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 ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK Tony Carnovale had 26-minutes and 16 seconds to cool down before trying to get his players to do the same. Sitting alone in the visiting locker room after an ejection knocked him from the game against Central on Tuesday, Jan. 23, Carnovale could only listen as his team was pummelled, 63-31, snapping a four-game winning streak. ...

BY SAPNA PATHAKBefore the season’s first game, Alex Sobolov said the Goffstown boys basketball team would make a statement this year. The Grizzlies of the past, winners of five games the last three years, would soon be forgotten and replaced with Grizzlies who could play solid defense, execute on offense and be a playoff-caliber club. On ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKBy 8:30 on Friday night, Dave Michaud was not a happy man. His Goffstown High girls basketball team lost to the defending state champions, 49- 39, on Jan. 5, falling to 2-3 in Class L. Michaud was upset because his performance was the lone consistent effort put forth by any member of the team. Indeed, the Grizzlies played ...