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By DAN ATTORRI

When Bishop Brady last played Conant on May 27, the Orioles won a 13-4 rout. In Wednesday’s semifinal at Robbie Mills Park in Laconia, the Giants turned the tables. 

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Last year’s semifinal was a nightmare. This year’s was a dream.

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The Panthers did just about everything right, but couldn’t get the timely hit they need to put away Woodsville, as the No. 4 Pittsfield softball team (13-4) lost to the No. 1 Engineers (17-1) in a 1-0 walkoff.

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The Kingsmen entered the season hoping to make a return trip to the playoffs and win a playoff game. They ended up winning two. Keeping that perspective helped take a bit of the sting out of the Concord Christian Academy baseball team’s 5-3 loss to No. 6 Woodsville (14-5) in Tuesday evening’s Division IV baseball quarterfinal. 

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NASHUA – The Bears have shown time and again this season that when they’re playing their game, they’re just about impossible to stop. Coe-Brown displayed its brand of volleyball all evening in Tuesday’s semifinal on the floor of Nashua High School North. Excellent serving, aggressive defense and contributions from several players led the No. 1 Coe-Brown Northwood Academy boys’ volleyball team (18-0) to a win in straight sets, 25-16, 25-5, 25-17, over No. 4 Pinkerton (14-4), sending the Bears to the program’s first ever championship appearance.

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DURHAM – Ever since he was a freshman, Rio Calle had been thinking about the state’s long jump record. Set in 1998, it was one of just a few that had stood since the previous century. On his final jump, in the final meet of his high school career, Calle broke it.

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Baseball postseason tournaments just started on Thursday, but the Baseball Coaches Association of New Hampshire has already released this season’s individual awards. Coaches voted on All-State selections, Coach of the Year, Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year in their respective divisions.

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KINGSTON – The Hawks knew that a title defense was possible, but it would take doubling, tripling, even quadrupling in events for them to get there. Hopkinton executed its plan to perfection.

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KINGSTON – It was far from a normal track season this spring.

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Ella Goulas is no stranger to winning state titles. But while Goulas has won every single jumping title at least once, she had never won all three in the same championship. On Friday night at Portsmouth High School, Goulas, a senior, and her teammates put all the pieces together. 

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With one week to go until the NHIAA track and field division championships, the Belmont girls’ team showed its a favorite for the crown by winning the 23-team Wilderness League Championship at Newfound Regional High School on Saturday.

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In the preseason Duke Sawyer’s two biggest questions were how the Tide would score runs and how the newcomers would fit into a shifting lineup. If there were any lingering concerns heading into Friday’s game, Kiley Taylor put them to rest. 

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NORTHWOOD – As the largest team-scoring invitational in New Hampshire that falls around the middle of the season, the Black Bear Invitational can often be used as a measuring stick to see how the state’s high school track and field teams stack up against each other. This spring’s edition wasn’t a typical one, with wet and windy conditions forcing the cancellation of the pole vault and high jump events. 

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The Hopkinton girls’ track and field team runners showed their strength on Saturday, winning four events and scoring points in nine of 11 as the Hawks won the inaugural Campbell Cougar Classic Invitational on Saturday at Campbell High School.

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The extended winter weather has impacted all spring sports, and track and field is no exception. But after facing two weeks of many canceled and modified meets, area high school teams finally were able to compete in a large invitational over the weekend.

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Concord High’s 2024 track and field season was one for the record books – literally and figuratively. Last year’s team, boys’ and girls’ combined, broke eight school records, won two individual titles and five runner-up medals in Division I and graduated six NCAA Division I track and field athletes. 

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The New Hampshire Legends of Hockey organization released its All-State selections over the weekend with several area players earning postseason recognition.

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This weekend marks the end of the NHIAA basketball season with the Division I and II girls’ basketball championships being contested on Saturday, and the D-I and D-II boys’ title games being played on Sunday.

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Last year the Bulldogs were upset in the quarterfinals of the Division III hockey playoffs, but it’s a loss that’s served them well. This year, with last year’s early tournament exit still fresh in their minds, it was Bulldogs turn to do the upsetting.

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A high school of over 1,400 versus a school with an enrollment of around 110. A Division I powerhouse versus Division I debutants. One team with a height advantage and a deeper bench compared to the other.

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PEMBROKE – Coaches always say that it’s hard to beat the same team three times. But Pembroke managed to beat Bow a fourth.