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With Londonderry trailing in the final set, Matt Adams recorded six straight service points, then hammered home the match point as the Lancers downed Oyster River 25-15, 15-25, 25-22, 25-22. They also rallied back from a 2-9 deficit in the third game.

Keeping the average down 

After giving up 4.7 goals per game, Pelham worked a 0-0 tie with Oyster River. Freshman goalie Brian Finney made nine saves with the biggest being an all-out diving save in overtime. 

Led by the Forrest brothers Corey and Jesse, the Salem vollyball team won their 86th consecutive match over Oyster River to improve to 12-0 on the season. Jesse Forrest, a senior, led the team with seven blocks, while his sophomore brother Corey added 10 kills as Salem inched one game closer to securing a number one seed for the state tourney.

Dan Goodwin registered 35 blocks in Pinkerton Academy's 26-24, 25-9, 25-21 victory over Oyster River. Pinkerton improved to 5-1 with the straight-sets win.

Pelham fell to Oyster River, 3-0. Alex Keiser came in relief in net and did not allow a goal and made seven saves.

SALEM, N.H. | Just a eight weeks ago Timberlane was in disarray.

The team had just dropped a 4-0 decision to Andover in the Blue Devil Holiday Classic followed by a 3-0 loss the following night to Oyster River. In that second game, head coach Andrew Merrick decided to sit five of his varsity players for what he described as a "lack of effort."

Methuen senior John Sughrue didn't get the match he would have preferred, but he had plenty of consolation yesterday at the Methuen Invitational.

Because he moved up a weight class to 130 pounds this year, there was no showdown with Salem star Trevor Dearden, but both Sughrue and Dearden came away big winners.

After two tough days at the Blue Devil Classic, Nick Currier made sure his squad wasn't going to have a third.

Currier recorded his first hat trick of the season to lead Pinkerton to a 6-4 win over Oyster River.

After what Timberlane coach Andrew Merrick considers his team's worst effort this season, he made the tough decision to sit five of his best players.

And with five JV players on the roster, the Owls played well in spurts but eventually succumbed to the Oyster River attack, 3-0.

Tyler Vigue of Salem easily summed up his team's play over the first 30 minutes.

"We were just awful in the first two periods," said the senior. "We came out not skating and the loss to Exeter (on Saturday) was still in our heads. We thought we couldn't win and we couldn't score. But then we switched."