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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...

Staff Reports

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Hanover High boys cross country team won the NHIAA Division II championship Saturday with four runners finishing in the top 10.The Hanover girls placed second with three runners in the top 10, led by sophomore Lea Perreard, who...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Newport Class of 2023 waited out a day of rain for graduation and was rewarded with sunny skies to celebrate their achievement before family and friends on the high school football field on Thursday evening.The ceremony’s speakers...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

NEWPORT — Matthew Robbins has always wanted to be a high school baseball head coach.A former four-year starting first baseman at Sunapee High, Robbins paid his dues over several years coaching Cal Ripken baseball and has also coached his children at...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — After suffering a 6-3 loss to visiting Springfield in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Maxfield Sports Complex, the Hartford High softball team came roaring back for an 18-3 victory in the nightcap, scoring 11 runs...

HOLLIS, N.H. — The unbeaten Hanover High baseball team used timely hitting and stellar relief pitching to earn some revenge in Friday’s 9-6 win at Hollis-Brookline.This rematch of last season’s NHIAA Division II semifinal clash, won by...

HANOVER — Maeve Lee scored five goals and assisted on four more as the Hanover High girls lacrosse team stayed perfect with an 18-4 blowout win over Merrimack Valley on Wednesday.Kali McDonnell added four goals for the Bears, and Maggie Higgins had...

COLCHESTER, Vt. — The dominant Hartford High girls lacrosse team etched another in the win column on Tuesday afternoon, beating host Colchester by a 17-2 final score.Audrey Rupp had four goals and three assists for the Hurricanes (8-0), who built an...

LEBANON — Maddie Jewell scored six times and Hadley Rich added three goals on Monday to lift the Lebanon High girls lacrosse team to its first victory of the season, a 13-2 romp over Plymouth.Norah Burns, Abigail Rich, Abigail Auch and Lindsey Stark...