Our program won the Sportsmanship
Award for Class I Baseball. This was one of our Team Goals set by the
program. This award is voted on by the ATHLETIC DIRECTORS AND COACHES of the CLASS I schools.
Congratulations to each and every player, GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!
Varsity
Banquet Held!
The
Varsity banquet was held on Sunday, June 1st. Coach Dod
and Coach Beliveau presented several awards. Academic
awards were presented to Senior Eric Bullock, Junior
Kevin Goldsmith, Sophomore DJ Petropulos, and Freshman
Chris Almeida.
All-State
team awards were presented to Stephen Albano (second
team all Class I), Matt Reed and DJ Petropulos (third
team all Class I).
NHIAA
certificates were presented to Stephen Albano and Eric
Bullock. The Sportsmanship award was presented to Matt
Reed.
Several
team awards were presented: Coaches Award to Stephen
Albano and Matt Reed, Most Improved Player to Eric
Bullock, Rookie of the Year to Nick Hession, Theme Award
to Andrew Beliveau, Defensive Player of the Year to Alex
Hession, Offensive Player of the Year to DJ Petropulos,
and the Tim Richard Appreciation Award to David Reed.
Awards
photo L-R: Nick Hession, Alex Hession, Steve Albano, Eric Bullock, Matt Reed, DJ Petropulos, and Andrew Beliveau.
Photo
courtesy of Bill Dod.
Sub
Varsity
Banquet Held!
The
Sabers Sub Varsity banquet was held on Tuesday, May
27th. The A.J. Hinners award was presented to Freshman
Jesse Brill (left) and Junior Michael Bolton (right).
Congratulations to Jesse and Michael!
Photo
courtesy of Bill Dod.
Sabers
fall to Kearsarge, 11-5!
The Souhegan Sabers and the Cougars of Kearsarge played at Souhegan with the Cougars coming away
with a hard fought 11 - 5 game. Souhegan battled back in the
fourth to tighten the score at 6 to 5 before Kearsarge put the game away in the sixth.
Souhegan scored their first run in the bottom of the third as Matt Reed singled, stole second and scored on a D J Petropulos double. The Sabers scored four in the fourth ... Kevin
Goldsmith walked, stole second. With two outs, Chris Almeida and Matt Reed both walked to load the bases ... Souhegan then had three straight rbi singles off the bats of Eric Bullock, Steve Albano and D J Petropulos to close the score at 6 to 5.
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Junior
Varsity over Kearsarge, 11-1!
The Souhegan Sabers
Junior Varsity finished their season at 11-4 on Friday
with a victory over Kearsarge, 11-1. Congratulations on
a great season!
Freshman
Finale, 5-4W!
In a thrilling season finale, James Astbury pitched a gem of a game to lead SHS to the victory. Spreading five grizzly hits with four strikeouts and a walk over seven innings, Astbury kept the potent GHS attack off balance all afternoon. Alex "Shoes" Tossel had two rbi's in the first to put SHS on top (3-0).
Jesse Bauld and Jeremy Nemec scored on Peter Desnoyers second hit of the game in the fourth to give SHS a commanding (5-1) lead. With a homer in the second and two runs in the fourth, Goffstown would not go away easy (5-3).
With one out in the bottom of the seventh Slugger Roy tripled to deep right field to cut the margin to one (5-4), but Astbury would get the last two grizzlies to ground out while the Sabers much improved defense held Roy on third.
Jesse Brill had another outstanding game behind the plate (1-2, 1rs), while Zach Polio (1-3, 1rs) and Desnoyers shored up the left side of the infield with six assists.
Coach Coughlin was pleased taking two games of the three game set against a good Goffstown team. "We really improved this season and it was a great way to finish. I really enjoyed coaching this team, they were a lot of fun".
Varsity
Player
of the Week Announced!
May 25 (Week Ten) Souhegan Baseball PLAYER OF THE WEEK for the 2008 season is Joe LaMesa. The senior worked hard to become the Sabers starting centerfielder. His defensive play and leadership has been instrumental in leading the Souhegan outfielders upgrade their outfield play.
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Rainbow
in the Sky over JV's!
Lisa
Lyon has provided two photos of a rainbow over the JV
game against Goffstown on Thursday, May 22nd. See below.
JV
Athlete of the Week Announced!
Alex has been a solid lead off hitter all year posting a .308 avg., .426 obp., 10 steals and 12 runs scored. Alex has been our most consistent pitcher with a record of 3-0 with a 2.33 era, 21 IP in 4 starts. Lyon has also played well in the outfield, and works hard to become a better pitcher and outfielder
everyday.
New
- Freshman Photos - 5/22!
Gary
Polio has provided several new Freshman game photos from
the Goffstown on Thursday, May 22nd, including a team
photo. Click
here to the game photos.
New
- Freshman Photos - 5/20!
Coach
Dod has provided several new Freshman game photos from
the Goffstown on Tuesday, May 20th. Click
here to the game photos.
Freshman,
Sabers 10 - Goffstown 9!
SHS came back from an early 5-0 deficit to stun the strong hitting Goffstown nine.
Zach Polio battled on the mound and came up with the game winning
R.B.I. in the bottom of the 8th inning.
Peter Desnoyers single in the 3rd inning closed the gap to 5-4 and Jesse Brills two run home run blast put SHS on top 6-5 in the 5th inning.
In a wild 6th inning the Grizzlies took advantage of an SHS error to go up 8-6, but the never say die Sabers would roar back once again.
Nick Russell singled and Eric Nelson was thrown out at home on a disputed call. Polio knocked home Russell and Jesse Bauld and the Black & Gold nine were even 8-8.
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Freshman
Player of the Week!
Jesse had a big week for the Sabers on the mound, behind the plate and at bat.
Jesse was 4-5 batting with a double, two walks and two runs scored.
He pitched very effectively at Goffstown, striking out two.
Jesse also did a nice job behind the plate against BG registering 4 put outs and continues to be an inspiring team leader.
Milford
Rotary Athlete of the
Year!
The Souhegan Senior Athletes Banquet was held on
Tuesday, May 13th and two Sabers baseball players
received awards during the ceremony.
The Milford Rotary Athletes of the Year Award was
presented to Stephen Albano and Tyler Petropulos.
Photo
provided courtesy of Bill Dod.
State
Farm Sportsmanship Award!
The State Farm Sportsmanship Award was presented to
Andrew Beliveau and Brittany Pascoe.
Photo
provided courtesy of Bill Dod.
New
York City, Player Memories!
For me, the New York trip has always been special. But this, year, I wanted it to be the best one ever. This is my last trip, just like all of my senior classmates.
I was fortunate enough to go on this trip three times and to me it was and is always fun. I think as seniors, we bonded for many years and this is "it" for us. We came with twenty players and I think everyone came together like a team ... all of the newcomers came in and fit in so well.
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Greatest
Play in Baseball!
Coach
Dod has provided a link to video of one of the
"Greatest Plays in Baseball". The play occurred
on April 25th, 1976. Click here to watch
the video.
Sabers
Seniors!
Coach
Dod and the Sabers Seniors recently met for a preseason
get together to discuss the 2008 season.
From
left to right, the seniors are: Matt Reed, Stephen
Albano, Alex Hession, Eric Bullock, Peter Gallagher, and
Andrew Beliveau.
Student
Leadership Conference!
The
NH Athletic Directors' Association and the NHIAA
recently held the 16th annual Student Athletes
Leadership Conference at the Wayfarer in Bedford. more details...
SHS
Students with keynote speaker Travis Roy.
Fifteen
student athletes from Souhegan High School attended the
conference. In attendance were: Paul Becotte, Michael Bolton, Delaney Brault, Heather Brooks, Ryan Clark, Travis Dadoly, Emily Egan, Kevin Goldsmith, Kathleen McNary, Maureen Malloy, Abby Nielsen, Stephanie O'Rourke, Eric Parolin, Stephanie O'Rourke and Chandler Wallisch.
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