Division I
Kip Jackson has a nickname for the seniors who will play for the Merrimack High School football team this fall. "We've been calling these guys the shadow men," the Tomahawks coach said. "They've been in the shadow of the class that's been in front of them, and for good reason. It's going to be inter
Division I
For as long as he can remember, RJ Jenkins has always had a size and speed advantage on his opponents. But it wasn't until recently that the Nashua High School North senior realized he could use both on the football field. As a young running back, Jenkins always tried to outrun defenders and make a
Division I
Members of the Salem High School football team have finished up an offseason workout and are marching through coach Rob Pike's office, picking up a T-shirt and a smaller version of the playbook as they go. The last player in the office is probably the one player who doesn't need the second item, but
Division I
Andrew Duval had to go through some tough times after breaking his hand in the first game of last season. He ended up missing five games for the Goffstown High School football team, relegated to walking through practice with his teammates and watching them from the sideline during games. The cast on
Division I
MERRIMACK - It's the first day of football practice and Kip Jackson can't get into the high school. In fact, no one from the football team - or any other team - is allowed into Merrimack High School on this Wednesday in early August. The loop in front of the high school is being repaved, and all the
Division I
It was a snowy Thanksgiving morning and a pair of boys were playing on the sideline of one of the first Turkey Bowls between Nashua's two public high schools. One was the son of a coach who had spent a number of years watching as his dad manned the sidelines, first for a unified Nashua High School f
Division I
Motivation on the football field hasn't every really been a problem for Conor Robert in the past. When he was a sophomore, Robert spent the entire offseason, almost up until the first game of the year, locked in a heated battle for the starting quarterback job. And after the Bedford High School foo
Division III-IV
It didn't take long for an official to blow his whistle after the start of the Division III boys lacrosse championship game. Mere seconds after getting the finale going, a second whistle stopped play before it really even got started, and Hopkinton High School's faceoff guy, Henry Yianakopolos looke
Division II
All season long, the Derryfield School boys lacrosse team made coach Chris Hettler a little bit nervous. Every time the Cougars hit a critical point in their season, players just seemed too loose and carefree. And when games the coaching staff felt were going to be tough to win turned out to be, at
Division II
There where times during the Division II girls lacrosse final between Portsmouth and Winnacunnet high schools when it was hard to tell who had the lead. If it wasn't for the scoreboard, it might have often looked like the Warriors were just trying to take time off the clock. In reality, Winnacunnet
Division III-IV
Before the Division III girls lacrosse playoffs started, Anya Nowicki knew that her and her Kearsarge High School teammates had what it would take to get back to the championship game. The question was would the Cougars be able to pull it off.
Division I
There have been several different ways teams have tried to slow down Brian Cameron throughout this boys lacrosse season. Some teams were successful, to a degree, against the Bishop Guertin High School junior, while others were not. But not many did what No. 6 Exeter did Wednesday when it played the