Roger Brown
nhfootballreport.com

Five items on the New Hampshire football landscape:

1) A football doubleheader.

That's what we could have Saturday afternoon at Nashua's Stellos Stadium. Second-seeded Nashua South is scheduled to play third-seeded Manchester Central at 1 p.m., and the Division II semifinal between top-seeded Bishop Guertin and fourth-seeded Keene could follow.

The date and time for the BG/Keene game will likely be announced Monday. The game could be moved from Saturday to Friday night, but in that scenario it would be Keene's second game in a seven-day period. Keene beat Merrimack 41-13 Saturday.

2. St. Anselm runs to victory.

Freshman quarterback Marc Wilson rushed for 285 yards to lead St. Anselm to a 28-14 victory over Pace on Saturday. Wilson's rushing effort was a single-game record for a St. Anselm player. The Hawks also set a team record by rushing for 448 yards in the game.

St. Anselm finished 2-8 overall and 1-6 in the Northeast-10 in Pat Murphy's first season as head coach. That has to be considered a step in the right direction, since the Hawks began the season with a 29-game losing streak.

3. Winnisquam's pointless efforts.

Fourth-seeded Winnisquam, which will face top-seeded Franklin in Saturday's Division VI semifinals, didn't allow a point in any of its six regular-season victories. The Bears capped their regular season by beating Farmington, 32-0, Saturday.

4. Exeter/BG leftovers.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about BG's 45-9 victory over Exeter on Friday night was the BG defense, particularly in the third and fourth quarters. Exeter gained 56 yards on 25 second-half plays.

"Speed on the edge," Exeter coach Bill Ball said after the game. "We couldn't sustain anything. At halftime (BG led 21-9) I thought we still had a shot. They took it away from us."

5. Plymouth State.

The winner of Saturday's New England Football Conference championship game between Plymouth State and Maine Maritime will earn an automatic berth in this year's NCAA Division III playoffs. PSU has qualified for the NCAA playoffs three times: 1984, 1994 and 1995.