Playoff Time

It was Villanova 46, UNH 7 in an NCAA Quarterfinal game played in a heavy snowstorm. Nova scored on the first New Hampshire play from scrimmage (think about that) and then things got worse. A couple of factoids from Allen Lessels story in the Manchester Union Leader:

• There was 6:25 left in the third quarter when UNH picked up its initial first down of the game.
• Villanova had 344 rushing yards. UNH? Minus 56.

Dartmouth tailback Nick Schwieger was a proud older brother Saturday after Bishop Feehan High School sophomore Zack Schwieger helped his school to a 12-6 win over Marblehead and the MIAA Eastern Mass. Division 3 Super Bowl championship at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. From the Attleboro paper:

... (T)e youngest member of the Schwieger football dynasty at Bishop Feehan High School probably wasn't supposed to play much varsity football this year. Yet there he was Saturday, carrying the ball 23 times and gaining 132 yards, and scoring the winning touchdown in the biggest game of his life to date.

The Portal 31 New Haven Register blog has a look at the early action (not early decision) acceptances at Yale.

And finally, that certain Hanover High senior's team scored big Saturday in an engineering contest at the University of Vermont. Her team won a laptop for her high school, a $500 prize, a second $200 prize in another category, and iPod Nanos for each of the five team members who designed and constructed their device.

Oh yeah, and we got about four inches of snow up here on the mountain yesterday while we were gone. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ...