Sports
Knights baseball team prepares for Regionals
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 Rowan-Gloucester. After losing all four … Continue reading Knigh... Read More
The Knights are hot come playoff time
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 UCONN AveryPoint. Dylan Duval, a … Continue reading The Knights are hot come playoff time → Read More
Knights baseball team loses tough battle
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 meant that the Knights had … Continue reading Knights baseball team los... Read More
NECC golf team prepares for nationals
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 this year, with only four … Continue reading NECC golf team prepares for nationals → Read More
NECC Knights baseball players embrace hard work, team spirit
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 college world series. However, … Continue reading NECC Knights baseball players emb... Read More
The sports system at NECC
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 a collegiate system that gets … Continue reading The sports system at NECC → Read More
Soccer coach aims to build connections with student athletes
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 these many activities, ultimately it … Continue ... Read More
Burrill wins national pitcher of the week
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 Mejia and the NECC baseball … Continue reading Burrill wins national pitcher... Read More
Baseball team members praise college’s efforts to keep sports going
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 have done for kids all … Continue reading Baseball tea... Read More
March madness
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, was then unknown. Canceling the … Continue reading March madness → Read More