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By ALEXANDER RAPP

BOW – Junior guard Treshawn Ray’s buzzer-beating heave from half court was a piece of the magic the Belmont High boys’ basketball team conjured up at just the right moment.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The Pembroke Academy girls’ basketball team’s offense fired on all cylinders to stay ahead of Merrimack Valley on Tuesday night. The Spartans’ eventual 59-36 win secured a top-five seed for the upcoming Division II state tournament in their penultimate regular-season game, with a chance to finish even higher depending on results.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Red River Theatres in Concord will hold a special screening for an award-winning baseball movie called “Eephus,” directed by Nashua native Carson Lund, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The venue will host a preshow event and a post-film Q&A with the filmmakers and Boston Red Sox legend Bill “Spaceman” Lee, a cast member.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

LONDONDERRY – The Concord Crimson Tide may not have had any wrestlers in championship bouts, but the overall strength of its wrestlers across the board carried the team to fourth place at the Division I championship on Saturday at Londonderry High School.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Brinity-Bow sophomore forward Kaylee Jacques netted a hat trick against Concord to push her team to a Division I girls’ hockey victory, 3-2, on Wednesday night at Everett Arena and leapfrog the Crimson Tide girls in the state standings with only a few games left in the season.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

As the Coe-Brown Northwood Academy boys’ basketball team emerges from the locker room, the drums and cymbals crash, the saxophones, flutes and trombones turn it up, and a symphony of music echoes through the gym, energizing the fans and the players in preparation for the game.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

As colleges across the country compete to attract top athletes to their biggest sports, a bill making its way through the New Hampshire State House would protect students’ ability to earn money from their name, image, and likeness here, but under certain conditions.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Willem Avenant sipped on a coffee with bruised and calloused hands and a big smile, one of profound accomplishment.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Mary Paradise has lived in Pittsfield for 37 years and understands the heavy strain of rising taxes on town residents.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

With every defensive possession, the Concord Christian boys’ basketball team found ways to disrupt Franklin’s movement. After struggling against a zone in the first quarter, the Kingsmen found their groove to generate tons of fast-break points in the paint and push the tempo.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

At 4 a.m., long before most of the city wakes up, Logan Priesel was at Helix Recovery & Wellness, gripping a barbell, feeling its weight press into his hands.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

HOOKSETT – The Bishop Brady-Trinity-Bow girls’ hockey team has been rolling past its competition all season. The Bishop Brady-Trinity cooperative team added Bow to its squad this year, while Londonderry left the program, and it has maintained continuity while building upon the lessons learned last season.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Tournament held at Concord’s White Park started early on Friday morning and will run all day Saturday. A storm is moving in on Sunday, so check their site and Facebook page for updates about Sunday’s schedule.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

New Hampshire is the only state where ski jumping is an official varsity sport. Few schools have skiers brave enough to fly through the air like Eddie The Eagle, but every once in a while, one rolls into town ready to make the leap.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

NORTHWOOD – Injuries and a season-long string of illnessess continue to hamper the Coe-Brown girls’ basketball team, which has struggled to settle on a consistent rotation of players. The Bears lost their most recent game to Lebanon, 49-40, on Tuesday night, them to 6-5 on the season.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

A longtime rivalry continued Monday night, and it did not disappoint.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Belmont has been squashing competition all season and Thursday night the hot streak continued as the team defeated Newfound, 64-55.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

New Hampshire isn’t known as a football powerhouse, but every once in a while, a star is discovered and becomes a highly coveted recruit. That’s the case of Phillips Exeter Academy’s Isaiah Reese, a Gilford native, who just inked a deal to play for the University of Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Last year, the deliberative session of the Pittsfield Town Meeting lasted about 30 minutes. With less than two dozen residents, the session breezed through 30 articles.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Conditions and logistics finally cooperated to allow for one of the biggest high school Nordic skiing races so far this season, the Kearsarge Classic at Proctor Academy’s ski area in Andover. The Concord, Hopkinton and Kearsarge boys’ and girls’ teams raced against 10 other schools on a challenging course to accumulate points and find their rhythm with plenty of skiing left in the season.