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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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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 RYAN O’CONNOR Matt Benson and his nine seniors know all too well how easy it is to trip and fall at the Class L championship threshold. Last year, Goffstown stumbled in the semifinals to upstart Trinity, a squad that entered the postseason as 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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BY JERRY LIPTAK In a league noted for parity, where a Class L cellar dweller routinely topples a team in the penthouse, Goffstown High has constructed, in more ways than one, an exceptional baseball program. Following a 9-8 victory over four-win Exeter Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Goffstown-area athletic successes in 2007 came at many levels, for teams and individuals. This was never more evident than the summer, when nearly every Goffstown youth baseball team, from Little League through Babe Ruth, finished Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Steve Beal knows the pain of a heartbreaking loss. He’s felt the frustration in watching the opposition celebrate a coveted championship. He thought playing – and losing – in national tournaments himself would make him Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR While the Jutras American Legion baseball team watched Sweeney and Keene finish a suspended game, manager Ed Coulombe may have secretly hoped Keene would rally from a 6-2 sixth-inning deficit. But Keene lost, and that meant Jutras Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though the Matty Dobens tournament, established in 1988, was originally open solely to Manchester teams, the early 1990s saw a reformation allowing District 1 teams throughout central and southern New Hampshire to participate. Enter Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK 15s take title easily Goffstown’s 15-year-olds became the town’s second Babe Ruth baseball squad to bring home the state title this year. After waiting more than three hours for rain and thunder to clear, Goffstown’s Read More...
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