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NASHUA - Christine Hodgdon knew that Thursday's game between her Bedford High School girls lacrosse team and Bishop Guertin was going to be one that went down to the wire. But which side was going to come out on top, that took every moment of regulation, and then some, to decide.Both teams had a fo
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MANCHESTER - The Bedford High School boys hockey team went into Saturday's Division I championship game with something to prove. Not just that it was the best team in the division this season, but that the first time the Bulldogs faced Trinity wasn't indicative of who they were this season. No. 3
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MANCHESTER - With the Bedford and Concord high school boys hockey teams meeting in the first Division I semifinal at JFK Coliseum Wednesday, it meant that the D1 title game would feature one of the two squads as it has every year since 2014. It took a little over four minutes of extra hockey Bedfor
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BEDFORD - There were a couple of things Tim Hopley felt the Portsmouth High School girls basketball were unable to do the first time the Clippers traveled to Bedford a little more than two weeks ago. It never hurts to get a second chance. The Clippers got one Saturday night and they took full adva
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BEDFORD - Kevin Gibbs had a warning for the Bedford High School girls basketball team. Just because the Bulldogs thought they should win Wednesday's Division I preliminary-round game against Nashua North, it's the postseason, and no one wants the season to come to an end. For more than three quart
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BEDFORD - The Bedford and Portsmouth high school girls basketball teams went into Friday's game with identical records, and coming off a loss that snapped a long win streak their last time out. While it didn't start off looking like a game between two evenly-matched teams, it turned into one. Bedf
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DERRY - When Brooke Kane is feeling it, she is hard to stop, and the Pinkerton Academy senior put on a clinic Wednesday night against Bedford. Down seven to the Bulldogs in the third quarter, Kane quarterbacked a massive 20-3 run to bring the Astros all the way back en route to a 55-45 win at Hackl
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GOFFSTOWN - Marty Myers wasn't unhappy with the way the Bedford High School boys hockey team played through two periods of Wednesday night's game against Bishop Guertin. But the Bulldogs coach felt his team had missed out on some opportunities, getting outshot in the first 30 minutes, and after tak
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GOFFSTOWN - When the Pinkerton Academy boys hockey team needed to dig deep Saturday against Bedford, Astros coach Sam Littlefield was confident his team could do it. And sure enough, the Astros did. After the Bulldogs erased a two-goal deficit early in the second period, Pinkerton's Ethan Burgess
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GOFFSTOWN - Scott Dunn felt with the way the Pinkerton Academy girls hockey team had been playing and practicing, the Astros could jump on Bedford early during Saturday's game. Pinkerton was able to do just that, but what have been more important for the team's long-term fortunes was the way it fin
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BEDFORD - The Bedford and Londonderry high school boys basketball teams put together 32 minutes of basketball that built like a great theatrical production. For the rousing climax to the story, there was James Buttafuococ grabbing a rebound and putting it back up at the horn. As he crashed to the g
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BEDFORD - The Keene High School boys basketball team just wouldn't go away. Every time it looked like Bedford had wrestled away momentum in the second half of Friday night's game, the Blackbirds came storming right back. Down five points with under four minutes to play, Keene ended the game on a