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| Thanks for the edit. It had been a while, so I forgot about the third GSC championship. As a senior, I was the high scorer on the second championship in 1994. The team was myself, Sharon Smith(her dad owns Smith Produce on Kimball Hill Road), Ben Sayer, and Rick Osborne (team captain) Scott Fong and Amy Caron were alternates. I was a freshman (didn't play) when the team won their first championship. I remember a guy named Preston Farner was the team captain and high scorer on that team. Haven't been following it much since I graduated ('94). Nice to see the recognition for the teams. I have been working on the Alvirne article for a while. It was my first ever edit (I was still an anon) and have kept an eye on it as a pet project. My next goal is to find good references for everything, since as it stands now, the article is quite open to an AfD should anyone bother to find it. HLN did a great article about 3-4 months ago about the 4-H club opening the school to beat the deadline in the Hill's will. My parents lugged a copy down to Raleigh, NC (where I live now) but I think my wife threw it out. It would be GREAT reference if you could nail it down. Also cool would be other Nashua Telegraph, or HLN articles for references. I don't know if you still live in the area, but setting up some referecnes would REALLY help this article along. Also, the woodsmen's team was always nationally recognized when I was in school. Been over a decade, so I don't know if that is still the case. --] 04:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC) | Thanks for the edit. It had been a while, so I forgot about the third GSC championship. As a senior, I was the high scorer on the second championship in 1994. The team was myself, Sharon Smith(her dad owns Smith Produce on Kimball Hill Road), Ben Sayer, and Rick Osborne (team captain) Scott Fong and Amy Caron were alternates. I was a freshman (didn't play) when the team won their first championship. I remember a guy named Preston Farner was the team captain and high scorer on that team. Haven't been following it much since I graduated ('94). Nice to see the recognition for the teams. I have been working on the Alvirne article for a while. It was my first ever edit (I was still an anon) and have kept an eye on it as a pet project. My next goal is to find good references for everything, since as it stands now, the article is quite open to an AfD should anyone bother to find it. HLN did a great article about 3-4 months ago about the 4-H club opening the school to beat the deadline in the Hill's will. My parents lugged a copy down to Raleigh, NC (where I live now) but I think my wife threw it out. It would be GREAT reference if you could nail it down. Also cool would be other Nashua Telegraph, or HLN articles for references. I don't know if you still live in the area, but setting up some referecnes would REALLY help this article along. Also, the woodsmen's team was always nationally recognized when I was in school. Been over a decade, so I don't know if that is still the case. --] 04:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC) | ||
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| Your memory is a bit shaky. The first GSC championship team was in 1988-89. Thomas R. Graham was the Captain and high scorer (once scoring 240 points in a game versus Hanover who totalled 210). Mark Masterson, Preston Pfarner and Scott Greenbaum rounded out the first string team. The alternates were Max Tuefferd and Marshall Murray. Don't make me get Miss Lavoie to confirm this, or get the team together or bring out the VCR tape proving this fact. I'll let you guess which one of the original six I am. If you were a senior in 1994, you were a freshman in 1990. | |||
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Granite State Challenge & Alvirne
Thanks for the edit. It had been a while, so I forgot about the third GSC championship. As a senior, I was the high scorer on the second championship in 1994. The team was myself, Sharon Smith(her dad owns Smith Produce on Kimball Hill Road), Ben Sayer, and Rick Osborne (team captain) Scott Fong and Amy Caron were alternates. I was a freshman (didn't play) when the team won their first championship. I remember a guy named Preston Farner was the team captain and high scorer on that team. Haven't been following it much since I graduated ('94). Nice to see the recognition for the teams. I have been working on the Alvirne article for a while. It was my first ever edit (I was still an anon) and have kept an eye on it as a pet project. My next goal is to find good references for everything, since as it stands now, the article is quite open to an AfD should anyone bother to find it. HLN did a great article about 3-4 months ago about the 4-H club opening the school to beat the deadline in the Hill's will. My parents lugged a copy down to Raleigh, NC (where I live now) but I think my wife threw it out. It would be GREAT reference if you could nail it down. Also cool would be other Nashua Telegraph, or HLN articles for references. I don't know if you still live in the area, but setting up some referecnes would REALLY help this article along. Also, the woodsmen's team was always nationally recognized when I was in school. Been over a decade, so I don't know if that is still the case. --Jayron32 04:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Granite State Challenge
Your memory is a bit shaky. The first GSC championship team was in 1988-89. Thomas R. Graham was the Captain and high scorer (once scoring 240 points in a game versus Hanover who totalled 210). Mark Masterson, Preston Pfarner and Scott Greenbaum rounded out the first string team. The alternates were Max Tuefferd and Marshall Murray. Don't make me get Miss Lavoie to confirm this, or get the team together or bring out the VCR tape proving this fact. I'll let you guess which one of the original six I am. If you were a senior in 1994, you were a freshman in 1990.