In recent years most local high school football teams have been able to avoid the playoff upset, but not this year.
The victim? The Campell Cougars. Meanwhile, the Souhegan Sabers were just the opposite, winning decisively in their playoff opener.
Here's a look:
DIVISION III ...
EXETER – Campbell High School boys soccer coach Dan Dufourny looked at the scoreboard and saw something ironic.
“That score, 5-4, was the same score we lost by in last year's finals,” he said, chuckling.
That was to Milford, in a game for the ages. But the 5-4 margin Dufourny saw on ...
NASHUA -- Nashua South has played most of its big games from behind, but the Panthers didn’t want to start their playoff run that way.
Senior quarterback Cody Jackson connected with fellow senior Colvin Levesque on a 28-yard passing touchdown on just the third play of the game. Jackson was ...
EXETER – There's never a good time to see a 56-game unbeaten streak end.
And to see it end in a championship game may be the worst time, and definitely the most painful.
Maybe the most fitting? The top-ranked Hollis Brookline High School girls soccer team could only accept the reality after ...
The best has been saved for last.
Yes, the local high school boys soccer season wraps up tonight with the Game of the Year, the Division I championship game between No. 1 Nashua South (16-1-1) and No. 3 Bishop Guertin (15-2-2) at Manchester Memorial's Chabot McDonough Field at 6:45.
The two ...
MANCHESTER -- The Bishop Guertin boys soccer team captured the Division I boys soccer championship Saturday night, 1-0 over city rival Nashua South on Nick Chartier's rebound goal about 11 minutes into the second sudden death overtime period.
Chartier trailed a rush by Guertin forward Ryan ...