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 MATT SCHOOLEYDespite a loss to Goffstown, the Manchester West girls volleyball team looks to take momentum into a matchup with Central and grab its first victory of the season. Although the Blue Knights dropped the match to the Grizzlies on Friday, Sept. 26, West’s head coach, Connie Kyriakopoulos, said she thought her team played as ...

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 ...

Sponsored by Indian Head Athletics BY RYAN O’CONNORIf numbers don’t lie and records are made to be broken, Olivia Smith has made a career out of reinforcing sports cliches. Indeed, six games into the 2008 girls volleyball season, the Goffstown senior setter has already broken a handful of school records and has led her team to the ...

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 RYAN O’CONNORWhen last seen, the Goffstown boys soccer team was walking off the Manchester West field after surrendering a two-goal lead and falling in overtime. Roughly 10 months after that playoff heartbreaker, the Grizzlies were back at it, winning their season opener, 4-1, against Timberlane on Tuesday, June 2. Coach Randy Lovering ...

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 ...