Pigskin Prophets: Week 2
The first week of the season brought a couple of upsets and a couple of lesser surprises. Week 2 brings the start of league play in the top three of New Hampshire's divisions. Once again, a group of high school football "experts" will try to successfully predict the outcome of a handful of select games from around the state. Following are this week's picks.
Home teams in ALL CAPS.
Mark Ouellette
BEDFORD over Goffstown Bedford 20, Goffstown 14 Souhegan over PORTSMOUTH Souhegan 23, Portsmouth 14NASHUA SOUTH over Pinkerton
Pinkerton 23, Nashua South 14
Nashua North over LONDONDERRY Nashua North 27, Londonderry 7SALEM over Manchester Central Salem 45, Manchester Central 19
Merrimack over DOVER Merrimack 31, Dover 28
Bishop Guertin over TIMBERLANE Bishop Guertin 21, Timberlane 6
Keene over ALVIRNE Keene 42, Alvirne 18
MILFORD over Pembroke Milford 40, Pembroke 22
CONCORD over Exeter Concord 42, Exeter 21
Last week: 6-4; Overall: 6-4.
Mark Ouellette is the founder, co-owner, managing editor and web editor of NHReporter.com. His work has appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader, Nashua Telegraph and The Cabinet Press' four weekly newspapers.
George Scione
BEDFORD over Goffstown Bedford 20, Goffstown 14 Souhegan over PORTSMOUTH Souhegan 23, Portsmouth 14NASHUA SOUTH over Pinkerton
Pinkerton 23, Nashua South 14
Nashua North over LONDONDERRY Nashua North 27, Londonderry 7SALEM over Manchester Central Salem 45, Manchester Central 19
DOVER over Merrimack
Merrimack 31, Dover 28
Bishop Guertin over TIMBERLANE Bishop Guertin 21, Timberlane 6ALVIRNE over Keene
Keene 42, Alvirne 18
MILFORD over Pembroke Milford 40, Pembroke 22Exeter over CONCORD
Concord 42, Exeter 21
Last week: 7-3; Overall: 7-3.
George Scione is the assistant sports editor for the Nashua Telegraph.
Mike Zhe
BEDFORD over Goffstown Bedford 20, Goffstown 14 Souhegan over PORTSMOUTH Souhegan 23, Portsmouth 14NASHUA SOUTH over Pinkerton
Pinkerton 23, Nashua South 14
Nashua North over LONDONDERRY Nashua North 27, Londonderry 7SALEM over Manchester Central Salem 45, Manchester Central 19
DOVER over Merrimack
Merrimack 31, Dover 28
Bishop Guertin over TIMBERLANE Bishop Guertin 21, Timberlane 6ALVIRNE over Keene
Keene 42, Alvirne 18
MILFORD over Pembroke Milford 40, Pembroke 22Exeter over CONCORD
Concord 42, Exeter 21
Last week: 9-1; Overall: 9-1.
Mike Zhe is a staff writer for the Portsmouth Herald and the editor of New England Hockey Journal.
Pete Tarrier
BEDFORD over Goffstown Bedford 20, Goffstown 14 Souhegan over PORTSMOUTH Souhegan 23, Portsmouth 14NASHUA SOUTH over Pinkerton
Pinkerton 23, Nashua South 14
Nashua North over LONDONDERRY Nashua North 27, Londonderry 7SALEM over Manchester Central Salem 45, Manchester Central 19
DOVER over Merrimack
Merrimack 31, Dover 28
Bishop Guertin over TIMBERLANE Bishop Guertin 21, Timberlane 6Keene over ALVIRNE Keene 42, Alvirne 18
MILFORD over Pembroke Milford 40, Pembroke 22
Exeter over CONCORD
Concord 42, Exeter 21
Last week: 7-3; Overall: 7-3.
Pete Tarrier is the host of Friday Night Lights-NH High School Football and Basketball shows on Sports Radio WGAM The Game.
John Doyle
BEDFORD over Goffstown Bedford 20, Goffstown 14 Souhegan over PORTSMOUTH Souhegan 23, Portsmouth 14NASHUA SOUTH over Pinkerton
Pinkerton 23, Nashua South 14
LONDONDERRY over Nashua NorthNashua North 27, Londonderry 7
SALEM over Manchester Central Salem 45, Manchester Central 19DOVER over Merrimack
Merrimack 31, Dover 28
Bishop Guertin over TIMBERLANE Bishop Guertin 21, Timberlane 6ALVIRNE over Keene
Keene 42, Alvirne 18
MILFORD over Pembroke Milford 40, Pembroke 22Exeter over CONCORD
Concord 42, Exeter 21
Last week: 5-5; Overall: 5-5.
John Doyle is the Sunday sports editor and staff writer at Foster's Daily Democrat and Laconia Citizen.
Joe Marchilena
BEDFORD over Goffstown Bedford 20, Goffstown 14 Souhegan over PORTSMOUTH Souhegan 23, Portsmouth 14NASHUA SOUTH over Pinkerton
Pinkerton 23, Nashua South 14
Nashua North over LONDONDERRY Nashua North 27, Londonderry 7SALEM over Manchester Central Salem 45, Manchester Central 19
Merrimack over DOVER Merrimack 31, Dover 28
Bishop Guertin over TIMBERLANE Bishop Guertin 21, Timberlane 6
Keene over ALVIRNE Keene 42, Alvirne 18
MILFORD over Pembroke Milford 40, Pembroke 22
Exeter over CONCORD
Concord 42, Exeter 21
Last week: 5-5; Overall: 5-5.
Joe Marchilena is the editor of nh-highschoolsports.com. Reach him at nhhighschoolsports@gmail.com.
