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Time Travel for March 6-12

Simpler times in high school sports produced deeper community ties. This morning’s example: The Class L basketball finals featuring Nashua High School against Portsmouth, with the Purple Panthers chasing their third straight championship. A throng of Nashuans accompanied the team to Durham, ...

A special high school career came to an end Thursday

It always stings when there's a sense of finality in any sport at any level. Thursday night they were putting the bench chairs and basketballs away Nashua High School North's Titans Gym, as another boys hoop season, this special season in which every game was a bonus, came to a close. This ...

Nearly a year later, winter tourney time is back for all

The sign in front of the entrance by the Bishop Guertin High School Colligadome said it all. “It's Tourney Time!” it said. Big deal? You bet. Because it's just 10 days shy of a year when Tourney Time turned into Closing Time thanks to the pandemic. Monday night was special, because ...

Questions? We’ve got answers, especially about Rivier and also Legion ball

Got questions, local sports fans? As we turn the calendar officially today to March 1, we've got answers WILL RIVIER UNIVERSITY HAVE A SPRING SEASON? We'll know in the next day or so. The Great Northeast Athletic Conference school presidents are meeting either today or tomorrow and the hope, ...

Saturday’s BG-HB title bout win for high school wrestling

There was a lot of doubt late in the fall whether or not the sport of high school wrestling was going to make the cut this winter due to the pandemic. If you were at the Bishop Guertin Colligadome on Saturday – whether as a fan of either the Cardinals or the Hollis Brookline Cavaliers, or ...

March 2021 offers some real hope

Welcome, March. It’s always the light of spring at the end of a long winter tunnel. Of course, a year ago, it’s when it felt like the world ended, the night of March 11 when the NBA and NCAA paused or cancelled their seasons or post seasons, hockey soon after, and MLB closed camps a ...