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By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBELand DAN ATTORRI

Even though Pembroke graduated nine seniors from last year’s team that lost to Pelham by three in the Division II championship, head coach Mike Donnell’s optimistic about his retooled roster entering 2023-24.Senior Joe Fitzgerald will be the only...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL and DAN ATTORRI

About nine months removed from its devastating 38-37 loss to Kennett in the Division II championship game, Bow girls’ basketball looks to move forward from its 20-1 season with new coach Cassidy Emerson.Emerson, who graduated Concord High School in...

By DAN ATTORRI

Area coaches swept the Division II Coach of the Year awards, 21 area players were named to their respective First Team rosters and dozens more dotted the All-State lists that were released by the New Hampshire Soccer Coaches Association on...

On this week’s episode of the Monitor Sports Podcast, Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri break down their picks for Players of the Season for eight area sports for the fall 2023 season.Listen on Apple or...

Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri discuss the final week of playoffs for area teams on this week’s Monitor Sports Podcast. Bow boys’ soccer wins its first championship since moving up to Division II, Coe-Brown volleyball and girls’ soccer come up...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

EXETER – No. 7 Pembroke (11-8-0) kept hanging around. As Spartans goalie Laila Al-Shawafi turned aside save after save, the underdogs looked like they could pull off another upset against No. 3 Coe-Brown (14-3-1). But with 6:23 left in regulation, the...

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John Stark wins its second straight D-II field hockey championship, No. 7 Pembroke upsets No. 2 Merrimack Valley in the D-II girls’ soccer quarterfinal and area football teams compete for playoff seeding. Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri break it...

By DAN ATTORRI

MANCHESTER – Anyone who has run cross country in New Hampshire knows the McIntyre hill on the iconic 5K course at Derryfield Park that is the main feature of the second mile of the race. In the past, cresting that hill has broken Jamie Lano. On...

By DAN ATTORRI

Winning the championship is the ultimate goal, but some end of season awards have already been doled out. The New Hampshire Field Hockey Coaches Association announced All-State rosters and major award winners on Wednesday, with John Stark and Bishop...

By DAN ATTORRI

On Saturday, every NHIAA cross country program will grace the course at Derryfield Park in Manchester for the running of the NHIAA division championships. Individual and team titles are at stake for a few of the area’s elite, and several more are in...

With NHIAA soccer and volleyball playoffs starting this week, Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri get you caught up on everything you need to know about all the local teams participating. They also update the state of the field hockey playoffs with Bow...

By DAN ATTORRI

MANCHESTER – The result of Saturday night’s game could result in either one of two things for the Falcons: They lose and know they have one week left of the season or they win and have a shot at qualifying for the playoffs. They chose the...

By DAN ATTORRI

PENACOOK – Every year the Capital Area Cross Country Championship provides one final tuneup before the NHIAA division championships and for local runners to determine who is the best in the area. As it turns out, this year, they’re both...

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On this week’s episode, Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri highlight Merrimack Valley football’s upset win on homecoming over Bow, Pembroke boys’ soccer turning things around, the depth of D-II girls’ soccer and John Stark field hockey remaining...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

NORTHWOOD – Just a week ago, Pembroke Academy boys’ soccer had little to feel encouraged about. A 1-0 loss to Bow on Tuesday dropped the Spartans to 1-6-1 on the season. But a week later, Pembroke’s flipped its season upside down, having won three...

By DAN ATTORRI

PENACOOK – The Pride wanted to move the ball better through the middle of the field and create more opportunities inside the box. In the first minute, sophomore Izzy Navoy had her first shot on goal. In the third minute, her second attempt found the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

PENACOOK – Not much has broken Pembroke’s way so far this season, and for the first seven minutes of play on Saturday morning, it looked to be much of the same. Playing on Merrimack Valley’s homecoming, the Spartans quickly found themselves in a 2-0...

By DAN ATTORRI

PENACOOK – It had been a rough week for the Merrimack Valley field hockey team. While the Pride had played well defensively, the scoreboard showed goose eggs for MV all week. But the Pride weren’t going to be denied on homecoming.Senior Grace Thompson...

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Eric Rynston-Lobel and Dan Attorri discuss the success of area boys’ and girls’ soccer teams in Division II, Concord football picking up its first win of the season and the results from the weekend's Manchester Invitational in cross country. Then, Bow...

By DAN ATTORRI

Maddy Lane is new to varsity level this season, although you wouldn’t know it by watching her. She’s finished in the top five of every major invitational she’s competed in this season, and the Hopkinton freshman added another impressive result to her...