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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Native Returns to Lead Baseball Team Into New Season

The 2012 edition of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School Generals baseball team is sprinkled with experience as well as young and hungry new faces.

Reggie Maidment may be new to the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School varsity baseball team as a first-year head coach. But he is in no way new to the school. He replaces longtime leader Doug Hoak, who retired last year, but Maidment has been an assistant with the football team for three years and the baseball junior varsity coach for two years. He also taught at the high school for one year. And as a native of Hamilton who starred for the Generals in the early 2000s in football, basketball and baseball, there shouldn’t be an issue with Maidment knowing the history of the team and the league. “It’s great to be able to give back, and to follow Doug, who was a role model for me, makes it (better),” said Maidment. “I was born and raised in …

Monday, February 27, 2012

New Tourament Path For Generals Boys Basketball

Hamilton-Wenham enters the Div. 3 North sectional tournament as the sixth seed and will face Shawsheen on Tuesday night at the Regional.

Just because the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School boys basketball team is accustomed to playing in the tournament, its first-round matchup Tuesday night is not a forgone conclusion. The Generals did capture the Cape Ann League Div. 2 title for the third straight season, but unlike the past two they do not enter the tourney as the top seed, and thus are not afforded a first-round bye. And only two players have any significant tournament experience. Hamilton-Wenham coach Doug Hoak had mixed feelings about the possibly longer route to the Div. 3 North championship. “It’s an advantage (to be the No. 1 seed) because you get to see your opponent,” he said, “but a disadvantage because we are on equal ground with our opponent.” Hoak noted that…

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Boys Basketball Can't Keep Up With North Andover

Div. 1-leading North Andover Scarlet Knights were too much in the second half in a 71-58 loss for the Generals on Tuesday night.

A team that comes into your gym sporting a 14-1 record most likely has earned that lofty status. The Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School boys basketball team was well aware of the numbers visiting North Andover has attained, and how they did it. But despite hanging with the Cape Ann League Div. 1 leaders for a little more than half of the game, the Scarlet Knights used their size and team mentality to wear down the Generals in a 71-58 victory for the visitors on Tuesday night. “They’re a smart basketball team and when they play as a team with lots of ball movement it opens up (passing) lanes for them,” said senior guard Stephen Tam, who finished with 15 points. “I think we came out flat in the second half. It was tough to hang with them (…

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