Division I
DOVER - Many times Friday it felt like the wind was sucked right out of the Portsmouth-Oyster River High School football team's sails. Moments of brilliance were followed by others the ClipperCats would simply want to forget, which made it a flip of the coin on whether the team would stand victorio
Division I
HAMPTON — Coming off a victory in a low-scoring dogfight last week, it was fair to wonder whether the undefeated Winnacunnet High School football team had finally come back down to earth after thrashing its prior opponents to open the season. Any ideas that the Warriors might be leveling off were p
Division I
PORTSMOUTH - The Bedford High School football team had seen both sides of the coin through its first two games of the 2021 season. A disappointing opener followed by a runaway victory left the Bulldogs seeking to settle on an identity, for better or worse, on Friday night. It was a grind at times,
Division I
DOVER — More often than not, expectations can be thrown out the window for the first game of a new season. The only thing Eric Cumba knew he could count on was an overwhelming enthusiasm from his Dover High football team as it returned to a sense of normalcy following a unique 2020 campaign altered
Division II
You never quite know what’s going to happen from snap to snap in high school football. But when the ball falls into Riley Lawhorn’s hands, the Souhegan High School football team comfortably assumes good things will follow. The faith in Lawhorn’s dynamic running style had been there throughout the
Division II
AMHERST - The challenge each week from Robin Bowkett to his Souhegan High School football team was to “Charlie-Mike” at all cost. The military motto translates to “continue the mission” and it helped spur the Sabers to Saturday’s finale of a not-so-typical 2020 season. Bowkett was happy to report
Division II
AMHERST — The Souhegan High School football team gave up more points on Friday night against Hollis Brookline than it had in all its regular-season contests combined this season. Those circumstances are usually going to spell a doom for any team, but it was a far-from-usual evening for the Sabers.
Division I
MANCHESTER — Friday wasn’t a day made for throwing the football. Below-freezing temperatures after a day of unprecedented October snow seemed like running weather, but Joe Mikol played ignorant to the elements. The junior quarterback improbably found his stride through the air when it mattered most
Division I
EXETER - When you hear the Exeter High boys basketball team didn’t make a field goal in the fourth quarter Friday night, the assumption is that the team slipped up. While that belief is fair, it was not correct. In potentially their most important game of the regular season, the first-place Blue Ha
Division I
DERRY - The Merrimack High School girls basketball team has had one of the toughest remaining schedules, if not the toughest, of any team in the Division I playoff hunt. The Tomahawks are in the midst of a final six-game stretch that pits them against five other playoff teams, including three teams
Division I
HAMPTON - The Exeter High School boys basketball never believed a Division I title defense was going to be a cakewalk this season. Through two months, though, the Blue Hawks have been in cruise control, entering Friday’s rivalry game against Winnacunnet with an undefeated record and a win streak da
Division I
GOFFSTOWN - Anyone trying to gauge what Division I girls’ postseason hoops is going to look like this season likely had their sights set Friday on Goffstown. While there wasn’t much in the way of new revelations from the Goffstown High School girls basketball team’s tilt with Pinkerton Academy to o