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Winter playoffs produce neighborhood champion
Below is a postseason
roundup of the basketball and
hockey teams that competed in
NHIAA winter tournaments. All
results are through Sunday,
March 13.
Boys hoops
In Class L boys basketball,
No. 3 Manchester Central won
its first-round game against No.
14 Nashua South, 63-34,
advancing to the quarterfinals at
the University of New
Hampshire.
No. 10 Manchester Memorial
traveled to seventh-seeded
Londonderry for its tourney
opener. The Crusaders closed
their season 8-11 after dropping
a 69-45 decision to the Lancers.
Trinity of Manchester, seeded
12th, pulled off a first-round
upset, besting No. 5 Pinkerton
Academy of Derry on the road,
66-65. The victory earned the
Pioneers a trip to UNH for the
quarterfinals against No. 4
Dover.
No. 16 Manchester West met
top-seeded, two-time defending
state champion Merrimack in
the first-round. The Blue
Knights battled, but lost, 71-51,
to close their campaign at 6-13.
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In the Class I boys basketball
tournament, Pembroke Academy
entered the tourney as the
No. 15 seed. Traveling to
Hollis/Brookline, the Spartans
were defeated, 66-42, finishing
their season with a mark of 8-
11.
Bishop Brady of Concord
earned the 16th and final seed in
the tourney. The Giants played
Pelham in their opener and lost,
74-59. BB finished its campaign,
8-11.
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The Derryfield School of
Manchester took the 10th seed
in the Class S boys tourney. In
the first round, DS lost to No. 7
Woodsville, 68-49, finishing its
year at 8-11.
Mount Zion of Bedford was
the 11th seed in Class S. The
Lions lost to No. 6 Colebrook,
84-66, and finished the year at
8-11.
Girls hoops
In Class L girls hoops, Trinity
won its first-ever state championship,
defeating No. 8 Dover,
56-48, at Southern New
Hampshire University.
Trinity’s ladies advanced to
the state title game after beating
No. 15 Alvirne, 63-42, No. 7
Salem, 50-41, and No. 3
Merrimack, 72-66.
Sixth-seeded Bishop Guertin
of Nashua advanced to SNHU
for the quarterfinals after it
defeated No. 11 West in the first
round, 65-42.
West finished the year with a
mark of 9-10, while BG completed
its campaign 14-6 after a
62-55 loss to Merrimack in the
quarterfinals.
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In the Class I girls basketball
tournament, No. 13 Pembroke
Academy traveled to fourthseeded
Kearsarge for a firstround
matchup and lost, 38-28.
PA completed its season with a
8-11 record.
Bishop Brady, the No. 15
seed, faced Oyster River in its
opener. BB lost, 49-33, ending
the year at 8-11.
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The top-ranked Derryfield
girls advanced to the program’s
first Class S title game since
2000 before losing to No. 2
Sunapee, 57-37.
DS made it to the final round
with wins against No. 16
Nashua Christian Academy, 69-
12, No. 8 Lin-Wood, 51-33, and
No. 4 Pittsfield, 53-46. DS finished
its year 20-2.
Hockey
After a first-round bye in the
Division I hockey tournament,
fourth-seeded BG lost to No. 5
Pinkerton in the quarterfinals, 4-
2, ending the year at 12-4-1.
No. 7 Memorial survived No.
10 St. Thomas Aquinas, 5-4, in
its opener. But the Crusaders
couldn’t advance past No. 2
Salem in the quarterfinals, losing,
3-2. Memorial’s final
record was 12-8.
No. 8 Trinity lost to sixthseeded
Berlin, 6-1. THS finished
the year 8-9-2.
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