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HS Tourney Roundup: Merrimack girls soccer, BG volleyball win

By Marc Breton - Special to The Telegraph | Oct 26, 2022

The Bishop Guertin girls volleyball team, shown earlier in the season, was celebrating again on Tuesday with a Division I tourney win over Spaulding. (Telegraph file photo by TOM KING)

Watch out for the Merrimack High School girls soccer team, as the Tomahawks are having their best season in recent memory, highlighted by a Division I preliminary round win on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a year has made quite a diffeence for Bishop Guertin girls volleyball team, which fell at home in the first round of the tournament a year ago, but also prevailed on Wednesday.

Unfortunately, it was not a good day for Nashua North or South girls soccer, as well as Alvirne. While the Broncos lost on an overtime penalty kick, the Campbell girls won in the penalty kick phase after 100 minutes of scoreless soccer.

Here’s a look at the good and bad news:

GIRLS SOCCER

DIVISION I PRELIMS

NO. 4 TIMBERLANE 4, NO. 13 NASHUA SOUTH 0

The Panthers (7-10) season comes to an end with a shutout loss to the Owls. Izzy Mederos, Alex Kapopolous, Lily Stutz and Brynn Tefft played strong for South.

NO. 6 MERRIMACK 5, NO. 11 HANOVER 2

Cara Sullivan tallied a hat trick and an assist to lead the Tomahawks in a dominant win. Morgan Lazaro (goal, assist), Kailey Dillion (assist), Danielle Ganley (goal), Lucy Cote (assist) and Molly Perkins (15 saves) had big contributions in the contest.

Merrimack visits NO. 3 Bedford on Friday in the quarterfinals.

NO. 3 BEDFORD 4, NO. 14 NASHUA NORTH 0

The Titans (5-12) were blanked by the Bulldogs ending their season. North made a late season run to grab an improbable tourney berth after starting out 1-10.

NO. 9 CONCORD 2, NO. 8 ALVIRNE 1 (0T)

It was a heartbreaking loss at home for the Broncos (9-8), as the Tide’s Avery Fitcher shot a penalty kick in overtime into the bottom right corner.

Concord (9-7-1) led 1-0 at the half on a goal by Fitcher off a throw in, but Alvirne’s Paige Boudreau tied the game at 1 midway through the second half.

Concord moves on to visit No. 1, unbeaten Exeter in the quarters on Friday.

NO. 8 CAMPBELL 1,NO. 9 TRINITY 0

The Cougars won the penalty kick phase 4-3 after the game went scoreless through regulation and overtime.

Scoring on penalty kicks were Morgan Wagner, Heidi Smith, Anais Smith and Gabby Kim-Levesque. Sam Roach had three saves in PKs for the Cougars (10-7), who now move on to face No. 1 St. Thomas on Friday.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

DIVISION I PRELIMS

NO. 8 BISHOP GUERTIN 3, NO. 9 SPAULDING 0

The Cardinals down Spaulding 25-20, 26-24, 25-19. Larisa Comolli (five aces, four kills), Bella Reichard (nine digs, six kills, four aces), Brooke Muller (seven kills, three blocks) and Meg Stack (eight kills) led BG in the playoff win.

BG visits NO. 1 Bedford in the quarterfinals on Friday.

NO. 3 LONDONDERRY 3, NO. 14 NASHUA SOUTH 0

The Panthers get swept by the Lancers 18-25, 17-25, 11-25 ending their season. Mia Suljic (six digs, four kills, two aces), Isha Bachwal (four digs, two aces) and Maddie L’heureux (four digs, four assists, two aces) played strong in the loss.

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