LONDONDERRY — The Pinkerton wrestling team had plenty of highlights at Saturday’s Division 1 state meet.

Derry’s Gregg Guillemette recently won karate’s NASKA Grand Championship World Title at the age of 52.

Jags in OT!

There was a consensus sentiment swirling around the Londonderry girls basketball locker room as halftime came to a close last Friday against Dover.

All Pinkerton’s Sophia Viger has known — and all she will ever know — is winning state titles.

Alexis Martino, have yourself a day.

Lancer reunion

On indoor track’s biggest stage, Conor Seleny once again willed Pinkerton to victory.

SALEM — Anthony Traficante, the 2020 Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year, is a hard-driving young man.

Local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students Christopher Merheb, Marcus Schmitt, Cameron Grassis and Daniel Harrington competed at the Grappling Industries Boston Tournament late last month. They all learn under coach Perry Gagnon at Londonderry’s Woo Kickboxing Academy.

Lancers rally

Keegan introduced at UNH

Last year, Pinkerton coach Lani Buskey knew she had to make the most out of an unfortunate situation.

Pinkerton senior Conor Seleny remembers why he decided to become a hurdler, back when he was a freshman out for the first time.

FAIRWEATHER RECOGNIZED

Astros slay unbeaten Concord

Tyler Mackiernan may have graduated last year, but his presence is still felt with the Pinkerton wrestling team.

Windham junior Quinn Cerami, one of the top sprinters in New Hampshire, will freely admit that he probably has an edge on his competitors.

PISCATAWAY, NJ (AP) — Geo Baker had struggled for nearly a month after breaking his thumb. That seemed to end Saturday with two 3-pointers in just over two minutes.

REDDY FOR NEXT CHAPTER

DERRY — There’s still a bit of fear that runs through Sofia Riccio’s mind whenever she lands from a jump, but she knows that, in time, she’ll be able to work through it.

WINDHAM — It was the shot local high school basketball fans are still talking about nearly a week later.

The Pinkerton boys track team placed second out of 54 scoring teams at the rugged Dartmouth Relays the Saturday before last.

HOOKSETT, N.H, — For nearly two full periods, Pinkerton looked faster and stronger, and held the lead on the scoreboard.

CAPTAIN THOMPSON

We’re only a few weeks into the winter season, but Sarah Dempsey has already broken a Windham High basketball record — boy or girl.

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.