BY MATT SCHOOLEYBedford’s ride to a District 1 championship nearly hit a speed bump, courtesy of a powerful Bow team. On July 15, Bow’s 11- and 12-year-olds pushed the eventual champions to the limit but lost, 6-4, during the losers’ bracket quarterfinals. Bow fell behind after the first inning, 3-0, but Colby Fortin began his ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYFollowing a loss to Salem National, Bow tripped up and fell into the losers’ bracket of the District 1 baseball tournament. Three wins after that setback, a confident Bow squad found itself hoping to plan a different kind of trip. On Monday, July 13, the 11- and 12-year-old all-stars won their third consecutive game with a ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYSponsored by Indian Head AthleticsDavid Bucchino won’t be in net when the next Bow boys lacrosse season starts, but he’ll still have an impact in the crease. In addition to working closely with his protege during practices, the recently graduated Bucchino steadied the Falcons en route to a second consecutive Division ...

The Bow Falcons improved to 6-1 in Class I girls tennis following recent victories against Pelham, Laconia, Kearsarge, Kennett and, on Monday, May 4, Pembroke Academy. The team’s lone blemish in 2009 was a 7-2 setback to Hanover on April 29. In a rain-shortened 6-1 decision over Pelham, Kate Torres, Mariah Leven and Emma Mulvaney, the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR With the season’s first snowfall as the backdrop, the No. 8 Bow Lady Falcons missed several key opportunities, including a shot off the crossbar late in the second half, and Hollis-Brookline, the ninth-seeded visitors and eventual state runner-up, scored three minutes into sudden death to secure a Class I ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bow police are looking for any tips from residents with information about three signs that were stolen from the Town Forest. The signs were noticed missing on Saturday, Oct. 11, one week after they had been installed by the Bow Pioneers Snowmobile Club. On Oct. 4, club members placed three large wooden signs at the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR This time last year, the Bow boys soccer team had locked up a top-four seed in the Class I tournament, par for the course for George Pinkham’s squad. Peter Bisson, on the other hand, was completing his first season at the Pembroke Academy helm. His team had shown signs of progress, but were out of playoff ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORConsider this: Team A and Team B enter the final game of the regular season. Team A is in first place, and team B is out of contention. At some point in the game a player from Team A goes for the ball and trips a Team B foe in the process. A yellow card is drawn. Team A wins the game and locks up the top playoff spot, yet ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bow’s and John Stark’s girls soccer teams couldn’t muster any serious offensive threats through 80 minutes of play. But it took John Stark forward Joan Hamel only 1 minute, 4 seconds to break through the afternoon shadows that consumed the Bow High School field and a host of Falcon defenders. Her ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR For the Bow golf team, 2008 was a good year. Coach Mike Seraikas said 2009 has the potential to be a great year. “The kids worked hard, they all improved, and now we’re just looking forward to next season where we’re going to be a year older and a year more experienced,” said Seraikas, who ...