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By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Stevens High girls basketball team’s game plan was simple: Put two or three defenders on Newport center Zoey Lord and let the others shoot from 3-point territory.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The last home playoff game for the Newport High boys basketball team was a loss 11 years ago. The current version of the Tigers made it worth the wait on Tuesday night.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

Newport’s Callie Dixon, Mascoma’s Barnaby Diehn and Hanover’s Alexander Valentino were the Upper Valley’s top performers at the NHIAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships at Plymouth State University on Saturday.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

High school indoor track in the Upper Valley has a number of top individual performers and strong overall teams that can compete at the state level. Among them are the Thetford boys, led by Uly Junker, and the Hartford boys, who bring back a lot of...

By ALEX CERVANTES

CLAREMONT — Newport High girls basketball coach Ross Dole wanted Zoey Lord to slow down. He also wanted his team to play faster.In the first of two meetings this season, Newport used a furious second-half blitz to beat Stevens, 52-28, on Friday. But...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Familiar graduation themes of gratitude, memories and a future full of opportunities to seize and challenges to overcome were expressed by speakers at the Newport High School graduation held on the football field Wednesday.The class of 51...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

TILTON, N.H. — Newport High junior Maddox Lovely won three events at the NHIAA Division III state outdoor track meet, pacing the Tiger girls to a third-place finish among 23 teams on Thursday at Winnisquam Regional High School. The Newport boys...

By TRIS WYKES

NEWPORT — Newport High baseball coach Matthew Robbins is often on the job by 3:30 a.m. at his manufacturing employer and works as a locksmith on the side. The Tigers’ boss somehow survives on four or five hours of sleep per night during the...

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...

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....

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...

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

NEWPORT — Robert Clark was antsy Tuesday night. The Newport High boys basketball coach is also the town’s elementary school principal and was compelled to attend a School Board meeting on an upper floor of the Towle School building while his team...

WINDSOR — Sophomore Sophia Rockwood had 24 points, including 14 in the second quarter, to lead the Windsor High girls basketball team to a 56-31 win over White River Valley in a rematch of last year’s VPA Division III semifinals.The Yellowjackets...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford High boys hockey team won the 2022 Philippe Bouthillier Holiday Classic, which the Hurricanes hosted at Barwood Arena, with a 5-3 victory Wednesday over Burr & Burton.Hartford’s goals came from Lochlan Park, Joseph...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...

HANOVER Coach: Doug Kennedy (15) Last year: 5-10-2 League: NHIAA Division I Returnees: Seniors — Casey Havrda (F), Mia Madden (M), Riley McGuire (F), Emilia Torresani (F). Juniors — Maeve Lee (M), Sydney McLaughlin (F), Emma Campfield (M), Kiran Park...

HANOVER Coach: Sam Cavallaro (8) Last year: 6-4 League: NHIAA Division II Returnees: Seniors — Cam Bonner (TE/DL), Patrick Elder (OL/DL), Montana Hanchett (OL/DL), Matt Brock (RB/LB), Thomas Mosdal (OL/DL). Juniors — Roger Lucas (QB/DB), Jeffrey Vidou...

WORCESTER, Mass. — An extraordinary performance by the Hanover High School girls crew team on Saturday resulted in a silver and two bronze medals at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta.“This has never happened in Hanover High...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Back after a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Upper Valley softball squads had seasons to remember in 2021, with Oxbow winning the VPA Division III state title and Windsor and White River Valley in the mix as well. Lebanon may...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...