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The Mascenic girls' basketball team snapped its losing streak and picked up its first victory of the season with a wire-to-wire win over visiting Hinsdale on Monday night. 

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The final tally on the scoreboard may have been ConVal 73, Wilton-Lyndeborough 54 at ConVal’s Robert Maguire Gymnasium Thursday afternoon for the Unified Basketball season-opener, but anyone who passed through those gym doors left with a smile on their face.

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No holiday tournament, no problem for the Wilton-Lyndeborough girls' basketball team, who didn't let a two-game skid and a two-week layoff slow them down in their return to action against Pittsfield Friday night. "We needed it coming off of the...

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The chip-on-their-shoulder ConVal Cougars are off to a strong start in their NHIAA Division II boys’ basketball season, with a winning record and a successful holiday tournament appearance. Last winter’s season only brought one win, but the matured...

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The Conant girls’ basketball team entered the holiday break on a three-game skid after losing a frustrating contest with visiting Gilford Monday night. The Orioles started the season with two wins before dropping road games at Monadnock and St....

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Five Conant student-athletes found a new home for hockey this winter, as Tristin Herr, Kaden Kirby, Kam Castricone, Sophia Spingola and Aerowyn Schwertz have joined up with skaters from Monadnock and Fall Mountain to found a cooperative NHIAA program....

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The ConVal girls’ basketball team was tantalizingly close to its first win since February 2023, but a late surge from visiting Sanborn turned Monday’s home opener sour in the final minutes. Tied at just 22 with three minutes left in the game, the...

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Controlled chaos came to ConVal Saturday morning as wrestlers from 21 schools around New England competed in the Cougars' annual Early Bird tournament. With three mats going simultaneously, the all-day affair saw more than 400 matches wrestled, and...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,”...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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The steadily improving Conant girls' soccer team gets better and better each year under head coach Devon Spirka, but after a 3-0 start, dropped its next three games before a tie with Trinity Sept. 23 and a 2-0 win over Belmont Saturday.In the second...

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The Conant boys' soccer team played its best ball of the fall against Sanborn Friday, but their early spark burned out quickly in the late September sun. Conant (0-8) played a solid first half that coach Heather Sawyer said was their best of the...

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A tie in soccer can give a team the same lift as a win or the same deflation as a loss. The ConVal boys' soccer team was dealt the latter on Tuesday after surrendering an early 2-0 lead over Pembroke that turned into a 2-2 tie, the third deadlock of...