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Tales from the GridIron

2023 Football Season - Playoffs Edition

Volume 7, Issue 10

Lancers in the News

News From Last Week:

Londonderry Times

"Blue Devils Speared by Lancers in Regular Season Final"

Chris Paul, November 2, 2023, page 9

"The Londonderry High School Football squad finished the regular season with a convincing 28-14 win over the Salem Blue Devils... The Lancers finished the season at 7-1, giving them the number four seed in the playoffs..."

New This Week:

NH Union Leader

"Londonderry in control from the start"

Roger Brown, September 4, 2023

"There was no upset at Londonderry High School on Saturday. As it turned out, there wasn't even the threat of one.

Fourth-seeded Londonderry was in control from start to finish and earned a 46-0 victory over 13th-seeded Windham in the first round of the Division I playoffs."

Lancer Spirit Online

"'Fantastic Four' leads varsity football to quarter-finals"

Dillon Tufts, Executive Sports Editor (and player #51), November 6, 2023

"The team's quarterback change-up means the other team never knows which of the four Lancers they'll see in the pocket at any given game.

Playoff football is back at Lancer Park, and the team is looking to get a little revenge from last year."

The Eagle-Tribune

"Windham falls hard to power Londonderry in DI first round"

David Willis, November 5, 2023

After earning two convincing victories, in must-win situations, over the final two weeks of the season to fight back and earn a playoff berth, Saturday simply was not Windham’s day.

The No. 13-seeded Jaguars fell behind by 20 points early in the second quarter, and could not recover, falling to No. 4 Londonderry 46-0 in the Division I first round on Saturday afternoon.

NH High School Sports

"Londonderry marches past Windham, into D1 football quarterfinals"

Joe Marchilena, November 5, 2023

"After beating the Jaguars by a touchdown the first time around, No. 4 Londonderry got off to a much different start, scoring on its first four possessions on the way to a 46-0 win over No. 13 Windham. The win puts the Lancers in the quarterfinals next weekend, where they will host No. 5 Exeter either next Friday or Saturday."

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Video highlights from the Lancers playoff win over Windham, powered by hudl:

Lancer Happenings

PLAYOFFS!

NHIAA Div 1 Playoffs

The Lancer's head into the Quarter-Final round of playoffs!

Londonderry will play the Exeter Blue Hawks again at home at 1:00 PM on Saturday, December 11 in the Quarter-Final Round.

The winner Saturday will continue on to the Semi-Final Round to play the winner of the Bishop Guertin (8) at Pinkerton (1) matchup.

Gridiron Zone

Upcoming Events

NHIAA Div 1 Playoffs - Quarter Final Round

Nov 11 @ HOME vs Exeter, 1:00 PM

End of Year Banquet 🍽️

Dec 3, @ DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester

Get banquet info & tickets here by Nov. 17

For all game times see:

Londonderry Athletics Calendar of Events

Concessions

We are desperate to fill positions for Saturday's home playoff game! There are many unfilled spots for concessions and grilling.

Please sign up here

We hope to have our concession stand open for Playoff home games.

Enjoy some great food while supporting Lancer Football.

Varsity Wrap-Up

HOME vs

Windham

11-4-2023

Lancers Win!

46 - 🍩

All aboard! Lancer's charge the field

Team captains Conor Williams, Ty Miles, Jaydon Navarro

Game kick-off by Blake Thompson

Ty-ger'd by Miles and Parsons

Matt Carroll brings a receiver down

Seth Doyon breaking up a pass

Coach's Summary

We are all very happy about how the team played on Saturday. We were the more physical team from the start, and it lasted all four quarters. Our kickoff team did a great job putting Windham deep in their own territory and our defense did an incredible job of stopping the option offense that Windham runs. We limited any big plays with great pursuit and good tackling...

Conor Williams taking Lancer's opening drive

Alex Villa brings in the first TD

Lancers capturing a Tiger

Villa sacks Depietro forcing a punt

Jaydon Navarro runs for a first down

Lucas Palma stops Windham's returner

Conor Williams tackles Cameron Williams

Jake Schena making the 2nd & 3rd TD's, this one for 45-yards

Carson Palma making a run

Sam Ogden keeping for 45-yard TD run

Offensively we were efficient, we moved the chains and ended drives in the endzone. There were a few unfortunate injuries in practice last week which left a lot of uncertainty going into the game, but other players stepped up and were able to fill their roles this week. We are hopeful for their return in the post-season.

Jon Wilson and Owen Rondeau bring down the returner

Devin Boles recovers a Windham 3rd down fumble

Cam Brutus run in the second half opening drive for a first down

Damon Dawson on a handoff from Brutus

Conor Williams handoff from Brutus for 22-yards on a fourth down

Mason Paquette TD on pass from Sam Ogden

Ethan Wheeler for 32-yards on toss from Brutus

Jaydon Navarro TD run on handoff from Cam Brutus

Caiden Malek 26-yard TD run on handoff from Brutus

Matthew Visconti stopping Windham's kick return

Hogs

Freshmen Wrap-Up

2023 Undefeated Freshmen Team

Freshmen Jamboree

11-1-2023

Londonderry vs Spaulding Red Raiders

Londonderry vs Winnacunnet Warriors

Londonderry vs Pinkerton Astros

Londonderry vs Keene Blackbirds

Londonderry vs Bedford Bulldogs

Lancer Football Photos

You can find all of the Lancer Football photos on SmugMug! Select a team to view the photos:

Varsity Photos

JV Photos

Freshmen Photos

Your 2023 Lancers

Varsity/JV Roster

Freshmen Roster

2023 LLGC Board

Dawn Williams

President

Jeff Boles

Vice President

Julie McGrath

Treasurer

Allison Buttle

Secretary

Kristina Kidder

Events Director

Misty Patles

Concessions Director

Michael Jasper

Fundraising Director

Jenny Boisvert

Fundraising Director

Charlie Ogden

PR/Social Media Director

Ken Perron

Member at Large

Michael Carroll

Member at Large

Dina Miles

Team Parent

There are a number of positions opening on the Londonderry Lancer Gridiron Club board at the start of next year.

President
Concessions Director
Fundraising Director
Members at Large

If you are interested in a position next year please reach out - we would love to help you get involved early. The current LLGC Board is listed in the end of the GoalPost.

These are elected positions, but we hope to pass on some knowledge and experience to potential candidates before these terms expire!

Feel free to attend our next board meeting:

November 14 @ 6:00 PM in room 221 at LHS