Laconia, n.h. — When he needed someone to carry his bag and offer support during his run to the New Hampshire Golf Association amateur championship quarterfinals last summer, Hanover High’s Phin Choukas called on his older brother, Nate.

It took a year, but the bill came due on Wednesday at Laconia Country Club.

Nate, who will be a junior on the Trinity College men’s golf team in the fall, grabbed a 2-up win over Phin, a junior-to-be at Hanover. As unlikely as it could have been to happen, the matchup occurred after Phin landed the 31st seed and Nate the 34th with identical scores through medal play on Tuesday, both making the 64-golfer knockout out of an initial field of 144 competitors.

If beating his younger brother wasn’t tough enough, Nate Choukas’ task gets more difficult this morning. He’ll take on 2011 state am champ Jim Cilley, of Ridgewood Country Club, in an 8:04 match in the round of 32. A win there would set up a second match this afternoon. Cilley eliminated the Country Club of New Hampshire’s Charlie McNeeley, 5 and 3, in their Wednesday match.

Nate MacDonald, who yielded state amateur champion honors to Cilley at Nashua Country Club a year after winning the 2010 title at Eastman, lived to see another day as well. The Hanover Country Club member was a 3-and-2 victor over Manchester’s Patrick McGinley, which set him up for a second-rounder with Windham’s James McKee today at 8:36 a.m.

Other notable first-round winners included defending N.H. Amateur champion Connor Greenleaf, Fall Mountain High School graduate Ryan Kohler, 2015 state am semifinalist Jamie Ferullo, former NHIAA high school standout Ryan Tombs and state am veteran Craig Steckowych.

NECBL SteepleCats 2, Nighthakws 0

North Adams, Mass. — Ben Olson allowed two hits over seven innings as North Adams (15-13) sent Upper Valley (10-17), in last place in the NECBL’s Northern Division, to its third straight loss and ninth in its last 10 games.

Olson, a sophomore at Bradley University, struck out six and walked three while lowering his ERA to 2.60. Brian Stepniak and Tanner Bird each pitched a perfect inning of relief.

Alex Hanson and Joseph Denison had Upper Valley’s hits.

The SteepleCats scored one run in the second when Easton Johnson singled home John Mazza and another in the third when Daniel Holst scored on an error.

Houston Mabray took the loss for the Nighthawks, allowing two runs and eight hits over six innings. He walked one and struck out three.

The Nighthawks return to action at 4:30 today for a doubleheader against the Vermont Mountaineers.

Boys SoccerLebanon Top Stitch 7CRFC Claremont 2

Charlestown — Logan Falzarano, John Moorhead and Nathan Magari each scored twice and Patrick Mason added a single tally to help Lebanon Top Stitch Embroidery over CRFC Claremont in a Wednesday night NHSC Division V match.

Jorgen Leuthauser, Tommy Berthasavage and Ben Tichner split the goalkeeping duties for Top Stitch, which improved to 4-2-1. CRFC Claremont fell to 1-7.

Lebanon Central Supply 3 CRFC Fall Mountain 0

Meriden — Noah Didehbani’s outstanding two-way performance helped propel Lebanon Central Supply (5-1-1) over CRFC Fall Mountain (6-3) in an NHSC Divisoin IV game at the Plainfield School.

Didehbani’s play at left back helped goalkeepers Davis Cole and Erik Spaulding earn the shutout, and his coast-to-coast run late in the first half helped set up Owen Johnstone’s opening tally. Mack Walton assisted Tobias Harris for the game’s second goal in the 60th minute, and Nate Gariepy scored in the 68th minute to cap the scoring.