Nashua North To Face Oyster River In Next Granite State Challenge Matchup

DURHAM, NH — Nashua North High School and Oyster River High School will meet in game seven of Granite State Challenge at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, on New Hampshire PBS.

The Nashua North Titans are captained by 12th-grader Colin Scribner. The lineup also includes 12th-graders Ryan Mamos, Daniel Morcos, and Ethan Hobbs, with alternates 11th-grader Marie Nalen and 12th-grader Benjamin Kelly. Coach Timothy Bosch leads the team, which represents a school of 1,650 students in Hillsborough County serving Nashua.

Colin Scribner described the team’s biggest asset this way: “Definitely our chemistry, because we know that even before the match or during the match, we can still talk to each other and just have fun together. And that makes it a lot easier to get answers out.”

“I purposely do not pick and choose who is on the team, I have two of my students do it,” Bosch said. “I encourage them to find other people who will complement their own abilities and build out the best, strongest team.”

Oyster River is led by Captain Benjamin Boodey, a 12th-grader. The Bobcats lineup includes 11th-grader Lydia Bens and 12th-graders Griffin Oake-Libow and Rayan Barakat. Alternates are 9th-grader Peter Fenton and 12th-graders Carson Imperio and Felix Scarlat. Coach John Monahan, an English teacher, leads the team from the Strafford County school, which serves Durham, Lee, Madbury, and Barrington, and has 840 students.

The Oyster River program won Granite State Challenge championships in 1999 and 2001.

“We're really quite excited because it’s our first time doing the show for at least half of our team,” Boodey said. “I think we are very close as a team, and we’re very good at knowing what each other’s strengths are.”

Monahan added, “I’ve got some fast people, and they’re all into expanding themselves, and that’s the most I can ask.”

Hosted by Jon Cannon, Granite State Challenge features New Hampshire high school students answering questions in math, science, social studies, language arts, fine arts, current events, entertainment, sports, and New Hampshire topics. The game airs at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays on NHPBS and also streams on the PBS App, the NHPBS YouTube channel and at nhpbs.org/gsc.