On Friday morning, Bishop Guertin football coach and athletic director Tony Johnson said he had “no aversion,” to moving up to Division I football next season, saying he’d do what’s best for his program and New Hampshire football.

In terms of competition, the best idea is a 10-team Division I that would include both Bishop Guertin and Exeter, who have dominated Div. II football for most of the decade. But there’s one big problem. That would leave only eight  teams in Div. II, which most feel is an unworkable number.

Unfortunately, nobody in Div. III is currently interested in moving up, even to a division that didn’t include Bishop Guertin and Exeter.

As of Wednesday’s NHIAA football committee meeting Exeter was moved up, based on enrollment, and Bishop Guertin was in Div. II, based on its petition. In terms of enrollment, Bishop Guertin is a Div. III school, but has traditionally petitioned up to Div. II.

On Friday night Exeter coach Bill Ball said he’s perfectly happy to stay in Div. I, but his kids would miss their Seacoast rivalry games with Winnacunnett, Dover, Spaulding and Timberlane Regional. One way or another, Exeter and Winnacunnet will continue to play.

But if the possibility exists for Bishop Guertin to move up, where it will play Nashua’s two public high schools, Salem, Londonderry, Pinkerton, Manchester Central, Manchester Memorial and Concord, all a short bus ride away, you can bet Exeter would move back to Div. II.

Maybe Johnson and Ball will discuss that possibility before or after tonight’s game between the two schools.

Football fans who hoped to see a super-charged Division I next fall that would include both Exeter and Bishop Guertin will apparently have to settle for a little less.
Exeter is moving up, dictated by its enrollment as the ninth biggest football playing school in the state. Bishop Guertin, however, has decided to stay in Div. [...]

Hollis/Brookline High School athletic director Rhon Rupp confirmed Tuesday that his school was petitioning up in three girls sports for the 2010-2011 school year.
Pending the approval of individual New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association sports committees, the Cavaliers would like to play in Division I in girls soccer, girls volleyball and girls lacrosse.
Hollis/Brookline is traditionally strong [...]

The Pinkerton Academy boys cross country team, coming off their dominating performance at the Catholic Memorial Invitational on Saturday, have overtaken defending Class L champion Bishop Guertin in ranking published in the New Hampshire Cross Country Newsletter.
Pinkerton placed all five of its runners in the top 13 to run away with the meet. Bishop Guertin, [...]

It’s an interesting weekend coming up in local Division II football circles as Bishop Guertin, as powerful as they’ve looked, face a tough road test in Winnacunnet of Hampton. Meanwhile, Alvirne hopes to continue its streak on the road (two straight wins) at Dover and Merrimack is looking forward to a more manageable schedule the [...]

There will be no advance ticket sales for Friday night’s Nashua North vs. Nashua South football game at Stellos Stadium.
Gates will open at 5:30 with ticket prices set at $4 for adults and $2 for students.
The game is one of 16 events in the fall version of Burque Jewelers Battle of the Bridge. So far, the [...]

The best high school cross country rivalry in New England this fall just got a little better. After scores were recalculated following Saturday’s Great Cross Country Festival in Cary, N.C., Bishop Guertin actually edged Bishop Hendricken of Warwick, R.I., by a single point to finish second in the Race of Champions Division.
Originally score tabulations had [...]

The Bishop Guertin boys cross country team finished third on Saturday in the Race of Champions Division of the Great American Cross Country Festival in Cary, N.C.
For the second straight week the Cardinals were edged narrowly at the finish line by Bishop Hendricken of Warwick, R.I., who won last week’s Manchester Invitational. Hendricken finished second [...]

The defending Class L champion Bishop Guertin cross country team retained its No. 1 spot in the New Hampshire Cross Country Team rankings following a second place finish in the Elite Division of the Manchester Invitational.
The Cardinals, who race in North Carolina on Saturday, were edged last Saturday by Bishop Hendricken of Warwick, R.I., who [...]

This week, as we hit the mid-sseason point, Merrimack is finally smiling, Bishop Guertin is playing in space and Alvirne is on the road again. Here’s a look:
BISHOP GUERTIN
The unbeaten Cardinals are facing a Dover team on Saturday night that offensively likes to spread things out.
“The more you spread the offense, the more you get [...]