Division I
EXETER – The eight seniors on this year’s Portsmouth High School girls lacrosse team were freshmen when the Clippers made the jump to Division I and immediately tasted success by reaching the championship game. Portsmouth followed that loss to Bedford with back-to-back championships, and that experi
Division I
NASHUA - The Bishop Guertin High School boys lacrosse team has a group chat where the Cardinals discuss different things about the season. One topic of conversation for a while was how they were going to defend Bedford's offense when the teams met in the regular season. That moment came Tuesday ni
Division I
EXETER - Sean Haugh took the ball behind the net on the first possession Friday night for the Exeter High School boys lacrosse team. The senior took a quick look at how the Portsmouth defense was setting up and decided to call his own number. Haugh brought the ball back out, and as he got past the g
Division I
BEDFORD - Carly Hodgdon-Rogers is used to drawing the assignment of guarding the best offensive player from whichever opponent the Bedford High School girls lacrosse team happens to be playing. So when the senior lined up across from Exeter's Riley Benevides during Wednesday afternoon's Division I m
Division III-IV
When Colby Strum heard the Coe-Brown Northwood Academy boys lacrosse team was going to be adding Plymouth to its regular-season schedule this season, he had a physical reaction. “I jumped, to be honest,” the junior said. “I wanted that rematch so bad and I didn’t want it to be in the playoffs. I wan
Division I
MERRIMACK - Ciki McIntire knew that if the Nashua High School South girls lacrosse team was to keep up the standard it has built the last few seasons, the Panthers were going to have to put a lot on some young players. Through two weeks of the regular season, that plan has been working just fine for
Division II
MANCHESTER - Trevor Sifferlen felt like he needed to be the one to score for the Portsmouth High School boys lacrosse team. If that meant laying out and scoring while falling to the ground, then so be it.
Division I
AMHERST – When the Portsmouth High School girls lacrosse team took the field for the third quarter of Monday’s game against Souhegan, Maddy Houghton could feel a shift. Something changed with the Clippers during halftime, and as the quarter carried on, the senior defender could see that feeling come
Division I
BEDFORD - Things were looking so bad at the end of the first quarter Saturday for the Bedford High School boys lacrosse team, the Bulldogs were getting chirpped by Hingham's junior varsity players. With the Harbormen holding a 6-1 lead at the end of the first frame, the group on the sideline was ma
Division I
ANDOVER, Mass. - Timing is an important aspect of all sports. That's timing on the field, more often than not, but sometimes, it's about the timing off it. John Pynchon knew that going into Thursday night's matchup between his St. John's Prep boys lacrosse team and Bishop Guertin High School.
Spring Sports
MANCHESTER - As a sophomore in his first year playing varsity lacrosse, Liam England felt like he'd been more suceptible to low shots. While he worked on all aspects of his game during the offseason, the Derryfield School junior put some extra emphasis on being better on that weak point.
Division III-IV
Brad Ekstrom can lay claim to something that not a lot of other high school lacrosse players can. From the day he joined the team as a freshman at Bow, the senior has been the varsity starter in goal for the Falcons. Ekstrom wasn't the only newbie on that first day of practice. His head coach was,