by Ken Brown Northeast Kingdom – Hazen Union’s Xavier Hill and Twinfield-Cabot’s Meles Gouge put a bow on their stellar soccer careers last week with selections to the Vermont All-State Soccer team. Gouge cemented himself as one of the true greats in program history with his third straight All-State selection.[Read More…]
Sports
Parrish Places 15th at USCAA Championships
LEMONT FURNACE, Pa. – Ethan Parrish capped off a stellar season for Paul Smiths College Sunday at the USCAA Cross Country National Championships. Parrish placed 15th of 82 runners in the 8k men’s championship race. As the team’s second man, Parrish helped lead the Bobcats to a third-place finish among[Read More…]
Champions, Special Award Winners Honored at Barre Banquet
BARRE – On Saturday, a capacity crowd of drivers, team members, sponsors and officials gathered at the Barre Elks Club to celebrate the 2023 season at Thunder Road International Speedbowl. Joined by the top stars of the American-Canadian Tour, the drivers in weekly competition at Thunder Road were honored for[Read More…]
Local Harriers Excel at Vermont Meet of Champions
by Jim Flint ST. ALBANS ̶ Top high school cross country runners from across Vermont gathered at the Hard’Ack Recreation Area on November 4 for the Meet of Champions. The field included a cohort of local student-athletes who qualified based on their finishes at the state championship meet, held the[Read More…]
Noonan Conquers NYC Marathon
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Tim Noonan, from Montpelier, took on Sunday’s 52nd annual New York City Marathon. Noonan, 67, covered the point-to-point 26.2-mile course in four hours, 14 minutes, and nine seconds. He placed 19,158th of 51,297 finishers. Noonan has run marathons for 47 years. He participated in the inaugural[Read More…]
Sowunmi Leaving Hazen Athletic Program
HARDWICK – After one year on the job, Oluwwdare (Olu) Sowunmi is exiting the Hazen Union athletic department and will become the new A.D. at Colchester High School. Sowunmi was hired as the full-time A.D. at Hazen last winter and helped stabilize an athletic department, student body, and community who[Read More…]
Early Success for CCSU Athletics under Rathburn
by Ken Brown DANVILLE – Overseeing athletic departments at three different schools is no easy task, but early success of the cooperative agreement between Danville-Twinfield-Cabot (CCSU) this past fall in girls’ varsity soccer has athletic director Randy Rathburn optimistic for the future of athletics in all three communities. In a[Read More…]
Gouge Leads Boys’ Mountain League Honors
by Ken Brown MARSHFIELD – Twinfield-Cabot’s Meles Gouge snagged top Mountain League honors for a third straight year, capping off his high school career as one of the best soccer players in the state of Vermont. Gouge earned a First Team selection last week for a third straight season after[Read More…]
Local Stars Lead Mountain League Honors
by Ken Brown Northeast Kingdom – Both the Hazen Union and Danville-Twinfield-Cabot (CCSU) girls’ soccer teams had multiple players earn Mountain League honors last week for their outstanding seasons on the pitch. Seniors Caitlyn Davison and Tessa Luther earned First Team selections after guiding a young Lady Cat team to[Read More…]
Craftsbury Boys Win Fourth D-III State Championship
by Jim Flint THETFORD – Craftsbury Academy’s cross country team arrived at Saturday’s state championships healthy and well rested. The Charger boys were primed to defend their 2020-2022 Vermont D-III state titles. “They’ve done the work and are ready to go,” said fifth-year head coach Mike Levangie. The D-II girls[Read More…]
Middle School Cross Country
State Championship Meet Nuggets
by Jim Flint THETFORD – Unseasonably warm temperatures in the low 70s challenged runners Saturday as the high school athletes took on the storied Woods Trail 5k course at Thetford Academy. The varsity races included 235 girls and 250 boys across three divisions. Another 83 girls and 167 boys competed[Read More…]
