Observer Department: Sports

Boston Celtics Rebuild

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Although the Boston Celtics are in contention for the eight-seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs this season, they are clearly not talented enough to make a real playoff run. The rebuilding process that started with dealing away members of the Big Three a few years ago has certainly started off…

Boston Red Sox

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The Boston Red Sox are on the verge of another season, and there are still plenty of questions that need answering as spring training wraps up and the season begins. The offense is expected to outproduce last year’s team by leaps and bounds and could even be the highest scoring…

NECC Knights Start Spring Season

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The Knights’ baseball team went down to Florida for spring break to get an early start to their season, and they made the most of it. NECC went 9-2 during the trip behind some great pitching and some even better hitting. The Knights played five doubleheaders, with one scrimmage against…

NECC Snow Plans For Spring Season

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With the spring sports season ready to get underway within the next two weeks, NECC is trying to find a way to cope with all the snow that still blankets all the playing fields. While the baseball team has their yearly trip to Florida for the start of their season,…

Getting involved in spring sports

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Anyone who is interested in participating in a sport for the Spring 2015 semester must submit a recruiting form, a physical and an immunization form before becoming eligible to compete. These forms, along with others such as the NJCAA eligibility form and the Code of Conduct can be found on…

Knights drop three of four coming out of winter break

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The Knights have struggled coming out of the winter break this year, going 1-3 over the first four games of the new year. The Knights opened with double-digit losses at Southern Maine Community College and at home against Lincoln College of New England before netting a tight 57-53 win over…

Former NECC baseball alumni celebrate

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On Sunday, October 19, players from past and present NECC Knights baseball teams gathered on the Haverhill campus for the second annual Alumni Day. In all, about 17 baseball alums from several different Knights' teams and their families came to the festivities which included a cookout, a home run derby…

Basketball season is starting

The NECC men's basketball team opens up their season on Nov. 1 and plays their first two games on the road at NHTI and Lincoln College of New England. However, the season won't really get going until Veterans Day, Nov. 11, when the Knights play their first home game of…

Taylor Robin has her eyes on the prize

By Nicholas Mazzone People hate working out, and can never keep up with it. They start working out and then quit a week after. What if the key to working out was social media? One fitness fanatic who uses social media to push her to keep working out and keep…

Women’s basketball gearing up for season

NECC women's basketball coach Brent Bass has been working since last winter to bring a competitive women's basketball team to the floor for the 2014-2015 season.  Coach Bass, in his first year as the head coach, has been recruiting at high schools all over the area over the past year…