Will Salem Rebound in 2010

I can comment on their middle school program the past two years. It hasn't been good. I think they only won 3 games all season this past year. Maybe they are about to embark on a couple of down years? Every team has them at some point.

Those are the answers for most high school teams, find a #2 and #3 pitcher and improve the bats any team will go far in there division.

Salem will also be losing some of its players....I think because Windham will be opening up there own high school next year.

Thats interesting, will Windham be class S?

I am not quite sure....I would assume they would do what Bedford is doing right now and play either S or M until they have enough students to move up if they want to.

Not sure that Salem will lose anyone, typically when a Town creates their own high school, the players currently in the school will remain their until they graduate, that is what happened in Nashua and Bedford.

Actually didn't they make the kids in Nashua play for their new school. Kids who played for one or two years as Panthers had to go be Titans for their final year(s). I thought that there was a big stink about it, especially the basketball program. for the first year or two they competed as one school as they were fixing up South after North had been built and weren't using all of South. Had Seniors at one school and Sophomores and Juniors at the other school. Once North opened officially and the schools split the athletes had to go play for their respective school. I believe that occurred in 2005 when the high schools officially opened and expanded to include Freshman.

You may be right, I am positive in Bedford though those kids already at Manchester West finished at West. Cole Warren is an example of that I believe he is from Bedford.

Windham will be an "I" team. Most new schools will not make junior or seniors move. I believe freshmen and sophomores have no choice.

anybody know anything about the points system next year and heal points? I heard that teams are going to play teams in there area, outside of their class. Suppose to save on travel and gas.

That does not apply to Class L, but it is supposed to happen for everyone else.

it has to, or it won't work. Wee were told that basketball and baseball are going to this system, all classes.

Actually it doesn't have to. Class L has no need to do something like this. I can offer you a very informed veiwpoint on this matter: class L is not going to this system. It makes sense for the rest of the classes, but not L. The head of the NHIAA has said as much to us.

there must be points acess to class L, or the system won't work.

Heal points are the worst. Straight W-L record is the only way to go. Heal Points are unamerican.

I believe there are points for an I team playing an L team that impacts the I standings but Class L itself is not going to that system. Doesn't make any sense to do it.

I'll bet Obama is behind the heal points...

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why do you have to go political?

Asks the crybaby liberal from Connecticut...

Chris Dodd steals signs from little leaguers

Relax TR, sorry if you are a big fan of heal points and I insulted them. I just don't like heal points. I guess we can agree to disagree on them.

John, I was wrong with you a fellow conservative, you are ok in my book.

Im a big fan of the team with the most wins being the top team. But maybe that is old fashion. Keep in mind that in NH each team plays the same teams.

I can understand why Class L wouldn't go to that system as most of the schools are within an hour or so from each other. They don't have the travel issue that the other classes have. There is no reason that the program can't work for all the other classes excluding class L. I may be wrong but aren't most of the class L teams kind of within a triangle from Concord to Keene to Salem?

can someone tell me how these heal points work?

We had heal points in Maine when I was in high school.

I don't think any really knew how they worked but you get more heal points depending on the quality of the teams you play. You kind of get points for the wins of the teams you have beaten and the teams they have beaten.

So if you have a win over a team , and they knocked off one of the top teams that win all of a sudden becomes worth more heal points to you.