BY RYAN O’CONNORWeeks 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 completed an undefeated season to capture its second-straight state crown. In fact, the last ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThroughout 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 Grizzlies captured the school’s first Class L title with a dramatic 4-3 victory over ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThere are many ways one could measure how bright a valedictorian is. There are the spotless, straight-A transcripts, the accumulation of advanced placement courses, or the acceptance into an Ivy League college. Tyler Clites, of Dunbarton, who is the valedictorian for Goffstown High School this year, has all those marks of an ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEHigh school bands, move on over. Now elementary schools are getting into the marching band act, beginning here in Goffstown. The 68-student Maple Avenue Elementary marching recorder band made its debut at the town Memorial Day parade in May, marching along with its Goffstown High School counterpart. The school said it is the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORMatt 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 the No. 13 seed after a 10-12 regular season. With their collective hand knocking on the door ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThey’re young. They’re having fun. And now they’re in the playoffs. The Lady Grizzlies, with one game remaining, are currently 6- 13 on the season. The record, however, is not indicative of the team’s hard work and dedication, said head coach Wake Stillman. “With a youthful team like this you ...

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 on Saturday, May 10, the varsity Grizzlies were 11-3 and tied in the loss column with ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORHe knows how good they can be. He sees it every game. But the wins have yet to pile up for Dave Moloney and his Goffstown boys lacrosse team – a fact the former St. Anselm coach admits has frustrated him at times this season. Take the Grizzlies’ 9-8 loss to defending state runner-up Bow on Thursday, May 1.With ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThey’re not winning yet, but that doesn’t mean they’re not smiling. The Lady Grizzlies, in their second year as a varsity girls lacrosse team, currently have an 0-6 record. But following a 16-4 loss to defending state runner-up Hanover on Saturday, April 26, Goffstown head coach Jess Brown said her players ...

BY STEPHEN BEALESometimes it takes art to speak the unspeakable. But Annie LoPresti, a New Boston resident and senior at Goffstown High School, is hoping people from her hometown all the way to the art galleries of Manhattan get the message from her painting loud and clear. The painting, “Invisible Children,” depicts an African child ...