New Hampshire game stuff

UMass has its game notes up in html and pdf .
Matt Dougherty reports teams that beat a rival in the regular season lost nine of the last 11 rematches in the postseason . Gulp!
The Odds Guy keeper has the game just about dead even .
Matt Vautour reports that some of the UMass and UNH players [...]

Six UMass players named All-New England

The UMass Athletic Dept has an article here about six UMass players being named the the New England Football Writers All-Star Team.
2006 New England Football Writers Division I-AA All-Star Team
DEFENSEDL Mike Berg, Harvard Sr.DL Brandt Hollander, Yale Jr.DL Matt King, Maine Sr.DL Matt Campopiano, Northeastern Sr.LB Zak DeOssie, Brown Jr.LB Bobby Abare, Yale So.LB Ryan [...]

Brad Listori

Matt Vautour has a story about UMass TE Brad Listori here .
Listori has been an impact player for UMass this year. After being a special teams player at Rutgers, he transferred to UMass and has just been outstanding.
He has played in 12 games 29 catches 457 yards 15.8 ave 2 TD and 38 yards/game.
He’s 6-4 [...]

John Hatchell will play despite injury

I’ve blogged before about UMass DE John Hatchell’s playing in the Lafayette game.
Turns out he has a torn ACL. Matt Vautour has an article here about his determination to play again against UNH.

David Burris

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This article in the Boston Globe features UMass DE David Burris . Burris is a former walk-on who has had a monster year. He was named second team All-A10.
Burris is the 4th leading tackler on the defense. He has started 12 games, 24 UT 39 AT 63 TT 13.0 – [...]

Lights for the game.

This article from the Springfield Republican talks about Saturdays’ game.
UMass will rent the lights, but ESPN will foot the bill.

The Wildcats are coming!

The Wildcats are coming!
And they’re planning to White out our stadium!
The New Hampshire game notes are here in html and here in pdf .
This article tells how the Wildcats used a fake punt to beat Hampton .

Chris Koepplin has been a kick for UMass

It was a long strange journey for UMass kicker Chris Koepplin, but we’re glad he ended up at UMass. The Boston Globe has the details here .

Lots of Playoff articles

A quick Google News search shows 34 articles relating the UMass’ win over Lafayette. A similar search picked up 38 hits on UNH.
Matt Dougherty recaps the CS Division playoffs here . David Coulson does the same here .
The Union Leader recaps UNH’s win over Hampton here .
The Boston Herald looks at the upcoming UMass-UNH [...]

KAEO Spencer Whipple

Mark Whipple was a record setting QB for Brown University. Now his son Spencer Whipple is the starting QB for his high School team. Spencer has kept in touch with his Western Mass roots.
Could there be another Whipple in UMass’ future?