Sports
ConVal baseball players see summer action in Keene
By MADDIE CARPENTIERE
Several local athletes are playing summer American Legion baseball for Post 4 out of Keene.Brady Carpentiere, a 2023 ConVal graduate, and Nate Pimental are on the senior team roster. Justin Borges and Zach Pease, who played varsity baseball for the...
Tod Silegy teaches soccer skills at South Meadow School
By AIDAN BEAROR
In the face of wet weather Monday, the Tod Silegy Soccer Camp began its second session of the summer.Silegy has run the camp since the beginning of his career as the physical education teacher at South Meadow School in Peterborough. After 23 years,...
David Chadbourne resigns as Franklin Pierce men’s basketball coach
By BILL FONDA
After 32 years at Franklin Pierce University, including as head coach of the Ravens’ men’s basketball program since 1999, David Chadbourne has stepped down.In a statement released on the Franklin Pierce Athletics Twitter account, Chadbourne wrote that...
Francestown July 4 celebration includes pickleball tourney
By BILL FONDA
Bob Bitterli is a recent convert to pickleball.It started after he moved to Francestown in April 2022, when the man who painted his cabinets, Bruce Dennis, told him about the game. He started playing in October, including in Peterborough, and called...
Boynton Middle School baseball team takes third title in a row
By BEN SHIPPEE
The Boynton Middle School baseball team won its third consecutive Division 4 championship in Nashua June 8 over St. Christopher’s Academy in a 4-2 extra-inning nail-biter. The Bulldogs started the season under new head coach Doug Nichols, who had the...
Mascenic softball beats Woodsville to earn state final berth
By BEN CONANT
Mascenic is heading to Saturday's NHIAA Division IV softball championship after winning a soaking semifinal slugfest, 8-7, over No. 1 Woodsville Wednesday evening at Plymouth State. The No. 5 Vikings trailed 2-0 after three innings, as Mascenic...
Franklin Pierce’s Nyjah Young-Bey named top women’s track athlete
Franklin Pierce senior Nyjah Young-Bey was named East Region's Women's Track Athlete of the Year by the the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Young-Bey is the third Franklin Pierce athlete in women's program history to...
High School Roundup: ConVal athletes compete at Meet of Champions
Seven members of ConVal’s track and field team finished their seasons by competing in the Meet of Champions at Oyster River High School Saturday.Athletes who finish in first, second or third in the state championship meet automatically qualify for the...
Conant softball season ends with 17-1 loss in first round of playoffs
By BEN CONANT
Another promising Conant softball season ended in first-round heartbreak Wednesday afternoon, as visiting 13-seed Monadnock upset No. 4 Conant in a 17-1 run-rule blowout. "Not the outcome we wanted," said head coach Wiley Billings after the game. "We...
Eloise Catlin of Dublin part of third-place team at national championships
Eloise Catlin of Dublin was part of the Brown University four boat that took third place in the Division I women’s rowing finals Sunday, finishing behind only Texas and Yale with a time of 7 minutes, 11.87 seconds.The Bears found themselves in last at...
Conant, Mascenic track and field athletes compete in rainy state championships
By BEN CONANT
Conant and Mascenic qualified several athletes for the Meet of Champions during the rain-soaked NHIAA Division III track and field state championships at Sanborn. States began on Wednesday afternoon with torrential rain in the forecast. Some start...
High school sports roundup: ConVal’s Elise Robbins wins state Division II pole vault championship
ConVal’s Elise Robbins won the Division II pole vault state championship at Oyster River High School in Durham on Friday.Robbins cleared 8-feet, 6-inches to claim first place and score all 10 points the girls’ team received. The girls finished 15th...
Mascenic boys’ volleyball gains experience, learns lessons
By BEN CONANT
The Mascenic volleyball team may be 1-12 on the season, but every loss is an opportunity for the young Vikings. "I tell the kids, ‘It's not losing, it's learning,’" said first-year head coach Dominic Viglione after Monday night's three-set loss to...
ConVal softball falls to Bow in 14 innings
The ConVal softball team headed to Bow Monday, losing 6-5 in 14 innings.The Cougars scored three runs in the fourth inning. After a Kendall Sullivan single, Lily Mandel was hit by a pitch, Ashley Cronin reached on a fielder's choice and Opale Barrick...
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Dublin School wins SENE girls’ lacrosse title
The Dublin School girls' lacrosse team captured its first Southeastern New England Independent Schools Athletic Association (SENE) championship with a 12-4 win over St. Andrews (R.I.) in the championship game Wednesday at The MacDuffie School in...
High School Roundup: Conant girls’ tennis finishes regular season 7-7; Mascenic softball throws no-hitter
The Conant girls’ tennis team lost their final match of the regular season 5-4 at Pelham on Monday.With the loss, the Orioles fell to 7-7, a record coach Glo Morison stated should be enough to get the team in the playoffs next week.Margaret Winiecki...
Baseball: Speedy Lebanon swipes past struggling ConVal
By BEN CONANT
The one-win ConVal baseball team is nearing the end of a difficult season, and during Monday’s 15-5 loss to visiting Lebanon, head coach Matt Harris had to let his “rough edge” show.After a disastrous top of the third that saw the Raiders score six...
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ROUNDUP: Forfeits cost ConVal boys’ tennis team
The ConVal boys' tennis team won four of the seven matches played against Windham Wednesday, but lost 5-4 due to not having a full roster and therefore forfeiting in sixth singles and third doubles.Wyatt Burbank lost 9-7 at first singles, and Jake...
Softball: Merrimack Valley snaps ConVal’s seven-game win streak
By BEN CONANT
ConVal softball’s seven-game streak was snapped Friday thanks to a dominant pitching performance from visiting Merrimack Valley, who shut down ConVal’s offense for the first time since early in the year.After dropping three straight to start the...
ConVal Soccer Club schedules tryouts
Conval Soccer Club will be holding tryouts for boys’ and girls’ travel soccer teams for the fall 2023 season.Tryouts are for all current Conval Soccer Club players as well as new players interested in joining the club. Players are encouraged to...
