAA accustomed the Clippers’ address to move up to Analysis I for the abutting two years.
"It's time," said Portsmouth drillmaster Jim Mulvey, whose accomplished aggregation was alarming out Analysis II teams with accretion frequency. "Our kids, some of them can comedy in academy and this would accord them a bigger adventitious to do it.”
Behind standouts Joey Glynn and Cody Graham, point bouncer Shon Parham and able Christian Peete, the Clippers stormed to the Analysis II appellation afterwards accident in the final anniversary of the antecedent two years. Their 43-29 win over Lebanon in the championship — in accession to showcasing their superb aegis — was one of the abutting abecedarian they played all season.
“Going up to Analysis I abutting year afterwards proving you're the best aggregation in this division, it's good,” said Glynn. “But we've got to prove it abutting year, too, that we're meant to be in Analysis I."
Portsmouth opened its Analysis I administration with three beeline wins in December by an boilerplate of added than 28 points, and are admired by abounding as one of the teams to beat.
2. Edged out of Rio
How abutting did Eric Jenkins appear to authoritative the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the 5,000-meter run?
Close abundant to be either devastated or motivated.
Jenkins, a 2010 alum of Portsmouth Aerial Academy and brilliant ambit agent with the Nike Oregon Project, had two cracks to acquire a atom on the U.S. aggregation at Olympic Trials this summer in Eugene, Ore.
That he absent out in his aboriginal try, in the almost alien 10,000, was no shock. But in his best race, the 5,000, a backward allegation larboard him aloof 0.06 abnormal out of third abode — and the final atom on the U.S. team.
Veteran Bernard Lagat’s backward dart acceptable him aboriginal abode in 13:35.50, Hassan Mead was the runner-up in 13:35.70 and Paul Chelimo took the final U.S. atom in 13.35.92. Jenkins, admitting authoritative up arena late, was fourth in 13:35.98.
"I'm not activity to get too abundant beddy-bye tonight," he said, "but I've been added disappointed. This is acutely a boxy one to accord with, but I'll accord with it."
Chelimo went on to win argent in Rio. Jenkins angry his architect to the abutting stages of his career as a pro afterwards an outstanding academy career at Northeastern and Oregon.
3. Golden finish
The analysis had capacity you’d acquisition in a storybook: a longtime drillmaster attractive to advance one added aggregation to glory, a chief chic whose associates had been through it all and a superstar attractive to defended a bequest afore affective on to bigger things.
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Shock Athletic Gym Flooring Mats | Groupon Goods | Shock Athletic Gym Flooring Gold SeriesThe final associate of a admirable York Aerial Academy girls basketball adventure was accounting on the attic of the Cantankerous Insurance Center during one of the best accompaniment championship abecedarian of this or any added year.
Senior avant-garde Chloe Smedley denticulate 23 credibility to advance a 58-57 win over Lawrence, and 1,000-point scorer and Northeastern-bound Shannon Todd capped a superb career with a Chic A title.
Rick Clark, whose 34th analysis included his 500th win, got to bless his fourth accompaniment championship as a coach, one he couldn’t adore absolutely until the horn sounded.
"Right up until that final second, I was still coaching,” said Clark. “Then it was over, and I had to attending at the scoreboard a additional time to accomplish abiding we were up by one."
It was the centerpiece of a hardware-filled 2016 at York, which additionally saw the school’s acreage hockey aggregation win a third beeline accompaniment championship abaft Duke University-bound brilliant Lily Posternak; and the softball aggregation win a Chic B bounded appellation abaft the casting of Fordham-bound Stephanie Rundlett.
4. Losses absorbed
As there are every year, there were departures and losses, some of them tragic.
On May 29, bounded aerial academy abecedary and drillmaster Bryant Lausberg was begin asleep of an credible methadone balance at the age of 27. One of the best athletes to appear out of Somersworth Aerial School, he accomplished baseball at Marshwood and hockey for the Somersworth/Coe-Brown co-op.
Amy Matton of Portsmouth was answerable aftermost ages with the auction of methadone in affiliation with his death.
On Dec. 20, burghal citizen Chris Anderson absent his action with blight at the age of 58. “Big CA,” the ancestor of above Portsmouth standout Chris Anderson, who was the aboriginal in a band of pro- and college-bound players in the program’s decade of glory, was an invaluable behind-the-scenes sponsor, advocate and architect of contest in the city, primarily baseball, area he was the active force abaft new dugouts, acreage upgrades and equipment.
“In the accomplished 20 years,” summed up Portsmouth citizen Dan Main, “nobody has done added for Portsmouth baseball, with beneath recognition.”
Longtime burghal softball adjudicator Edward “Brownie” Brown anesthetized abroad at the age of 77 in November. In a career that spanned added than four decades, he wore a cardinal of hats to accomplish sports offerings bigger in Portsmouth and added cities, but was best at home on the field, calling assurance and strikes, out or safe.
Two canicule afore the clash was to accessible in backward March, organizers appear that, for the aboriginal time in 67 years, there would be no Seacoast Basketball Tournament, citation too abounding teams bottomward out in the canicule afore the event.
5. Ready for some football?
There were no curtailment of aerial academy football stories, some on the field, some off.
For the additional year in a row, Exeter pushed its way into the Analysis I championship bold afore falling, this time to Bedford, 7-0. Abaft chief quarterback Kyle Ball, the Blue Hawks went 10-2, acceptable addition abstruseness adjoin battling Winnacunnet and binding Nashua North in the semifinals on a last-second acreage goal.
Portsmouth went 5-4 and absent the playoffs in Analysis I for a additional beeline season, but did do article no Clippers aggregation had done in two decades: exhausted Exeter.
With advancement quarterback Peete arena the position for the aboriginal time — and arena it able-bodied — the Clippers denticulate the final two touchdowns and abashed the Blue Hawks on their home field, 21-14, the aftermost time the Hawks would lose until the championship.
"The (Division III) championships (in 2011 and '12) were absolutely acceptable and I enjoyed them," said Portsmouth drillmaster Brian Pafford. "This is appropriate up there with those."
Leading up to the season, it looked like Portsmouth ability be accumulation in the abreast approaching on a accommodating football aggregation with Oyster River. But afterwards the bend was anesthetized by the Portsmouth academy board, it was alone by the OR board, citation an ambiguous abiding future.
In Maine, the bid by Marshwood for a third beeline Chic B appellation was up and bottomward all season, catastrophe with a 13-7 accident at top-seeded Kennebunk in the bounded semifinals.
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The University of New Hampshire men’s basketball team, maligned for the bigger allotment of its modern-day existence, won a program-record 20 games, including one at Fairfield in the civic CollegeInsider.com postseason tournament.
Behind standouts like Jaleen Smith and Tanner Leissner, the Wildcats connected to acquire the account of their peers, and their fans. America East coaches best them for additional abode in the preseason poll for the 2016-17 season, the accomplished the aggregation has anytime been best in that league.
But the program’s angelic beaker charcoal ambiguous — if not a appointment championship and first-ever anchorage to the NCAA tournament, than at atomic a atom in a appointment championship bold for the aboriginal time and a Championship Week time aperture on ESPN.
While UNH’s hockey aggregation had a bottom-out analysis — activity 11-20-6 and accident standout Andrew Poturalski to the pros — the football aggregation rallied to acquire a national-best 13th beeline cruise to the civic playoffs.
One of the architects of that program’s abiding success, above longtime arch drillmaster Bill Bowes, leaned in January that he would be inducted into the Academy Football Hall of Fame in December. It was a nod to his success at the best winningest drillmaster in the Yankee Appointment and makes him the aboriginal adumbrative of UNH in that Hall.
"It was actual abundant an abrupt honor," said Bowes. "I never anticipation I'd get called for this. It's No. 1, the top (honor), no question."
7. Summer apprehension (of change)
For the aboriginal time in their six-year history, the Seacoast Mavericks put a acceptable artefact on the field.
With a first-year administrator in Ben Bizier, one of the league’s top players in outfielder Mike Hart and big contributions from a bounded product, Jake Lebel, who clubbed a league-best 14 home runs, the Mavs afford their chump status, won their analysis and avant-garde to the Futures Alliance semifinals, area they absent to closing best Nashua in a best-of-three.
The offseason issues accept centered about area the aggregation will be arena in the future.
Owner Dave Hoyt, who additionally operates the USA Training Centers calm ability in Newington, proposed a circuitous in Brentwood that would accommodate a new amphitheater but afterwards cited too abounding obstacles for that plan to move forward.
As 2017 opens, Hoyt is eyeing a 100-acre development in Dover for a abeyant new home for the Mavericks, a plan that’s already fatigued bounded opposition.
Local articles Ryan McKenna (St. Thomas) and Carson Cantankerous (Exeter) avant-garde their careers in the accessory leagues. McKenna enjoyed a superb analysis in Single-A with the Orioles’ associate in Aberdeen, Md., accepting chose afterwards to participate in the Abatement Instructional League. Cantankerous was one of the top starters on a Cardinals’ Single-A associate in Accompaniment College, Pa., that won the New York-Penn League.
Meanwhile, Portsmouth built-in Mike Fransoso autonomous out of his arrangement with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a admiration for arena time — and anguish up in a once-in-a-lifetime bearings in absolute ball.
Teaming with above Portsmouth Aerial Academy abettor Mike Montville, a pro rookie, with the Rockland Boulders of the Can-Am League, they helped advance the Boulders to aural one win of the alliance title, anniversary bearing a walk-off hit on back-to-back nights to assure a semifinal alternation win.
"I anticipate we apprehend how appropriate it is," said Fransoso, aback in July. "I apperceive I do. I've been in the able bold for four years and I admit it. We anticipation (playing together) was done in aerial academy and now we've got addition opportunity."
8. Championship feelings
In the spring, Exeter’s Jackie Gaughan bankrupt analysis and accompaniment annal in the 3,200 and capped her analysis with a fifth-place accomplishment at New Balance Outdoor Nationals in North Carolina in the 5,000, earning All-America honors. She’d grab added All-America ceremoniousness this accomplished fall, finishing 11th at Foot Locker Cantankerous Country Nationals in San Diego, and she’s got Analysis I academy recruiters at her door.
Maegan Doody of Oyster River, now aggressive at Georgetown, captivated up one of the best busy active careers apparent in these parts, one that saw her win three New New Hampshire cantankerous country titles, eight accompaniment clue titles and, in June, accomplishment additional in the mile at New Balance Outdoor Nationals.
Oyster River standout Patrick O’Brien, additionally a accompaniment champion, able for cantankerous country nationals in boys cantankerous country and placed 38th in San Diego.
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Shock Athletic 6-Pack 24" x 24" x 20mm Extra Thick Gym Flooring ... | Shock Athletic Gym Flooring Gold SeriesJim Tufts got to bless his 40th year as drillmaster of the Exeter boys soccer aggregation by watching his accuse accomplish a run to the Analysis I title, with Jake Gould and Quinn Mantegari amid those arena key roles.
Mantegari’s OT bang aerial the Blue Hawks accomplished Timberlane in a blood-tingling semifinal and it all came calm in the championship, a 5-0 win over Memorial that was the better allowance of achievement in any New Hampshire accompaniment championship bold ever.
For the aboriginal time ever, Epping will adhere a soccer championship banderole in its gym and, in the abecedarian that mattered, the Blue Devils didn’t leave the ball until the end.
Behind players like midfielder Tom Bullock and goalie Jackson Rivers, and a able chief class, the Blue Devils outscored their three playoff opponents by a 12-1 allowance to cruise to the title.
"It's been a connected time,” said longtime Epping drillmaster Kerry McDermott. “Not as connected as the (Chicago) Cubs, but it's been a connected time."
At Oyster River, the boys pond and diving aggregation won its eighth Analysis II appellation in the aftermost nine years and the girls captured their fourth beeline aftermost February at UNH’s Swasey Pool. The Exeter boys and girls pulled off the aforementioned accomplishment in Analysis I, across-the-board both the boys and girls titles.
There were no added aggregation championships at Oyster River, admitting the girls soccer and boys tennis teams got close, anniversary extensive a final. But the accomplished association acclaimed a achievement aback the school’s new able-bodied circuitous was apparent in September.
9. Above the border
The abundant belief of 2016 were not bedfast by accompaniment borders.
New Castle built-in Duncan Robinson connected ascendance his academy basketball career, starting for a Michigan aggregation that accomplished the NCAA tournament, averaging 11.2 credibility and acceptable one of the country’s deadliest 3-point shooters, afterwards sitting out a analysis afterward his alteration from Analysis III Williams College.
Portsmouth chief outfielder Kobie Taylor accomplished a constant dream aback he was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 15th annular of the MLB abecedarian abstract in June. Afterwards signing and abnegating a academy scholarship to Vanderbilt, he was anon forwarded to their abecedarian affected in Surprise, Ariz., area a deride abrasion bound his time on the field. He expects to be in Single-A in 2017.
Alex Leuchanka, who makes his home in Newmarket, accomplished 45th all-embracing out of added than 30,000 runners at the Boston Marathon, atom bristles places off his 50th-place accomplishment in 2015.
Stratham built-in Becca Block, a above lacrosse standout at Syracuse and an abettor drillmaster at Oregon, was called for a U.S. civic aggregation that toured Abundant Britain over the summer, a forerunner to the FIL World Cup in England in 2017.
The 9- and 10-year-old All-Stars from the Portsmouth Little Alliance won the accompaniment championship and the appropriate to attempt at regionals in Cranston, R.I. Afterwards acceptable its aboriginal two abecedarian abaft some sparkling defense, the aggregation from Portsmouth absent its abutting two to end its run.
Golder Craig Steckowych of Greenland and Portsmouth CC able for the U.S. Chief Abecedarian in St. Louis in September. He absent the cut by a few acclamation but it was still one of the summer’s top golf stories, forth with Brett Wilson acceptable his fourth Seacoast Amateur.
10. Stepping aside
Health issues kept New England Hall of Fame drillmaster Dan Parr from abiding to the bank for a sixth analysis at Portsmouth, area in February he recorded his 700th career win as a aerial academy basketball coach, added than anyone in New Hampshire history afterwards a half-century apprenticeship career that included stints at Hopkinton, Portsmouth and St. Thomas.
Behind players like William & Mary-committed bouncer Libby Underwood, the Clippers put calm one of the best seasons in affairs history, activity best in the approved analysis afore accident to Hanover, 44-40, in the semifinals.
"I accept never met a bigger drillmaster or admirer than Drillmaster Parr," said Portsmouth AD Rus Wilson. "It was a amusement to comedy for him 42 years ago in aerial academy and an account to accept him drillmaster our girls aggregation the accomplished bristles years at PHS."
After 21 years at Marshwood, Mike Zamarchi — the longest-tenured boys basketball drillmaster on the Seacoast — stepped away, citation a breach from what’s become a year-round grind.
"I'll absence the kids, the practices, the games, the added coaches you become accompany with and the camaraderie," he said. "That's the one affair I'll absolutely miss, the relationships with the players.”
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