The fall sports season is over and has been for a week now for local teams with all the soccer and field hockey teams throughout the area competing in at least one New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) post-season tournament game. Â
As most of you know the Berlin and Gorham soccer teams had an abbreviated schedule of regular-season games and competed in and were eliminated in tournament play prior to the finals. Â Berlin's field hockey team had a nice regular season and tournament run and qualified for the Division III finals only to be forced to forfeit the game to Bishop Brady due to a rise in COVID-19 virus cases in our area.
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