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Bulldogs help the community

Friday, February, 01 By Matt Jenkins
Staff writer

It will never show up in a box score or on a stat sheet, but the North Shore Tech team picked up a team assist recently. The Bulldogs followed through with a community service project by holding a gas card raffle, with the idea of raising enough money to buy uniforms for a needy soccer team in Tela, Honduras.

North Shore ended up raising over $400 and ordered complete soccer uniforms | shirts, shorts, and socks | and sent them to Honduras on Saturday.

"Being part of a team is such a great experience for kids, and especially when kids put on a uniform. Kids always love getting uniforms and picking out numbers. It's a sense of pride," North Shore coach Maureen Robinson said. "There's something to be said about teamwork. It's a good life lesson to raise enough money to buy 15 full uniforms. The (North Shore) kids were so proud and happy knowing that the money wouldn't be going to them, but to kids that are less fortunate."

Robinson applauded her captains | Ashley Montanez, Whitney Bell, and Torrie Asaro | for taking the lead in the project. North Shore has a connection with Honduras because Robinson's father, Norman Robinson, is from Honduras, as is Bulldogs' player Shirley Blancos.

"We sent a little North Shore Tech to Honduras," Robinson said. "The school is Jazmin (pronounced has-mean) and on the back of the uniform shirt, above the numbers in half-inch lettering, we had North Shore Tech, Mass., USA put on there."