BY RYAN O’CONNORBruce Berk said he doesn’t keep track of his Derryfield School boys tennis team’s successes from year to year. Maybe he’s just lost count. The Cougars have reached the state final 15 of the last 18 years, and they have 12 titles in that span, including the last six. Most recently, they wore the 2008 Class ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORWinning a state tennis championship is a tough enough task. Six individual players have to do their part, then change their approaches and play doubles – generally immediately following an intense singles match. Now, take away two of the starting six and, subsequently, one of three doubles units. That’s what ...

BY MATT STOUTTerry Wilson laughed after he said it, but the Gilford coach, like many of his peers in Class M-S, isn’t thrilled to notice it. “Hi, I’m Coach Wilson,” he said during player introductions prior to his team’s match-up with the Derryfield School boys tennis team on Wednesday, April 11. “Some of you ...

BY MATT STOUTIt doesn’t matter that it lost its top four players. It doesn’t matter that it opened with its first loss since 2005. For the Derryfield School girls tennis team, the faces change, but the skills, expectations and, in some cases, the names usually do not. So after falling in the Class M-S championship three straight times ...