Who are these guys?
NHIAA DIVISION V PREVIEW
The League: Sanborn (755), Windham (734), St. Thomas (676), Kearsarge (640), Stevens (635), Fall Mountain (632), Bow (613), Somersworth (588), Campbell (550), Bishop Brady (369).
Defending Champion: Trinity beat Bishop Brady, 41-7, in last year's state championship game.
Top Story Line: Intrductions please. There are four teams in Division V that weren't there a year ago.
Player to Watch: St. Thomas junior Jack MacNevin is in his third season as the team's starting quarterback. He's battled the injury bug in each of the last two seasons. When healthy, he's among the top QBs in the state.
Game to Watch: St. Thomas at Kearsarge (Oct. 29). Two of the top teams in the division will meet during the regular season's final weekend. The outcome will likely determine playoff seeding, or possibly playoff teams.
Noteworthy: Campbell, Fall Mountain, Sanborn and Windham are the new teams in Division V. Campbell and Fall Mountain have each moved up from Division VI, Sanborn dropped from Division IV and Windham is a first-year varsity program. Bill Raycraft, who was formerly the head coach at John Stark, is the head coach and athletic director at Windham. ... Pelham, which won two of the last three Division V championships, has moved up to Division II, and Trinity, last year's Division V champion, is now in Division IV. ... St. Thomas coach Rod Wotton enters the season with a 333-77-3 career record. No New England high school football coach has won more games. Wotton will build his offense around MacNevin, a run/pass threat who completed 59 of 155 pass attempts for 831 yards and eight TDs last season. Both of those numbers were down from 2008, when MacNevin threw for 896 yards and 10 TDs. ... Dan Hodsdon is in his first season as Somersworth's head coach. Hodsdon replaced Kevin Hebert, who left to become the athletic director at Spaulding High School.
Coming Thursday: Division VI preview.
-- Roger Brown
