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By Tris Wykes HANOVER – It wasn’t just the 72-29 score that stood out Friday during the Hanover High girls basketball team’s mauling of Keene. It was how the 10-0 Marauders methodically went about it. Calling to mind the efficiency of a lunchmeat slicer, the hosts played as close to error-free hoops as you’re likely…
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By Tris Wykes WEST LEBANON – An upset was in the making Friday afternoon at Campion Rink. The Hanover High girls hockey team, undefeated in seven prior games, trailed by a goal entering the third period against visiting Berlin-Gorham. “We didn’t panic,” said Marauders captain Sage McGinley-Smith. “We knew if we kept working hard and…
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By Tris Wykes WEST CANAAN – Ben Seiler and his Mascoma High basketball teammates weren’t going to wait around Thursday. The junior forward entered a clash with visiting Sunapee needing 16 points to reach 1,000 in his career and did so with an unhurried, 3-point shot from the right corner with 1 minute, 34 seconds…
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By Tris Wykes WEST LEBANON – Lebanon-Stevens-Mount Royal boys ice hockey coach Jim Damren stood alone in a Campion Rink nook after Wednesday’s NHIAA Division III clash with visiting Kearsarge-Plymouth. Asked if he wanted space, the Raiders’ fourth-year bench boss graciously said no. “I’m just decompressing,” he said. “We stopped skating and our sense of…
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By Tris Wykes PLAINFIELD – Wednesday’s freestyle cross-country ski race between host Lebanon High and Bedford, Fall Mountain and Plymouth was, because of Covid-19 precautions, the first time the host Raiders were allowed to compete with spectators this season. The majority of those in attendance at the Plainfield School enjoyed what they saw as Lebanon…
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By Tris Wykes WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – When Hartford High boys hockey goaltender Colby Boyce was lured away by Kimball Union Academy last summer, the Hurricanes appeared to have suffered a serious blow. Boyce was one of Vermont’s best backstops and starred as a freshman last winter, helping the team go 15-7-1 and reach the…
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By Tris Wykes WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – Hartford High’s athletics facilities have improved so dramatically in recent years that it was startling to enter Hanley Gymnasium on Friday and find half a dozen ceiling lights out. Half the basketball floor was bathed in a sort of twilight, but the dim view couldn’t lessen excitement created…
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By Tris Wykes WEST LEBANON – If you spy a gentleman wearing a jaunty pirate’s hat with attached lengths of fake hair and ribbon in the Lebanon High hallways Friday, that’s just hockey goaltender Hunter Robb. The senior took advantage of a rare start Thursday against Kearsarge-Plymouth, making 14 saves to backstop the hosts to…
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By Tris Wykes WEST LEBANON – Lebanon-Stevens-Mount Royal hockey player Andrew Duany and a Monadnock-Fall Mountain opponent somehow snagged their metal facemasks on each other early in Wednesday’s NHIAA Division III contest at Campion Rink. The entanglement had to be undone by a referee and was about as close as the Huskies came to the…
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By Tris Wykes HANOVER – It was nip and tuck between the Hanover High and Kearsarge boys basketball teams Saturday afternoon before the hosts pulled away for a 45-35 triumph. The Marauders’ Brett Simmons led all scorers with 21 points while Sam Carl had 16 for the visiting Cougars. “We just didn’t get off the…
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