BY RYAN O’CONNORSitting at a youth hockey conference, watching what was likely to be another boring prerecorded training video, Kermit Brunelle sighed. On the screen, Don Lucia, coach of the national champion University of Minnesota ice hockey team, was giving a speech. “A lot of people think I have the best job in hockey, and I tell ...

In Goffstown Babe Ruth action: Red Wings 6 – Sea Dogs 5 Dante Distaso belted a walkoff home run on the first pitch in the bottom of the seventh as the Red Wings captured the minor league title with a win over the scrappy Sea Dogs. Riley Palmer and Steven French held the Sea Dogs to three runs though six innings, but Matt Riehl delivered a ...

Hooksett 18 – Dunbarton 7 Shannon Argo and Shannon Martin went 4-for-4, and Kim Wallace, Bry Pearson, Elaina Lavigne, Amber Young, Ashley Pilotte, Sam Desaulniers and Lindsay Read were a combined 17-for-25 with seven walks, as Hooksett rolled in junior-league action. Winning pitcher Argo turned in five strong innings, striking out ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY MANCHESTER – Ben Forbes will never look at Dunkin’ Donuts the same way again. While his 11th-seeded Falcons were making an unexpected run through the Class I tournament, Bow’s baseball manager grabbed a coffee and jelly stick each morning. The Falcon’s final contest didn’t end so ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORWeeks before Goffstown’s varsity baseball squad earned the first Class L title in program history, another group of Grizzlies celebrated a similar accomplishment. With a 5-1 victory against Salem, on May 26, the GHS JV team completed an undefeated season to capture its second-straight state crown. In fact, the last ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThroughout the season, Matt Benson and his players committed to never look back, only forward. Now the Goffstown baseball coach has no choice but to glance into the past. He is, after all a state champion. Benson and the thirdseeded Grizzlies captured the school’s first Class L title with a dramatic 4-3 victory over ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Matt Benson didn’t want to imagine it any other way. Dan Keleher had something different in mind. On Saturday, June 14, at MerchantsAuto.com Stadium in Manchester, it was Benson who got his wish. The fifth-year Goffstown baseball coach watched his nine seniors carry their teammates on their shoulders ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORIf you had asked him two weeks ago if his Memorial baseball team would be playing in the Class L semifinals, Don Menswar would have been more likely to laugh than nod. Yet that’s exactly where the No. 15 Crusaders ended up, facing third-seeded Goffstown at Nashua’s Holman Stadium on June 11. And had it not been ...

Manny hits the ball!

BY RYAN O’CONNORAfter reaching the Class L finale as a No. 13 seed in 2007 and returning nearly the entire team, the outlook was bright for the Trinity baseball team this season. But after a 12-1 loss to fifth-seeded Nashua North in the Class L quarterfinals, Pioneers manager Ed Poisson admitted maybe the expectations outweighed the reality ...