HOLLIS – For Neil Stone, teaching martial arts takes discipline and concentration. And as days turn into weeks with the COVID-19 crisis, reaching out to his students took some ingenuity and reinvention as he parlayed his classes into the virtual realm. Students at Neil Stone’s Karate ...
More local athletes are able to take a bow. Additional NHIAA Senior Scholar Athletes have been named, this time for Merrimack and Milford High Schools. Again, to be named a Scholar-Athlete, the NHIAA guideline is the seniors honored have at least a B-plus grade point average, play two ...
Al Neville was looking out from his condo the other day and the expansive sea of green he was always fond of seeing, working, and playing on. “I’m looking at it right now,” he said. “Just very blank. Just very green ... It’s sad. I talked to the guy from the Amherst Recreation ...
NASHUA – Jon Goode was making his way back to the area from Manchester late the night of March 11, after watching the Bishop Guertin High School boys hockey team bow to Bedford in the semis. He was on the phone with one of his clients, and then got a text that told him the NBA had just ...
There will be no raising of the title plaque in front of droves of fans for the Bishop Guertin High School girls basketball team. There will be no chance for the Nashua High School North, South, Merrimack, Alvirne and Hollis Brookline boys basketball teams to take the floor at the University ...
Several local high school hockey players were named to the New Hampshire High School Coaches Association’s All-State Boys and Girls Hockey team. A couple were named to their respective Division first teams. In girls hockey, Bishop Guertin defenseman Lindsay Hult and Souhegan defenseman ...
The biggest fish in the smallish Division II South Conference pool is heading for the Seacoast and open water. Milford High senior Gavin Urda, a two-time all-state football selection, has accepted an honor to be a preferred walk-on and attempt to play his college ball at the University of New ...
For many, especially the seniors, the high school boys and girls basketball seasons came to an abrupt halt this winter. Neither the Milford High or Souhegan High girls reached the postseason, while on Monday night, the Sabers and Spartans each bowed out on the road in the opening night of the ...
SALEM - It had to feel good for the Nashua North-Souhegan boys ice hockey team. You were the first team in this co-op history to reach the Division I playoffs. The postseason joy was just too fleeting. There was no upset to be had for the Saber-Titans. At some point, here at the Icenter ...
EXETER – Exeter High set the tone … times three … and that quick jump ended Souhegan High’s season, 4-0, in the Division I girls hockey playoff opener on Tuesday afternoon. The sixth-seeded Blue Hawks put up goals 85, 83 and 126 seconds into each of the periods and kept the No. 11 ...
It is March, time to measure up for many winter high school sports teams. The Milford High boys basketball team, currently 9-8 and trending in the right direction with five wins in the last seven, has one final practice test before the final exam of the Division II state playoffs ...
Welcome to potentially the busiest sports month of the year. The maddening month of March. It’s got everything - all the high school championships being decided; the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball and hockey tournaments, the opening of the Major League Baseball season, plus key ...
GOFFSTOWN – On paper, Bishop Guertin was the clear winner of Saturday’s NHIAA Division II Wrestling Championships. To paraphrase the old saying though, wrestling meets don’t take place on paper, they take place on gym mats. The Cardinals took the overall team title with 255 points on ...
NASHUA - Playoffs. It’s a foreign word for the players on the Nashua High School North-Souhegan hockey team, because they’ve never made them in Division I since the co-op was formed five years ago. But the Saber-Titans took a huge step toward making the state tourney with a 3-1 win ...
NASHUA – A high school hockey girls goalie can be the key thing, but she doesn’t have to be everything. That’s the lesson the Souhegan Sabers learned Monday afternoon in a 7-1 loss at the hands of St. Thomas-Winnacunnet-Dover at Conway Arena. Souhegan was without ill starting goalie ...
The Bedford High School Swim Team celebrated Senior Night during the last home meet of the season vs. Goffstown and John Stark High Schools at the Granite YMCA Allard Center of Goffstown last night. From left, front: Alex Beekman, Sierra Dindorff, Bianca Gallo, Quinn Paltrow-McCole, Brooke ...
NASHUA – Say it ain’t so, Erin Carney. The Bishop Guertin High School girls basketball 1,000-point scorer, who has been a key component of the last three Cardinal Division I titles in a streak of four, will likely play her last organized competitive game next month in the state ...
MERRIMACK – There may not be two high school girls basketball teams closer in talent and grit than the Merrimack and Manchester Memorial High School girls basketball teams. So the 42-40 outcome, in the favor of the Crusaders Tuesday night at the H. Dana Taylor Gym, was no real ...
The Milford High School boys swim team finished sixth to highlight the local efforts in the Division II boys and girls State Meet late Saturday at the University of New Hampshire, while the Souhegan boys were ninth. Oyster River captured the boys title with 205 points, followed by Windham ...
Goffstown High School will host the NHIAA Division II Wrestling Championships on Saturday and both Souhegan High and Milford High will have athletes gunning for titles. Ten Spartans will be hitting the mat, including 126-pounder Deacon Currier, who was a runner-up in this event a year ...