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DURHAM - The Salem High School boys basketball team put in the grinding early to slowly build a lead over Portsmouth and capped it off with a flawless fourth quarter, as the Blue Devils defeated the Clippers 40-26 in Wednesday's Division I semifinals at the University of New Hampshire. The wins hel
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MANCHESTER - It was a wild contest in the Division I boys hockey semifinal at JFK Coliseum, and it was fifth-seeded Trinity High School escaping the chaos and defeating No. 9 Salem 4-3 to advance to its first state title game since 2011. The Pioneers came back from an early 1-0 deficit to secure th
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LONDONDERRY – In rivalry games, the outcome is typically decided by which team does the little things better.On Friday evening, the Salem High School boys basketball team went on the road with playoff seeding on the line and made all the extra-effort plays down the stretch, coming back from a seven-
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MERRIMACK - A win doesn't count for any more than just that in the final week of the regular season, but for the Salem High School girls basketball team, getting one Tuesday night against Merrimack felt like more than one. Coming off a loss their last time out, and down a couple of players due to i
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The start was almost too good for the Salem High School girls basketball team. The Blue Devils' first two shots of Friday night's 61-54 win over Goffstown, 3-point attempts by Stella Hazelton, found nothing but net, and Salem led 6-0 before the game was a minute old. Christina Aboujaoude followed
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GOFFSTOWN - The Salem High School girls basketball team knew that no matter what it did Friday night, Goffstown wasn't going to go away easily. So despite leading by as many as 10 points in every quarter, the Blue Devils had to grind to the final buzzer. While Salem was just 3 of 8 at the free th
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HUDSON – No one has been able to smack around the Salem High School boys basketball team this winter. That was until the Blue Devils met Alvirne on Tuesday evening. The Broncos won the first half, 45-20, and buried eight 3-pointers in the opening 16 minutes during a wire-to-wire 72-47 triumph over
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SALEM - Rob McLaughlin isn't too worried when the Salem High School boys basketball team has a bad shooting night. Not when the Blue Devils can defend like they did Tuesday against Winnacunnet. Salem's defense forced a dozen turnovers in the second half and held the Warriors to just two points ove
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SALEM – The power play unit didn’t win Wednesday’s game for the Salem High School boys hockey team. It did put the Blue Devils in the right frame of mind. With Londonderry taking three penalties in the row in the second period, Salem played with a man advantage for almost six minutes, getting one
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SALEM - When the Pinkerton Academy football team faced Salem High School in the regular season, the Blue Devils found a weakness they could exploit in the Astros' defense. After that loss, Pinkerton coach Brian O'Reilly felt confident that if the teams met again, things would be different. The No.
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Brian O'Reilly will feel a lot more comfortable going into this weekend's Division I semifinal against Salem than he did a week ago against Londonderry. All the Pinkerton Academy football coach has to point to to get the Astros motivated is a 15-14 loss to the Blue Devils back on Sept. 28, a game t
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HAMPTON - Midway through the first half, a player on the Winnacunnet High School bench tried to pump his team up by screaming “they can’t run on us boys!” The “they” was the Salem Blue Devils, and by the end of the game, they had shown Winnacunnet they could do more than run the ball. The Blue Devi