Observer Department: Sports

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…

Soccer coach aims to build connections with student athletes

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Sports at NECC has typically always been a foundation in many college kids search for freedom and stress-relieving situations. When students are overloaded with work, which is what comes with the struggles of college,there’s always another direction students look towards to cool some minds down. Despite sports being one of…

Burrill wins national pitcher of the week

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Levi Burrill, an Amesbury native, took the mound in game two of the Knights doubleheader against nationally ranked Northampton Community College on March 22. Burrill is one of the captains for the baseball team and is headed to play baseball at Franklin Pierce next year. He has been around Coach…

Baseball team members praise college’s efforts to keep sports going

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The officials of the NJCAA, along with college athletes, have adjusted in special ways to continue to play out sports seasons through the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year,everyone’s lives have altered in some form. College athletes lost a part of themselves throughout this pandemic, and what these NJCAA advisers…

March madness

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The storied tradition of the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament continues in 2021 after a one-year hiatus. The 2020 March Madness tournament was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At that point March Madness was one of the very first things to be canceled and what COVID is today,…

Catching up with Track and Field Coach Tim Foley

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NECC has always been a school that offers multiple students from various different background sopportunities to decide what they want to pursue in the future. In hopes of pursuing academic goals and a future career, many students tend to get overwhelmedover the workload they face every day, and search for…

NECC Knights getting back to competition this spring

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As the spring sports semester begins Northern Essex Community College intends to return to competition. The first sports to get this underway will be the men’s basketball team and the women’s volleyball team along with the esports team. After COVID had canceled sports during the fall semester the plan to…

Baseball team opens season with doubleheader

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The Northern Essex Baseball team opened their season with a doubleheader on March 7 and 8. After no season in 2020, the team was excited to get back onto the field again. Saturday’s games were played down in Quincy, MA against Eastern Nazarene, where they lost the first game 6-1…