After 30 years on the Lynn sports scene including a season in which he led Lynn English girls basketball team to a 25-0 record and a trip to the Boston Garden, Fred Hogan is returning to Lynn Classical High School. Hogan, a Classical graduate, has accepted a position on head coach Brian Vaughan’s football...
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Zach Elwell played his first baseball game in the Wyoma Little League T-Ball Division. Now 17 years old and a two-sport athlete at Swampscott High School, he’s still enjoying baseball under the watchful eye of a familiar coach: his father, Leon Elwell. Zach is a member of the 2018 Lynn Babe Ruth 16-18-year-old team...
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If West Alabama’s Jarell Byrd, Toledo’s Corey Bingham, and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Antonio Anderson are in the house, you know there’s some serious basketball being played. While they were referees and spectators on this 75-degree night of outdoor basketball at the Breed courts, it was still great to see Lynn’s Big Three on hand...
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Chris Warren is the vice principal at Lynn Classical High School and was once a Super Bowl quarterback for the undefeated 1990 Lynn English High School football team. But he was also the head coach of the Lynn Classical softball teams that ruled the Northeastern Conference and started a winning tradition that continues today...
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If there were still a “Candlepin Bowling” TV show each Saturday on Channel 5, Lynn’s Jonathan Boudreau would be a household name by now. Boudreau, 23, added to his list of accomplishments in the sport by taking home the Massachusetts state singles championship at Boston Bowl in Dorchester. Boudreau bested a field of 50...
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There is a date that Lynn football fans must circle on their calendar this fall. of On Friday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at Manning Field, the St. Mary’s High School football team, led by first-year head coach Sean Driscoll, will host powerful Catholic Memorial, led by its first-year coach John DiBiaso, the former...
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New Lynn Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Brian Theirrien hopes to expand the number of programs available for youths at the club this fall. Theirrien, 41, began on July 2 as the new executive director of the club located on North Common Street. He succeeds Robert “Obie” Barker, who stepped down after 19...
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First there was Agganis Week, and then there was Agganis Weekend. Joyce Agganis captured the Gannon Ladies Senior Championship with a two-round total of 175 over the weekend at the Lynn golf course. Agganis edged second-place finisher Pat Ryback by three shots. Joyce is a long-time and popular Gannon member whose last name is...
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When Sal Frelick takes the field, spectacular things happen. The Boston College-bound freshman and Lexington High School graduate introduced himself to North Shore Navigators’ followers by hitting a grand slam in his first at-bat for the Futures Collegiate Baseball League team. Frelick, 18, is off to a potent start for the Navs, emerging as...
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As a young boy, Bill Galatis would listen to the stories his father would tell about the legendary Lynn Classical athlete, Harry Agganis. “Growing up in Chelsea, my dad followed Harry’s career at Lynn Classical and BU, not only because my dad was Greek, but my dad played semi-pro football for the...
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