NHIAA TOURNAMENTS

Class L boys soccer semifinals

Merrimack 2, Exeter 0

Londonderry 2, Pinkerton 1 (OT)

Class I girls soccer semifinals

Hollis/Brookline 2, St. Thomas Aquinas 1

Class S girls soccer semifinals

Wilton-Lyndeborough 1, Sunapee 0

Division I girls volleyball semifinals

Salem 3, Merrimack 0

Spaulding 3, Pinkerton Academy 1

If member schools go along with the six divisions proposal for NHIAA football next fall, look for both Milford and John Stark of Weare to petition up from Div. IV.
It’s all about geography and the possibility of relatively short bus rides to all its 2008 opponents is hard to pass up, according to Milford athletic director Marc Maurais. [...]

What a difference a few games makes. Before Friday night’s game the playoff picture in New Hampshire football was pretty cloudy. Now it’s pretty clear.
Three playoff spots have been clinched in Div. I, with Nashua South punching its ticket Friday night with its 22-13 victory over Londonderry. The last spot will be decided simply [...]

If you think New Hampshire is too small to have six high school football champions, you’re probably right. But with 55 teams set to compete next year in NHIAA play, the state’s football committee proposed six division — five nine-team, one with 10 — at its meeting on Thursday morning.
Just four years ago New Hampshire [...]

The NHIAA football committee meets Thursday and, according to one committee member the prospect of six divisions is a very real one facing little opposition. Of course, the final number of teams playing varsity football next fall is still in question, with Bedford, Sanborn of Kingston, Inter-Lakes of Meredith and Mascoma of New Canaan likely to go [...]

Figuring out playoff scenarios with the NHIAA’s tie-breaking procedures can be tricky at times. One scenario we left out of the previous post is not good for Nashua South, should it lose its final two games and finish 5-3.
Under those circumstances, if Salem loses to Manchester Central this week, then beats Manchester West next week, [...]

Two-time defending champion Pinkerton Academy (6-0) has punched its ticket to the Div. I playoffs, Londonderry appears to be in and four other teams are still in the running for the other two spots.
At 5-1, the task for Nashua South is simple enough. All it needs to do is win one of its two remaining [...]

Salem 55, Nashua South 20
Merrimack 40, Spaulding 6
Londonderry 47, Concord 13
Dover 36, Alvirne 2
Milford at Kingswood, ppd., rain
(rescheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m.)

Nashua South’s victory over Pinkerton in a meet last week allowed them to vault by the Astros in the weekly cross country rankings in the New Hampshire Cross Country newsletter. The Class Meets are coming up a week from Saturday at Derryfield Park in Manchester.
The boys rankings, with last week’s rank in parenthesis: 1. Con-Val [...]

The most recent NHIAA football proposal making the rounds isn’t five 11-team division next year, but six nine-team divisions. If Bedford decides to go varsity next fall, one division would expland to 10 teams.  
It would allow Div. I to stay intact with the nine teams it has now. It makes sense, since neither Exeter of Bishop [...]