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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
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DERRY - When the Pinkerton Academy girls basketball team squared off Tuesday against Bishop Guertin, the Astros might have been caught off guard by what they were seeing. The Cardinals came out throwing defensive pressure at Pinkerton, and for most of the first half, it worked. The Astros took a tw
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Here are the 2024 Division I Central Conference All-State Football teams, as selected by the division coaches.
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DERRY - The Nashua High School South boys basketball team spent stretches of Monday night's game against Pinkerton Academy trying to get the lead. When the Panthers finally took it, and looked like they were going to keep control, the Astros did everything they could to get it back. It almost worke
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The top division of New Hampshire high school girls basketball has always been about dynasties.
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EXETER - Life can sometimes get in the way, even for high school coaches. Brian O'Reilly saw it firsthand more than 40 years ago and it gave him the opportunity to become the football coach at Pinkerton Academy. The year was 1978, the Astros were a Division II program at the time, and getting rea
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EXETER - Brian O'Reilly didn't think either of his kickoff returners were going to see a returnable kick during Saturday's Division I championship game, but just in case they did, the Pinkerton Academy football coach had a plan. With the Astros receiving the opening kickoff from Londonderry, both M
Ninth State Sports Show
Pinkerton captured the 2024 Division I football championship with a 42-7 win over Londonderry, and on this week’s show, Joe Marchilena and Mike Lochman breakdown the title game from start to finish.
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EXETER - The Pinkerton Academy football team is always championship driven. But knowing what the Astros lost last year to graduation, and after a mediocre preseason, longtime coach Brian O'Reilly wasn't quite sure what to expect from this year's team going into the regular season. Turns out, he
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Win or lose, Saturday’s Division I title game is not about becoming the winningest coach in New Hampshire high school football, according to Pinkerton Academy coach Brian O’Reilly. Currently tied with former Plymouth coach Chuck Lenahan, who retired with a record of 356-70-1, O’Reilly would hit 35
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The Bedford High School football team was in the habit of getting off to slow starts this season. In some of the Bulldogs bigger games this year, that meant trailing by two touchdowns at some point in the first half. But when that happened, Bedford's offense answered on the ensuing drive after goin
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BEDFORD - When the Pinkerton Academy football team played Bedford High School in the regular season, Matt Morrison was on the field for just seven plays. Fellow senior Jamie Isaac missed the game entirely, as both dealt with injuries that caused them to sit out for parts of this season. In Friday