Ipswich High School golf co-coach Doug Woodworth expects big things from this year’s golf team. His team is returning all of its players from last season and it’s this core that should finally put Ipswich over the top.
What will make Ipswich much better from last year is its depth.
The season was not going to wait for the Georgetown field hockey team to be ready for it.
That was the case this year, as concerns about eastern equine encephalitis in the vicinity of the high school kept athletes off the Georgetown Middle/High School fields for the majority of what would have been the preseason.
Jeff Bartlett coaches the boys and the girls and was all smiles before practice on the afternoon of Sept. 10, talking about his teams’ performance that previous weekend.
If a record of 10-5-5 could be considered an "off" year, you know the program is in pretty good shape.
The Manchester Essex Regional High School field hockey team finished with that mark last season, which ended in the quarterfinals of the Division 2 Eastern Mass. tourney. It was the first time in four years the Hornets did not make the North finals.
The waiting and decision-making is over for freestyle skier and Boxford resident Ryan McElmon, profiled in the Transcript most recently on July 27, thanks to U.S. Skiing.