By: Logan Paronto
ROCHESTER, NH – Bishop Guertin started hot and ran away to a 56-25 victory at Spaulding on Thursday night.
BG’s Laura Marino led all scorers with 17 points, with Holly Dufoe tallying 11 of her own.
BG improves to 3-2 on the season, while Spaulding drops to 1-5.
Check out the full photo gallery by Heidi Green…
By: KJ Cardinal
ROCHESTER, NH – Windham used a 32-17 first half to propel the Jaguars to a 63-56 victory at Spaulding on Friday night.
Leading the way for Windham was Jack Koutrobis with 17 points, while Tyler Jordan and Sam Roidoulis netted 13 points apiece. The Red Raiders were paced by Kyran Jean Pierre’s game-high 20 points and 17 from Marcel Rose.
With the win, Windham improves to 2-2 on the season, while Spaulding falls to 1-3.
Check out the full photo gallery by Heidi Green…
By: KJ Cardinal
ROCHESTER, NH – In a match-up between two winless teams, visiting Merrimack went on the road and defeated Spaulding, 37-31, on Friday night.
Abby Herod led the way for the Tomahawks with a game-high 16 points, while the Red Raiders were paced by Damiya Perkins’ 11 points.
With the win, Merrimack improves to 1-2 on the season, while Spaulding falls to 0-3.
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Londonderry outscored Spaulding 34-19 in the first half to roll to a 66-49 victory in Rochester on Friday night.
Leading the way for the Lancers was Mason Paquette with 18 points and Ryan Williams with 15. The Red Raiders were paced by 16 points from Marcel Rose and 10 from Kyran Jean Pierre.
With the win, Londonderry evens its record at 8-8, while Spaulding falls to 5-11.
Check out the full photo gallery by Jeff Criss of Perfect Photos…
Spaulding narrowly defeated visiting Manchester Memorial, 70-68, on Friday night in Rochester.
With the win, the Red Raiders have now won back-to-back games and improve to 4-7 on the season. The Crusaders have lost four of their last five and fall to 6-5.
Check out photos of the action by our newest contributor Kaiden Melendez. Kaiden is a senior at Spaulding. Welcome aboard!
Manchester Memorial defeated visiting Spaulding, 50-30, on Friday night.
The Crusaders were paced by 15 points from NyAsia McKelvey and 12 from Jaelyn Hartford. Megan Uraskevich led the Red Raiders with 12 points.
With the win, Memorial improves to 5-7, while Spaulding falls to 2-8.
Check out photos of the action by Todd Grzywacz of Stonewall Photography…
The Windham boys jumped out to an 8-point lead after one and hung on to defeat Spaulding, 53-50, on Tuesday night in the season opener for both clubs.
The Jaguars were paced by 13 points from Jack Koutrobis and 10 from Jack Begley. The Red Raiders were led by Marcel Rose (13 points) and Hunter Trueman (11).
Check out the full gallery of the action by our Jill Stevens…
Longtime NH sportswriter and Ball 603 contributor Mike Whaley has released a book – “A Pen For All Seasons: Dispatches From a Rural New England Life in Sports.” It contains 65 of Whaley’s favorite stories and columns with photos from 35 years in the newspaper business.
Rochester and Farmington figure most prominently in the book, which includes stories Whaley has written since the late 1980s from the Rochester Courier, Rochester Times, Foster’s Daily Democrat and Portsmouth Herald.
There’s plenty on basketball. Here’s a list: Spaulding boys and girls basketball, including long-time former SHS coach Tim Cronin; Holy Rosary HS of Rochester, 1955 Class C boys champs; Nute’s David Burrows; Farmington’s 1970 state championship boys team and the 1967-68 Tiger Tigers, who were undefeated that season in volleyball, basketball and softball; Portsmouth’s Dan Parr and Sox great Carlton Fisk; Newmarket’s Ron Weitzell and Bert McGloughlin; UNH coach Gerry Friel; Oyster River girls coach Cathy Coakley; Whaley’s old college hoop teammates and friends, Bill Fitzgerald and John LeMieux, and the Austin-Cate Wildcats, 1971 NH Class S boys champs.
The book will be available (for $22) at the following book events: Collins Sports Center, Rochester, Saturday, May 20, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Farmington House of Pizza, Sunday, May 21, 5 to 7 p.m.; Rochester Public Library, Wednesday, June 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m., and Goodwin Library in Farmington, Thursday, June 22, 5 to 6:30 p.m.
The book may also be purchased at Collins during regular business hours (closed Sundays) starting May 22.
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Whaley was a full-time area sportswriter from 1987 until his semi-retirement in 2019. He still writes occasionally for Foster’s and the Herald, as well as Ball603. A two-time New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year, Whaley lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife, Jill.
Manchester Memorial narrowly escaped their road trip to Spaulding as the Crusaders came away with a two-point win, 43-41, in Rochester on Friday night.
Check out the full photo gallery by Dave O’Brien…
Trailing by five at the break, 32-27, Goffstown outscored Spaulding 42-30 in the second half to earn a come-from-behind victory over the winless Red Raiders on Tuesday night.
The Grizzlies were 16 points from Cam Hujsak, 15 from Ryan Strand and 13 from Noah Durham. Spaulding was paced by a game-high 26 points from Zander Walbridge, including six threes. Hunter Trueman (16) and Paul Butler (12) both netted double figures as well for the Red Raiders.
Goffstown snapped a three-game skid with the victory to improve to 3-4 on the season, while Spaulding falls to 0-7.
Check out photos of the action by Dave Beliveau…
