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Tales from the GridIron

2024 Football Season Edition

Volume 8, Issue 7

Lancers in the News

News From Last Week:

Londonderry Times

"Big Loss for Little Green Against Lancers at Gill Stadium"

Chris Paul, October 18, 2024

"The Londonderry High School football team had a fairly easy time of dispatching of the Little Green in Manchester over the weekend. The defense allowed just one touchdown, while the offense had five trips to the endzone for a 34-6 victory.

This was the Lancers fourth win of the season, putting them at 4-1 in the Division I standings and at the top of the Central Division."

Read the article here

New This Week:

NH Union Leader

Granite State Grid

October 18, 2024

“Londonderry 61, Nashua North 12: In Londonderry, Sam Ogden threw for a touchdown and ran in another and Adrian Cruz rushed for 89 yards and two scores for the No. 4 Lancers (5-2, 5-1). Carson Palma (five carries, 31 yards) rushed for a touchdown and Alexander Villa tossed a TD pass for Londonderry. Luke Peters ran 13 times for 89 yards and a touchdown and Dharyus Sisay (6 of 20, 159 yards) threw for a score for North (1-6)."

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NH Union Leader Power Poll | After Week 7

Staff Report, October 21, 2024

"Two weeks remain in the high school football regular season, with a limited number of showdowns between top teams still to be played.

You can throw a football blanket over Nos. 3 through 6, however. In order, Pinkerton, Londonderry, South and Salem are separated by eight points."

Londonderry remains in fourth place behind Bedford ranked first, and Exeter second, and Pinkerton third.

The Power Poll is based on voting by members of the media from the Union Leader, NH-HighSchoolSports.com, and FNLNH Media.

Read the article here (subscription required)

Hudl

Video highlights from the Lancer's week 7 game against Nashua North, powered by hudl:

NHIAA.org

"Standings: Boys Football Division I"

Londonderry still sits atop the Central Conference standings in Division 1.

NHIAA standings are based on the Football Point Rating system that awards points for wins, and additional points for a beaten opponents wins, and are divided by the number of qualifying games played.

See the latest standings here

NH Football Report

Roger Brown, October 21, 2024

"NHIAA Rewind: Week 7"

Division 1 Central:

"Londonderry (5-1) will finish first in Division I Central if it finishes 7-1 against NHIAA competition. That would require a victory over Windham this Friday and a victory at Exeter next weekend."

Division 1 East:

"Exeter High School became the first Division I team to secure a first-round bye for the playoffs"

Division 1 West:

"The winner of Friday night’s game between Bedford (6-0) and Nashua South (6-0) will win Division I West."

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Future Lancers Night

It's always fun seeing the excitement of our future Lancer football players and cheerleaders taking the field on Future Lancers Night!

Veterans Appreciaction Night

Thank you for helping us support our veterans!

Thanks to your generosity we raised money for the American Legion, and had a great donation drive for Liberty House!

Veterans, thank you all for your service!

Senior Night - this weekend!

This Friday night is Senior Night!

Come early and help celebrate our seniors! 32(!!) senior football players and 6 senior cheerleaders!

Introductions of the senior cheerleaders and football players will start at 6:20 PM Friday night.

Rear: Carson Palma, Dakota Shaffer, Matt O'Neil, Kyle Woodward, Devin Boles, Connor Ward, Alex Villa, Paul Binder, Colin Couture, Mason Jackitis, Nate Marshall, Mason Paquette, Blake Thompson, Zach Ventura, Matt Luongo, Josh Conty, Jon Inglese, Griffin Massahos

Front: Cam Ayotte, Lachlan Buttle, Caiden Malek, Dillon Tuffs, Brady Fragala, Cody Gray, Coach Lauzon, Cooper Freitas, Bailey Clevenger, Ethan Wheeler, Arnold Kasongo, Damon Dawson, Sam Ogden, Colby Walden, Jacob McGrath

Lancer Happenings

Upcoming Events

Windham - Jaguars

Oct 25, 7PM @ HOME - Senior Night!

Exeter - Blue Hawks

Nov 1 AWAY @ Exeter HS

NHIAA Div 1 Playoffs

Round 1 of the playoffs start the weekend of November 9th!

For all game times see:

Londonderry Athletics Calendar of Events

Gridiron Zone

Be sure to follow us on Social Media!

Concessions

Help Wanted!

We still need A LOT of food for Meatballs this week!

Please sign up for Meatballs here

We are still looking to fill some volunteer positions for our upcoming home game.

Our next Varsity home game will be our Senior Night game against Windham on Friday night, October 25, and our concession stand will be open that night.

Please sign up for concessions here

Enjoy some great food while supporting Lancer Football.

Varsity Wrap-Up

home vs

Nashua North

10-18-2024

Final Score

61 - 12

Win

Coach's Summary

The game had its ups and downs especially to start out but the players made the necessary adjustments and were able to prevent big plays from the North offense in the second half. We are proud of the team for their effort and physicality in the game! The special teams groups played really well scoring three touchdowns. Defense was much improved in the second half and the offense was more efficient and seem to be improving each week. We hope to continue to head in the right direction as we play another tough conference opponent this week.

JV Wrap-Up

away at

Nashua North

10-19-2024

Final Score

28 - 6

Win

Coach's Summary

The JV team got off to a great start on Saturday. The offense ran the ball great which is a testament to the offensive line and their execution. We threw the ball well compared to some other weeks and we seem to be improving in pass protection and route running. The defense was great again and continues to be a strong defense all season. Shout out to Jacob Welch for stepping into a kicking role and doing a great job hitting 4 extra points and some great kickoffs.

Freshmen Wrap-Up

away at

Nashua North

10-17-2024

Final Score

38 - 0

Win

Coach's Summary

The freshman football team increased their winning streak to five in a row by defeating Nashua North 38-0. The game started with a bang as Oden Delorey ran a kickoff back for a touchdown. This play set the tone for the rest of the game as the Lancers dominated on both sides of the ball. The team wants to keep things going against their next opponent Windham.