‘Winter Sports’ Archives
Milford wrestlers find success by taking on each other
How do you get a freshman wrestler into the Meet of Champions? Make him practice against a defending champ. How do you get a defending Division II champion to successfully move up a weight class? Have a coach “beat on him on a regular basis.” That’s how the Milford High School wrestling team got Joe Albina, a freshman at [...]
Warriors, Panthers have done this before
Don't expect to see any basketball fans from the Lisbon area asking for directions to Wilton on Tuesday. By now, you'd expect the Panthers to know their way to the Wilton-Lyndeborough gym. For the fourth straight year, the Lisbon Regional boys basketball team will make the nearly three-hour drive to Wilton to take on the Warriors. [...]
Championship Saturday comes to a close
Four different high school championship meets took place on Saturday - two wrestling tournaments along with gymnastics and the state's first high school bowling competition. In Division I wrestling, Timberlane Regional of Plaistow won its 11th consecutive wrestling title by recording a total of 314 points to finish ahead of second-place [...]
Warriors play the waiting game
The Wilton-Lyndeborough boys basketball team ended its regular season on Thursday. Now the Warriors will wait until Monday to find who their opponent will be in the first round of the Class S playoffs. WLC (13-5) finished off with a 73-30 win over Nute of Milton, a win that was more important than the record or standings show. [...]
Spartans keep cruising toward postseason
The Milford High School boys basketball team continued on its path to a top four seed in the Class I playoffs with a 74-62 win over Bedford Friday night. The win was the eighth straight for the Spartans (14-1), and their second over the Bulldogs this season. Milford's streak is the third-longest current one in Class I - Oyster River has won [...]
Class S: Warriors bow out in opening round
The Wilton-Lyndeborough girls basketball team saw its season come to a close Wednesday night in the preliminary round of the Class S playoffs. The No. 10 Warriors fell 40-27 at No. 7 Newmarket, the third time this season WLC lost to the Mules. (more...)
Nordic Skiing: Sabers finish second
The Souhegan High School boys Nordic ski team finished second in the Division II championship meet at Whitaker Woods. The Sabers (738 points) were runner-up to Hanover (758), which won its fifth straight title and has taken home first place in seven of the last eight years. Lebanon (729) was third while Kennett (706) finished fourth and Bedford [...]
Nordic Skiing: Concord girls win title
The Concord High School girls Nordic ski team won its second straight Division I title, recording 773 points to defeat Manchester Central (749) and Keene (746). (more...)
Alpine Skiing: Duo leads BG to third
Ashley Loughran and Brianna Berge took first and second respectively in the Giant Slalom to lead the Bishop Guertin High School girls Alpine ski team to a third-place finish in the Division I meet at Mount Sunapee. Keene won the meet with 749 1/2 points, its fourth championship in the last eight years. Exeter (743) came in second, followed by [...]
Slow start leads to Merrimack loss
MANCHESTER – Sean Leahy scored two goals in the first six minutes and that was all the Oyster River High School boys hockey team needed in a 3-1 win over Merrimack Monday at Manchester's West Side Arena. Leahy’s first goal came just 13 seconds into the contest and was just the start of a bad all-around period for the [...]
