Tag: Pittsfield

Nute downs Pittsfield in double overtime

In a back-and-forth game all night, Nute defeated visiting Pittsfield, 64-62, on Monday night in Milton.

Jackson Lafogg paced the Rams with 22 points, including four threes, and Collin Hathorn (14) and Zakari Lapanne (11) added double figures as well.

Brayden Pelletier poured in a game-high 29 points for Pittsfield, while Mike Casey (18) and Justin Rivera (12) both added double digits as well. The Panthers connected on 11 three-pointers in the game, including five by Pelletier and four by Casey.

With the win, Nute has now won three of its last four and improves to 5-11 on the season. The Panthers fall to 1-14.

Check out photos of the action by Lyndsey Levasseur…

Shorthanded Tigers survive at Pittsfield

Playing without their two top scorers (Shawn Murphy & Demery Hadges), shorthanded Farmington went on the road and defeated Pittfield, 53-45, on Wednesday night.

Farmington jumped out to an early 18-7 lead after one quarter and appeared to be on their way to an easy victory, but the host Panthers hung around and didn’t let the Tigers pull away. Farmington led 31-18 at the break, but Pittsfield outscored FHS 18-14 in the 3rd quarter and 9-8 in the 4th.

The Tigers were led by 21 points from Aiden Place, while the Panthers were paced by 19 points from Brayden Pelletier and 16 from Justin Rivera.

With the win, Farmington improves to 5-2 on the season, while Pittsfield falls to 0-5.

Check out the full gallery by KJ Cardinal…

Tigers trounce host Panthers

Coming off a solid performance in The Bash title game, Farmington went on the road and handled host Pittsfield, 46-10, on Wednesday night. The Tigers, playing without leading scorer Zoey Johnson, snapped a two-game, regular-season skid to improve to 5-2.

Junior Madi Ricker led all scorers with a game-high 15 points for Farmington, while classmate Jaelyn Prospect added 10.

The Panthers (1-5) were paced by four points from eighth-grader Chelsea Chagnon.

Check out the full gallery by KJ Cardinal…

Strong second-half surge sends Sunapee past Pittsfield

The Sunapee boys outscored Pittsfield 31-13 in the second half to erase a four-point halftime deficit and come away with the home victory on Tuesday night.

The Lakers were led by Brock Kangas (15 points) and Sam Kress (10), while the Panthers were paced by a game high 19 points from Brayden Pelletier and Justin Rivera (15).

With the win, Sunapee improves to 1-1 on the season, while Pittsfield was playing in its season opener.

Check out the full photo gallery by Chris Laclair of Chris Clicks Photography…

Division IV Boys Bracket Set

The field is set for the 2023 NHIAA Boys Basketball Division IV State Tournament.

The 17-team tourney gets underway on Friday as #17 Franklin heads to #16 Gorham for a play-in game at 7:00 pm. The winner of that game will face top-seeded Littleton in first-round action, which takes place on Monday.

Check out the bracket…

1K point scorers in the 603

We love to honor those local legends from the past and thanks to our local legend himself, Mike Whaley, we have started a list of all-time NHIAA 1,000-point scorers list.

Check out our progress below. If you don’t see your school listed, send us your 1,000-point scorer’s list (boys and girls), and we will be sure to add your school. Simply take a photo of the 1,000 point banner in your gym or send us a list. We’re hoping to get the total points scored (if known) and the year of graduation.

Send your lists to us at kj@ball603.com.

Here’s what we’ve got so far..

ALVIRNE
Pat Manor
Mike Konovelchick
Caleb Donnelly
Max Bonney-Liles
Karen Biagini
Lauren Moore
Patty Skelton
Kelly Nadeau

BEDFORD
Cam Meservey (1,122 • 2014)
Isabella King (1,115 • 2021)
Aiden O’Connell (2023)

BELMONT
Verne Bryant (1951)
Ronald Smock (1974)
Cliff Greenwood (1983)
Chris Lockwood (1994)
Nathan Roach (1999)
Michael Messier (1999)
Sean Newman (2010)
Trevor Hunt (2017)
Mary Fogg (1984)
Diane DiRoma (1992)
Martha Bolduc (1993)
Courtney Jacques (1996)
Missy Smock (1997)
Beth Roberts (2000)
Bridgette Hooker (2005)
Julianna Estremera (2019)

BERLIN
Maxwell Agrodnia (1,151 • 1930)
Dave Agrodnia (1,012 • 1958)
Gary Boire (1,039 • 1959)
Reggie Marquis (1,433 • 1970)
Steven Buckovitch (1,034 • 1974)
Wayne Lurvey (1,166 • 2000)
Derek Leclerc (1,157 • 2002)
Curtis Arsenault (1,545 • 2012)
Evan Arsenault (1,143 • 2018)
Seth Balderrama (1,136 • 2019)

BISHOP BRADY
Thomas Hardiman (1947)
Andy Ansaldo (1961)
Frank Alosa (1965)
Bobby Paveglio (1969)
Maureen Robinson (1982)
Jim Clement (1986)
Jim Collins (1996)
Billy Collins (1998)
Marshall Crane (1998)
Spencer Wood-Friend (2001)
Cecilia Ortega (2005)
Tyler Penney (2010)
Jourdain Bell (2015)
Brendan Johnson (2015)
Sarah Thomas (2015)
Joseph Bell (2016)
Riley Bennett (2017)
Bryce Johnson (2018)
Samantha Will (2018)
Ami Rivera (2020)

BISHOP GUERTIN
No known list

BOW
Erica Kensey (2000)
Heather LaBranche (2000)
Jen Haubrich (2002)
Eric Riggs (2002)
Mike Chergey (2006)
Katelyn Nerbonne (2006)
Paul Chergey (2006)
Brian Chergey (2008)
Lindsey Nerbonne (2013)

CAMPBELL
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COE-BROWN
Andy Noyes (1975)
Joe Sims (1978)
Wade Sauls (1984)
Ginger Sanford (1989)
Kelly Hall (1993)
Todd Peterson (1993)
Jen Robinson (1996)
Emily Liskow (1998)
Kyle Purinton (1999)
Brandon Boggs (2002)
Ashley Cooper (2004)
Stacey Kent (2005)

COLEBROOK
Kevin Trask (1,645 • 2001)
Sage Smith (1,601 • 2021)
Samantha Howe (1,558 • 2021)
Michaella Biron (1,487 • 2017)
Dan Fournier (1,419 • 1992)
Katie Edwards (1,243 • 2005)
Josee Brunault (1,226 • 2013)
Gary Pinckney (1,152 • 1973)
Mackenzie Brooks (1,144 • 2009)
Brett McKinnon (1,113 • 1995)
Lindsie Lemieux (1,095 • 2005)
Sedrick Mckinnon (1,091 • 2016)
Tyler Griffin (1,055 • 2011)
Kristen Call (1,050 • 2011)
Lance Boire (1,026 • 1997)
Carson Rancourt (1,022 • 2021)
Richard Hebert (1968)

CONANT
Keith Johnson (1979)
Darin Hood (1980)
Paul Asel (1982)
Dave Springfield (1985)
Scott Baldwin (1986)
Mindy Stenberg (1988)
Kari Hunt (1995)
Karen Belletete (1996)
Craig Griffin (1998)
Andy Jones (2001)
Betsy Oswalt (2001)
Justen Nagle (2002)
Kathleen Neyens (2005)
Kyle Todd (2008)
Jimmy Peard (2010)
Brooke Springfield (2011)
Devin Springfield (2013)
Madison Springfield (2015)
Peyton Springfield (2019)
Elizabeth Gonyea (2020)
Emma Tenters (2023)
Brynn Rautiola (2023)

CONCORD
Hap Simpson (1,030 • 1948)
Joe Drinon (1,016 • 1962)
Jen Shadlick (1,050 • 1996)
Bill Haubrich (1,066 • 1971)
Jane Haubrich (1,047 • 1981)
Champ Simpson (1,155 • 1975)
Glenn Mathews (1,082 • 1984)
Matt Chotkowski (1,009 • 1995)
Matt Bonner (2,459 • 1999)
Becky Bonner (1,550 • 2000)
Kalen Marquis (1,036 • 2013)
Matt Giroux (1,170 • 2017)

CONCORD CHRISTIAN
Jeremy Shankle (1999)
Ryan Long (2000)
Nick Peters (2013)
Jeremiah Boulter (2015)
Brode Frink (2025)

CONVAL
Phillip Abbott (1,064 • 1978)
Todd Burgess (1,390 • 1984)
Hunter Burgess (1,048 • 1989)
Jon Tirone (1,124 • 1989)
Jon Horne (1,106 • 1991)
Christine Jutras (1,389 • 1994)
Jaime Leflem (1,856 • 1995)
Veronica Jutras (1,111 • 1996)
Brett Leflem (1,374 • 1997)
Danielle Statuto (1,341 • 2000)
Lindsey Carey (1,206 • 2019)

DERRYFIELD
Maya Mangawang (1,529 • 1991)
Becky Gallagher (1,457 • 1989)
Bethany Kalliel (1,293 • 2012)
Kendra Decelle (1,094 • 2005)
Carl Perron (1,018 • 1981)
David Larrivee (1,145 • 1984)
Adam Gillan (1,341 • 1989)
Jared Silverstein (1,408 • 1996)
Max Anderson
Sam Anderson
Max Byron

DOVER
Stu LaFramboise (1968)
Karen Vitko (1979 • 1,179)
Lynne Richard (1979 • 1,075)
Scott Leighton (1981)
Kevin Crowell (1987)
Jeff Pierce (1991)
Jill Downer (1998 • 1,192)
Jessica Clark (2001 • 1,137)
Seana Boyle (2002 • 1,090)
Shavar Bernier (2004)
Curran Leighton (2009 • 1,212)
Katrina Krenzer (1,074 • 2019)
Ty Vitko (1,159 • 2019)

EPPING
Lionel Levesque (1965)
Butch Langdon (1966)
Maureen Denyou (1983)
Kerry Bascom (1985)
Ryan Gatchell (1990)
Julie Freeman (1990)
Denny Wood (1991)
Matt Price (1998)
Samantha Newton (2002)
Shauna Mullenix (2002)
Ryan Newman (2003)
Chris Crowley (2008)
Meghan Fiore (2008)
Frank Stanley (2013)
Jimmy Stanley (2014)
Colby Wilson (2016)
Jackson Rivers (2017)
Hunter Bullock (2019)
Owen Finkelstein (2022)

EXETER
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FALL MOUNTAIN
Patrick Aumand (1,495 • 1973)
Karolyn Domini (1,240 • 1984)
Jason Waysville (2005 • 1994)
Morgan Ferland (1,016 • 2015)
Ryan Murdoch (1,030 • 2015)
Avery Stewart (1,108 • 2021)

FARMINGTON
Len Auclair (1960)
Danny Reynolds (1970 • 1,217)
Paul Moulton (1970)
Gary Boulay (1979 • 1,169)
Casey Howard (1984 • 1,138)
Steve Mosher (1986 • 1,385)
Julie Gagne (1990 • 1,432)
Kristy Woodill (1996 • 1,848)
Tim Lee (1998 • 2,146)
Nick Doyle (2001 • 1,052)
Jayson Whitehouse (2004 • 1,579)
Tabby Whitehouse (2010 • 1,015)
Katie Martineau (2017 • 1,779)

FRANKLIN
Larry Dustin (1965)
Bryan Baker (1974)
Dan Sylvester (1983)
Michelle Brusseau (1987)
Shelley Winters (1993)
Karen Malsbenden (1994)
Bryan Aube (1997)
Nate Bickford (1999)
Nicole Parenteau (2001)
Mason Roberge (2007)
Dana Bean (2016)
Kenny Torres (2016)
Jayden Torres (2018)

GILFORD
Sandy Thrall (1,263 • 1985)
Jason Van Bennekum (1,314 • 1992)
Bryan O’Leary (1,427 • 2006)
Eric Dean (1,023 • 2008)
Kirk Crecco (1,230 • 2008)
Lindsey Carr (1,934 • 2009)
Jalen Reese (2023)

GOFFSTOWN
David Wildman (1,396 • 1965)
Richard Fields (1,044 • 1966)
Gregory Pappas (1,091 • 1971)
Walter Foote (1,145 • 1974)
John Stone (1,140 • 1978)
Kelly Walsh (1,780 • 2021)
Ava Winterburn (2023)

GORHAM
Don Dimick (1954)
Christopher Martel (1968)
Frank Bruni Jr. (1979)
Doug Lavigne (1992)
Sarah Normand (1995
Ben Raymond (2007)
Eric Jensen (2009)
Hillary Oleson (2010)
Bryson Raymond (2017)

GROVETON
Dennis Langley (1961)
Bill “BJ” Johnson (1977)
Rick Barlow (1978)
Richard Penney (1978)
Doreen “Dodie” Johnson (1980)
Terri Gilbert (1981)
Jeff Merriam (1988)
Nanette “Nan” Gilbert (1990)
Michelle Frett (2000)
Jason Kenison (2000)
Dagan Cloutier (2002)
Mike Kenison (2004)
Nick Perras (2005)
Emily Pelletier (2010 • 1,213)
Kelley Jo Collins (2011 • 1,290)
Nathan Smith (2012)
Makenna Burke (2013 • 1,100)
Corey Gadwah (2017)
Abbey Pelletier (2016 • 1,266)
Austin Lesperance (2018)
Josh Wheelock (2020)

HANOVER
Elise Palac (1997)
Brendan Carney (1997)
Morgan Hall (1999)
Betsy Williams (2006)
Charlie Adams (2020)
Maddie McCorkle (2020)
Stella Galanes (2022)

HILLSBORO-DEERING
Harold Rowell (1966)
Keith Murdough (1978)
Diane Bean (1981)
David Ager (1981)
Brian Bean (1983)
Tom Garafoli (1986)
Tara Blake (1990)
James McGuire (1991)
Emily Kordas (2002)
Libby Dutton (2009)
Skyler Makkinje (2010)

HINSDALE
Mike Kerylow (1957)
Del Blanchette (1957)
Sleepy Brooks (1958)
Gary Beaman (1963)
Joe Sarsfield (1972)
Larry Scott (1975)
Jason Dillon (1994)
Julie Messenger (2000)
Steve Deschenes (2001)
Allison Scott (2014)
Skylar Bonnette (2014)
Matthew Boggio (2016)
Skyler LeClair (2017)
Angelina Nardolillo (2019)

HOLLIS-BROOKLINE
Jon Spence (1965)
Donald Marvell (1970)
David Orde (1973)
Scott Varney (1985)
Tina Griffiths (1990)
Elisabeth Stapelfeld (2022)

HOPKINTON
Bruce Johnson (1970)
Royal Ford (1992)
Evan Johnson (1992)
Jeff Adams (1994)
Beth Beckett (1995)
Amy West (2001)
Sarah Wofsy (2002)
Katie Barthelmes (2004)
Ryan Callahan (2004)
Kelly Flynn (2007)
Hannah Richard (2010)
Kevin Newton-Delgad0 (2020)

INTER-LAKES
Tom Parissi (1148 • 1967)
Patricia White (1014 • 1973)
Joan Pettengill (1329 • 1980)
Bruce Sanderson (1047 • 1983)
Andrew Swift (1069 • 1994)
Michael Roy (1335 • 1996)
Jeff Carpenter (1174 • 2004)
Dillon Dow (1026 • 2015)
Zach Swanson (1335 • 2017)
Eli Swanson (1181 • 2019)

JOHN STARK
Mark Watman (1989)
Beth Chartier (1993)
Gerry Healy (1994)
James Johansen (2000)
Justine Nims (2004)
Katie Cullerot (2011)
Chelsea Woodsum (2020)
Christian Barr (2020)

KEARSARGE
Tom Brayshaw (2,117 • 1989)
Steve Lavolpicelo (2,372 • 1999)
Bob Allen (1978)
David Bartlett (1989)
Stephanie Manus (1990)
Peter Lavolpicelo (1995)
Debbie Taylor (1995)
Tracy Fuller (1998)
Christine Gassman (1999)
Kristen Lucek (2002)
Andrew Ferreira (2006)
Marilyn Ferreira (2007)
Tommy Johnson (2018)
Tayler Mattos (2018)

KEENE
Jeff Holmes (1,275 • 1983)
Jim McGilvery (1,044 • 1992)
Tomy Depalo (1,235 • 1999)
Pat Luptowski (1,299 • 2007)
Camryn Warner (1,000 • 2010)
Ashley Clough (1,271 • 2012)
Logan Galanes (1,112 • 2017)

KENNETT
Rogdger Blanchard (1970)
Larry Day (1982)
Jeff Perry (1990)
Abe Wrobleski (1995)
Trevor MacDonald (1998)
Debbie Russell (1989)
Erin Russell (1994)
Alison MacDonald (1994)
Kristen Umlah (1999)
Alison Wagner (2011)
Melissa Frase (2011)
Isabel Wrobleski (2019)

KINGSWOOD
Greg Dollarhide (1,057 • 1981)
Craig Vezina (1,750 • 1992)
Nicole LaBelle (1,443 • 1993)
Josh Tetreault (1,578 • 2000)
Adrian Gross (1,218 • 2006)
Kohl Meyers (2012)
Ethan Arnold (2022)

LACONIA
Chip Veazey – 1973
Jim Swormstedt – 1987
Beth Gilbert – 1997
Sara Scott – 1999
Brady O’Neil – 2009
Christian Birt – 2009
Kayden Roberts – 2023

LEBANON
Jim Vanier (1970)
Chuck Hulse (1972)
Rich Parker (1977)
Les Doncaster (1981)
Jayne Daigle (1982)
Keely Boivin (1988)
Mike Joslin (1988)
Keith Blake (1991)
Joe Faucher (1996)
Emily King (1996)
Lorin Tedeschi (2001)
Meghan Daigle (2006)
Moriah Morton (2013)
David Hampton (2013)
KJ Matte (2016)
Rebecca Wright (2019)

LIN-WOOD
Stanley Dovholuk (1976)
Natalie Haynes (1986)
Jamie Bourassa (1987)
Ryan Jones (1996)
Jeremy Nelson (1996)
Ross Macauley (2002)
Sarah LeClerc (2004)
Randi Mackay (2007)
Brandon Harrington (2018)
Cam Clermont (2022)
Jake Avery (2022)

LISBON
Tom White (1973)
Russ Hubbard (1978)
Mike Hill (1979)
Linda Clough (1981)
Nikke Knighton (1988)
Steve Santy (1995)
Erica Elliott (1998)
Jeff Perham (1998)
Ed Natti (2003)
Tom White (2004)
Mike White (2007)
Jennifer White (2009)
Josh Woods (2018)

LITTLETON
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LONDONDERRY
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MANCHESTER CENTRAL
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MANCHESTER MEMORIAL
Mike O’Neil (1970)
Mike Flanagan (1971)
Ron Beaurivage (1971)
Mike Applegate (1972)
John Astarita (1989)
Haleigh Shea (2018)
Lyric Grumblatt (2020)
Shawndra Applegate (1993)
Kindyll Dorsey (2002)
Rebekah Grissom
Amra Lezovic

MANCHESTER WEST
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MASCENIC
Barbara Gerry (1981)
Kevin Rines (1989)
Heather Shaw (1990)
Brycen Blaine (1991)
Shannon Cunningham (1995)
Jason Starr (1999)
Chris Alix (2000)
Jared Stauffeneker (2014)
Daimon Gibson (2017)
Sam Stauffeneker (2019)
Shelby Babin (2020)

MASCOMA
Roger Cattabriga (1970)
James Martin (1980)
Jennifer Carter (1989)
Lynne Sullivan (1990)
Shannon Farrell (1990)
Aimee Beliveau (1991)
Joshua Chapman (1995)
Silas Ayres (2001)
Kati Lary (2002)
Katie Arey (2004)
Joy Depalo (2004)
Megan Evans (2004)
Tonya Young (2,012 • 2006)
Matt Pollard (2007)
Josh Poland (2009)
Alex Schwarz (2017)
Ben Seiler (2021)

MERRIMACK
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MERRIMACK VALLEY
Laurie Moran (1,349 • 1985)
David Huckins Jr (1,479 • 1989)
Scott Drapeau (2,260 • 1991)
Brian Huckins (1,174 • 1994)
Brad Huckins (1,257 • 1999)
Greg Carbone (1,125 • 2001)
Ethan Lavoie (1,172 • 2002)
Amanda Wells (1,070 • 2005)
Alicia Jensen (1,031 • 2005)
Megan Hardiman (1,049 • 2011)
Justin Abbott (1,010 • 2012)
Abby Grandmaison (1,034 • 2018)
Carly Huckins (1,085 • 2019)

MILFORD
Alan Shethar
Lesli Laychak
Doug Newbert
Kris Collins
Andrea Bowman
Jaci Stimson
Ryan Emerson
Shawn Bachelder
Jeremy Stinson
Nick Shepard
Kristen Calvetti
Jasmin Handanovic
Mike O’Loughlin
Jamie Holder
Dina Pitsas

MONADNOCK
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MOULTONBOROUGH
Matthew Swedberg (1,722 • 1987)
Lanette Burrows (1,078 • 1994)
Todd Engle (1,047 • 1994)
Marinda Cahoon (1,302 • 1996)
Ben Hallgren (1,132 • 1996)
Dan Ringelstein (1,181 • 1996)
Phil Cowels (1,084 • 2006)
Kevin Eisenberg (1,231 • 2009)
Drew Forsbert (1,077 • 2009)
Marcus Swedberg (1,090 • 2012)
Reese Swedberg (1,164 • 2018)

MOUNT ROYAL
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NASHUA NORTH
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NASHUA SOUTH
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NEWFOUND
Maurice Day (1972)
Scott Chamberlain (1984)
Kammi Reynolds (1987)
Karri Reynolds (1987)
Jackie Lyon (1989)
Sherry Vestal (1993)
Jen Evans (1994)
Dan Plourde (1994)
Eric Pescinski (1995)
Ethan Holmes (1995)
Patrick Hill (2000)
Cliff Cutter (2001)
Jill Walker (2001)
Caitlin O’Connor (2007)
Maggie Seaver (2008
Jordan Phinney (2011)
Amber Plummer (2014
Karissa Bony (2015)

NEWMARKET
Jeff Monroe (1976)
Tom Nelson (1979)
Ralph Longa (1980)
Randy Edgerly (1986)
Kristine Gorski (1992)
Matt Gordon (1995)
Allyson Benvenuti (2001)
Chad Mastin (2002)
Duncan Szeliga (2005)
Curtis Williams (2009)
Christian Hawkins (2013)
Anthony Senesombath (2018)

NEWPORT
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NUTE
Jim Damon
Bruce Regan
Steve Burrows
Al Chiasson
Scott Burrows
Julie Donlon (2,502)
David Burrows (2,845)
Stacy Dube
Matt Cloutier
Stephen Lacasse
Shannon St. Lawrence
Conner Bradway

OYSTER RIVER
Steve Bamford (1960)
Randy Kinzly (1977)
Pat Galvin (1981)
Julie Sasner (1984 • 1,143)
Johanna Michel (1986)
John Freiermuth (1988)
Pat Casey (1989)
Jennifer Friel (1993)
Keith Friel (2,148 • 1996)
Greg Friel (1997)
Mike Casey (1999)
Jeremy Friel (2001)
Brittney Cross (2003 • 1,008)
Rick Laughton (2006)
Jilliane Friel (2009 • 1,136)
Danielle Walczak (2011 • 1,191)
Joe Morrell (2020)

PELHAM
Kyle McInnis
Bob Backman
Pete Ostergaard
Brad Martineau
James Roman
Justin Hojlo
Stephen Spirou
Jake Vaiknoras
Keith Brown
Derek Crowley
Karen Sutcliffe
Briana Szidat
Lilly Shlimon
Danielle Sirois
Olivia Gagnon
Jasmine Becotte

PEMBROKE
Rick Morrill (1,290 • 1965)
Craig Keeler (1,255 • 1972)
Mark Yeaton (1,596 • 1973)
Steve Bodi (1,380 • 1976)
Alicia Young (1,016 • 1981)
Jim Sherman (1,021 • 1983)
Mike Drouin (1,198 • 1985)
Matt Alosa (2,575 • 1991)
Leslie Menard (1,048 • 1994)
Chris Barker (1,333 • 2002)
Kelly Thomas (1,202 • 2006)
Alex Hall (1,617 • 2009)
Matt Persons (1,080 • 2013)
Pat Welch (1,907 • 2014)
Noah Cummings (1,122 • 2019)
Sean Menard (1,087 • 2019)

PINKERTON
Carl Hepworth (1,050 • 1971)
Mark Dunham (1,025 • 1999)
Zach Mathieu (1.075 • 2010)
Jackson Marshall  (2024)

PITTSBURG-CANAAN
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PITTSFIELD
Kevin Riel (1970)
Jeff Jones (1972)
Tom Boyd (1976)
Krista Hast (1980)
Fred Hast (1981)
Mike Mitchell (1981)
Josh Lank (1990)
Wylie Mousseau (1994)
Michelle Meader (1996)
Tony Martinez (1997)
Dan Chapman (2000)
Nikki Hill (2006)
Sean Kryander (2006)
Chad Fennessey (2010)
Ben Hill (2011)
Donovan Emerson (2012)
Xenthios Cyr (2017)
Cam Darrah (2018)

PLYMOUTH
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PORTSMOUTH
James Best (1,161 points • 1984)
Strider Sulley (1,091 • 1989)
Aaron DeGraffe (1,129 • 2002)
John Mulvey (1,299 • 2009)
Amy Kinner (1,061 • 1995)
Andrea Herold (1,166 • 2001)
Libby Underwood (1,253 • 2017)
Joey Glynn (1,068 • 2017)
Cody Graham (1,440 • 2018)
Alex Tavares (1,030 • 2019)

PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Cassaundra Thorpe (2004)
Alicia Long (2006)
Lauren Andrews (2008)
Bryson Lund (2020)
Madison Trainer (2021 • 1,020)

PROFILE
Kelley Grautski (1,262 • 1983)
Kim Derrington (1,335 • 1987)
Brian Mcguigan (1,188 • 1989)
Gregg Dixon (1,242 • 1990)
Kris Hultgren (1,136 • 1995)
Justin Stroup (1,109 • 2002)
Kate Ramsey (1,104 • 2003)
Julia Houghtaling (1,391 • 2004)
Josh Robie

PROSPECT MOUNTAIN (formerly Alton)
Frank Messier
Mike Lee
Jim Murray
Diane DeJager
Amy Birdsey
Pam Blackadar
Chris Irvin
Keri Pelletier
Heather Swabowicz
Kelly Lord
Eric O’Brien
Matt Pelletier
Ben Locke
Zach Christy
Terese Hopper

RAYMOND
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SANBORN
Bob Macurdy (1968)
Neal Dwelley (1977)
Seth Carr (1986)
Jeff Fisher (1991)
Anna Cavallaro (1997)
John Morano (2001)
Jackson Morton (2014)
Dylan Khalil (2021)

ST. THOMAS
Fran McNally (1964)
Terry Casey (1967)
Katie O’Keefe (1999)
Matt McLaughlin (2008)
Lindsay Towle (2018)
Andrew Cavanaugh (2019)

SOMERSWORTH
Chuck Favolise (1976)
Marc Roy (1979)
Jim Perron (1982)
Kyle Hodsdon (1984)
Diane Soule (1991)
John Coggeshall (1994)
Larry Francoeur Jr. (1997)
Melissa Heon (2000)
Katelyn Rideout (2002)
Rachel Hill (2013)
Bryton Early (2018)

SOUHEGAN
Rushmie Kalke (1995)
Courtney Banghart (1996)
Jesse Lynch (1996)
Jackie Lippe (1997)
Julie McLaurin (2003)
Jane White (2012)
Brandon Len (2013)
Mia Len (2018)

SPAULDING
Brad Therrien (1,700 • 1970)
Luke Croteau (1,595 • 2008)
Greg Lacasse (1,434 • 2001)
Tammy Fowler (1,299 • 2003)
Denny Hodgdon (1,236 • 1964)
Tiffany Bryant (1,194 • 1991)
Jacin Demers (1,107 • 1997)
Kelly Donohue (1,052 • 1997)
Deb LaValley (1,044 • 2009)
Dominic Paradis (1.098 • 2013)
Arie Breakfield (1,317 • 2019)

STRATFORD
Josh Stone (1993)
Troy Burns (1993)
Eric Hurlbert (1,780 • 1994)

SUNAPEE
David Muzzey (1986)
Beth Field (1988)
Trisha Shepard (1991)
Jennifer Colby (1995)
David Colby (1996)
Heather Wilkie (1997)
Meghan Wilkie (2001)
Jillian Hurd (2006)
Shawn Carpenter (2007)
Stephanie Larpenter (2009)
Liza Bourdon (2012)
Erika Waterman (2014)
Isaiah Chappell (2015)
Katie Frederick (2015)
Matt Tenney (2016)
Lexie Hamilton (2016)
Faith Larpenter (2017)
Sydney Clark (2017)

TRINITY
No full list submitted
Tyler Bike (2024)

WILTON-LYNDEBOROUGH
Tom Conrad (1,058 • 1974)
Judy Harrison (1,258 • 1980)
Dean Larpenter (1,569 • 1982)
Steve Claire (1,212 • 1987)
Shauna Carter (1,297 • 1990)
Mike McMurray (1,780 • 1991)
Chris Jacob (1,034 • 1993)
DJ Garnham (1,040 • 1998)
Dave Sherman (1,472 • 2005)
Stephen Chin (1,037 • 2008)
Jordan Litts (1,116 • 2015)
Trey Carrier (1,242 • 2017)
Jack Schwab (1,241 • 2020)

WHITE MOUNTAINS
David Hartshorn (1972)
Tom Kenison (1972)
John Ouellett (1983)
Jeremy Kilby (1989)
Niki Gingue (1995)
Jillian Kelly (1996)
Jennifer Martin (1999)
Jackson Curtis (2020)

WINDHAM
Clairee Putnam (2014)
Kaleigh Walsh (2018)
Sarah Dempsey (2021)

WINNISQUAM
Reeve Tracy (1955)
Bill Atherton (1965)
Tom Walsh (1967)
Mark Lavigne (1977)
Tim Nash (1,448 • 1984)
Raegan Jenkins (1,110 • 1991)
Matt McPhearson (1,155 • 2004)
Heidi Miller (1,164 • 2007)
Christian Serrano (1,585 • 2016)
Kyle Mann (1,022 • 2019)
Philip Nichols (1,051 • 2021)

WOODSVILLE
Ken Kinder (1,060 • 1986)
Jamie Walker (1,126 • 1988)
Chad Paronto (1,133 • 1993)
Ryan Ackerman (1,198 • 1999)
Jarrett Bemis (1,111 • 2016)
Cam Tenney-Burt (2022)

 

 

Farmington girls put the clamps on Pittsfield

The Farmington girls held Pittsfield to just two first-half points en route to a 57-7 victory over the visiting Panthers on Tuesday night. The Tigers held the Panthers scoreless in the first and third quarters to improve to 4-3 on the season. Pittsfield falls to 1-3.

Farmington was led by freshman Anna Cardinal’s 15 points and 14 points from sophomore Madi Ricker.

Check out photos of the action by KJ Cardinal…

Tony Martinez

Tony Martinez: Embracing the next chapter

By Mike Whaley

Going forward in basketball, Tony Martinez is always reminded by what came before. It keeps the fire burning.

A former hoop star at Pittsfield High School and Plymouth State University, Martinez, 44, is embracing his first high school head coaching gig in Belmont, guiding the boys varsity basketball program. 

Martinez’s basketball journey has been neither traditional nor smooth. His eight years of high school and college basketball were marked by an unusually crazy stretch of seven consecutive years with a different coach – four at Pittsfield and three at PSU.

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Two games into his senior year at Pittsfield, he broke his foot in a game against Newmarket and missed the rest of the season.

To say there have been challenges for Martinez would be an understatement. While there has been some regret, he has used his experiences to be a better person and coach. He is applying that experience to his post at Belmont.

Pittsfield’s Martinez boxes out for a rebound at Farmington.

“I can relate,” said Martinez, who replaced long-time coach Jim Cilley. “My experience as a player and all the ups and downs I’ve experienced helps me as far as relating to the kids. I was there once.”

Martinez said he knows what it’s like to not want to do homework and just focus on basketball. “I know all the little intricacies so I can communicate with the guys better,” he said. “I’m comfortable with my basketball knowledge. You always have to learn. You always have to study.”

Martinez graduated from Pittsfield HS in 1997. He played at PSU from 1997 to 2001, scoring over 1,000 points and twice earning Little East Conference First Team honors. 

After Plymouth, he coached for two years at Brewster Academy under Jason Smith, his coach during his final year at Pittsfield. After taking some time off, he got back into coaching at Plymouth State University as an assistant for one season (2014-15).

At that point, the eldest of his two sons, Keegan, was showing interest in basketball, so he started coaching him at the youth level. He continues to do that with his younger son, Evan.

In 2016, Martinez joined his friend and former teammate, Jay Darrah, the head coach at Pittsfield, as an assistant. He did that for three seasons, which included 2017-18 in which the Panthers won the program’s first state championship (a 43-40 win over Newmarket in the D-IV final).

Martinez drives baselien at Plymouth State.

Darrah said Martinez’s presence immediately resonated with the Panthers. “Any time you have someone come into the program that has his name up on the 1,000-point board, and his name is up on the 1,000-point board at Plymouth State where we go every year to watch the tournament played, he instantly gains stability with the players,” Darrah said. “They look up to him. Players that worked with Tony had instant admiration. When you have that admiration for someone like that, you play a little harder, you work a little harder. When he was in there working with the big guys at practices was huge. The stuff he did with Brandon Bojarsky and Josh Whittier was vital to our tournament run. His experience as a player gave the players more reason to believe in what he was saying. There was more buy-in.”

Martinez’s return to Pittsfield resonated with him as much as it resonated with the players. “Winning that state championship gave me closure on what happened my senior year,” he said. “It’s kind of corny, but it’s the truth.”

It also opened his eyes to coaching. “Winning that state championship with one of my best friends and his son really motivated me to want to be a varsity basketball coach,” Martinez said. 

Before Pittsfield, Martinez had been content to be an assistant or, as he called it, a “basketball mercenary.” In that role, he would simply float around to various programs helping their big guys to improve their game while imparting his wisdom on his college experience.

Also, there was a point when he was starting a family with his wife, Jodie, and building their first home, so the mercenary coaching gig fit his schedule.

But after his second Pittsfield experience, he was ready for the next step.

PLAYING THE GAME

Martinez grew up in Barnstead. He recalls playing hotly contested games against neighboring Pittsfield teams, which featured Jay Darrah and other future high school teammates. “Middle school is where I decided I wanted to become a good basketball player,” he said.

Which he did.

He started as a freshman at Pittsfield, and by his junior season had transformed into one of the best players in Class M/Division III. Martinez averaged 28 points and 15 rebounds per game, hitting his 1,000th career point. He drew some local NCAA Division II interest and plenty from D-III.

But when he broke his foot as a senior, that interest melted away. “Paul Hogan, to his credit,  was the one coach that let me heal – not just physically, but mentally,” Martinez said. “But that was a very hard thing to swallow not playing. It was hard.”

Jason Smith, who was in his first year as a head high school coach at the time in Pittsfield, remembers how Martinez handled the situation. “He quickly transitioned from a player to almost a student assistant coach,” said Smith, who has coached at Brewster since 2000 where he has transformed the Bobcat program into a national prep power. “He was still involved on a daily basis. He went to all the practices, all the games. He asked about helping with film breakdown, scouting reports. When he faced adversity that’s where he showed his future capacity of being a coach.”

Smith also coached Martinez in AAU as well as playing a small role in getting him to PSU when he was a Hogan assistant at Plymouth. 

Hogan did not pressure Martinez like several other local schools did. It also helped that Martinez wanted to play baseball as well in college. He had played two years for the American Legion team in Laconia coached by PSU’s long-time baseball coach Dennis McManus, so that was another mark in Plymouth’s favor. “I mostly chose Plymouth because Paul was such a great guy,” Martinez said. “I wanted to play for him.”

“It made him a stronger person,” Darrah said of the injury. “I think everything happens for a reason. It made him stay local. It made him have a successful career at Plymouth.”

Going to PSU proved to be a great decision by Martinez, although the coaching carousel was similar to Pittsfield’s where he played for four coaches (Kyle Hodsdon, Matt Swedberg, Dan Peters and Smith) in four years. Hogan left after his freshman year. Jim Ferry was his coach as a sophomore. Stability arrived with John Scheinman who was at the helm for his final two seasons.

By his own admission, Martinez did not have a great freshman year. “I played, but I didn’t play as much as I should have,” he said. “That’s cliche and not always good to hear. I always thought I could do more.”

Hogan left after Martinez’s freshman year; eventually elevating the men’s hoop program at NHTI Concord. Ferry came in and helped to set Martinez’s course for the remainder of his college career. He was still playing baseball at that point, but Ferry made it clear what he needed to do. He told Martinez he was going to start with four seniors, but he needed to drop baseball and focus on basketball.

“I credit Jim Ferry with really turning my career around at Plymouth,” Martinez said. “He made me really zero in and focus on basketball. He really taught me what work ethic at the college level needed to be.” Ferry is currently a NCAA Division I head coach at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Martinez did not have a traditional basketball body. To look at him in high school and even college, he resembled a football linebacker more than a basketball power forward. In high school he was 6-foot-3 and weighed 235-240 pounds. When he got to college he was able to trim himself down to 215 by his junior season.

“I was always a bigger kid,” he said. “I really had to model my game after (former NBA star) Charles Barkley. I loved Barkley when I was a kid. … I was undersized, but used everything to my advantage. I was a small-college Barkley. The Keene Sentinel dubbed me Barkley of the Little East.”

Martinez averaged 20.5 and 21.6 points per game, respectively, over his final two seasons when he developed his jump shot and added some three-point range to his repertoire. “With my inside game, that opened a lot of things up,” he said. 

Martinez ended his PSU career with 1,556 points, still good for fifth all-time at the school. In 2013, he was inducted into the PSU Athletic Hall of Fame.

COACHING COMES INTO FOCUS

Martinez was ready to make the leap. When the Belmont position opened up, he applied. It felt good. He lived with his family in Canterbury, a town that sends its high school students to Belmont. In addition, his mom is a Belmont native and his late grandfather was one of the original school board members who formed the Shaker Regional School District in the 1960s. “There’s some history and some lineage there,” Martinez said.

He also knew the kids. He’d been watching the current seniors play basketball since they were in eighth grade. “I knew of them,” he said. “I knew what they could do on the floor. I’ve watched them achieve. I’ve watched them underachieve. I’ve watched the whole gambit. I had a really good knowledge of what I was getting, coming into the program.”

Belmont went 8-10 last year, losing in the first round of the tournament at Campbell.

The first thing Martinez did before he applied was get the green light from his son, Keegan – a 6-foot-5 sophomore forward. “Before I submitted anything I asked him point blank ‘would you mind if I put this in?’” Martinez recalled. “That was the number one permission I needed because he’s the one who is going to have to deal with me. We have an honest and open relationship. If he said ‘no’, I wouldn’t have applied. I think he was excited. I think he knows what I can potentially bring to the table.”

Martinez also called up former Farmington HS coach Mike Lee, who guided the Tigers from 1977 to 1998. He coached both of his sons, Josh and Tim. “I’ve always respected Mike,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I have an internal hatred for Farmington. I’m still a Pittsfield Panther and I know what they did to me for four years. I’ve always respected Coach Lee. He’s one of those guys I would have loved to have played for.”

Martinez wanted to know how Lee dealt with his boys. “How did you do it, coach?” he asked. “What were the things that you did? He talked to me about rules and things they had as a family to make sure it wasn’t basketball all the time. I’ve taken a lot of that to heart. I’ve encouraged both my boys who are super athletes to do other things. I really think that is key. When you coach your child don’t make it about the sport all of the time.”

While some might think coaching your son is a difficult thing, Martinez feels the opposite. “I think it only amplifies it and makes it better, honestly,” he said. “I learned that by coaching with Jay (Darrah). I learned how to coach your son, coaching with Jay. I learned the dos and don’ts. Those were three huge seasons being with him.”

Martinez has no problem seeking advice. He has also reached out to Smith and Dave Gagnon, an assistant coach at the Holderness School. “It’s always a learning process,” he said.

“My biggest thing is getting to know the guys,” said Martinez, who runs the family business, Loudon Building Supply. “Teaching them and showing them the togetherness and things you need to be a championship caliber team. Our team motto is ‘We are one.’ We just want to come together and be one as a team.”

Martinez saw that at Pittsfield when the Panthers won the championship in 2018. “I’ve never been around a group of kids that wanted to win for each other so bad,” he said. “I think you see that in small towns. You grew up with each other.  Belmont is the same.”

One of Martinez’s main projects is building a cohesive unit. “The guys have responded to me great,” he said. “We’ve had great open gyms. We had a great summer. Tryouts were phenomenal. I’ve had texts from the guys telling me how excited they are. That for me shows that we’re pointed in the right direction.”

Tony Martinez is finally a head coach after 20 or so years marinating at various levels as an assistant and an independent instructor. It’s strange to think of him as a “first-year head coach.”

 “I think because he’s been part of so many programs, he’s probably been able to take a little bit from each coach he’s been a part of and become his own coach,” Darrah said. “He’s not your stereotypical first-year coach. He’s a coach with a lot of experience as a player and a lot of experience on the bench as an assistant coach.

“People talk about it before sometimes, great players don’t always make good coaches,” Darrah said. “In Tony’s case, I don’t think that’s going to be the case. I think his experience as a high school player, his experience as a great collegiate player, is going to translate to the high school game. He sees how the game is played. He sees how the game works and how it unfolds. That’s going to give him a step up on a lot of the other coaches.”

Smith agrees. “It’s long overdue. I expected Tony to be coaching his own team years ago. He’s more than ready. I have no doubt he will be successful at Belmont.”