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By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION - The Hartford High girls basketball team waltzed past Otter Valley, 71-22, on Friday night at Hanley Gymnasium. Now 8-2, the Hurricanes look like they could reach Vermont high school basketball’s big dance at the Barre Auditorium...

By TRIS WYKES

THETFORD - Thetford Academy boys basketball coach Jason Gray is an auctioneer by trade. The onetime Panthers star handles farming equipment and estate sales these days and admits he can deliver some of the smooth patter for which his profession is...

By JIM KENYON

A few updates of recent columns while waiting for the New Hampshire presidential primary to be over so network TV can get back to running mostly ads hawking wonder drugs and snack chips.On campus With students having returned to campus after a...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — The Manchester West High boys basketball team arrived here undefeated but left unhappy Friday, after falling, 44-30, to Hanover during a clash of NHIAA Division II teams.Jaysen Oriol, the Bears’ agile post player, scored a game-high 16...

By JON MARKS

PHILADELPHIA — There’s not a whole lot you can say when your opponent makes 13 straight shots — nine of them 3-pointers — and 15 of 16, especially when there seems to be a lid on the basket on your end of the floor. Still Dartmouth coach David...

By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Flummoxed by an aggressive zone press and struggling to guard Mount Anthony Union High’s Madisyn Moore, the Hartford High girls basketball team nearly let a big lead slip away down the stretch on Wednesday night before coming...

By TRIS WYKES

NEWPORT — Robert Clark was antsy Tuesday night. The Newport High boys basketball coach is also the town’s elementary school principal and was compelled to attend a School Board meeting on an upper floor of the Towle School building while his team...

By BEN HOOKE

CLAREMONT — All seemed to be going well for the Windsor High boys basketball team headed into halftime on Wednesday evening.But the Fall Mountain Wildcats clawed their way back in the second half of the opening game of the 2023 Connecticut River...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — The Hanover High boys basketball team routed Bishop Brady on Friday night, 58-18. The Bears led, 28-0, after a quarter and handed the overmatched Green Giants (0-3) a holiday gift by scoring only five points during the fourth quarter.Point...

By TRIS WYKES

THETFORD — Thursday’s rematch between the Windsor High and Thetford Academy girls basketball teams again proved the Yellow Jackets’ superiority, though this time with much less on the line.The visiting Yellow Jackets, who rallied to knock off the...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — A minivan idled outside Lang Metcalf Gymnasium on Tuesday evening as members of the Concord Christian Academy girls basketball team milled about following their NHIAA Division II game against Lebanon.“That’s the team bus,” joked coach Becky...

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It appears nothing this winter is getting in the way of the Stevens High girls basketball team, which bumped its early season record up to 4-0 with a 46-26 win over archrival Newport on Monday night at Carr Gymnasium in Claremont.The Cardinals added...

By TRIS WYKES

SHARON — The pavement on the Sharon Academy’s lengthy and steep driveway is cracked, potholed and warped. There’s a dip severe enough to be marked with orange cones, and woe be the driver who overlooks them and bottoms out in a spray of sparks.The...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — It was almost like the old days Tuesday in Lebanon High’s Lang Metcalf Gymnasium. The pep banded blasted away during timeouts. Student sections for the home Raiders and visiting Hanover chanted back and forth, an estimated 300 combined....

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — The latest edition of the Sydney McLaughlin Show debuted on Monday night in Lang Metcalf Gym, and it was a hit for the Hanover High girls basketball team.The Bears outlasted Lebanon, 42-32, during the NHIAA Division II teams’ season opener....

By JIM KENYON

HANOVER — On a late September evening, the 15 players on the Dartmouth men’s basketball team were summoned by their coaches to Berry Sports Center.With the first game of the season still almost six weeks away, it wasn’t to practice, work on...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Gordie Barnaby watched the White River Valley girls basketball team play three or four times last winter and remembered thinking to himself that the Wildcats would be a fun group to coach.Barnaby coached for six years at The Sharon Academy and nine...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Woodstock High has promoted from within to fill its boys basketball head coaching vacancy, naming Scott Brooks to the position after Steve Landon left to take over the girls’ team at Hartford.Brooks, who came on last winter as the Wasps’ junior...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Linda Cimino did not expect to be out of a job this spring.The head women’s basketball coach at St. Francis Brooklyn had just completed her fifth season with the Terriers, finishing fourth in the Northeast Conference with an 11-9 record in NEC play....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

A visible reminder of Steve Landon’s first stint coaching the Hartford High girls basketball team hangs on the wall at Hanley Gym.In 2012, his sixth season with the Hurricanes, Landon led Hartford to its only state championship in program history....