Observer Department: Sports
Pandemic impacts fall sports schedule
The fall sports season looks different this year for NECC's athletes, coaches and fans. Cross country and esports are participating in regular activities this fall but other sports have had their seasons adjusted or moved because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In the fall semester, all of the NECC's athletic programs…
Esports continue
Northern Essex Community College currently has only one sport still continuing games and that is esports. With the situation at hand canceling a lot of sports this semester, esports is able to continue playing due to the fact they won’t have to be in-person to play. Some of their games were canceled when the campus was…
Baseball team looks to the future
Coronavirus changed life for college students from coast to coast this spring. At Northern Essex Community College, it silenced the national power baseball team, coached by Jeff Mejia, taking a season of opportunity away as the coach was ready to add his son, also named Jeff to the Knights baseball…
Basketball fans, players welcome Stratton back to NECC
Darren Stratton’s workload has picked up again, and he would have it no other way. Epic struggles to clear his good name in court and restore his reputation over the past nearly five years have landed Stratton, a Haverhill resident, where he once was and ultimately, where he wants to…
Corona season
March Madness is what they call it but this 2020 basketball season can be summed up as March Sadness. In all my life of watching and playing basketball I have never seen the basketball season cancelled, an esp. right in the middle of games. Yes some have seen the season…
Student athletes hold onto optimism in a state of chaos
Recently due to the ongoing COVID-19 virus pandemic, all activities, schools, and businesses not deemed essential have been cancelled and closed down till further notice. These are all a part of our daily lives, and this is going to greatly affect the way we live until this situation starts to calm…
Stratton returns as basketball coach
The love of the game is something we hear a lot in the sports world, but only few can say they have seen others show this type of love on an everyday scale. Here at NECC we have some very dedicated staff members that work hard making sure think that…
Spring sports season canceled
On Thursday, March 12th, students got an email stating the college would be shut down at least until Monday, March 16th. They told everyone that the goal was to try and re-open come April 7th but that plan didn’t work out and eventually, they would go the rest of the…
A runner…. and an author?
NECC student a modern-day Renaissance man John Miller from Methuen, Massachusetts, is a member of both the cross country and track program at Northern Essex and has published two children picture books. The 19-year-old was diagnosed with autism at the age of five but isn’t afraid to speak about it…
NECC Baseball team turns it around
Offensive outburst powers April turnaround The NECC Knights baseball team bounced back in a big way during the month of April. They entered the month having only gone 4-11 to start the season, according to information made available on the NECC athletic page, and in need of a winning streak…
