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• Pembroke vaults into state final against top-ranked Milford

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Matt Alosa’s Pembroke Academy team entered halftime of the Class I boys basketball semifinals with a 15-point advantage. Still, the coach was concerned about a letdown. “I didn’t want them to feel too good about themselves,” Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:14 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Winless Pembroke Academy girls basketball team work hard but falter near game’s end

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY For the Pembroke Academy girls basketball team, speed killed any chance the Spartans had of grabbing their first victory of the season. Pembroke ended the year 0-18 after a 43-36 home loss to Bishop Brady on Thursday, Feb. 25. After a Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:55 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, basketball

• Spartans, with new style, send loud, strong message

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY When the season started, Matt Alosa didn’t know how the pieces to his Pembroke Academy boys basketball team would fit together. Since then, the puzzle has taken near-perfect shape. The Spartans, behind only one varsity-tested player, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:04 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke boys remain contenders despite many new athletes

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY A question lingers for members of the Pembroke Academy boys basketball team: who are they? The answer – if they have anything to say about it – is a championship contender. Pembroke lost several cogs from a team that reached Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:23 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke one of three top seeds to fall to state champion Portsmouth

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Last year, it took a stunning underdog effort for the Pembroke boys basketball team to reach the Class I semifinal round. This season, the secondseeded Spartans were expected to be there. Unlike 2008, when No. 9 PA knocked off undefeated Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:55 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke Academy continues its rise in win over struggling Stark

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY On a night when the Pembroke Academy boys basketball team was ice cold shooting from the outside, head coach Matt Alosa couldn’t help but think of warmer days in March. Despite shooting 12 percent from beyond the threepoint arc, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:40 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke Academy’s young roster filled with hard workers, quick learners

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR She can teach them the fundamentals – how to pass, box out, defend and shoot. But neither Rose Galligan nor any other coach can teach hustle. Luckily for her, the Pembroke girls basketball team is flush with just such a necessary Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:15 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke cagers, last year’s semifinalists, seek next level in ’09

  BY MARK PETERSON A roster full of experience and talent has Pembroke Academy believing it can make another run to the Class I boys basketball semifinals – and beyond. With a lineup that’s almost entirely upperclassmen, the PA coaching staff Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:12 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke Academy comeback not quite enough for a finals appearance

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Hanover coach Tim Winslow and his defending state champion Marauders thought they were seeing double most of the second half. With his team ahead, 37- 19, early in the third quarter of the March 5 Class I semifinal against upstart Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:11 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Pembroke, pembroke academy, High School Sports, basketball