BY JERRY LIPTAKThe question for fourth-seeded Central: how do we, after losing to this team by 16 points on our home court just a few weeks ago, stop unbeaten and top-seeded Salem? The Little Green found an answer – incomplete, it turns out – in the Class L boys basketball semifinals. Still, they proved they could more than compete ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORWith his fourth-seeded squad playing its best basketball of the season, Central boys basketball coach Doc Wheeler said a 16-point home loss to undefeated Salem two weeks earlier helped propel his young hoopsters into the Class L semifinals. The Little Green have won five in a row since the embarrassing setback Feb. 22, ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYMany times in practice, teams run a drill in which every player must touch the ball before a shot is taken. It doesn’t always translate into game play. It did for the Central High School boys basketball team, which consistently made the extra pass and shot past visiting Winnacunnet High School, 71-44, on Friday, Jan. 4. It ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORFor Hooksett-area teams and individual athletes, 2007 was a year in which the surprising became the norm, particularly at the high school level. Though squads such as the Central girls tennis team finished tops in Class L and Cawley Middle School collected multiple titles, other perennial contenders bowed out of the ...

BY MATT STOUTSitting inside one of the many locker rooms buried in the bowels of Lundholm Gymnasium, the Manchester Central boys basketball team did as it usually does following a game Thursday, March 15. Coaches talked and players listened. Players talked and coaches listened. The Little Green’s post-game discussion has been known to teach ...

BY MATT STOUTWeird. That’s how Colin Burke described his Manchester West boys basketball team’s season. From their habit of starting games slowly to the approaches they took to remedy their problems, the Blue Knights experienced a lot of new things this season, few of which were good. At 2-16, West finished last in Class L and missed ...

BY SAPNA PATHAKIt began the night as Salem High’s Davis Gym. It finished as official headquarters of “Savage Nation” and the No. 1-seeded team in the Class L tournament. Salem’s road to the top spot was marked with an impressive overtime win against twotime defending state champion Central. In front of a near-capacity ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK It’s hard to say whether Central’s season-opening win over Spaulding meant more to Little Green head coach Mike Wenners or senior captain Whitney Fremeau. Wenners watched his charges post a 73-13 romping over the Red Raiders on Friday, Dec. 8. En route to the homecourt win Fremeau scored her 1,000th point, good for a ...