BY JERRY LIPTAK The Pelham High School boys tennis team tweaked the old argument – the end justifies the means – in 2008. This was a team that proved sometimes the end just defies the means. Yes, unbeaten state champ Hanover concluded the Pythons’ season with a quick 9-0 defeat in the Class I state semifinals on ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR By regular-season standards, the implications of a win or a loss were far greater than a typical boys tennis contest. Matched up on Saturday, May 17, were 9-3 Pelham and 11- 2 Coe-Brown. The winner was likely to host a first-round playoff duel between the two five days later. “It was huge,” said ...

BY JERRY LIPTAK The Pelham boys tennis team shut out Monadnock in its season opener, 9-0. Top-seeded Scott Connatser defeated Alex Ball, 8-2, while Pelham’s No. 2 player, Brad Shapiro, bested Evan Barlow, 8-5. The Connatser- Shapiro doubles team beat the Ball-Barlow duo as well, 8-2. Ryan Fyfe won the No. 3 singles match, edging ...

BY MATT STOUT Two months ago, the Pelham boys tennis team probably would have jumped at the opportunity to be in this position. Five days ago, they probably would have given anything to avoid it. With back-to-back losses to start the week – the first coming in a 5-4 upset loss to Con-Val on Monday, May 14, the second in a 9-0 setback to ...