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Colby-Sawyer baseball season opens with 10-game Florida trip

NEW LONDON — The Colby-Sawyer College baseball team has been chosen to finish fifth in the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) standings in 2018, according to a vote conducted by the league’s coaches. Castleton was voted as the favorite to win a fifth-straight NAC title after receiving 46 points, including four[Read More…]

Nordic titles to Cougars once again

GORHAM — The Kearsarge Regional High School girls captured their third straight Division III Nordic title Tuesday at Great Glen Trails and the boys won their second straight. The girls posted a score to 774 to beat out Fall Mountain, 755, and White Mountains, 721 and on the boy’s side[Read More…]

1 Down…3 to Go

Kearsarge nips Souhegan, 47-45; Merrimack Valley is next in line NORTH SUTTON — Kearsarge advanced to the Division II quarterfinals Tuesday night with a thrilling 47-45 come-from-behind victory over Souhegan. Next up for the No. 4 Cougars, 15-4, on Friday, March 9, will be No. 5 Merrimack Valley, 14-5, a[Read More…]

Report your wild turkey sightings through March 31

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department reminds wildlife watchers to report sightings of wild turkeys. The Department’s Wild Turkey Flock Survey is open through March 31. The public is encouraged to report turkey sightings online at www.wildnh.com/surveys/turkey.html. Please do not report multiple sightings of the same flock.[Read More…]

The Week in Review

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Thursday, March 1 Somersworth 75, Fall Mt. 59 SOMERSWORTH — Fall Mountain dropped a 75-59 decision to Somersworth on March 1 in the first round of the Division III playoffs.   The Wildcats outscored Somersworth in the second half, 43-39, but fell behind by 20 points in[Read More…]

Two Stevens and one FM player on N.H. Shrine Team

LEBANON — Two players from Stevens and one from Fall Mountain have been selected top play for New Hampshire in the 65th Annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl Aug. 4 at Castleton, Vt. They are Stevens linemen Aidan Cahill, a 6-foot, 225-pound offensive lineman who wants to study Biochemistry in college,[Read More…]

Bode Miller is coming to Sunapee March 23

NEWBURY — Mount Sunapee Resort will welcome former Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller for a special day to benefit the Turtle Ridge Foundation and New England Healing Sports Association on Friday, March 23. The Bode Bonanza at 10 a.m. includes an opportunity to race against the World Cup Champion himself.[Read More…]

Roger Bannister, first to run sub 4-minute mile, dies at 88

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) —It was a typical British afternoon in early May: wet, cool and blustery. Not exactly the ideal conditions for running four laps around a track faster than many thought humanly possible.   A lanky Oxford medical student named Roger Bannister looked up[Read More…]

Windsor boys advance after downing Randolph Union

The number one seeded Windsor boys opened up on a tear against the visiting number sixteen seed, Randolph Union, in the first round of the DIII playoffs. The Yellowjackets started the game on a 17-2 run over the first six minutes, which was guided by smothering defense and a full-court[Read More…]