Observer Department: Sports

Women’s Volleyball semifinals and finals

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The NECC Women’s Volleyball team were looking to become Region 21 champion for the first time since 2018.   In the semifinals they hosted number 4 seed Holyoke Community College on Oct. 23.   The Knights won the semifinals by shutting out the number 4 seed in three sets. Set one 25-18,…

Basketball Knights getting ready for 2021-2022 season

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NECC Knights Basketball head coach is Darren Stratton with 12 games left before the season starts.   Stratton graduated from NECC in 1996. He played from 1994-1996 and was head coach from 1999-2015. During his first chapter as coach he won more than 200 games, including advancing to Region 21 championship games in 2003 and…

Top-seeded volleyball team heads into tournament

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The top-seeded NECC women's volleyball team will host the NJCAA Region 21 tournament Oct. 23 at the Sports and Fitness Center. The volleyball head coach is Mike Pelosi. It is his first head coach job at college, but he has experience coaching in high school and clubs. Pelosi has more…

Expectations are high for the upcoming baseball season

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During the 2021 fall season NECC Baseball team is playing exhibition games. They practice a lot in the field and work out in the gym. They are doing everything that they can to be prepared for the spring. The NECC Knights is a Division Three team. They won the region…

Knights baseball team prepares for Regionals

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After a 29 game regular season, the Northern Essex baseball team finished with a final record of 19-10, winning their last 16 of 21 contests. The Knights opened up their season inMarch, going down to New Jersey and Pennsylvania to play two top 10 nationally rankedopponents: Northampton Community College and…

The Knights are hot come playoff time

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The Northern Essex baseball team has picked up their level of play in recent games,winning 11 out of their last 13 games. After losing on a walk off walk to Eastern CT, the Knights went on a 5 game win streak before dropping two games in a double header to…

Knights baseball team loses tough battle

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On Sunday, May 2nd, the Northern Essex Knights had a home game doubleheaderagainst the Uconn Avery Point Pointers. Prior to these two games, the Knights had matched u pagainst the Pointers on three other occasions, beating them all three times. Three wins out of thefive total games against each other…

NECC golf team prepares for nationals

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Due to COVID restrictions this past year, the golf program has not been able to get their season going. There were a lot of question marks in early March and they weren't even sure if playing matches this year was going to be possible. The NECC Golf roster is small…

NECC Knights baseball players embrace hard work, team spirit

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The Northern Essex Knights baseball team has really stepped up over the past few weeks ,bringing their record to 17-8 after starting the season off 3-6 after the first nine games. The baseball team here at NECC is well known for not only constantly winning their region, but heading to…

The sports system at NECC

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Sports have been for many years at the very top of the entertainment industry across the world, and sports have brought it in the highest revenues for so long. It is no coincidence that in the United States, the biggest sports and the development among players are highly based on…