Team Lavigne: 13 seasons of Fisher Cats, and counting

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Another superfan family: Craig and Cindy Lavigne and their daughters, 15-year-old twins Cooper and Cassidy, are known to everyone who’s anyone within the Fisher Cats organization as Team Lavigne. For 13 seasons they’ve unflinchingly supported Fisher Cats baseball, starting with the very first pitch in 2004 at Gill Stadium.

Season of change: Manchester East makes the switch to Cal Ripken

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Counter to some internal rumblings from within the local baseball community, Jeff Stavenger says the reality is that the exodus from Manchester East Little League was not based on frustration or ill will. Rather, it had everything to do with trying to fix what is broken when it comes to getting kids involved in youth sports. He was interested statistically in Cal Ripken’s success as a program for retaining players at a time when, nationally, the struggle to engage and retain young players is real.

Meet the Royal Family of Monarchs Country: 11 straight years of fandom

read more…: Meet the Royal Family of Monarchs Country: 11 straight years of fandom

Jim, Theresa and Alicia Gutowski hail from a small town about 45 minutes outside of Manchester, but if they had the choice, they would live inside the Verizon Wireless Arena, consuming as much hockey as possible. Since 2005, the “Royal Family” has seen just about every game the Manchester Monarchs have played.

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