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• 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 escapes quarterfinals with win against visiting Milford

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Pat McCormack made what his coach called “the worst possible play he could make.” Then he redeemed himself. McCormack committed a foul in the backcourt with his team clinging to a 54-53 lead with just 5.6 seconds remaining, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:38 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, High School Sports, basketball, Milford

• 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: Pembroke, pembroke academy, Merrimack Valley, High School Sports, basketball

• Pembroke shocks unbeaten Oyster River

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR The Pembroke Spartans, a squad that failed in four regular-season opportunities to beat a team ranked higher in the standings, slew topseeded Oyster River, Class I’s lone undefeated squad, in the quarterfinals of the state Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:50 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, Merrimack Valley, High School Sports, basketball

• For now, PA boys just short of Class I’s top teams

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR They were right there. Hosting one of the state’s most formidable squads, 6-1 John Stark, the Spartans were tied at 67-all on Friday, Jan. 12, with under 10 seconds remaining on the game clock. But they allowed Stark’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:19 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, Merrimack Valley, High School Sports, basketball

• Addition of transfer gives Pembroke something extra

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR If the Pembroke girls basketball team is to succeed this year, a talented transfer may be a key component. And that’s just fine with head coach Rose Galligan, who said new addition Alex Hall may be the best girls basketball Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pembroke, Merrimack Valley, High School Sports, basketball