BY DAN DECONINCKIt’s been the case in so many Goffstown High games this season, and once again, a late rally by the opposition proved too much for the GHS boys basketball team. Exeter freshman Michael Thorpe led the visiting Blue Hawks on a fourth-quarter run, and the Grizzlies dropped another tight Class L contest, 56- 52, on Sunday, Feb. ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThe Goffstown High School girls basketball team has stumbled out of the gate, and head coach Dave Michaud said he’s waiting to watch his group compete from opening tip to final buzzer. During a 54-52 loss to Concord on Friday, Jan. 16, Michaud said the Grizzlies missed key free throws down the stretch, something that plagued ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYDiamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but they’re not high up the list for Goffstown High School’s basketball coach. While the regular success of the GHS baseball team has been impressive, there is a cost. “The biggest problem is that everyone plays baseball, and they didn’t have the time to put in ...

The good, the bad and the beautiful bring their skills to Goffstown High School on Saturday, March 22, for the Crispin’s House annual 3- on-3 Basketball Tournament. “The 3-on-3 brings out the best in players,” said Al Baines, acting executive director of Crispin’s House. “It’s about having a good time for a ...

By Ryan O’connor GOFFSTOWN – Losing a standout player to injury prior to the season is never easy. Just ask Goffstown girls basketball coach Dave Michaud. When senior captain Kira Murphy went down with a torn medial collateral ligament during a preseason scrimmage against John Stark, he said he knew his team was in for an ...

By Chris Quartarone GOFFSTOWN – The Saint Anselm men’s basketball team has neither won nor lost more than two games in a row this season. Even within a single game, consistency has eluded the Hawks. St. A, down 17 points in the second half, battled to within three before losing to rival Southern New Hampshire University, ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORGoffstown-area athletic successes in 2007 came at many levels, for teams and individuals. This was never more evident than the summer, when nearly every Goffstown youth baseball team, from Little League through Babe Ruth, finished tops in their district, among the best in the state and, in some cases, the region. Those ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORAfter the team finished last season with a 7-20 record, far removed from the school’s last conference title in 1992, athletics director Ed Cannon decided to shake up the Saint Anselm College women’s basketball program. He certainly didn’t settle. Cannon hired Chris Leazier, who spent the previous seven ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK The coach called two of them warriors. Another possesses a toughness he envies, and one has a sly sense of humor the coach will miss. Heck, Tony Carnovale is so fond of his seniors, he’d let one of them date his own daughter. It’s a pride most coaches take years to develop. Carnovale needed one campaign. Despite ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t clean and it certainly wasn’t soothing to the nerves. But it made for the second-best win Wayne Thomson ever saw his team pull off. Entering the quarterfinals of this year’s Class I girls basketball tournament, Thomson’s turnover-prone group had to squash its ...