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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Last year, the Goffstown girls soccer team took a couple steps forward. This year, the Lady Grizzlies hope to make a giant leap in that same direction. Goffstown improved on a one-win 2006 with four victories in ’07 and handed Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR In 2005, when Pete Kiro established Goffstown’s first American Legion baseball team in 20 years, he promised his squad would reach the playoffs by its fourth season. Perhaps Kiro has a crystal ball. More likely, after serving Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Standing in the dugout, watching the group of 11- and 12-year-old Little Leaguers prepare for possibly the biggest game of their lives, Paul Gagne, Bob Gurskis and their fellow Goffstown coaches had but one thing to say to the eager Read More...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Crispin’s House Inc., a nonprofit program for at-risk youths, hosts its annual one-pitch softball tournament on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Goffstown Junior Baseball Villa Augustina Fields. First pitch is 9 a.m., but some teams have Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY During last year’s state Babe Ruth tournament, Goffstown overcame an eight-run deficit to advance with a victory over Keene. This year, Goffstown made certain Keene didn’t return the favor. Goffstown pounded Keene for 10 runs Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR One day after his team played its closest contest of the Matty Dobens tournament, Steve Bond watched his boys turn in their best performance on the state’s largest stage. Goffstown stole the show by winning its third title Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR After cruising through the New Hampshire District 1 Little League all-star winners bracket, the Goffstown 9- and 10-year-olds hit a pinstriped wall. That mass of brick and mortar was Salem American, which fell in the first round Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR As it turned out, the difference between these two teams was negligible. The Bedford 10- and 11- year-old Little League all-star team, undefeated prior to a 14- 2 setback against Goffstown on Saturday, July 19, met the same foe Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bedford may have knocked off Goffstown with a 6-3 victory, but the head coaches for both teams had a feeling they may be seeing each other again soon. Although Bedford won the winners bracket final in the 10- and 11-year-old state Little Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Prior to the losers bracket quarterfinals against Manchester Westside, the Goffstown 11- and 12-year-old Little League allstar team maintained a 1.24 ERA and a .333 batting average. Following a 10-0 mercy-rule win on Monday, July Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Sean Colligan didn’t learn his lesson at last year’s Goffstown Gallop. But at this year’s 5.2-mile run, he took the rest of the field to school. After finishing second behind an invited guest in 2007, Colligan Read More...
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In Goffstown Babe Ruth action: Red Wings 6 – Sea Dogs 5 Dante Distaso belted a walkoff home run on the first pitch in the bottom of the seventh as the Red Wings captured the minor league title with a win over the scrappy Sea Dogs. Riley Palmer and Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Weeks before Goffstown’s varsity baseball squad earned the first Class L title in program history, another group of Grizzlies celebrated a similar accomplishment. With a 5-1 victory against Salem, on May 26, the GHS JV team Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Throughout the season, Matt Benson and his players committed to never look back, only forward. Now the Goffstown baseball coach has no choice but to glance into the past. He is, after all a state champion. Benson and the thirdseeded Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Jeff Perkins hung from the fence, watching a home run fly far over his head, far over the batting cages that stood as the backdrop of the Little League baseball field he patrolled as center fielder. Perkins’ good friend and teammate, Read More...
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