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Key sports dates through September

September is here, vacations are done, school is back and the schedule is non-stop from here through Thanksgiving. How’s that for reality? We usually like to outline your sports schedule by season, but the fall is so busy, we’ll take it month by month. This month has already begun, but as ...

Time Travel: City softball teams fall in tourney

AUGUST 27, 1962 – “Two Nashua entries in the Invitational Softball Tournament in Gardner, Mass., lost their opening games last Saturday. Club National, city champion, bowed to the Hillside team of Fitchburg, 3-1, and the Bronze Craft Corp. team was edged by the Leominster Eagles, ...

Time to note summer’s memorable moments

It’s transition week coming up, the time right before Labor Day weekend when the realization is that a fun summer is over and a fall of promise is ahead. This weekend fall sports are underway, mainly soccer, and this coming week is a full high school schedule, culminating in the opening of ...

Instability proves a problem for any program

There’s a new system in Division I, it’s not bad, not great, but basically serviceable for the next couple of years. Why does it exist? You might want to wave at the school that’s on Route 102 once you cross the bridge out of Nashua and drive by it. The Alvirne Broncos suddenly have ...

Panthers determined to bounce back

NASHUA – The bad taste has been in the collective mouth of the Nashua High School South football program for almost a year. They want to rinse it away – and certainly not repeat it. Last year the Panthers were looking to be solid contenders, but injuries and lack of depth made the ...

Senior leadership sets Sabers’ bar high

AMHERST – If Souhegan High football coach Robin Bowkett had any doubts, his young kids were paying attention back in the run to the state championship in 2020. They weren’t blown away by the talented guys ahead of them. They just took notes on what it takes. “I see the same kind of ...