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Ryan O'Leary

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Portsmouth, NH, United States

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Past articles by Ryan:

PHS boys soccer looks right at home in Division I

PORTSMOUTH — Take in a Portsmouth High School boys soccer game this season, you’d be stunned to learn the team went 4-12 and missed the playoffs last season.In Division II.The Clippers are in Division I for at least the next two classification cycles, and they’ve been hardly a punching bag for the state’s largest schools.In Thursday’s home game against Merrimack, they looked… → Read More

Locals left their mark on 2018 CHaD Game

DURHAM — Local players left an imprint on the 2018 CHaD East-West All-Star Game.They helped raise over $255,600 for the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock — surpassing the event’s 2018 goal — with most forming everlasting bonds with teammates they once thought of as rivals.“In high school you have your rivalries, but when you come together, you can make some really good friendships when… → Read More

Back to back! Exeter becomes state's first repeat D-I champ in 21 years

MANCHESTER — Bobby Cliche exited the mound with a roar, soon finding himself on the bottom of another Exeter baseball dogpile.Cliche was clutch in → Read More

NHIAA Director on scorekeeping error: Kids, coaches, fans deserve better

In a phone interview Friday morning, NHIAA Executive Director Jeff Collins expressed remorse for the scorekeeping error that left Exeter High School with → Read More

Video review confirms NHIAA missed 1 point in Exeter-Dover game

After further review, the Exeter High School boys basketball team did, indeed, play the final two quarters of Wednesday night’s semifinal game against Dover with one less point than it actually scored.And every last point mattered in No. 11 Dover’s 68-66 upset win at Lundholm Gymnasium.Seacoast Media Group obtained a full video replay of the game Thursday. A careful review of the first quarter… → Read More

Blue Hawk junior nets 100th career varsity goal

EXETER — For Carissa Towlson, based on her incredible two-year scoring pace, it was never a matter of if, but when.But there’s no downplaying the significance of the rare milestone that arrived on Wednesday — 100 career varsity goals in far less than three high school hockey seasons.Needing four goals to reach triple digits, Towlson, Exeter High School’s star junior center, scored five in two… → Read More

Gould not ready for whirlwind ride to end

DURHAM — Even as the stakes continue to rise during what has been a whirlwind freshman season, Nov. 4, 2017 is a night that Jake Gould will remember forever. It was the night the University of New Hampshire men's soccer team hosted Stony Brook in the America East quarterfinals at Wildcat Stadium. It was the night, with a bunch of personal supporters in the stands, that Gould got his first… → Read More

NHVCA Awards: Shaheen, Hodsdon are area’s big winners

A 12-match win differential helped first-year Portsmouth High School volleyball coach Stefany Shaheen earn one of the state’s top designations.The New Hampshire Volleyball Coaches Association announced its postseason awards for the 2017 season on Thursday, and Shaheen was honored as Division II Coach of the Year after helping the Clippers reach their first state final match since 2008.Talk about… → Read More

CLIPPERS 3, EAGLES 1: Portsmouth is on to the 'ship!

DERRY — The ball was sinking hard, pegged for the far corner of the court, when Portsmouth High School libero Olivia Brown made a sprawling, one-handed play to keep it in the air. Teammate Georgia Dickinson made sure it stayed there — crashing hard into the wooden bleachers at Pinkerton Academy as she angled the ball back into play, one the Clippers would eventually finish with a roar of… → Read More

Bill Ball on 200th win: 'Absolute collective effort'

EXETER — Ever since the beginning, 40 years ago when he was coaching the Exeter High School freshmen, Bill Ball has seen the game of football like an automobile. It's a regimented game with countless moving parts, and when those parts are placed properly and operating in unison, the result is positive, forward momentum. It's all about the system, and Coach Ball and his staff have had a strict… → Read More

Week 4 HS Football Showcase: For Blue Hawks, Warriors, it doesn't get bigger

EXETER — The morning after a humbling loss in their home stadium, members of the Exeter High School football team woke to highlights posted all over social media of their arch rival's statement to the state of New Hampshire. Winnacunnet 20, Bedford 8. It was easily the most surprising result of Week 3, the Warriors outplaying the defending champion Bulldogs on both sides of the ball and never… → Read More

Former City Councilor Shaheen grateful to join Clippers

PORTSMOUTH — Stefany Shaheen is well known around Portsmouth. She’s a former City Councilor and the author of a New York Times Bestseller. → Read More

Bill Ball reflects on 25 years as Exeter's head coach

EXETER — On Day 1 of his 25th season as head coach of Exeter High School’s football team, Bill Ball leaned back in his office chair and reflected on a special tenure that now includes 190 wins, 62 losses and seven state championships. “I’ve been at Exeter a long time, since 1978,” he said. “I’ll be honest with you: I’m blessed. Best kids around — disciplined, coachable, committed. And I’ve got a… → Read More

D-I baseball semis: Exeter rallies in 7th to stun Red Raiders

MANCHESTER — A month ago, Bobby Cliche celebrated his proudest baseball moment on the field at Bedford High School. On Friday night he topped it, → Read More

Exeter High School dedicates monument to 'Coach Stephen J. Arkell'

EXETER — Over the past three-plus years, many memorials have been developed in the name of Stephen Arkell the Brentwood Police Officer, including a now annual community 5K in his hometown of Brentwood, and a memorial scholarship fund for Exeter High School students.But there was nothing yet concrete honoring Arkell’s side passion: The countless hours he spent coaching his two daughters and their… → Read More

Clippers make history

DURHAM — Behind one of the great two-year runs in New Hampshire high school basketball history is a story that personifies this year’s → Read More

Quarterfinal rematches kick D-I hoop tourney into high gear

The Division I high school basketball season has arrived at Quarterfinal Friday.Call it Rematch Friday, too.Winnacunnet captains Freddy Schaake, Liam → Read More

Athletic trainers, AEDs called vital after teen's life saved

Robin Hunt understands the praise and attention she’s received the past two weeks. She just doesn’t want people calling her a hero. Hunt will be the first to tell you: She was simply doing her job on Monday, Feb. 20, when a junior varsity basketball game that seemed like countless other junior varsity basketball games suddenly went terribly, terribly wrong. Rhys Daigle, a 14-year-old freshman… → Read More

Athletic trainers, AEDs called vital after teen's life saved

Robin Hunt understands the praise and attention she’s received the past two weeks. She just doesn’t want people calling her a hero.Hunt will be the first to tell you: She was simply doing her job on Monday, Feb. 20, when a junior varsity basketball game that seemed like countless other junior varsity basketball games suddenly went terribly, terribly wrong.Rhys Daigle, a 14-year-old freshman from… → Read More

H.S. Boys Hockey Preview: Tufts reflects on 40 years on Exeter’s bench

EXETER — Jim Tufts can still appreciate the question, even if he’ll never have a definitive answer. Not even after four decades of coaching → Read More