SEEKING SOLUTIONS: New Ipswich training program helps get young referees in the game

By ASHLEY SAARI

A young referee makes a call on the court of the Mascenic Regional High School gymnasium.Immediately after comes a pop quiz. What was the call? What is the hand signal? What happens next?That’s because this call wasn’t made in the middle of an actual...

Raelin Deschenes of Rindge finishes go-kart season third overall

Raelin Deschenes, 8, of Rindge, finished third in overall points for the Claremont Motorsport Rookie Champ A division for go-karting.Deschenes ended the season tied for second, and placed third due to win rate, which is the tiebreaker. Out of her 13...

William Simard, Erin O’Shea compete in New England cross-country championships

William Simard of ConVal High School finished his cross-country season Saturday with a 23rd-place finish at the New England Interscholastic XC Championship at Wickham Park in Manchester, Conn.On Nov. 2, he finished third at the Meet of Champions, and...

Mascenic run ends in boys’ soccer state semifinals

By BEN CONANT

When Gorham’s Jack Saladino scored his first goal against Mascenic, the Vikings still had a glimmer of a chance to win. By the time he netted his second and then a third, the NHIAA Division IV boys’ soccer semifinal was all but over, and the Huskies...

Mascenic boys’ soccer makes semifinals in overtime thriller

By BEN CONANT

Mascenic didn't start with its usual spark in the NHIAA Division IV boys' soccer quarterfinal game against Hinsdale Saturday, but in overtime, the slow burn turned to pyrotechnics in an instant, as the Vikings scored the sudden-victory golden...

Derryfield gets even with Boynton to win field hockey title

By FRED FLORETH

The Derryfield Middle School girls’ field hockey team defeated Boynton Middle School Saturday afternoon 2-0 to claim the championship of Division 3 of the Tri-County League. The D-3 league is made up of the smallest schools from Hillsborough,...

ConVal boys’ soccer shut out in quarterfinals

By DAVID ALLEN

Targeted passing and flooding ConVal’s end made the difference Saturday as Lebanon High School notched a 2-0 win over ConVal in the quarterfinals of the Division II boys’ soccer playoffs.   The Raiders ended the fourth-seeded Cougars’ season with one...

Mascenic field hockey falls to Bishop Brady in quarterfinals

By BEN CONANT

Mascenic's field hockey odyssey was cut short Monday, as sixth-seeded Bishop Brady upset the third-seeded Vikings in the NHIAA Division III quarterfinals in New Ipswich, "We knew they were going to be tough," Mascenic head coach Selena Shaw said after...

Wilton-Lyndeborough boys’ soccer enters playoffs strong

By BEN CONANT

The Wilton-Lyndeborough boys’ soccer team heads into the Division IV playoffs Wednesday after a strong finish to the regular season. WLC (6-6-4) has only lost once in its past seven games following Thursday night’s 0-0 tie with visiting sixth-seeded...

ConVal’s William Simard wins state 5K championship

ConVal High School William Simard won the state Division II boys’ 5,000-meter cross-country championship Saturday at Derryfield Park in Manchester, covering the course in 16 minutes, 49.6 seconds.His teammate, senior Joshua Decker, finished 24th in a...

Conant girls’ soccer upsets Campbell behind Vitello's hat trick

By BEN CONANT

The Conant girls’ soccer team got its biggest win of the season Tuesday, striking three times off the foot of junior Riley Vitello to hand visiting Campbell just its second loss of the season. “We knew that Campbell was going to be a tough game,”...

Wilton-Lyndeborough boys’ soccer clinches playoff birth

By DAVID ALLEN

The Wilton-Lyndeborough boys’ soccer squad earned a playoff berth Friday night with a 1-0 victory over Pittsfield under the lights. “When these guys click, they’re impressive,” said Wilton-Lyndeborough coach Dan Nelson. “Better communication and...

Hakala takes fourth title as Mascenic’s golf dominance continues

By BEN CONANT

Mascenic’s Josiah Hakala capped off his golf career with some fireworks last week, completing an unprecedented four-year championship sweep while leading the Vikings to their second straight Division IV team title.On Saturday at Concord’s Beaver...

Elizabeth McGurk runs 100-mile race in Utah

By ELIZABETH MCGURK

Elizabeth McGurk of Lebanon, a former runner at Mascenic High School, recently ran a 100-mile race in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. This is her recap of the event.I had this feeling that I needed to get something profound out of Wasatch, and yet when...

Homecoming is happy occasion for ConVal football

By BEN CONANT

It has been a long, hard road for ConVal dozen senior football players, but Friday night in front of their raucous, pink-clad Homecoming crowd, the Cougars’ hard work paid off with a 52-8 blowout win over Hollis-Brookline that featured a litany of big...

From the field to the fight: Jennifer Frost’s journey and her team’s mission

By DANIELLE MCCARTHY

 Jennifer Frost of Seabrook never saw it coming.As a standout field hockey player, she had powered through her entire senior season at Winnacunnet High School in the fall of 2023 without a hitch. A stalwart forward with a reputation for grit and...

ConVal boys’ soccer rallies for win over Kingswood

By BEN CONANT

Ryan Close and the ConVal boys’ soccer team simply believed they were going to win Tuesday’s game against visiting Kingswood.Even when they were down 2-0 in the first period, well before Close got ConVal on the board by heading in the Cougars’ first...

Friends of the Poor 5K raises funds for St. Vincent de Paul

By ASHLEY SAARI

On Saturday, 43 runners and 37 walkers participated in the annual Friends of the Poor 5K, the largest fundraiser for the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Greenville.The race raises funds for the pantry, which serves New Ipswich, Temple, Greenville...

Young Mascenic girls’ volleyball squad works through growing pains

By BEN CONANT

The Mascenic girls’ volleyball team is growing in fits and starts and still finding its identity halfway through their Division III season.For the better part of the last decade, the Vikings seemed to be title contenders nearly every season. This...

Conant’s volleyball team’s progress slows against Fall Mountain

By BEN CONANT

The Conant volleyball team is a lot better than their straight-set loss to Fall Mountain Monday evening that head coach Kerry Linstad called a step back."I have higher expectations of them than what we are at right now," Linstad said after the game....