In the average year, co-op teams tend to need a bit more time to work on team chemistry and simply getting to know one another. This can range from team-building activities off the ice to bonding time during off-hours practices, making that extra time taken crucial in helping to form a cohes…
Eight sneakers in the air as the Manchester Essex Regional High School Hornets battle the Triton Vikings for a rebound in their recent home game. The game went down to the wire and ME got the W 50-48 in the last seconds of the match.
ME Hornet Sylvie Oldeman breaks free to go to the basket for a pass in a match at home on Friday, Jan 15th against a very powerful Pentucket team. Even after being held to 5 points in the first quarter, the Hornets chipped away and at the final horn had scored a respectable 30 points. The La…
After weeks of planning, strategizing and obtaining approval and guidance from multiple governing bodies, the winter season kicked off for Manchester Essex High School teams last week, giving athletes participating in sports like basketball, skiing, swimming and skiing the opportunity to com…
The Hornets took on Ipswich at home Friday, January 8, 2021 marking the beginning of a COVID-influenced season of winter sports.
After weeks of planning, strategizing and obtaining approval and guidance from multiple governing bodies, it can be said for the first time since November: Let the games begin.
The school committee has given approval for Manchester Essex Regional High School student athletes to participate in winter sports just after the holiday season. Tryouts and preseason practices began on Dec. 14, with the regular season set to begin in earnest at the start of 2021.
Fall 2020 was a different season for Manchester Essex sports. Jason Brisbois offers a summary on the season for all sports, and looks to next season.
Capping off a stellar high school athletic career, ME Hornet Senior Lily Athanas signs with the Georgetown Hoyas for lacrosse as her mother and father and three brothers look on. Congratulations Lily.
And The Winners Are: The Fall 2020 Hornets season awards were given out last week. Congratulations to everyone who won, and thanks for a great season!
Manchester Essex school district officials mull viability of playing high school winter sports, and Jason Brisbois gets the scoop on what's going on.
Senior Captain Maddie Lawler battles for control of the ball during the Hornets’ duel with the Pentucket Sachems at Hyland Field Friday night, the last home game of the season. The game went to Pentucket, 3-2.
Lady Hornet Mercedes O’Neil moves the ball down the field against Pentucket Sachem opponents during ME’s Friday night joust at Hyland Field. Not being able to head the ball, the athletes must use their shoulders, arms or chest to deal with the high kicks. Pentucket prevailed 3-2 in a well-pl…
At Hyland Field, the Hornets battled a tough match with Pentucket eventually losing a heart breaker 3 to 2 Pentucket.
This week we hear from the coaches of the boys soccer and the cross country team.
The Manchester Essex boys soccer team is hoping to ride a bit of positive momentum into the final week of the 2020 season, writes Cricket sports columnist Jason Brisbois.
During a season that seemed destined to go by at breakneck speed, getting an unexpected break early on may have helped the Manchester Essex girls soccer team take their game to the next level.
Up this week: boys soccer, cross country, girls soccer, golf and field hockey.
The Hornets boys varsity soccer took on North Reading Wednesday October 28. The Hornets lost 6 to 0 at North Reading's home field.
The Hornets Field Hockey Team improved their record to 5-1 with a 2-1 win against Newburyport and 8-1 win against Amesbury last week. It was also “Senior Day” for the home game, a great ME Hornets tradition. Here A whole team effort is what led to a win against Amesbury, with six different…
Jason Brisbois has been taking a closer look at fall teams all season this year. This week, he looks to Hornets Field Hockey. He spoke to Manchester Essex field hockey coach Kara Crovo.
M-E Hornets suffer a tough 2-0 loss at the hands of the Clippers Wednesday, October 21st at Hyland Field.
The Manchester-Essex Hornets JV boys soccer took on Lynnfield October 15 with a score ending 3-1 for the Pioneers.
The ME sports program has officially ramped up, and there’s plenty of great content to read this week. The Hornets Nest details great playing from Cross Country and Boys Soccer.
It might seem as if the Manchester Essex golf team’s season just started, with the end of the season already looming around the corner. That’s 13 matches in four weeks, an amazing feat for a sport that usually has to wrap up before there isn’t enough daylight to play near the end of October.
Final score for the ME Hornets vs Lynnfield Pioneers - Girls Soccer match October 8th at Hyland Field was 1-0 Lynnfield.
The M-E Hornets report in on the Cross Country and Golf Team's opening competitions.
All masked up and ready to play, the Lady Hornets met the Ipswich Tigers at Hyland Field on Saturday. The stands were empty and spectators had to watch from off school grounds per MIAA rules. Some game rules were also tweaked in consideration of Covid-19 and the referees stayed on top of the…
The Ipswitch Athetics Girls Field Hockey team fought hard for a win against the Manchester Essex Hornets on Friday, October 2nd the match ending with the score 2-1.
To say the middle and high school sports has changed would be an understatement. Every year, athletes who don green-and-white ME Hornets uniforms face familiar challenges of facing weekly opponents, developing chemistry on the field, and improving themselves as student-athletes. This year,…
Two weeks ago the Manchester Essex Regional School Committee made a return to fall sports official for middle and high school students in the district. And this week, teams got off to their starts, with tryouts and practices before the official start of the season next week. Soccer, Field H…
The MERSD Cross-Country team warmed up on Monday at the MERHS/MS. Coach Steve Whittey explained the safety precautions necessary to run the program this season. First meet is against Georgetown on Thursday, October 1st at 3:45, location TBD.
Varsity Head Coach Rob Bilsbury runs drills for MERSD Varsity/JV boys’ soccer on Monday at Coach Field Playground. The team meets Ipswich for its first match at Ipswich HS on Saturday, October 3rd at 3:00.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association provided recommendations for the fall sports season at the end of August, helping to give some guidance on the path toward playing high school sports during the 2020-21 school year.
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