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CONCORD – The Concord boys’ hockey team isn’t used to losing many regular season games. So when the Crimson Tide arrived at Everett Arena on Wednesday after a 4-1 loss to Hanover the day before, there was a renewed focus facing off against an Exeter...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – It’s often the most elusive goal for any coach: consistency. There’s no easy tweak or schematic change that can turn things around. It takes time.With now three games remaining in the regular season, Concord girls’ hockey continues to search...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

As Pittsfield athletic director Jay Darrah looked around the gymnasium on a somber Monday night, he felt a sense of comfort. Friends and family had gathered together to remember Gabe Anthony, a 2017 Pittsfield High graduate who died in December. The...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Even though Hopkinton High girls’ basketball lost its final two regular-season games to limp across finish line, the Hawks still secured the second seed and a first-round bye in the Division III playoffs, which begin on Wednesday.At 13-3, Hopkinton...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Three area teams will compete in the Division III boys’ basketball playoffs that begin on Tuesday. Kearsarge finished the season at 15-3 and will be the four seed. Hopkinton will be the five seed after posting an 11-5 regular season record, while...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

A resolution to the Dartmouth College men’s basketball players’ quest to be recognized as employees and unionize will likely take months to play out in court.On Monday, the push by the Dartmouth student-athletes received a boost when Laura Sacks, a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

BOW – Whatever Falcons head coach Cassidy Emerson told her team at halftime of Friday night’s game against Bishop Brady (4-11) produced pretty good results.Through 16 minutes of play, Bow (11-4) led 22-18. Then in the third quarter, the Falcons...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The same three factors cited by local school districts for driving up budgets – increased insurance costs, investment in special education and raises for workers – are behind the same trend in Pittsfield.At the annual school district deliberative...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Even though Mike Mahoney came to Hopkinton as a new head coach for the Hawks’ girls’ varsity basketball team this summer, the program has operated like a well-oiled machine from the very beginning of the season.Hopkinton graduated eight seniors from...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – Head coach Dunc Walsh’s Concord teams are known for many things. Chief among them: discipline and defense.On Wednesday in a 4-2 win over Trinity (3-11-0), the Tide were clearly the better team, but it strayed away from those core...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Through six games this season, Belmont boys’ basketball sat at 2-4. With a roster made up of mostly freshmen, sophomores and juniors, perhaps it wasn’t totally surprising. But head coach Tony Martinez believed his group could turn the corner. And they...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

NORTHWOOD – If you didn’t know any better, you probably would’ve mistaken it for a playoff game.Coe-Brown at 10-2; John Stark at 5-9. The Bears fighting to stay in the top four of the Division II standings; the Generals fighting to make the playoffs....

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Kearsarge boys’ basketball finished last season 4-14. Entering play on Tuesday, the Cougars are 13-3, hoping to secure a top seed with the Division III playoffs beginning next week.The Monitor caught up with Cougars head coach Nate Camp to learn more...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – The Crimson Tide trailed 9-0 just 2:07 into Friday’s game against Winnacunnet (2-10). Already 0-10 on the season, it was a familiar sight.What happened next wasn’t.Head coach Tim LaTorra called a timeout, and over the next 13 minutes of...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

When Dave Smith first started coaching basketball in 1967, Super Bowl II was just months away, the United States hadn’t yet landed a man on the moon and the Puritan Backroom hadn’t yet invented the chicken tender.Almost six decades later, Smith, now...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – Crimson Tide head coach Kate Billings could exhale. She’d just watched her team nearly blow a 4-1 third period lead but hang on for a 4-3 win over Kingswood-Prospect Mountain (4-8) on Wednesday night for Concord’s third consecutive...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – It was about as bad a night as Bow (8-4) could’ve had. A game at home against an inferior team in Bedford (5-5) with a chance to move to 9-3 on the season turned into a bloodbath. The Falcons trailed 2-1 after the first period and 5-1 after...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

PEMBROKE – The Pembroke Academy boys’ basketball team led Manchester West 50-40 with 4:37 left in the fourth quarter on Tuesday night. With two minutes left, their lead was just 52-49. With 30 seconds left, it was tied, 56-56.Pembroke nearly suffered...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Before this past snowstorm, Sam Evans-Brown wasn’t sure the local non-profit Ski the Beav would be able to hold its Learn-to-Ski clinics and 5K race at Beaver Meadow Golf Course this weekend.He woke up Monday morning to a pleasant surprise.“We were...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

For the second time in two weeks, the date for the annual Black Ice Pond Hockey championship has been pushed back. The annual event will now be headed indoors at Tri-Town Arena in Hooksett from March 22 through the 24.Initially scheduled to be held...