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Bishop Brady head coach Skip Foy has a luxury that any high school coach, especially at the Division III level, would love to have: three reliable starting pitchers.It’s a big reason why the Giants haven’t allowed more than four runs in a game all...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

BELMONT – Belmont High’s baseball season has been one of streaks: After losing the season opener, the Red Raiders won five in a row before losing four in a row. They’ve followed that up with four straight wins, the latest a 10-5 victory over...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

PENACOOK – The bottom of the first inning for Merrimack Valley’s offense on Thursday proceeded as follows: E5, single, fielder’s choice, grand slam, single, walk, single, E6, double, flyout, single, flyout, double, caught stealing.Thirteen batters...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – Tuesday’s matchup between Hopkinton and Concord Christian featured two programs with quite different histories behind them: The Hawks, the defending Division III champions who’ve annually produced one of the strongest programs in the state,...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Concord senior Olivia Crawford has two words written in Sharpie on her softball visor: Unfinished Business.Her sophomore year, the Tide lost in the Division I championship game to Salem. Her junior year, they lost in the championship to Exeter. The...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

BOW – With just five games remaining in their regular season, the Falcons desperately needed a win on Monday to get back to .500, and win they did – 6-3 over rival Merrimack Valley.Bow (6-6) jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning on an RBI...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Four years ago, Coe-Brown softball took down Hollis-Brookline, 9-5 as Drew Ceppetelli, a senior captain for the Bears, went 3-for-3 with an RBI and run scored.“Just another day for Cepp,” head coach Dave Allis said about the game on May 8,...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

WEARE – John Stark entered Tuesday’s game against Laconia in need of not only a win, but a comfortable win. In the midst of five games in six days, the Generals came into the day having lost four of their last five after a 3-0 start.That five-game...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

NORTHWOOD – Coe-Brown baseball head coach Rob Stockman doesn’t talk about his team like they’re 6-3, already matching their win total from 2022. He knows the Bears are still a work in progress. Monday was his latest reminder: an 8-0 loss to rival...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Kevin O’Brien retired as the Merrimack Valley athletic director last June after working in the school district for 37 years. But, he decided to stick around for a third season as the Pride’s softball coach. Now 5-4 through this weekend after beating...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Concord High School athletic trainer Kristal Terpstra didn’t even know what an athletic trainer was when she was in high school.As a student at Lynnville-Sully, a school of under 200 students in rural Iowa, about 50 miles east of Des Moines, she...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

BOW – Watch a Bow girls’ lacrosse game, and there’s a high probability you’ll watch the Falcons score 19 goals. The only question is how many will they allow? On Friday against Coe-Brown, it was another shutout, the latest in a string of dominant...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The City of Concord is nearing completion of an enclosed soccer structure that can be used nearly year-round as part of the recreation department’s improvements to Keach Park.The soccer mini pitch’s dimensions are roughly 50 x 100 feet, according to...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – April break for the Crimson Tide began in Londonderry, featured a 4.5-hour drive to Cooperstown, N.Y. and ended back in the state capital with Concord wrapping up a 4-0 week beating Trinity on Friday, 7-6.Despite having won three in a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

For years, trying to follow a Belmont baseball game was like a complex game of concentration: Were the Red Raiders winning or losing? Or was the game tied? Was it a full count on the batter? Or was the count 2-1? Over the 16-year tenure of Matt...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Beth Corkum graduated Concord High School with six of her basketball teammates, an especially large number for a roster that generally has about 12 players.Two of them, Cedra Lee Christiansen Davis and Katherine Trice, have since passed away. But...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

BOW – After a tight, low-scoring first half, the Bow Falcons pulled away from visiting Bishop Brady in the final 24 minutes, winning 9-6 and extending their win streak to five to start the season.Tied 2-2 at the half, the Falcons rode a 4-0 third...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

When Bow senior Cole McLaughlin was tasked with coming up with his high school senior project, his mind immediately went to where he spent so much time over his four years as a Falcon: the football field.A four-year varsity player, he was part of a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Coaching runs in the Whitmore family.Bill Whitmore – former Concord High School athletic director from 1990-2006 – was the men’s basketball coach at the University of Vermont and an assistant at St. Bonaventure in the ‘80s. Now his son, Nick, has a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Things didn’t look great early for Bow softball in its season opener at NHTI on Friday against Oyster River. The Falcons trailed 1-0 after two innings and 2-0 after 4½ before tying the game at 2 in the fifth, allowing a run in the top of the seventh...