Joe has been covering high school sports for the better part of 12 years. A 2004 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, he was worked at newspapers in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire befor
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HOLLIS - The Hollis Brookline High School girls volleyball team prepares every practice for different situations it might see on the court. So when an opponent carries a lead throughout a set, or makes a big comeback let, the Cavaliers are ready to handle what gets thrown at them. On Monday against
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Here are results from the fourth week of the New Hampshire high school football regular season. Division I * Londonderry 42, Pinkerton 24 - NH-HighSchoolSports.com * Nashua North 31, Exeter 28 - NH-HighSchoolSports.com * Nashua South 47, Merrimack 28 - NH-HighSchoolSports.com * Bishop Guertin 28, Keene 20 - Nashua Telegraph * Bedford 50,
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DERRY - Jimmy Lauzon knew what kind of game the Londonderry High School football team had to play Friday night in order to beat Pinkerton Academy. In the first half, the Lancers coach got that and more. In the second half, Londonderry did just enough, and for the first time in the last 23 meetings,
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It's the final weekend of September and the high school football regular season is already a third of the way done. While no team has been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs just yet, teams that start the season with two or more losses in a row rarely bounce back to make the postseason. Sin
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LONDONDERRY - There was plenty of opportunity for the Windham High School field hockey team to get frustrated during Wednesday's game against Londonderry. The Jaguars had been able to keep play in the Lancers' end, getting eight penalty corners through the first 20 minutes of the half, but hadn't be
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The Hollis Brookline High School girls volleyball team improved to 7-0 on the season with a 3-1 win over Windham on Wednesday. Game scores were 20-25, 25-8, 25-14 and 25-19. Kaleigh Whalen led the Cavaliers with 19 kills and seven aces and Maren Anderson
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Lauren Doherty broke a tie game with 3:20 left to give the Londonderry High School field hockey team a 2-1 win over Bishop Guertin on Monday. Courtney Shay added a goal for the Lancers (7-0) while Izzy Augusta and Grace Chicko each had an assist. Riley Walter
Division II
MANCHESTER - With the number of opportunities the Derryfield School field hockey team had in the second half of Tuesday's game against Kennett High School, it felt like only a matter of time before the Cougars did what no one else had done so far this season. Sure enough, with just under eight minut
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The third week of the football regular season saw some interesting results and on this week’s episode of the Ninth State Sports Show: Football Edition, Joe Marchilena and Mike Lochman talk about all of it, and take a look at some of this weekend’s matchups.
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That the Bishop Guertin High School football team has won two of its first three games is not something that John Trisciani felt was outside of the realm of possibility. That the Cardinals have been able to do it despite the adversity they've at times faced qualifies as quite a surprise to the head
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Zach Matthews hasn't been the head coach of the Bedford High School football team for that long, but there's one position where the depth chart has been completely turned around. Joseph Mikol was fifth at the quarterback position, after leading the Bulldogs' freshmen team during the 2018 season, whe
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The Nashua High School South football team went into last Friday's game against Keene with a few question marks. At the front of that list was what the Panthers were going to do in order to get their high-scoring offense back in the right gear. The answer to that question came 11 seconds into the g