ANOTHER CHAPTER was added to the story of Spiro Theodhosi's star-crossed college career with the Brown University football team.

It's a sadly familiar one.

Theodhosi's season came to an end last weekend when he suffered a Lisfranc foot injury that will require surgery on Wednesday. He suffered the injury on his first carry against Rhode Island after an opposing player fell on him from behind.

Theodhosi calls the latest injury that ended another season “frustrating.” Others might use a stronger term.

After battling back from not one, but two season-ending knee injuries, Theodhosi was putting together a head-turning senior season senior for the Bears. He went into the URI game ranked third in the Ivy League in rushing, averaging 115.7 yards per game, and Brown coach Phil Estes, a Laconia native and former University of New Hampshire player and coach, believed he would have gotten looks from NFL scouts as a fullback.

“It's really frustrating,” Theodhosi said in a phone interview Friday. “The team left for Princeton today and I'm not going. There's no point.”

There have been several Lisfranc injuries suffered by players in the NFL this season and, in a recent article he wrote for the in the Huffington Post, Dr. Neal Blitz said “even with surgery, Lisfranc injuries tend to rehab poorly, and can be a career ending event.”

Still, Theodhosi holds out hope that his career may not be over. He has one more year of eligibility left and although he can not play again for Brown — the Ivy league gives student-athletes eight semesters to use their eligibility — he could transfer to a college in another conference.

“If that's something I want to do, I can do it,” Theodhosi said. “Right now, I'm hobbling on crutches and trying to go to class.”

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LOVES TO GO HOME: Keene is not really a homecoming for North Hampton's Lauren Greer since it is on the other side of the state, but it is the only stop she makes in New Hampshire with the Middlebury College field hockey team. Greer, the reigning Division III player of the year, scored two goals and assisted on another last week when the third-ranked Panthers routed Keene State, 9-0. Greer is leading the country in scoring with 22 goals and 54 points in her first 11 games. In the only two games Greer has ever played in her home state — both at Keene State — she has three goals. You can be sure the Owls will be glad to see her go; in the four games they have faced Middlebury during Greer's time there, Keene State is 0-4, has been out-scored 24-1 and has been torched by Greer to the tune of eight goals.

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THE HONOR ROLL: New Hampshire athletes turned in some notable performances last week. In field hockey, Merrimack College's Jen Otis of Penacook was named NE-10 player of the week after racking up four goals and two assists in three wins, while Endicott senior goalie Taylor Teixeira of Exeter was named the defensive player of the week in the Commonwealth Coast Conference after turning in a sparkling effort in a 3-1 win over Nichols that mobved the gulls into first place. In men's soccer, Lasell junior forward Mike Skelton of Conway (Kennett) was named player of the week in the GNAC after scoring a pair of game-winning goals, while Simmons senior Megan Coffey of Wilmot Flat (Kearsarge) was named cross country runner of the week in the GNAC for finishing second at the Pine Manor Invitational. In women's tennis Simmons junior Margaret Teague of Manchester (Manchester Central) was named the GNAC player of the week after going 4-0 in No. 1 singles and doubles, while Becker College freshman Kathleen Razzaboni of Hooksett was named the NECC rookie of the week. In volleyball, University of New England junior setter Maria Keuhl of Middleton (Farmington) was named player of the week in the Commonwealth Coast Conference after averaging double-digits in assists and digs during a 3-0 week.

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RESPECT FOR THE RAVENS: Two years ago, the Franklin Pierce University men's basketball team was 6-21 and didn't make the NE-10 playoffs. This year, the Ravens of Rindge head into the season as the No. 2 team in Division II in one preseason poll. The Division II Bulletin pegged FPU No. 2 in its preseason poll and named senior guard Eric Jean-Guillaume the preseason national player of the year. The Ravens are coming off 22-8 campaign that ended in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Jean-Guillaume was the NE-10 player of the year and a second All-America after averaging 14.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.3 steals.

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THE BEYOND THE BORDERS SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON: Paige Rachel of Manchester (Central). The freshman gave the Temple University women's soccer team its first Atlantic 10 win of the season last weekend when she scored her first collegiate goal 14 minutes into overtime of a 1-0 win at Duquesne. The Owls have been starved for offense, going into this weekend having scored six goals in their first 14 games, and only one in the seven games before Rachel's extra time heroics. Rachel went into this weekend having played in all 14 games for Temple, making nine starts.

jfennell@unionleader.com