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By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
NORTHWOOD — Of all the ways Coe-Brown head coach Dave Allis can heap praise on his team, no adjective seems to capture the Bears better than professional. They take professional at bats, they play professional defense and they’re professional in how...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
CONCORD — On the face of it, there aren’t many positives to expect a coach to derive from a 10-3 loss at home. Concord head coach Jeff Smith, though, continues to be encouraged by what he’s seen from a roster composed mostly of sophomores and...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
BOW — Taking over a program with eight incoming freshmen sounded daunting to Cassidy Emerson as she geared up for her first season as the new Bow softball head coach. After Friday’s 9-0 win over Pelham (3-5), though, the Falcons are now 8-1, right...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
PEMBROKE — Thursday evening’s 14-9 victory for Merrimack Valley (6-1) over Pembroke (3-4) was the type of game that neither team wants to dwell on much. Both suffered through sloppy defense and inconsistent pitching, complicated by a mid-game downpour...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
WEARE — The offense has come and gone for head coach Dennis Pelletier’s team through the first three weeks of the 2024 season, but John Stark baseball’s pitching and defense have been more than stout.On Wednesday in a 2-0 win over Bow, junior Chase...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
PENACOOK — Last year, after getting off to a 5-2 start, the Merrimack Valley girls’ lacrosse team dropped four of its last seven games and slid down to the No. 8 seed in Division II. Currently 5-1 after a 14-3 win over Kingswood on Monday, head coach...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
If you’ve attended a sporting event at Merrimack Valley High School, the odds are high you’re familiar with the voice of Nick Gelinas.Perched atop the press box during the spring and fall sports seasons and in the bleachers of the MVHS gym in the...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Maëlle Jacques has read the articles written about her.“Winner of NH Girls High Jump is Biological Male.”“Transgender girl blasted after dominating New Hampshire girls high jump.”“U.S. ‘Full of Failing Gutless Mothers and Fathers’: High School Boy...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
CONCORD — It wasn’t quite the high stakes of a state championship game at Memorial Field on Wednesday night, but Concord (3-0) knew that Winnacunnet (3-1) posed a good early-season test in its third game of the season.In a rematch of last year’s...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
PENACOOK — Merrimack Valley head coach Sean Gill knew something was different about his team this year when 15 of his 25 players wanted to interview to be a team captain.Only four were ultimately chosen, but so far, Gill’s had a whole sideline he can...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
CONCORD – Committing eight errors and allowing 10 unearned runs isn’t often a formula for winning baseball games.Concord’s 15-10, 11-inning loss to Manchester Central-West (1-2) on Monday night was no exception to that rule, but given how close the...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Of all the places Kevin Kelly’s coached football throughout his career, from high schools in the Northeast to the NCAA Division I level at Georgetown to the New York Guardians of the XFL, New England College in Henniker might be his greatest...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Chris Raabe’s not a big fan of all the attention. Being a high school coach is about the athletes and their accomplishments, not her own. But on Wednesday between the rain drops at Bow High School, Raabe won her 300th game as the girls’ lacrosse head...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
BOW – The rosters are a bit different than they were when they met in the Division III semifinals last June, but once again, Bow and Hopkinton required overtime to decide the outcome between the two rivals on Tuesday in the first game of the spring...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
The Bow High girls’ tennis team opened its season about as well as head coach Steve Langevin could’ve hoped on Tuesday with a 9-0 win over Coe-Brown. In singles, Grace Modzeleski beat Abby Coleman, 8-1; Jaden Glace beat Anna Reiff, 8-6; Katie McCabe...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Pembroke Academy senior Joe Fitzgerald, a captain on this year’s boys’ varsity basketball team, finished his high school career with over 1,000 points scored, a milestone only 17 other Spartans have reached.But from Jim Cilley, one of Pembroke’s...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
Earlier this month, the Concord Christian Academy girls’ varsity basketball team took home the Division II state championship — the program's third title in three different divisions in the last three years. The team has moved up into divisions with...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
There’s something cinematic about the Black Ice Tournament at White Park in the middle of the Concord winter. Hockey skates slice across the ice, friends of years past reunite and the community gathers to enjoy hockey, the cold weather and all...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
The contestants don’t have to answer in the form of a question, and there aren’t any Daily Doubles or thousands of dollars to be won, but that’s where most of the differences end.In Granite State Challenge, host Jon Cannon does his best Alex Trebek...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
According to a map posted by the official NCAA men’s March Madness account on X, formerly Twitter, New Hampshire is one of just two states not sending any players to the Division I men’s tournament, which began with the First Four on Tuesday...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
For the first time since 1995, Team New Hampshire took home the Eastern High School Championships title at the Holderness School on Sunday. The Nordic skiing competition features up to the top 48 skiers (24 boys and 24 girls) from each of New...
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