BY RYAN O’CONNORJarrod Brooks has spent the last five years building a perennial golf contender at GHS. Next season, he said, the team has a chance to be just that in Class L. “This year we had a lot of people moving up from JV and a couple seniors who played varsity golf, but overall we had a very inexperienced team,” said ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThough the Grizzlies traveled roughly 14 miles up Route 114 from Goffstown to Weare, the host Generals faced the long ride home. Goffstown posted a program high 53 points against John Stark in the first varsity gridiron meeting between the two squads in three seasons. “It is our cross-border rival. We do have the ...

BY GREGOR R-BAUGHBig hits and tenacious rushing brought Goffstown within a hairsbreadth of a comeback win last Saturday, Sept. 27, but Portsmouth managed to hold on and win a matchup of Division III football foes, 20-14. “They just have to do more of what they did to open the second half – block well, run well,” said Rob ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYFor the first time this season, fans of the Goffstown High School girls volleyball team didn’t have to use too much gasoline to see a home game. The Grizzlies played their first in-town match of the year and defended the home court, defeating a winless Manchester West squad, 3-0, on Friday, Sept. 26. When he entered the ...

BY SAMUEL PERRONContributing WriterIn July, seven Goffstown High School students and three teachers spent a week in Nicaragua. Along with experiencing a very different way of life, they worked with some organizations on important social and environmental projects, and did some sightseeing along the way. Students who took part in the trip included ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Salem is certainly a familiar foe for the Goffstown field hockey team. Three years ago, the Lady Grizzlies lost to the Blue Devils in the state championship and fell to them again in the playoffs the next season. So when they took the field at Salem on Monday, Sept. 15, the girls understood the contest would ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThe last time they laced up their cleats, threw on their helmets and played on the Division III gridiron, the Goffstown Grizzlies played their hearts out but suffered a closerthan- it-appeared 46-14 loss to annual favorite Souhegan in the playoff quarterfinals. That was 2005. On Saturday, Sept. 6, the GHS football team ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEDespite heavy rains reminiscent of recent storms, flood worries abated in Goffstown early Sunday morning as the Piscataquog River stayed within its banks. “We got lucky this time,” said Chris Patten, a communications specialist at the town dispatch center. In the Lynchville Park neighborhood, which has borne the brunt ...

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 ...