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 ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Tom Babaian wasn’t impressed with his team’s performance. Paul Cohen wasn’t pleased with how his squad played either. But someone had to come out with a win. Babaian’s Pelham football team defeated Cohen’s Bow Falcons, 35-20, on Saturday, Oct. 4, in a turnover-plagued contest that helped ...

BY DAVID SUITORBrad Zahensky wants to race NASCAR someday, and in preparation he is learning his craft by kart racing at Sugar Hill Speedway in Weare. The 11-year-old already has three years of experience on paved oval tracks. After taking second in the Tiger Sprint A division, he’ll move up in class next year to the Junior Outlaw division ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Since I first spoke with event organizer Mary Congoran about the race, she has been telling me the Contoocook Carry brings out the best in Hopkinton residents. I figured she was right, but until I rode my bicycle into a ditch on the side of the road, I never really completely understood. On Sunday, Sept. 21, ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Pelham field hockey team created more scoring threats, but Bow made its chances count, earning a 2- 0 road victory. Although the Pythons spent most of the afternoon on the attack, the Falcons scored a goal in each half, defeating Pelham on Friday, Sept. 12. Bow’s Kristen Chulada corralled a loose ball in ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR They’re young. They’re raw. They might just be good enough to surprise some teams in Class I. Come Oct. 2, when the top golf teams from around New Hampshire meet at White Mountain Country Club to compete for the state championship, Bow coach Mike Seraikas said he fully expects his squad to be in the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR For one day, 18 soccer teams from four different classes converged on Manchester’s West High School. Among those squads were Class I’s Bow Lady Falcons and Class M’s Hopkinton Lady Hawks. The coaches of both units left the Saturday, Aug. 23, event without a sure feel for how their respective ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORStu Goldstein of Dunbarton said he didn’t enter the Granite State Senior Games expecting to win anything. He was simply looking to regain the competitive feeling he experienced while exhibiting his athletic prowess in gymnastics for 35 years. “Last year I saw it in the paper, and I was 49, and I said, ‘Hey, ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Last year, Auburn’s Joey Dudek rode his arm and leg to Gillette Stadium – and very nearly the Super Bowl. Dudek, who won the 10- and 11-year-old division of the local Pepsi Punt, Pass and Kick competition last August, also triumphed at the sectional competition in Bristol, R.I., and then the regional ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR During her two years playing on the Bow High School tennis team, Amber Chandronnait guided the Lady Falcons to two state titles while earning two individual championships and one doubles crown. Those accomplishments, along with a plethora of accolades playing independently, earned her a scholarship to the ...