At the beginning of last season Sports Illustrated picked the Boston Bruins to make it to the Stanley Cup Finals, that may be the case again with the off-season moves and acquisitions that have occurred. That is only if General Manager Peter Chiarelli does not dismantle a potential league leading team that is currently intact.
Despite missing their goal of making the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament, the Franklin Pierce softball team still has a chance at program history as they finish up their season with a home double header against Assumption on May 1.
Despite a loss to Umass Lowell on April 27, Franklin Pierce baseball finished the month with a 17-4-1 record (31-12-1 overall and 17-6-1 in the Northeast-10), winning 5 of their last 6 and 7 of their last 10 games.
The 2009-2010 academic year marked what was perhaps the “year of new heights” for at least three Franklin Pierce athletic franchises that exceeding their prior franchise win totals.
The Bruins have 10 players hitting the free agent market this summer. Add that to the fact the that the B’s have the 2nd overall draft pick and prospects like Joe Colborne and Zach Hamill waiting in Providence, and there is no doubt that the overall shape of the team will look different at the start of next season.
And here we are. The Bruins ultimately finished the 2009-2010 season in sixth place, not horrible, but not where they were expected to be. Even more so, the Bruins found out that they would be fortunate enough to have the second overall draft pick in the 2010 entry draft. Suddenly life is good in the Hub of Hockey.
It was November 2006 when Kerry Totti, Micheala Sullivan, and Courtney Manswar brought the first women’s rugby team to Franklin Pierce University. Now a senior, the current President of Rugby, Alison McNeany, looks back at her freshman year when she had first joined compared to this year.
As the season winds down for the women’s tennis team, they continue to struggle, trailing 0-3 this past week with losses to Saint Anselm, Assumption, and Merrimack.
The Franklin Pierce Softball team won both games of a doubleheader against Merrimack College on April 13 to notch their eleventh and twelfth victories of the year, two of head coach Richard Hurley's career best for a season.
With a win against Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) on April 14 and a loss by Southern Connecticut State, the Ravens moved into a tie with SCS for first place in the NE-10, as of April 16.
The Franklin Pierce University Golf Team tied for fourth place with Nichols on Thursday April 15, in the WNEC invitational at Veteran’s Golf course in Springfield, MA.
The NHL regular season has ended and sixteen teams, including the Boston Bruins, are contending for the Stanley Cup.
Monica Lavertu is a senior and has played tennis at Franklin Pierce all four years. She will be graduating in the spring and plans on going to Franklin Pierce’s Graduate Studies for physical therapy. I got the chance to ask her a few questions about tennis, school, and her life.
The Franklin Pierce University Raven's baseball team is gearing up for their regular season in good shape despite losing key players from last season.
The men’s baskettball team needed a win to keep their season alive and put them into the NE- 10 playoffs. However, not even a late rally and the support of a rowdy student cheering section on senior night was enough as the team fell short to the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks 71- 68 in front of a crowd 299 strong.
The No. 2 nationally-ranked Franklin Pierce women's basketball team, which closed out the regular season with a 91-38 blowout victory over University of Massachusetts-Lowell on February 24, is headed into the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament with home court advantage.
After a pregame ceremony for seniors Johanna Leedham, Rachel Kimball, Alexis Auffray and Kirsten Doldoorian, the Ravens started off with a bang coming out on fire by going on a 27-2 run and holding the University of Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks to only 12 points in the first half and only 38 total points in the game.
The difference between a blue line and a clothes line
We weren’t even supposed to qualify. It would have been known as a present day Cinderella story, not near the magnitude of the 1980 Miracle on Ice, but the closest thing this generation may have gotten.
