High schools: New Englands indoor track, final results of the basketball and hockey regular seasons

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D-III boys’ basketball: Belmont plays to its strengths, holds off Kearsarge comeback to win program’s first title, 49-43

By DAN ATTORRI

KEENE – In the final game of a championship-or-bust season, the Belmont High boys’ basketball team busted out its best moves. Crashing the boards for offensive rebounds and putbacks. Scoring fast-break points. And, while the game was tightening up down the stretch, maintaining composure.

Wrestling: Area grapplers compete at Meet of Champions

By DAN ATTORRI

The top wrestlers from all three divisions of the NHIAA competed against each other at the Meet of Champions on Saturday at Londonderry High School, battling for the title of a true state champion and for spots at New Englands.

Boys’ basketball: Concord Christian extends unbeaten streak to 20, advances to D-IV semifinals

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The No. 2 Concord Christian Academy Kingsmen hosted and beat No. 7 Groveton (12-8), 61-56, in the D-IV boys’ basketball playoffs on Thursday night, advancing to the semifinals and extending their unbeaten streak to 20 games. 

High schools: MV’s Smith scores 1,000th point, Thursday night’s hoops results

Merrimack Valley 60, John Stark 29

Boys’ basketball: Second-half comeback lifts Belmont to D-III championship for the first time since 1970

By ALEXANDER RAPP

BOW – Junior guard Treshawn Ray’s buzzer-beating heave from half court was a piece of the magic the Belmont High boys’ basketball team conjured up at just the right moment.

Boys’ basketball: Whipple brothers lead Kearsarge to semifinal victory, D-III championship game

By DAN ATTORRI

BOW — The chemistry between Kearsarge’s guards is undeniable. When you’ve been playing together your whole life, the connection looks easy.

Girls’ basketball: Pembroke show off offensively to beat MV, 59-36

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The Pembroke Academy girls’ basketball team’s offense fired on all cylinders to stay ahead of Merrimack Valley on Tuesday night. The Spartans’ eventual 59-36 win secured a top-five seed for the upcoming Division II state tournament in their penultimate regular-season game, with a chance to finish even higher depending on results.

High schools: Franklin girls upset in D-IV prelims, more basketball results from Tuesday night

No. 12 Moultonborough 46, No. 12 Franklin 40

Red River Theatres will host special screening of “Eephus” a baseball movie made by NH filmmakers on Wednesday night

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Red River Theatres in Concord will hold a special screening for an award-winning baseball movie called “Eephus,” directed by Nashua native Carson Lund, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The venue will host a preshow event and a post-film Q&A with the filmmakers and Boston Red Sox legend Bill “Spaceman” Lee, a cast member.

D-IV basketball: Concord Christian boys extend undefeated streak to 19, shorthanded Franklin exits tourney in prelims

By DAN ATTORRI

Most Division IV teams don’t have the depth that Concord Christian Academy does, and it paid off on Monday night.

High schools: Bow girls’ basketball wins on senior night

Bow 51, Sanborn 17

Wrestling: Bow defends Division III title, Winnisquam finishes 2nd

By DAN ATTORRI

PETERBOROUGH – The word was that the Bow High wrestling team was supposed to be in a rebuilding year. Consider the Falcons rebuilt.

D-III basketball: Top-seeded Belmont advances, Kearsarge boys win in 2OT, Hopkinton girls fall in weekend quarterfinals

By DAN ATTORRI

The top-seeded Belmont boys’ basketball team (18-1) opened its Division III postseason with a 72-50 victory over No. 8 Fall Mountain (12-6), while No. 3 Kearsarge needed double overtime to get by No. 6 Gilford, 48-45, in Friday night’s quarterfinal round.

Wrestling: Concord places fourth at D-I state championship thanks to impressive depth

By ALEXANDER RAPP

LONDONDERRY – The Concord Crimson Tide may not have had any wrestlers in championship bouts, but the overall strength of its wrestlers across the board carried the team to fourth place at the Division I championship on Saturday at Londonderry High School.

High schools: Concord’s Martin leads Tide on senior night, Coe-Brown boys upset first-place Pembroke, regular season results from this weekend

Trinity 81, Concord 35

High schools: Defending champions Kearsarge lose in prelims in 2OT

No. 5 Monadnock 48, No. 12 Kearsarge 45, 2OT

Girls’ hockey: Brinity-Bow battles back to beat Concord, 3-2

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Brinity-Bow sophomore forward Kaylee Jacques netted a hat trick against Concord to push her team to a Division I girls’ hockey victory, 3-2, on Wednesday night at Everett Arena and leapfrog the Crimson Tide girls in the state standings with only a few games left in the season.

High schools: D-III girls’ basketball prelims, results from Wednesday night

No. 9 Hopkinton 48, No. 8 Berlin 46

A constant basketball symphony – Coe-Brown’s Pep Band

By ALEXANDER RAPP

As the Coe-Brown Northwood Academy boys’ basketball team emerges from the locker room, the drums and cymbals crash, the saxophones, flutes and trombones turn it up, and a symphony of music echoes through the gym, energizing the fans and the players in preparation for the game.