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 DAVE CHOATE Last year, the John Stark varsity girls soccer team surprised everyone by advancing to the championship game for the first time in the program’s history. With four returning starters this year, the possibility of a repeat seems unlikely to most, but not Heather Doucet. “I think we can have a repeat performance,” ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK Richie Vaillancourt had an idea what he was signing up for. He knew coaching a handful of 10-year-old softball players meant practices, pregame preparations and time during games would involve lots of chatter, lots of energy and plenty of laughter. And he was right. At the helm of this year’s Kearsarge Mountain South 10U ...

BY MATT STOUT Her team was minutes away from improving to 3-1. It had erased what was a three-goal deficit at one point. Despite losing, it still stood in good shape four games into the spring. But when asked about the John Stark girls lacrosse team’s season thus far following a last-minute, 10-9 loss to Kingswood on May 3, senior captain ...

BY JERRY LIPTAK It is down the road. It requires patience and perseverance. Jeff Miller knows his John Stark baseball team needs to think about it. Indeed, winning will come. These days, though, you can hear Miller exhorting his club to “think out there.” It’s a more urgent call to concentrate during each inning, before each ...

BY MATT STOUT Having lived in Maryland, there are many things about New Hampshire high school baseball that Jeff Miller is unfamiliar with. Having to plan practices around snow forecasts is certainly one of them. Yet, when he stood before the John Stark baseball team during the largest tryout the program has ever hosted, the Generals’ new ...

BY MATT STOUTIn one of the first practices of this spring, head coach Zachary Medlock stood before the John Stark softball team and posed a simple question: “What position do you play?” For a group full of Amateur Softball Association-seasoned players, the query may have had an easy answer. But not on this year’s Stark ...

The Weare Athletic Club urges anyone who hasn’t signed up for baseball or softball to visit www.weareathleticclub.com for instructions. All  registered WAC players should attend evaluations at the times listed below. All evaluations take place Saturday, March 17, at Weare Middle School • 9- and 10-year-old boys with last names ...

BY JERRY LIPTAK With her team down three points and 1-minute, 45 seconds remaining in the game, John Stark’s Elyssa Feliciano – directly in front of her bench – inbounded to Olivia Cray, who fumbled the ball, then controlled it on the other side of midcourt. The referee blew his whistle. Wayne Thomson blew his stack. For the ...