Division I
PORTSMOUTH – Coming into the season, freshmen Derek Swartz and Finn McCauley figured to have big roles in helping to determine if the Portsmouth High School boys basketball would have a chance at competing at the top of the Division I standings. The frontcourt duo have done more than just fill into
Division I
WINDHAM – Approaching the midway point of the fourth quarter of Friday night’s game against Pinkerton Academy, the Windham High School girls basketball team was in danger of losing its third game against a team with whom the Jaguars are competing atop the Division I standings. Windham displayed som
Division I
PORTSMOUTH – After winning championships in the other three divisions over the past three seasons, the Concord Christian Academy girls basketball team climbed the last rung of the competition ladder when it jumped into the deep end of Division I this winter. The Kingsmen may have lost their season
Division I
DERRY – Sophomore Gemma Murray was given the task to guard recent Pinkerton Academy's 1,000-point scorer Sydney Gerossie entering Londonderry High School’s girls basketball rivalry matchup against the Astros on Friday. Murray did her job on her defensive assignment and complemented Londonderry’s le
Division I
DERRY – Matt Luongo was in the midst of a rivalry battle with Pinkerton Academy when the Londonderry High School senior got elbowed in the nose and subsequent bleeding occurred early in the third quarter of Friday night’s basketball game. After roughly eight minutes of game time, Luongo returned to
Division II
HOLLIS – Throughout his sophomore season, Alton Williams and the rest of his teammates on the Hollis Brookline High School boys basketball team took their lumps in a rebuilding year that saw the Cavaliers finish at 4-14. With that year under his belt, Williams has developed upon his pure athleticis
Division II
PELHAM – After graduating seven seniors from a program that won the past two Division II championships, the new-look Pelham High School boys basketball team got off to a tough start with a pair of losses to begin this winter. There may be different faces taking on leadership but the championship pr
Division III-IV
DOVER – There came a point during the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s game against Campbell that St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys basketball coach Dave Morissette stopped asking his white-hot sophomore guard Cole McClure to call a play and decided to just let him decide. That’s the special kind of
Division I
EXETER – With senior point guard Nate McNeff in the backcourt and classmate Nik Greco up front, Exeter High School boys basketball coach Jeff Holmes feels pretty good about his team’s prospects entering the second half of the season. The duo showed how much of a crucial difference they can make dur
Division I
EXETER – Logan O’Connell has thrived in becoming the top scoring threat for the Bedford High School boys basketball team this winter, but he knows a lot of his success has been parlayed from the blossoming play of senior center Connor O’Rourke. O’Rourke’s emergence as an overall presence in the pai
Division I
PORTSMOUTH – Scoring points hadn’t been a problem for the Portsmouth High School boys basketball team in winning its opening five games of the season. But there was a sense early on Friday night the Clippers were going to be tested by an Alvirne squad that brought plenty of physicality. Portsmouth
Division I
DOVER – When Ray Farmer took over as coach of the Trinity High School boys basketball team last season, he certainly didn’t expect that his extremely youthful group would take him on a ride to the Division I semifinals. Trinity was still lacking a lot of significant varsity experience entering this