New Hampshire high school sports, week by week.
Ninth State Sports Show follows New Hampshire high school lacrosse and football from inside the regular-season grind. Its recent episodes lean on division previews, coach interviews, scrimmage notes, weather talk, roster questions, and practical schedule context.
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Ninth State Sports Show is local New Hampshire high school sports coverage with a strong sense of calendar, place, and season rhythm. Recent episodes center on spring lacrosse, split between boys and girls editions and organized around division previews, coach conversations, and the first week of games. The show cares about matchups. It also cares about the weather forecast, when the episode is being recorded, whether snow is still on the turf, and which games may move. That practical texture is part of its appeal. The boys lacrosse episodes often feature a conversational back-and-forth with Chris Hetler, who brings a coach’s eye to division strength, defensive development, player translation from other sports, and the way physicality can surprise teams moving between levels. The girls lacrosse episodes spend more time with coach interviews, program outlooks, roster limits, player confidence, and how teams learn to compete after changing divisions. Division talk is detailed without becoming sterile. A preview can move from specific teams, to man-up goals, to a postseason path, to whether players are mentally overrating or underrating an opponent. The show also reaches back into football coverage, keeping the same conversational structure and community tone. It is not trying to sound like a national studio show. It sounds closer to a well-informed local sports desk working through the week’s slate in real time. The strongest moments come when the conversation gets specific: roster depth, spring break timing, bench morale, returning experience, scrimmage quality, and what a program learned from last season. For listeners who follow New Hampshire high school athletics closely, those details are the point.
Made for: For listeners who follow New Hampshire high school lacrosse, football, school programs, coaches, and division races closely. It especially suits parents, athletes, coaches, alumni, and local sports fans who want context beyond final scores.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its ground-level attention to how seasons actually unfold: weather, schedules, roster depth, scrimmages, mental preparation, and program growth. It feels embedded in the local scene rather than packaged from a distance.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joe Marcellino makes New Hampshire lacrosse legible through divisional previews, coach interviews, and close attention to roster and matchup questions.
Ninth State Sports Show turns New Hampshire high school lacrosse into a working map of divisions, programs, and early-season questions. Joe Marcellino moves between boys previews with Derryfield AD and boys lacrosse coach Chris Hetler and interviews about the girls game, keeping…
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A coach's early-season look at Division I lacrosse, led by Pinkerton-Yarmouth swings and sideline detail.
Joe Marcellino and Chris Ettler open the boys lacrosse season from a coach's angle, focusing on the physicality, toughness, and speed that define Division I play.
A grounded preseason look at Division 3 girls lacrosse mindset, roster limits, and schedule pressure.
Division 3 girls lacrosse gets a steady preseason check-in as Joe Marcellino talks with coaches Boucher and Watson about what a new season asks of teams before the first draw.
A snowy opening-week preview turns toward Bow's D3 test and the multi-sport defenders shaping the local season.
The opening week of New Hampshire boys lacrosse comes in with snow on the turf, a still-iffy forecast, and Division III storylines beginning to take shape.
An inside look at Division II teams learning their opponents and finding answers together.
Joe Marcellina's conversations with Katie and Marissa give an inside view of increasingly competitive Division II girls' lacrosse in New Hampshire.
A grounded local girls lacrosse preview about belief, parity, and the afterlife of a competitive final.
The first 2026 girls lacrosse episode frames the spring season through the memory of last year's final, an earlier loss to Portsmouth, and the more competitive rematch that reshaped how Kiki's team understood its place.
A grounded Division I boys lacrosse preview centered on Bennett Matthews, Bedford's depth, and a tight New Hampshire race.
New Hampshire spring weather gives this Division I boys lacrosse preview its local footing, as Joe Marcellino and Dairyfield AD and coach Chris Hetler move through Bedford, BG, Exeter, and Portsmouth.
Joe Marcellina works through the boys' lacrosse seeding math ahead of Monday's official pairings.
Joe Marcellina sorts through the likely boys' lacrosse playoff seedings for BG, Bedford, Exeter and the rest of the Division I field. The most useful stretch concerns Concord, Dover and Nashua South, whose three-way tie cannot be settled head-to-head because each team beat one…
Raiders seasons, called from the field.
Joe Marcellina hosts a special edition of the Ninth State Sports Show, predicting the NHIAA boys lacrosse playoff pairings before their official release.
Host Joe Marcellino and guest Chris Hetler preview the upcoming New Hampshire Division I boys lacrosse season.
Luke Draper of Pelham piled up 395 total yards and five rushing touchdowns, contributing at running back, quarterback, receiver, and on returns.
The 9th State Sports Show’s Boys Lacrosse Edition opens with Joe Marcellino and Chris Ettler sorting through the first week of New Hampshire boys lacrosse, including a preseason coaches poll and the first results.
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Plymouth returns a senior-heavy title core, and Division 3 drops to 17 teams because Interlakes Moultonboro cannot field a boys team this spring.
Ninth State Sports Show Episode 372 is a 2026 Division 2 girls lacrosse preview built around Joe Marcellina's notes on Portsmouth's seven championships from 2009 to 2022 and the division's new balance after Portsmouth moved to Division 1.
Joe Marcellina and Chris Hetler preview the New Hampshire boys lacrosse D2 season, discussing early season weather and scrimmages.
Joe Marcellina opens the 2026 9th State Sports Show Girls Lacrosse Edition with a preview of the Granite State Elite jamboree at the Hampshire Dome in Milford and the first Monday releases on nh-highschoolsports.com.
Joe Marcellino and Chris Hetler preview the upcoming New Hampshire boys lacrosse D1 season, discussing early spring practice challenges and team outlooks.
Joe Marcellino and Mike Lachman preview the upcoming New Hampshire high school football Division 1 season on the Ninth State Sports Show.
Joe Marcellina and Kelly Braley discuss the challenges and excitement of preseason field hockey, including tryouts and jamborees.
A preview of the upcoming Twin State All-Star Lacrosse Games for girls, featuring interviews with New Hampshire players.
A preview of the Twin State Boys Lacrosse All-Star Games between Vermont and New Hampshire seniors, with interviews and event details.