BY DAVID SUITORAre you interested in improving your physical and aerobic fitness, relieving stress, expanding your circle of friends, and possibly earning a college scholarship, while having fun? Then Goffstown High School Fencing Club may be for you. Sport fencing has been in Goffstown for many years. The Fencing Club at the high school began in ...

BY JERRY LIPTAK MANCHESTER – While Goffstown and John Stark struggled in team competition at the NHIAA Cross Country Class Meet Championships, GHS junior Jana Hieber placed among the top 20 individuals in the Class L girls race at Derryfield Park on Saturday, Oct. 25. As a result, Heiber joins the remainder of the top 30 individuals from ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORThree years ago, the last time Goffstown and Pembroke met on the Division III football gridiron, the Grizzlies were headed for the postseason and the Spartans were struggling to win a game. Following the most recent matchup, on Saturday, Oct. 25, GHS coach Rob Cathcart told his team: “I love games like this, but I ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Salem is certainly a familiar foe for the Goffstown field hockey team. Three years ago, the Lady Grizzlies lost to the Blue Devils in the state championship and fell to them again in the playoffs the next season. So when they took the field at Salem on Monday, Sept. 15, the girls understood the contest would ...

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 JERRY LIPTAK In a league noted for parity, where a Class L cellar dweller routinely topples a team in the penthouse, Goffstown High has constructed, in more ways than one, an exceptional baseball program. Following a 9-8 victory over four-win Exeter on Saturday, May 10, the varsity Grizzlies were 11-3 and tied in the loss column with ...

By Rryan O’connor Winning the Division II state title in 2006, the Goffstown wrestling team was rewarded with a promotion to D-I. Though the Grizzlies have earned some success, they haven’t been able to maintain the dominance they exhibited at the D-II level. Next year, with attendance at the high school down a bit, GHS ...

The Goffstown High School boys Alpine ski team beat four schools in team competition on Jan. 10 at Cranmore in North Conway, led by the one-two punch of Milos Bohonek and Thomas Joy. Among 70 entrants, Bohonek and Joy finished first and second, respectively, in both the giant slalom (GS) and slalom events as the Grizzlies defeated Exeter, Dover, ...