Solutions?

Are Manchester public schools "pay to play"? If not that might be one way to start up freshman teams.

As far as Memorial goes they should not be Class L anyways.

Does Nashua have freshman in the high school? When I was in High School I believe 9th graders went to middle school correct? It wasn't that long ago that Memorial was a top half team in Class L. They must have some real talent on the JV team, I know of two of the kids on the team and they are both very talented kids.

Both public schools have freshman teams in addition to the JV and Varsity teams. When they built north they transitioned the 9th grade into the high schools and the Jr high's transitioned into true middle schools (6-8th grade).

Are you saying Memorial's JV or North's JV has some real talent?

I can't really speak to the talent on North's talent unless they are made up of the Knights, I am pretty familar with the Knights 15 year old group or last year's 14s.

Memorial has to have some talented JV kids to cut the three they cut. I coached two of the kids who made it and they are both solid.

From what I understand fields are an issue in Manchester, they could have three freshman teams hell they could play each other all season just to get the kids innings, the cost could be pretty low but fields become an issue, at least per discussion with the City of Manchester Parks and Rec.

I remember one of the Manchester JV teams playing on a skin infield when I was in High School.

There are Many Knights throughout the North program from those teams. There are also quite a few in the South program as well. The Knights program has helped several players prepare for school ball in the Nashua Schools including BG. Loftus and his right hand man for the knights program Mark McCormack have done an excellent job in that regard.

I know personally my son wouldn't be the player he is today without having gone through the Knights program as a 13U and 14U. Plus I attribute his greatly improved mound work to his workouts this past winter with Nick Esposito who was the Knights pitching instructor. Nick is actually leaving to go play professionally in the Frontier league this spring. Hopefully he comes back for next winter as my son and him really clicked (both lefties..lol)

Thanks for the praise, but a lot of your sons improvements were made because he wanted to make them, he worked hard and listened and bought into the style I teach.

Thanks again

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Originally posted by redsox8191:
"Plus I attribute his greatly improved mound work to his workouts this past winter with Nick Esposito who was the Knights pitching instructor. Nick is actually leaving to go play professionally in the Frontier league this spring. Hopefully he comes back for next winter as my son and him really clicked (both lefties..lol)

RedSox: Did I miss where Memorial was the 5th seed in the tournament last year? They have talent returning and should do well again this year. I fail to see how they don't belong in Class L. Speaking as a head coach in Division 1 I can say that Memorial is right where they should be.

I have to agree Memorial's success last year was not a fluke, they have the talent and the coaching staff to provide the direction. I have coached a number of the players coming up through that system and honestly believe they are stronger than last year. Now I won't go as far to say they are going to be a top 5 team, however I do think that the team they will put on the field next season will be a better squad than last year, especially giving the coaching staff a second year with the program. I would also like to quickly mention Tim Sullivan, the guy I believe will be their Ace this year. This kid is a smart pitcher who competes on the mound, keep an eye out for him this spring, he really impressed me this fall, and as Skip Lebel reminded me yesterday he pitched this well all fall while contributing to his high school's s o c c e r team's championship run. This kid competes.

IronWill,

My comment was from March 29th before the season and I was more referring to the school in general - class size after losing the Bedford kids etc... No doubt they had a solid run last season. It was an OLD POST.

Now it was pretty awesome to see a player from your program record the final out of the World Series last night!!

West was the school that lost bedford players not Memorial. I was kind of wondering why a March 29th topic was brought up.
Memorial should be good in 2011 and Sullivan will definately have an impact on there season.

See....I even mentioned the wrong dang school way back when!!! lol

I totally rescind my comments from March 29th regarding any Manchester schools as I'm too stupid to know which ones I was mentioning!!

No problem, I didn't even look at the date! That head coach is a friend of mine and my former JV coach and I am pretty proud of him.
I never had Wilson, he graduated just before I got there. It is cool to hear Londonderry mentioned all over the place though!