Division III-IV
BEDFORD – Emma Massicotte knew how important it would be for the St. Thomas Aquinas High School field hockey team to score the first goal in Saturday’s Division III championship. So when the senior found herself alone on the far post, the ball coming toward and the goal wide open in front of her, sh
Fall Sports
(Nov. 2) The football regular season is done and the NHIAA playoff pairings will be released on Monday. But who wants to wait until then? Here is our best guess on what the pairings will look like when they’re released.
Division III-IV
LITCHFIELD – The Monadnock High School football team’s plan at the beginning of the week was to simply focus on finishing an undefeated regular season against defending Division III champion Campbell. That all changed when real life hit the East Swanzey community with the death of Monadnock senior T
Division I
HAMPTON – With the Division I playoffs on the horizon, the Bishop Guertin and Winnacunnet high school football teams delivered a memorable end to the regular season on Friday. All the way down until the last play. Facing a fourth-and-goal, Winnacunnet quarterback Sean Griffin was stuffed on a keeper
The Season
The Manchester West High School football team returned home to face Kingswood in a game that had playoff implications for both teams.
Division III-IV
EXETER - Facing an unfamiliar opponent in the playoffs, the St. Thomas Aquinas High School field hockey team went in with a game plan of focusing on itself first. After that, the Saints would make adjustments as they went and see where that landed them. The plan worked about as well as it could, a
Division III-IV
EXETER - It didn't matter to Hailey Saari how tired she was. The sophomore knew her Mascenic Regional High School field hockey team needed her to forget the fatigue of double overtime and keep going. So as teammate Ava Haavisto sent the ball down field, Saari burst past Hopkinton's last line of def
Division I
EXETER - The Keene High School field hockey team may have had some new players on the field while playing Tuesday night in the Division I semifinal for the second year in a row. But any nerves those newcomers might have felt were settled by their teammates who had been there before. Scoring the gam
Division I
EXETER - Eloise Montagano and Teagan O'Donnell have been working on penalty corners together for so long, it was no surprise to Monatagano when her teammate faked a shot and slipped a pass to her. Fortunately for the Bedford High School field hockey team, it was to Londonderry, and left Montagano w
Fall Sports
Every week during the football season, on the Ninth State Sports Show podcast, Joe Marchilena and Mike Lochman will each select a Player and a Team of the Week from the previous weekend’s performances.
Fall Sports
For the first time this season, a team is a unanimous pick for the top spot and a new team has cracked the top two in the New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center/NHHSSports Football Coaches Poll.
Division II
AMHERST - The Souhegan High School field hockey team hadn't played a game in more than a week going into Sunday's Division II quarterfinal against Kingswood. But if there was any rust on the Sabers, it didn't show. Top-seeded Souhegan scored twice in the game's first seven minutes and didn't let up