John Fagula has always been a fan of Westerns. Sunday night at Southern New Hampshire University, his script - 32 years in the making - was finally complete. Cast in the leading role was sharpshooter Aliza Simpson, who finished her high school career with a game-high 16 points, with trusted ...
SOFTBALL Men’s league looking for players The Merrimack Men’s Slo-Pitch Softball League is looking for players to fill out rosters for the 2014 season. The league plays on Monday and Wednesday evenings from late April through mid-September at Martel and Twardosky fields ...
Merrimack wanted one more shot at undefeated Manchester Central. The third-seeded Tomahawks got exactly what they asked for. For 5 minutes and 11 seconds Saturday afternoon, Merrimack (19-3) made its bid for an upset over the top-seeded Little Green (22-0) in Lundholm Gymnasium on the campus ...
CONCORD – If you’re looking for perfection, the Souhegan High School boys hockey team offered a glimpse of it on Thursday night – and at the perfect time. The No. 2 Sabers (17-2) jumped out to a 3-0 lead and never looked back in a 7-1 Division III semifinal rout ...
Although it might not feel like it outside, the winter season has come to an end. But before we make the move from indoors to outdoors – and hopefully it’s warmer when we do – let’s take a moment to look back on one hectic season, and one that will ...
DURHAM - Pembroke Academy senior Pat Welch was nervous for a very brief moment in time as the Spartans’ once double-digit lead dwindled to just five (41-38) with 5:08 left in regulation. That’s as close as Welch, who scored 15 points, and Kafani Williams, who had a ...
If it hadn’t been for the experience of the 2008 basketball season, Sean Young isn’t sure he would have won a championship in 2014. Young, the current boys basketball coach at Epping High School, helped lead Wilton-Lyndeborough to the then-Class S championship game in ...
MANCHESTER – Good feelings. That’s what has surrounded the Souhegan High School boys hockey program the last couple of years, culminating in this past weekend’s Division III state championship. Joe Nutting, the Sabers’ high scoring forward who scored the ...
MANCHESTER – State championships aren’t supposed to come easy; perhaps that’s why the Souhegan High School boys hockey team will appreciate its 2014 Division III title even more than usual. “It was the toughest game we had all year, no doubt,” ...
The Bedford High School boys basketball team entered the Trinity gym with intensity, but the Bulldogs departure was solemn as their season came to a conclusion. The No. 2 Pioneers put an end to the No. 7 Bulldogs’ 11-game winning streak, 50-45, in the Division I quarterfinals on ...
TRAVEL BASKETBALL Third-grade girls The Bedford girls beat Litchfield 10-8 to advance to the league semifinals. Sydney Grogan and Tally Coulter led the offense while Ally Garron, Sydney Buffet and Zoe Santos led the stellar defense. Fourth-grade girls The Bedford girls defeated Londonderry ...
The sixth-seeded Hollis Brookline High School boys basketball team was seconds away from overtime in Saturday’s Division II quarterfinal against No. 3 Lebanon. With the game tied at 51 and the Raiders with the ball, Kalin Sou’s 3-point attempt from the corner with about ...
SOFTBALL Youth signups Hollis/Brookline Youth Softball is holding signups for the 2014 season. There are teams available for U10 rookies, U12 minors and majors, and U16 juniors. Registration closes on March 20. Evaluations for minors and majors will be held March 22. To register, visit ...
Eric Gendron was his usual self, scoring a game-high 24 points and coming up one rebound shy of a double-double with nine. Still, the focus of Monday night’s 58-46 Division I boys basketball semifinal win over Trinity wasn’t on the Tomahawks’ offense. Third-seeded ...
The Merrimack High School boys hockey team had Saturday’s Division II quarterfinal against Dover won twice. But a bounce here and a bounce there, and instead of moving on to the final four for the third time in four years, the No. 7 Tomahawks saw their season come to an end. Up 2-1 ...
SOFTBALL Men’s league looking for players The Merrimack Men’s Slo-Pitch Softball League is looking for players to fill out rosters for the 2014 season. The league plays on Monday and Wednesday evenings from late April through mid-September at Martel and Twardosky fields ...
MILFORD – Most teams might have folded watching a halftime lead disappear while going scoreless for the first five minutes of the third quarter. This year’s Milford High School girls basketball team is not most teams. After No. 8 Pembroke opened the second half with an 8-0 ...
AMHERST – The Souhegan girls basketball team could not overcome a rough start as they fell to Coe-Brown in the quarter-finals of the Division II playoffs on Friday night, 48-39. Senior Mickenzie Larivee and the Sabers’ defense showed up for all four quarters, but the ...
NASHUA – Souhegan High School boys hockey coach Dan Belliveau wanted to make sure his team got off to a fast start in its Division III tournament quarterfinal game with Laconia-Winnisquam on Saturday at Conway Arena. He not only got a fast start from his Sabers, he got basically a ...
MILFORD BOYS BASKETBALL Division II Prelims March 5: No. 2 Portsmouth 62, No. 15 Milford 21 The Spartans trailed by only five in the dying minutes of the second quarter, but Portsmouth would go on a 9-0 run and would never look back, as they advanced to the quarterfinals. Milford had ...