BY MATT SCHOOLEYThis Manchester West team has a basketball player and plenty of football players. Now Josh Greenwood just needs to make sure they’re familiar and comfortable with a lacrosse stick in hand. The Blue Knights boys lacrosse team hopes to use its 14 seniors to improve on last year’s four wins. Those hopes rest largely on ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThere wasn’t a seat to be had in the house, nor a parking spot within miles. With the city rivalry burning full flame, and fans howling back and fourth, Ryan Bourgeois had seen – and heard – enough. The Trinity point guard looked up at the scoreboard and, with his squad trailing Central, 30-15, with five ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKNear the end of a relatively easy 46-31 semifinal-round win over Spaulding on March 12, Trinity’s boisterous student cheering section called in unison, “We want Salem! We want Salem!” Three days later inside the University of New Hampshire’s Lundholm Gymnasium, those fans learned to be more careful with ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORTo gauge the outcome of Trinity’s Class L boys basketball quarterfinal contest with Alvirne, you needed only to close your eyes and listen to the Pioneer faithful. When Hooksett’s Cormac Fitzpatrick drained back-to-back three-pointers to open the fourth quarter, for example, chants of “Cor-Mac-Daddy” ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKThey started fast. They were finished quicker. The girls of Trinity High basketball jumped to a 5-0 edge over top-seeded Winnacunnet. But a pitiless, business-like press from the defending Class L champs gave them a seven-point edge after one quarter. The deficit swelled to 23 at halftime, and the eighth-seeded Pioneers eventually ...

In their final 16 games of the 2007-’08 Class S basketball season, the Derryfield girls lost three games. Each time, their vanquisher was the same – Portsmouth Christian Academy. After beginning the season 1-3, DS improved dramatically, posting a 13-5 regular-season record to secure the No. 6 seed in the playoffs. In the preliminary ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORTaking over as West girls basketball coach little more than a month before the start of the current season, Monty Burge’s expectations were understandably tempered. So after beginning the season 0-7, following a 60-34 setback at Goffstown on Sunday, Jan. 13, Burge chose to focus on the positives, rather than dwelling ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORIn its fourth game, the West boys basketball team entered the contest needing a victory to match its 2006-07 win total. Its opponent, Goffstown, four days removed from an impressive eight-point win over Class L power Pinkerton Academy, looked to follow up with a similar performance against a middle-of-the-pack ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORWest boys basketball coach Colin Burke is determined not to let a 2-16 record last season discourage his outlook on the upcoming campaign. While the Blue Knights graduated four starters and bring back only four hoopsters who received significant playing time in a forgettable 2006-’07 campaign, Burke said talent – ...

BY MATT STOUT It’s a Sunday afternoon in late January, and Colleen and Bob Nagri plan to eventually settle in for the night to catch the New England Patriots’ playoff showdown with the Indianapolis Colts. Their Dodge Durango – its back windshield plastered with eight metallic silhouettes of different athletes, representing the ...