BY MATT SCHOOLEY It took Mike Ball an intramural football game to find out that he could bounce back from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. After suffering a knee injury in the first half of his first-ever Southern New Hampshire University men’s lacrosse game, the Salem resident rehabbed and returned as one of the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Throughout the 2008 season, the Bow boys lacrosse team took one fellow Division II foe after another to school. Even Chris Kelleher, coach of D-I Salem, admitted the Falcons smacked his squad with a lengthy measuring stick during an 8-1 interdivisional loss. “Some of the kids were ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY In 1994, when Howard Roever and two others started the Bow Youth Lacrosse (BYL) program, his team of players struggled to score a goal most of the season, let alone win a game. Since then, lacrosse in town sure has changed. Following 14 years with Bow Youth Lacrosse, Roever recently stepped down as the group’s ...

Girls U15 The Bedford Cannons U15 girls team won its division at the New Hampshire Youth Lacrosse Festival on June 8. The first win was against topseeded Cocheco, 10-6. Nine players scored, including Danielle Ayers, Julia Murphy, Morgan Linehan, Callie Santos, Jenna Mead, Sarah Pallatroni, Jess Lambert, Alex Fink and Caitlin Heaps. Mead also ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR It’s another year, yet the jerseys are usually the same. For the fifth time since Division II girls lacrosse was established in 2002, Bow and Hanover played for the state championship. The outcome, of course, wasn’t decided until the final minutes. But unlike last season, when the Lady Falcons ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR The varsity program is in its third year of existence, yet the Hopkinton girls lacrosse team is competing for a playoff spot. With a 9-5 win against Merrimack Valley on Saturday, May 17, Hopkinton upped its record to 5-7 and can finish with a .500 regular season by defeating 4-8 Plymouth, on Tuesday, May 20, and ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Matt Regan coached the Pelham boys lacrosse team two of the program’s first four years, but missed last season because of time constraints. This season, he is back at the helm and ready to reap the benefits of his initial investment. “The group I had two years ago, when they were all freshmen, I now ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR  For Aly Higgins, Sara Halbich, and Taylor and Tatum Dyer, it was another year, another field hockey title. The senior quartet – along with juniors Nicole Rozumek and Kyleigh Keating and sophomore Chelsie Muldowney – led the Lady Blue Devils to a third consecutive state championship in the ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR With just under 20 seconds left on the game clock, Bow and rival Hanover deadlocked at 16 goals apiece, Falcons junior Kiley Corson had only one thought as she prepared for a free shot. “Oh, my gosh. I’m going to miss,” she admitted. “It was all on me.” If Corson was nervous, it ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK It took less than two minutes to halt a season full of domination over opponents, the most wins in Division III and perhaps the biggest expectations the program has seen. But don’t think for a moment Doug Maynard’s going to let 120 seconds overshadow two months – make that three years – of ...