Jake Dunlap, 18, a 5-foot-8, 170-pound left-handed shooting forward from Windham, has 6 goals and 8 assists in 24 games with the Janesville (Wisc.) Jets of the North American Hockey League.

DERRY — A couple of New Hampshire teams which have had inconsistent season starts hooked up Friday night.

The rosters are set for the 2020 CHaD New Hampshire East-West High School All-Star Football Game.

Congrats to Pinkerton’s Sofia Riccio on making her return to the court last Friday after tearing her ACL in a game against Bishop Guertin last year. The senior tri-captain scored a basket in the Astros’ 42-27 revenge win over Portsmouth, the team that knocked them out in the state semifinal …

SALEM — Livi Tsetsilas is a whirlwind of energy.

The Eagle-Tribune recently released its All-Decade team, and five former local athletes were honored.

BROWN SPARKS SWEEP 

Baker hurt

SALEM, N.H. — Mason Drouin watched the play unfold in front of him, and when it was his chance to strike, the Pinkerton senior was ready.

METHUEN — The Londonderry boys basketball team was fearless heading into the Commonwealth Motors Christmas Classic, and pulled perhaps the biggest upset of the tournament.

Local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighters, Ben Simon and Ed Tapia of Londonderry’s Woo Kickboxing, competed at the Good Fight Sub-Only World Championship in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

METHUEN — The Londonderry girls basketball team had a solid weekend at the Commonwealth Motors Christmas Classic.

In his 38th year as head coach at Pinkerton, Mike Clark did it again this fall.

Things went far from smoothly for the Windham field hockey team this fall.

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Pinkerton coach Lani Buskey enters this season with an impressive 100-31 record. Interestingly, when she sent in her preview for the season she had herself at 99-29, due to not including the three games in the Lady Blue Devil Holiday Classic last winter — where the Astros went 1-2.

2018-19 season: 4-14, didn’t make tourney

Fortunately for the Pinkerton gymnastics team, the Phaneuf sisters are close.

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EPIC TEAMMATE BATTLE

O’HARE COMMITS

Hartwick (N.Y.) College junior defender Courtney Velho from Pinkerton made the CoSIDA Division 3 All-District 3 soccer all-academic first team. She has a 3.73 GPA as a nursing major.

SALEM — There was a lot that went as expected at last Saturday’s Blue Devil Wrestling Classic — like Concord winning for the 13th time in the last 14 years — but there were plenty of surprises, too.

The snow (regrettably) is starting to fall, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look back fondly on the warm fall season for our local athletic teams.

New Hampshire Fisher Cats president Mike Ramshaw played on the 1991 Pinkerton state championship football team. His boys, massive 6-2, 340-pound senior Gabe and sophomore receiver Colby, played on Londonderry’s recent state championship team.

Pinkerton

Pinkerton senior Ella Dandrade may have been the best setter in New Hampshire this fall, but you’d never know it.

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Bourassa’s last year

DURHAM — Londonderry quarterback Jake McEachern kept his helmet on, as around him teammates celebrated on the Wildcat Stadium turf Sunday night.

LONDONDERRY — For whatever it may be worth, the Londonderry football team has played in three “competitive” games this year, and Salem was the opponent in two of them.

There’s an old saying about cross country runners that is generally true.

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Smart Thompson

LONDONDERRY — Many, if not all, on this year’s Londonderry football team weren’t even alive the last time the program won a playoff game.

The Born to Run Foundation announced that founder Noelle Lambert of Londonderry has been named to the U.S. Paralympic team. She will compete in Track & Field for Team USA at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from Nov. 7-15.

Local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitors, Ed Tapia and Kevin Smith of Londonderry’s Woo Kickboxing, competed at The Fuji Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Halloween Massachusetts Open on October 27. 

BEDFORD — Playing in its seventh championship game in eight years, Windham not only emphatically wrapped up another dominant field hockey season, but also showed off the qualities that have turned the Jaguars into a dynasty.

DERRY — Veteran Pinkerton coach Brian O’Reilly always has confidence in his players.

NASHUA — Pinkerton’s boys have enjoyed some excellent races at the Meet of Champions, but perhaps none can compare with how the Astros ran Saturday.

CONCORD, N.H. — With his team trailing by a touchdown in the game’s final moments, Windham linebacker Stephen Mague stripped the ball, scooped it up and ran 70 yards for the touchdown with 1:50 left that gave the Jaguars a 22-15 victory over Concord.

WINDHAM — The Pinkerton football team is getting healthy at the right time.