Top Baseball Towns in Hillsborough County, NH
Ranked on championships won since 2000 — high school state titles and Little League district, section and state titles counted together, with recent wins weighted more heavily. 20 towns have won something.
Goffstown leads Hillsborough County, NH, scoring 17.40 almost entirely on youth titles, though Bedford is close behind on 15.18. 20 towns have won something since 2000.
The top ten in Hillsborough County, NH are Goffstown, Bedford, Manchester, Litchfield, Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Nashua, Henniker and Weare. Between them they account for 97% of every point scored across the 20 towns on this list.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Brookline is in the top ten on a population of 5,815, while Manchester has 116,386 to draw on — roughly 20 times as many people. That is why the tables below are also split into population bands: a town should be measured against places its own size before it is measured against a city.
Recency matters in this table — a title's weight halves every 12 years, so the standings drift on their own every season. Bedford and Amherst have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Brookline, Hollis and Henniker share credit with neighbouring towns for a regional high school. A regional's championship is split evenly between every town it serves rather than going to the town the building happens to sit in.
One caveat worth reading before you argue with the order. The youth half of this score is Little League only, because Little League is the only organisation that publishes a championship archive — every district, section and state champion back to the 1950s. Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth publish nothing below the World Series. 3 towns in Hillsborough County, NH run Cal Ripken or Babe Ruth ball with no Little League program at all, and they score zero youth points here no matter how much they win. Towns that run both lose the Cal Ripken half the same way. If your league has a record we're missing, tell us and we'll add it.
| # | Town | Score | Population | HS titles | LL state | LL district | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goffstown NH Hillsborough County | 17.4 | 18,488 | 4 | 6 | 9 | Goffstown High School · Goffstown Junior Baseball |
| 2 | Bedford NH Hillsborough County | 15.18 | 23,856 | 1 | 5 | 9 | Bedford High School · Bedford Little League |
| 3 | Manchester NH Hillsborough County | 7.62 | 116,386 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Manchester Central High School · Manchester Memorial High School +1 |
| 4 | Litchfield NH Hillsborough County | 7.08 | 8,554 | 5 | — | — | Campbell High School |
| 5 | Amherst NH Hillsborough County | 5.31 | 11,914 | 3 | — | — | Souhegan Coop High School |
| 6 | Brookline NH Hillsborough County | 2.95 | 5,815 | 1.50 ⌗ | — | — | Hollis-Brookline High School |
| 7 | Hollis NH Hillsborough County | 2.95 | 8,746 | 1.50 ⌗ | — | — | Hollis-Brookline High School |
| 8 | Nashua NH Hillsborough County | 2.15 | 91,851 | 2 | — | — | Nashua High School South · Nashua High School North |
| 9 | Henniker NH Hillsborough County | 1.12 | 6,267 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | John Stark Regional High School |
| 10 | Weare NH Hillsborough County | 1.12 | 9,220 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | John Stark Regional High School |
| 11 | Merrimack NH Hillsborough County | 1 | 29,367 | 1 | — | — | Merrimack High School |
| 12 | Antrim NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 2,720 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 13 | Bennington NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 1,507 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 14 | Dublin NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 1,593 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 15 | Francestown NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 1,645 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 16 | Greenfield NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 1,696 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 17 | Hancock NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 1,753 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 18 | Peterborough NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 6,433 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 19 | Sharon NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 353 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
| 20 | Temple NH Hillsborough County | 0.1 | 1,401 | 0.11 ⌗ | — | — | Conval Regional High School |
By town size
A championship out of a town of 6,000 is a different achievement from the same title in a city of 600,000. Same scoring, ranked against places of the same size.
Under 10,000
- 1LitchfieldNH7.08 · 9k
- 2BrooklineNH2.95 · 6k
- 3HollisNH2.95 · 9k
- 4HennikerNH1.12 · 6k
- 5WeareNH1.12 · 9k
- 6AntrimNH0.1 · 3k
- 7BenningtonNH0.1 · 2k
- 8DublinNH0.1 · 2k
25,000–75,000
- 1MerrimackNH1 · 29k
Over 75,000
- 1ManchesterNH7.62 · 116k
- 2NashuaNH2.15 · 92k
How this is scored
- High school state championship — 3 points
- Little League state title — 3 points
- Little League sectional title — 2 points
- Little League district title — 1 point
Only titles since 2000 count, each one's weight halves every 12 years, private-school titles count for 0.75 of a public one, and a regional school's championship is split between the towns it serves.
Full method, sources and what the rankings can't see →By county in New Hampshire
Counties with enough towns on the board to rank. Smaller counties are folded into their state list rather than given a page of three rows.