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Pelham's girls held Campbell scoreless in the third quarter on its way to a 52-29 victory. Tallie Carney led the offense with 12 points.

Pelham came out firing on opening night jumping out to commanding 39-9 halftime lead.  Senior Jake Dumont had five 3-pointers and led the Pythons with 17 and junior Jake McGlinchey had a career high 11 points. 

Pelham's girls soccer team tuned up for the Division 2 tourney with a 4-0 shutout of Campbell. Elyce Jedraszek scored twice for the Pythons (4-1).

KINGSTON, N.H. — Sanborn played its best football game of the season but fell short of Campbell Friday, falling 20-18.

Quarterback TJ Thornton was a standout in defeat, rushing for 113 yards and two touchdowns, the first a 60-yard gallop on the first play from scrimmage. He also scored on a 5-yard run.

PELHAM — Quarterback Jake Travis opened the game with an 18-yard touchdown run, running back Kevin Bodenrader rushed for a 14-yard score and Travis hit Bodenrader for a 34-yard touchdown, all before the first quarter ended, sending Pelham to a 40-0 drubbing of Campbell on Friday night.

The win was the second straight for the Pythons to open the season, outscoring opponents by a combined 82-0.

Travis got Pelham going fast on Friday, running for his TD just 1:42 into the game. Just 4:14 later, Bodenrader struck for his score, then the two connected on a passing TD with 0:18 left in the first.

Jake Herrling added an 18 yard touchdown run in the second, then in the third Ethan Demmons (12 yards) and Derek Muise (2 yards) closed out the scoring with TD runs.

Travis ran for a game-high 62 yards and was 6 of 10 throwing for 66 yards, and Demmons added 39 yards on the ground.

Pelham's defense allowed just 92 total yards, and just 39 yards rushing on 34 attempts.

"Our defense played hard and was able to notch the shutout," said Pythons coach Tom Babaian. We also made some improvements in the passing game. This was a good win, and now we have to turn our attention to a tough Trinity team (away) next week (Friday, 7 p.m.)”

Down four points at the half to previously unbeaten Campbell on the road, Pelham boys basketball outscored the Cougars 20-6 in the third quarter to take control of the game and evenually earn a 72-58 win. The Pythons (8-2) got 17 points from Derek Crowley and Colby Travis scored a career-high 10 points to go along with 12 rebounds.

Led by 20 points from Olivia Gagnon and a season-high 11 points from Tallie Carney, Pelham took down Campbell 63-47. It was the fifth straight win for the Pythons (7-4 NH).

Sophomore Dylan Khalil came in third overall to pace Sanborn to fourth place at the Pelham Invitational. Khalil finished the 5K course in 16:34, just six seconds behind the winner, Campbell's Jeff Allen.

Meghan Cross finished fourth overall at the Pelham Invitational, with a 19:14.51 time for 5K, and Pinkerton finished a strong second, trailing only Coe-Brown, the No. 1-ranked team in the state. Sanborn senior Avery Scully had a strong race and finished seventh.

Whittier Tech flexed its muscles in the upper weights at the Dan Gionet tournament in Pelham to finish second behind Marblehead/Swampscott.

Jon Ahern placed first at heavyweight, with pins in 13 and 56 seconds and teammates Chris McNulty and Erickson Rivas finished third and fourth respectively. Ahern was joined in the winner's circle by 195-pounder Andrew Buzzell.