Division II
Timing has not been on the side of the ConVal High School girls lacrosse team in recent years. Two seasons ago, the Cougars were a nine-win team in a deep Division III, making the playoffs before falling to Derryfield in the quarterfinals. That 2018 team had a couple of hundred goal scorers and woul
Spring Sports
On this week’s episode of the Ninth State Sports Show: Lacrosse Edition, Joe Marchilena and Derryfield coach Chris Hettler talk to Derryfield senior Matt Weimer and Bishop Guertin girls coach Leslie Why.
Spring Sports
On this week’s episode of the Ninth State Sports Show: Lacrosse Edition, Joe Marchilena and Derryfield coach Chris Hettler talk to Pat Snow, head coach of the Winnacunnet boys lacrosse team, about how the Warriors are using their time this spring after last year's playoff run. They
Division I
There were a lot of reasons for Rob Daziel to feel optimistic about the Pinkerton Academy girls lacrosse team this spring. The biggest reason might have been the Astros' senior class. With eight girls returning, six of whom are going on to play lacrosse in college, and coming off a tough loss in las
Spring Sports
On this week’s episode of the Ninth State Sports Show: Lacrosse Edition, Joe Marchilena and Derryfield coach Chris Hettler talk to St. Thomas boys lacrosse coach Sean Houlahan about the Saints and what the future might hold for the offseason, and JoJo Curro, who was going into her first
Division I
Nathan Laliberte had already made up his mind, but none of his friends knew that. So when he invited Mason and Hunter Drouin over to last summer, the brothers showed up with a presentation to try to convince Laliberte to return to Pinkerton Academy for his senior year. After going to school in Derry
Division I
The last couple of years had already been some turbulent ones for the Timberlane Regional High School boys lacrosse program. The Owls made the playoffs in three out of four seasons in Division II, but came up empty in each postseason appearance. With a new, two-year cycle set to begin for the New Ha
Spring Sports
On this week’s episode of the Ninth State Sports Show: Lacrosse Edition, Joe Marchilena and Derryfield coach Chris Hettler talk to Pinkerton boys lacrosse coach Steve Gaudreau about his path to becoming the Astros head coach, and Hollis Brookline girls lacrosse coach Jim Maxwell about what the Caval
Division I
Sarah Signorello started playing lacrosse in fourth grade, and for every season since then, she's played alongside the same group of girls, all of whom are seniors at Nashua High School South. It started with the Nashua Blast youth program, and then on to club teams with MaxLax and Granite State Eli
Spring Sports
Steve Gaudreau wasn't thinking about lacrosse when he took a teaching job at Pinkerton Academy. It had been almost three years since he'd stepped down as the men's lacrosse coach at Saint Anselm College when he arrived in Derry, and although he'd been coaching at the youth level, the desire to retur