NHIAA Divisions and new game points

According to the list released by the NHIAA baseball competition committee West is still in D1. Goffstown is in D2.
I think the changes are needed with the other three classes, but completely out of order with D1. We play everyone in the league, why do you need a scoring system beyond that???

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Originally posted by TrueFan28:
Don't you think that Portsmouth and St. Thomas should be moved to D1? Portsmouth hasn't lost a game in a number of years, and St. Thomas is a private school that recruits and plays in a public school division? I wish my high school could recruit players. I think that the NHIAA had a chance to level the playing field and didn't.

Gee my son attended STA for 4 years.... can't think of one student there that was "recruited"... Maybe you know something I don't...Last time STA won a baseball championship was 2004. Parents send their kids there for the education...not the sports.

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West is still Division 1. When they approached West about moving the baseball team to Divion 2, West did not have a Varsity Head Coach, so the JV Coach just elected to stay put (while all other sports at West made the move). Coach K was hired thereafter....

Sorry the original post wasn't clear. My understanding is that schools were placed in new divisions as a whole and needed to petition up in individual sports, hence the comment that West and G-town are in D2.

How was the new coach at West?

True Fan,

From what I was told by the Portsmouth AD, up until this year, if a school was in a CLASS and it wanted to move up, all sports had to move up. This is not the case for Divisions. I believe most sports have gone to divisions.

Portsmouth can't compete in some sports if they had to move up a Class - in my opinion it would have been the end of their football program.

They certainly could have competed in Class L baseball and prior to last year, they would have done well in basketball. They over achieved in basketball last year.

They really are a bubble school from what I have seen the last four years. Not good enough to be in Class L but probably a little too good for Class I.

Now, they have the option of going up in individual sports and I agree, their baseball program should move up. Trust me its no fun for the players (on either team) 10 run ruling teams in many games.

I think you have to factor in the softball side of things too. You couldn't have one school with a softball team as D2 and a baseball team as D1, it just wouldn't work as the two sports schedules are intertwined.

Actually you can make it work with baseball and softball playing in 2 different division if you wanted to. Although the teams usually play on the same day at different schools, they don't use the same field and the bus trip is the same if baseball is traveling and softball is at home or vice versa.

Hollis-Brookline has boys s****r still in D2 and the girls s****r team moved up to D1.

Baseball could move independent of softball if the school wanted to put in the time to make it work.

kpc89
The only reason they haven't won a championship since 2004 is because of Portsmith hasn't lost a game since then.( That and poor decisions during games..)

Question #1- How many baseball players are from Dover/St Thomas school area? (All but 1.)

Question #2- How many baseball players are from out of state?
(1 was from York, he is the youngest and last of three fro his family that attended there.)

I will admitt that I am more familiar with the hockey program than baseball. In their hockey program they do recruit players to come to their school for sports. So one would assume they do this in all sports.

(way off base... Hockey has played D1 for a long time and have been sub .500 most every season. They actually lost 2-3 players who left to attend prep schools.)

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Define recruit? They certainly did not get money to go to STA.
Another thing is that last year there were 2 students who attended STA for the education... but then played for Winnicunnet in Football/ Lax and Softball.... the softball player did get $$ to play fron URI this season.

There seems to be a misunderstanding about some sports in what class they played in. Not all sports were classablr. Football, hockey, Lax, Volleyball were done by divisions. ex. Sta played classI in baseball, s****r, basketball.. but did hockey D1, Football D5, D2 in Lax.... Trinity football D5, Class L in baseball, etc.
There was the abilty to move around in some sports.

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Originally posted by BBNH2011:
Actually you can make it work with baseball and softball playing in 2 different division if you wanted to. Although the teams usually play on the same day at different schools, they don't use the same field and the bus trip is the same if baseball is traveling and softball is at home or vice versa.

Hollis-Brookline has boys s****r still in D2 and the girls s****r team moved up to D1.

Baseball could move independent of softball if the school wanted to put in the time to make it work.

Most schools, for cost purposes, want to put two teams on a bus for away games. In Class I (now Division 2), the travelling is different in baseball/softball than in s-o-c-c-e-r. In baseball/softball, the varsity boys travel with the varsity girls, and the JV boys travel with the JV girls. This is because most of the smaller schools only have one baseball field, and no lights. In s-o-c-c-e-r, the boys travel together and the girls travel together. Many schools have 2 s-o-c-c-e-r fields, or they can play back-to-back before it gets dark. So, I would guess that the NHIAA would make baseball and softball teams from the same school stay in the same division. Just speculating, of course.