Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Barnstable High School Class of 2009's Isaiah Voegeli became the third football player in school history to get a shot at NFL stardom yesterday when he signed as an undrafted free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles.
It seems like he was always destined for something this big. Former Barnstable High School four-sport standout Isaiah Voegeli (Class of 2009), who starred the past four years at Merrimack College as an all-conference wide receiver, signed a contract yesterday as an undrafted free agent with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. Voegeli was a Red Raider varsity letterman in football, track, lacrosse and baseball, a rare, four-sport letterman. Voegeli's athleticism was so prominent in high school that he hit .478 in his first season as a shortstop for Barnstable Post 206 American Legion - three years removed from having played baseball. The 5-foot-11, 177-pound wideout was dominant as a senior, registering the most catches (10.9) and receiving …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
In the annual celebration of the 120-year-old Barnstable High School football program, as well as its salute to the school's 15-time volleyball state champions, hundreds of fans flocked to Main Street, Hyannis and the village green Wednesday afternoon.
Welcome to a "Sea of Red." Such was the premonitory speech delivered by 2nd year Barnstable High School head coach Chris Whidden Wednesday afternoon, as the BHS Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade culminated on the Hyannis Village Green, much to the delight of hundreds of fans, parents, players and alumni. The annual parade - begun in the 1940s as a salute to BHS football players who returned home as veterans from World War II - vanished from the local scene for three years before returning in 2007, with thanks to the school's football booster club, The Quarterback Club, founded in 1967. Centerville's Judy Lambert, whose son Mark Lambert is a senior wide receiver for the Red & White, chaired the club's parade committee and by all accounts it …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Barnstable High School football team (7-0) retained its unbeaten mark this afternoon at W. Leo Shields Memorial Field in Hyannis with a 46-33 barnburner against guest Billerica High (2-6).
This one rattled some nerves. Still ranked atop the Eastern Mass. polls heading into this afternoon's home game versus first-time-ever opponent Billerica High School, the Barnstable Red Raiders seemed a bit rusty at times after a bye week, but thanks to some incredible defensive play by senior captains and linebackers Andrew Ellis and Ryan Litchman in the second half, victory for the home team was assured. With the score tied at 26-26 with 5:08 left in the third quarter, Barnstable found itself with its back against the wall and was forced to punt. Litchman lofted a 50-yard boot to put Billerica at its own 25. As the Indians started to make progress downfield, senior Dakota Perilli registered his first-career sack to bring up a key 3rd and…
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Barnstable High (1-0) nearly duplicated last year's season-opening rout of Durfee High last night, when it opened the 2012 campaign with a 55-6 thrashing in Fall River, a game replete with the offensive excitement Red Raider fans have grown to love.
Two plays. Two men. Instant victory. In just 19 seconds last night at B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, the Barnstable High School Red Raiders scored all the points they would need to defeat the host Hilltoppers. On the opening kickoff, senior Tedaro France raced downfield 100 yards, was almost tackled at the opposing 15, but squirmed free and netted the first touchdown of the Red Raiders' 2012 campaign. France's 100-yard touchdown on the game's opening kickoff was just the second time in Red Raider history that a kick returner ran for a 100-yard touchdown score. 1970 tri-captain Arthur Pacheco of Centerville held the record all alone for 42 years until last night. Pacheco had a 100-yard kickoff return touchdown on October 17, 1970 …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
On the heels of its first outright Old Colony league title since 2002, the Barnstable High School Red Raiders hope to take their success of 2011 and turn things up a notch and take the season further than an invitation to the playoffs.
Things sometimes seemed a bit strange on the Red Raider gridiron last fall. There was the D.J. Crook injury at New Bedford... the knock-down, drag-out one-point loss at Dennis-Yarmouth that could have gone either way... there was a trip to the playoffs, even with a 7-4 record...there was an almost week-to-week debate in the stands as to who would be quarterback... there were some pretty tense moments on the practice field with bruised egos and tempers flared. But in the end not in a decade had a Red Raider team come together like it did versus Bridgewater-Raynham that chilly night in early November. Even when placekicker extraordinaire Tom Mullen's streak ended in the first quarter at an astonishing 33-33 PAT kicks, did the Red & White …
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Barnstable High School sophomore Hayden Murphy sped through a maelstrom of would-be Bridgewater-Raynham tacklers in overtime and scored the game-winning touchdown from five yards out as the Red Raiders took home the OCL title, 26-20.
A single play changed the course of the entire game. With guest Bridgewater-Raynham (6-2) ahead just 7-6 with 4:51 remaining in the second quarter, and the Trojans standing firm on Barnstable High School's two-yard line, junior captain and inside linebacker Andrew Ellis made a bone-jarring, reverberating tackle on B-R star running back Nick Schlatz that put the senior captain out of the game with a concussion. While B-R nevertheless scored on the ensuing play to make it 13-6, the game, up until that moment, had been a virtual one-man show with Schlatz starring on both sides of the ball. Schlatz scored a 73-yard touchdown on Bridgewater-Raynham's first offensive play of the game, amassed 112 yards rushing on 12 carries and had two …
Rick Wolsieffer
4:21 am on Thursday, May 2, 2013
That's awesome Isaiah! God bless you on your new career....keep Him first and everything will work out! more ›