Michael McMahon

5 days ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

For the second year, The Keene Sentinel is honoring the best and the brightest our region has to offer in high school athletics by naming an All-Sentinel Team. There are 79 member schools in the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association. The Sentinel covers six of those schools — Keene, ConVal, Monadnock, Conant, Fall Mountain and Hinsdale. Covering all six schools and all four classes, the 41 student athletes on the All-Sentinel Team represent the best of the best in our coverage area.

1 week ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

With the beginning of the New England Collegiate Baseball League season just days away, many Keene SwampBats players will be arriving in the Elm City over the weekend. Except for a number of players whose arrivals have been delayed by their collegiate teams’ runs to the NCAA Tournament, SwampBats president Kevin Watterson said he expects nine position players and 15 pitchers to be in uniform when the Bats kick off the two-month NECBL sprint this week.

3 weeks ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

NEWPORT — Runs haven't been at a premium for the Monadnock softball team this season. Over the team's 8-0 start to the season, the Huskies averaged 12.5 runs per game. But facing Newport ace Zoey Lord is a different beast. Words could describe it, but the stats probably say it best. Lord, a junior in her second season with the Tigers after transferring in from Proctor Academy, has struck out 248 batters in 103 high school innings. That's 309 outs with more than 80 percent coming by way of the K.

3 weeks ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

The Keene State baseball team, one day removed from completing its blitz to the Little East championship, received its seeding in the NCAA D-III baseball tournament slated to begin this weekend.

3 weeks ago | keenesentinel.com | Michael McMahon |michael mcmahon

RINDGE — For quite some time, even up until just a month ago, a day like this felt a long way away for the Keene State baseball program. It may have been difficult to imagine the Owls, a ballclub five games under .500 in April, could end up here. But in a turnaround season worthy of a Joe Castiglione "can you believe it?", Keene State is Little East champion in baseball once again.