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By TRIS WYKES
LEBANON — Lebanon High baseball coach Chauncey Wood stood on the first-base line on Friday afternoon, arms akimbo and staring into center field as if the answer to his team’s 7-5 loss to Hanover was hidden somewhere in the distant grass.The Raiders,...
By TRIS WYKES
LEBANON — Lea Perreard’s wrists are wrapped in bracelets. How many? The Hanover High sophomore isn’t sure, but 15 would be a solid guess.Rubber bracelets, woven bracelets, string bracelets with beads on them. It takes Perreard roughly five minutes to...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
Lebanon and Hanover have been historically joined at the hip in all sorts of high school sports. Tennis is no different.What puts the Raiders and Bears in the same conversation these days is their success rather than head-to-head battles. Hanover is...
When it comes to Upper Valley high school softball, one program stirs the proverbial championship drink.In three years under coach Chuck Simmons, Oxbow High has reeled off 49 wins in 53 games and raced relatively unimpeded to state honors each time....
Two words best describe Upper Valley high school girls lacrosse: quality and consistency.All four squads made the playoffs last spring. While none came home with a state title, Hanover and Woodstock made their finals, with the Wasps’ trip coming at...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
As surely as snapping the finish-line tape signifies a winner, the Upper Valley is filled with high school track and field potential this spring.A number of area schools won outdoor titles last year, and some followed that up with indoor successes...
Once you’ve finally been to the top of the mountain, what do you do for an encore?That’s the challenge facing the Hartford High boys lacrosse program this spring. After multiple attempts that came up short, the Hurricanes ran the table en route to...
The arrival of the Upper Valley high school baseball season marks the return of one top-shelf rivalry (Thetford vs. White River Valley, last year’s VPA Division III title-game matchup) along with another roster (Hanover) good enough to hang some...
By TRIS WYKES
Here’s a look at some of the Upper Valley residents who played varsity college sports this winter.Men’s basketballPlymouth State men’s basketball was 8-17. Sophomore guard Max Galbraith (Hanover) appeared in seven games and totaled 21 minutes… Kansas...
By TRIS WYKES
LEBANON — A quick trip to the store wasn’t often possible with Chuck Hunnewell.Ubiquitous on the Upper Valley sports scene for more than 30 years, the longtime teacher and coach would be waylaid in Rich’s Department Store or Johnson’s Home Center on...
By TRIS WYKES
DURHAM, N.H. — One of the greatest turnarounds in Upper Valley sports history came up short of a fairy-tale ending Sunday when the Hanover High boys basketball team fell to Pelham, 51-41, in the NHIAA Division II final at UNH’s Lundholm Gymnasium.The...
By TRIS WYKES
MANCHESTER — The story is told by Hanover High girls hockey coach John Dodds only if his team reaches the NHIAA final and at the conclusion of its last practice before the big game.The tale describes how Dodds’ 1973 Hanover boys hockey team used an...
MANCHESTER — The fifth-seeded Hanover High boys hockey team lost, 5-1, to top-seeded Windham during an NHIAA Division I semifinal on Wednesday at J.F.K Arena.“Windham showed why they are number one,” said Hanover coach Dick Dodds. “They took advantage...
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
DURHAM, N.H. — Entering Tuesday night’s Division II boys’ basketball semifinal, the No. 3 Pembroke Spartans (18-3) knew exactly what No. 2 Hanover (19-1) was going to do: run a remarkably methodical offense and play smart, disciplined defense.Pembroke...
By TOM KING
CONCORD — The tournament meetings between the Bishop Guertin and Hanover High School girls hockey teams are usually classics, tugging at nerves and emotions every minute.Not this time.No, Tuesday night’s 6-0 Bears semifinal win over the Cardinals at...
By TRIS WYKES
WEST LEBANON — Lebanon-Stevens-Kearsarge has its strongest girls hockey team in years. The Raiders, however, don’t have Maeve Lee.Hanover’s star forward posted a hat trick during the Bears’ 3-0 defeat of its neighbor Friday in an NHIAA playoff...
By JIM KENYON
Within hours of two Dartmouth student-activists being arrested on Oct. 28 for refusing to leave a camping tent they had pitched on the lawn outside President Sian Leah Beilock’s office, Minnesota attorney Kira Kelley started getting phone calls, text...
By TRIS WYKES
WEST LEBANON — The Hanover High and Bishop Guertin girls hockey teams have staged many a memorable NHIAA game during the past decade, battling for standings position or their playoff lives.Saturday night’s clash at Campion Rink was not a dramatic...
By TRIS WYKES
WEST LEBANON — Dick Dodds stood outside the Hanover High boys hockey locker room at Campion Rink on Wednesday night and paused before answering how he’d describe his team’s 5-4 defeat of Nashua North-Souhegan.“Mind-boggling,” said the 43-year bench...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
DURHAM. N.H. — The Hanover High girls swim team easily won last weekend’s NHIAA Division II state meet at the Swasey Pool on the campus of the University of New Hampshire, beating second place Oyster River, 236-148.Hollis/Brookline was third among 25...
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