Campbell's Jack Kidwell delivers a pitch during the Cougars' 4-2 quarterfinal win over Prospect Mountain on Saturday. Campbell faces No. 1 Monadnock in the semis on Wednesday in Laconia. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

Time to check for survivors.

You know, those teams that went through the NHIAA state tournament gauntlet in various sports on Super Saturday and survived to play in the semifinal and final rounds.

The count: There are nine local teams still vying for state championships, which will make for a busy full Week 2 of tourney play.

Let’s take a look:

GIRLS LACROSSE

Just one left: The Hollis Brookline girls (15-4), seeded third. The third time was the charm for the Cavaliers as they avenged two regular season losses to Windham in the quarterfinals, and will now take on top seed Hanover on Tuesday night at 7 for all the marbles. They hope the third time is the charm in this case, too, as they’ve lost in the last two championship games to Portsmouth, which is now chasing a title but in Division I. The Cavs have multiple scorers and all-around players, but their offense is led by Sabrina and Alyssa Hill.

The Bears beat the Cavs up in Hanover 11-10 in overtime, It should be a great final at Stellos.

BOYS LACROSSE

Three teams: In Divison I, No. 1 Bishop Guertin (16-3) will take on No. 5 Merrimack (11-5) in the semifinals on Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. at Exeter’s Bill Ball Stadium.

The Cardinals, of course, are heavily favored – they haven’t lost to an in-state opponent since Pinkerton beat them in the 2019 title game – but Merrimack is the feel good story of the week. The Tomahawks have never been this far, and they got the biggest goal in their history with Connor Dunn’s tally in sudden death overtime to upset No. 4 Bedford Saturday night in the quarters, on the road. The ‘Hawks lost to BG 15-2 during the regular season, but remember that they lost to Bedford 15-5.

In Divsion III, No. 2 Campbell (14-2) returns to Laconia’s Bank of New Hampshire Stadium on Wednesday for a semifinal matchup with No. 3 11-4 Pelahm. Now last year, the Cougars were heavily favored here to beat Laconia in the semis, a team they had thrashed during the regular season, but were upset. We note this because this time the Cougars are the ones looking to avenge a loss, as Pelham handled them 8-1 a few weeks ago. Game time is 5 p.m.

BASEBALL

Two remaining for semifinals:

In Division II, No. 2 Hollis Brookline (14-3) will take on No. 3 St. Thomas of Dover (15-4) on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Warren Doane Field at Concord’s Memorial Field complex. It’s a rematch of last year’s finals, won by the Cavs 7-2. HB won the regular season contest back on May 15, 11-9, but almost blew a six-run lead, needing reliever Zak Lussier to shut things down. Should be a good one.

Then there’s the Campbell Cougars, relevant again in Division III. They No. 4, 16-2 Cougars will head up to Laconia’s Robbie Mills Park for a semifinal matchup with unbeaten No. 1 Monadnock (17-0). The Huskies did not play the Cougars in the regular season, but the two schools are big rivals in other sports, especially football. Monadnock scored in double figures in all but five games – one of those being its 4-3 quarterfinal win over Belmont.

Campbell, meanwhile, is enjoying a resurgence under coach James Marron, in his second year. Current Souhegan coach Chris Metz started things getting back, but he left for the Sabers job and Marron has won 26 games the last two seasons.

“The community produces baseball players,” Marron said. “It’s a collection of talent that came at the right time. In high school, you don’t get to recruit, you don’t get to pull kids from a feeder program. We just had a group of freshmen that came in that filled in behind a group of sophomores and a group of juniors who are all baseball players. I happen to be the lucky guy in the right place.”

Logan Daigle, who closed out the 4-2 quarterfinal win over Prospect Mountain, will likely take the mound as Wednesday

‘s starter.

SOFTBALL

One survivor: In Division II, No. 4, 14-3 Hollis Brookline is on a roll now of 10 straight wins riding the pitching of Austyn Kemp and their potent hitting of players like Kailey Disco. They Cavs will also take on an unbeaten top seed, facing No. 1 Kingswood (17-0) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Plymouth State’s D&M Field.

There you go, the survivors. And now, it’s going to the survival of the fittest from here on out through next weekend.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL

Two, and they are facing each other on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Hollis in the quarterfinals. Actually, defending champ Hollis Brookline, seeded No. 2 at 15-1, got a bye in the first round, while Souhegan got a win in the prelims on Saturday. The No. 7 Sabers (11-6) lost to HB 3-1 just two weeks ago. But Souhegan is only one of three teams to win a set from HB this season.

TENNIS INDIVDUAL TOURNEY UPDATE

Bishop Guertin’s Nick Xie is in the boys semis, as he got by Nashua South’s Abhinav Avvaru in a shortened quarterfinal, 4-1 on Saturday. Avvaru had to pull out due to cramping. The semis are 3 p.m. Tuesday at Southern New Hampshire University with the final right after.

The boys and girls doubles are today at 3 p.m. the boys at SNHU and Derryfield, and the girls at Concord’s Memorial Field postponed from Sunday.

South’s Avvaru and Atul Phadke are seeded third, while Souhegan’s girls tandem of Callie Perrin and Mishka Tower are seeded fourth. The doubles finals are all at SNHU on Thursday at 3 p.m.

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