The fourth-ranked Blue Knights of Manchester West advanced past the first round of the NHIAA Division II boys’ basketball tournament on Tuesday night, easily defeating Milford, 77-54.
In what may have been one of the best high school basketball games in New Hampshire history, the Griffins of Holy Family Academy left Merrimack Valley High School with a ticket to the 2022-‘23 NHIAA Division IV boys’ basketball championship game, defeating Concord Christian in double overtime, 86-84.
If being able to go on the road and win a tight game in a hostile environment is a sign of championship pedigree, the Holy Family Academy boys basketball team definitively checked that box Friday night.
On Friday night, Trinity defeated Timberlane, 74-54. Here are some photos from the game by Cindy Lavigne.
The Crusaders of Manchester Memorial finished their regular season on Friday with a 66-53 loss to Londonderry.
These days, however, the Red Sox tone-deaf owner John Henry and their smug Head of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom—a low-rent version of the once-dynamic GM Theo Epstein—signed a few former All-Stars, a closer incapable of handling the new pitch-clock, and an overpriced Japanese outfielder. This was the sum of an off-season for a 2022 team that finished in last place in the AL East.
When your wife suggests a menu for watching the game —The Super Bowl, not the Puppy Bowl, although she’ll actually watch the latter—act tormented at the thought of consuming spicy Buffalo wings and loaded beef nachos and juicy cheeseburger sliders. Show the kind of excruciation usually reserved for Russian novels.
The Manchester School District is limiting attendance to all sporting events for the rest of the winter season to family members of student athletes following a recent fight in a basketball game between Manchester Memorial and Nashua North.
Don’t call it a comeback. OK, you can call it a comeback … or a rally, or a second-half charge. Whatever you call it, make sure you call it a win for the Manchester West High School girls basketball team.
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the Double-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Fisher Cats Foundation are pleased to open applications for the 2023 Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Program this Wednesday, Feb. 1.
