Kailey Blain broke new ground for Merrimack High School on Thursday.
The 5-foot, 6-inch junior forward was named the 2008-09 Gatorade New Hampshire Girls Soccer Player of the Year. It’s the first time a girls soccer player from Merrimack High School received the award, which recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, as well as high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character [...]

NH Sports Page recently listed its mid-season Class L boys basketball team. Two of the top five picks were point guards, Central’s Will Bayliss and Nashua South’s Jake Nelson. What do Bayliss and Nelson have in common? Both were outplayed in head-to-head matchups by Bishop Guertin senior Jamie Zajac.
In Tuesday night’s 55-47 Bishop Guertin victory [...]

Souhegan High School athletic director Chris Lavoie had a tough decision to make this winter. Should he hire an 18-year-old woman to coach the Sabers’ Nordic skiing team or keep looking for another option.
That question alone is a tough one to make, considering the age difference between the coach and the players that will be [...]

When a state track meet is as close as Sunday’s Class L girls track meet, you don’t won’t anything left to chance. That’s where the incredible folks at Lancer Timing come in.
The team of Rich Nagy and Rich Berryman continued their incredibly precise work this weekend and did it in record time. About 10 seconds [...]

Who can stop Bishop Guertin from a three-peat in Division I boys ice hockey? Well, there’s certainly Concord, whom the Cards beat on the road but face off against on the last day of the regular season, Saturday, Feb. 28 at Skate 3 in Tyngsborough, Mass.
But there are two other teams Guertin must be wary [...]

True, as he has said publicly, it’s not a deeply desired goal on the part of Souhegan High School’s Paul Caso to play college hockey. If the opportunity is there, fine; if not, he can play club/rec league hockey and succeed in getting a great education somewhere.
But at the same time, you have to wonder [...]

The University of Rhode Island football team announced 16 high school players it officially signed on Wednesday, including Nashua South’s own David Zocco.

Can you come up with the top 30 senior basketball players in the state and have the confidence to rank them from top to bottom. The author of the aptly named NH Boys Basketball Players Rankings has and if you follow New Hampshire high school hoops you’ll no doubt find them interesting.
The site also lists [...]

You could argue that the Class M game of the year has already been played, with Stevens of Claremont ending three-time defending champion Conant’s long winning streak back in early January in Conant’s season opener.
The two teams meet again in a regular season finale in Jaffrey in a few weeks. But if you want to [...]

Here are a few things I’d like to see happen when the economy improves:
1. Shot clocks in high school basketball. Teams should be rewarded for good defense. Fouling shouldn’t be the only way to get the ball back in the final minutes of a close game, etc. etc.
2. Sixteen minute halves, rather than eight-minute quarters [...]