BY SAPNA PATHAK Goffstown faced better, more experienced opposition, but Liam House-Myers wanted even more. The team lacked wins, but motivation and a positive attitude defined Goffstown’s first-ever varsity boys lacrosse season. “I definitely feel like we could’ve won more games,” said the sophomore midfielder. ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK The Murray household is torn. There’s a divide splitting the usually loving, caring and supportive family into two camps that will, most likely, never see eye to eye. There’s a debate pitting brother against sisters, mother against son and husband against wife. “We fight about it all the time,” said Jeff ...

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 MATT STOUT As Steve Porter circled the Pelham net during the first quarter of the Hopkinton boys lacrosse team’s 14-9 win on April 25, the Hawks’ senior attackman squared up to the right post, watched his defender drift from him and fired a bullet past the opposing goalkeeper for one of six goals on the day. The sequence, no ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK They know how to take the lead. Now they have to learn how to hold it. And until Salem’s boys lacrosse team figures out how to stay ahead of opponents until the final whistle blows, Chris Kelleher’s postgame talk will sound like a broken record. “They think the game’s over before they even played ...

BY MATT STOUT The Salem girls lacrosse team owes a lot of where it is right now to Meagan Schadlick and Christina Miano. The pair hopes that one day the Southern New Hampshire University women’s lacrosse team can say the same thing. After picking up lacrosse as freshmen in high school and, in turn, helping to lift the Blue Devils to a ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK One year ago, a group of Goffstown High boys came together to learn a new sport. Twelve months later, those players proved the Grizzlies were ready to be considered an official lacrosse team. After successfully completing their first season as a club team, the Grizzlies begin their inaugural year as a varsity sport. After more ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK It’s supposed to be a continuous cycle: build a team, make it to the top and rebuild the team after losing key players. It’s a regular occurrence in sports, and most coaches know how to prepare for each phase. But Terry Anderson isn’t most coaches. Winning five championships in 10 seasons and making a ...

BY MATT STOUT The last time the Bow girls lacrosse team took the field, it little resembled the team it had been all year. In fact, it looked nothing like any Falcons team Bow coach Chris Raabe had ever seen. “It was probably the worst game I’ve ever coached in my life, if you want to call it coaching, and it was probably the worst ...

BY MATT STOUT Come early March, Tim Powers has the same conversation with many students. In his search for new players, the Pelham girls lacrosse coach approaches athlete and non-athlete alike and asks them if they would be interested in playing the sport. The usual response is, “Well, I don’t know anything about it.” Of ...