We’re just over halfway through most fall sports, but the NHIAA golf season is almost done. All four team championships will be decided this week on Tuesday and Thursday at different courses across the state, while five individual titles will be crowned on Saturday morning at Concord’s Beaver Meadow Golf Course. A preview of all four team championships and how Capital Area programs fared in the regular season is below.

Division I

Tuesday at
Canterbury Woods CC

Qualified teams: Bedford (23-1), Concord (24-2), Windham (20-3), Dover (20-4), Exeter (19-7), Londonderry (15-10), Salem (14-11), Keene (14-12).

Area competitors: Concord – Zach Nelson, Carl Sirrianna, Jaden Haas, Parker Lamb, Holden Martin, Bobby Rochford, Keller Ramshaw, David Bourgeois.

Notes: The defending champions from Concord finished second in the D-I regular season standings and had six different golfers achieve medalist honors over the course of 10 matches. Seniors Sirrianna, Rochford and Martin, junior Morin and sophomores Nelson and Haas have all been the Tide’s top scorers and medalists this season. The only two Concord players competing on Tuesday – seniors Ramshaw and Bourgeois – who did not win medalist in any of the 10 matches, both have made the cut for the individual championship before, with Bourgeois having a breakout day to finish fourth in D-I last year. Defending its title and having several golfers make the cut for Saturday’s individual championship is certainly a possibility for Concord.

Division II

Tuesday at Windham CC

Qualified teams: Winnacunnet (26-2), Bow (24-4), Portsmouth (24-4), St. Thomas (23-6), Souhegan (20-6), Oyster River (18-9), Kingswood (15-15), Timberlane (13-14).

Area teams not advancing: Merrimack Valley (13-16), Pembroke (6-22).

Area competitors: Bow – Jake Gancarz, Owen Webber, Andre Contreras, Aidan O’Keeffe, Brendan O’Keeffe, Cavot Blaney, Mikey Madgziasz, Sean Walton; MV – Isaak Davis, Colton Magoon; Pembroke – Cameron Carter, Zac Bemis.

Notes: Bow head coach Matt Davis thought this year’s team could improve on last year’s sixth-place finish, but going 13-0 to open the season before picking up a loss defied his own expectations. Although everything gets reset on Tuesday, the Falcons are in the conversation for the crown. Bow has been led by a steady top four of Gancarz, Webber, Aidan O’Keeffe and Contreras, and if any Falcon golfers make the cut for Saturday’s final, they will have the advantage of playing on their home course. MV finished ninth in the standings, just one place shy of qualifying for Tuesday’s round, but every non-qualifying team still gets to send two golfers to compete for a spot in the individual final.

Division III

Thursday at Rochester CC

Qualified teams: Bishop Brady (28-2), Derryfield (26-4), Gilford (23-6), Plymouth (23-7), Pelham (21-9), Stevens (20-10), Lebanon (20-10), Coe-Brown (14-15).

Area teams not advancing: John Stark (11-18), Kearsarge (7-22).

Area competitors: Bishop Brady – Mady Savary, Cam Fortier, Aiden Boule, Alex Pelletier, Chase Connor, Peyton Cone, Luke Bedard; Coe-Brown – Alex Myslinkski, Colby Strum, Will Marshall, Grant Hardy, Matt Hamer, Sam Spier, Caleb Jobin; John Stark – Daniel Brisson, Landon Duclos; Kearsarge – Owen Blood, JT Pourby.

Notes: This is the only division in which two area teams are competing. In two years, Bishop Brady has gone from 6-21 and not making the tournament (2022) to finishing fifth (2023) and to now topping the regular-season standings. The Giants only have two blemishes on their record (to Derryfield and Pelham) and haven’t lost a match since Sept. 3. Senior captain Boule and sophomores Savary and Fortier have been consistent leaders and have all won medalist this fall. Savary, last year’s fourth-place finisher, has already locked up a return to Beaver Meadow in the girls’ individual championship due to a top-six finish in the girls’ qualification round two weeks ago.

Division IV

Thursday at Keene Country Club

Qualified teams: Mascenic (24-1), White Mountains (19-2), Conant (15-5), Littleton (19-7), Gorham (16-6), Woodsville (15-8), Inter-Lakes (12-8), Fall Mountain (13-9).

Area teams not advancing: Hopkinton (13-11), Hillsboro-Deering (9-13), Concord Christian (8-17), Belmont (5-17).

Area competitors: Hopkinton – Bronson Ammann, Tate Doolan; H-D – Gavid Ford, Lenny Seymour; Concord Christian – Connor Faherty, Caleb Thompson; Belmont – Max Ryder, Jordan DeFrancesco.

Notes: Hopkinton finished the regular season in ninth place, one spot away from qualifying for Thursday after an enormous effort in the last two weeks fell just short. Ammann, last year’s D-IV runner-up, and fellow senior captain Doolan will compete for the individual title, as will Hillsboro-Deering’s Ford, who finished fifth last year.