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By TRIS WYKES

Pete DePalo spent his first 15 years living on Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, home of America’s first large-scale amusement park. His family moved to the Upper Valley and his life since has been filled with games.Soccer games....

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — A quick trip to the store wasn’t often possible with Chuck Hunnewell.Ubiquitous on the Upper Valley sports scene for more than 30 years, the longtime teacher and coach would be waylaid in Rich’s Department Store or Johnson’s Home Center on...

By TRIS WYKES

DURHAM, N.H. — One of the greatest turnarounds in Upper Valley sports history came up short of a fairy-tale ending Sunday when the Hanover High boys basketball team fell to Pelham, 51-41, in the NHIAA Division II final at UNH’s Lundholm Gymnasium.The...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

DURHAM, N.H. — Entering Tuesday night’s Division II boys’ basketball semifinal, the No. 3 Pembroke Spartans (18-3) knew exactly what No. 2 Hanover (19-1) was going to do: run a remarkably methodical offense and play smart, disciplined defense.Pembroke...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — And on the 108th day of the Thetford Academy basketball season, a VPA Division III boys hoop championship was created. How would coach Jason Gray celebrate? “We’re going to go back to the academy to have some cupcakes and Gatorade,” the...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — It will take at least another year to supplant Hartford High’s Whirlwind Five.That’s the nickname given to the last Hurricanes’ boys basketball team to win a state title — in 1929. Sadly for backers of the red, white and blue, that...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — The Barre Auditorium’s inner arena was deserted Thursday evening, half an hour after Thetford Academy and White River Valley concluded their Vermont Division III boys basketball playoff semifinal.Silence inside the 85-year old building...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — A recent Hartford High social media post touted T-shirts celebrating the boys basketball team’s advancement to the VPA Division II semifinals. The tongue-in-cheek update claimed they’d been discovered in a box dating to 1984 — the last...

By TRIS WYKES

SOUTH ROYALTON — Any spectator wanting to re-enter Saturday night’s VPA Division III boys basketball quarterfinal game between No. 3 White River Valley and No. 6 Richford got a smiley face inked on the back of one hand.The majority of those in a...

By BRANDON BROWN

BOW, N.H. — Revenge is sweet.The St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys basketball team lost to Mascoma in last year’s NHIAA Division III semifinal round, and the second-seeded Saints had their sights set on making sure that wouldn’t be the case two...

By TRIS WYKES

WEST CANAAN - The question flashed through Tyler-Jay Mardin’s mind as he hurriedly scanned the court Friday night at Mascoma High’s Edward P. Kehoe Gymnasium.“How is our best shooter that wide open?”There was no time to ponder. Mardin and the...

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 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 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

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 — Kieth Matte, Lebanon High’s boys basketball coach since 1997 and a teacher and administrator at the school for nearly as long, will resign his positions and depart the school district at the end of the current academic year.“The district and...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — When Lebanon High basketball player Chris Perriello approached a microphone stand at half-court in December, he carried, in addition to his speaking notes, the memory of his late mother.The senior forward briefly addressed the home crowd...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Seats were hard to come by Thursday night at Hartford High’s Hanley Gymnasium, the aging structure featuring only a few open spaces during the Hurricanes’ Vermont Division II regular-season finale against Fair Haven.Seniors Joey...