by Ken Brown HARDWICK – The Hazen Union girls’ soccer team was already on the upswing with a talented returning core and an incoming dynamic freshman class, but will further bolster its roster this fall with an agreed cooperative with Craftsbury Academy (CA). Head coach Harry Besett enters his fifth[Read More…]
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Hunt to Lead Wildcat Golf Program
by Ken Brown HARDWICK – Greensboro’s Andy Hunt will step in this fall as the new head coach of the Hazen Union golf team. Hunt, 66, is a lifelong Caspian Lake summer resident and will soon be a year-round resident of Greensboro. He played high school golf at Burlington High[Read More…]
Wildcat Harriers Ready for First Meet
by Jim Flint HARDWICK – Hazen Union cross country coach Netdahe Stoddard is full of optimism for the 2023 Wildcat cross country team. Stoddard has a roster of nine varsity runners and a handful of middle schoolers. The younger and older runners practice together. The Wildcats launch their 2023 campaign[Read More…]
No Soccer this Fall at Craftsbury Academy
by Ken Brown CRAFTSBURY – For the first time in the modern era, Craftsbury Academy (CA) will not field either a girls or a boys’ varsity soccer team this fall. With only 28 boys enrolled at CA and lower than expected numbers on the girls’ side, Charger fall sports looks[Read More…]
Trojans Overwhelm Vikings in Opener
by Ken Brown LYNDONVILLE – The Twinfield-Cabot boys’ soccer team made a statement in their season opener over the weekend, battering Division II Lyndon Institute on the road. Junior Darshan Eddleman exploded for five goals to lead the Trojans to a dominant 10-0 road win over the Vikings in both[Read More…]
Locals Runners Earn Medals at Northfield 5k
by Jim Flint NORTHFIELD ̶ The 44th Annual Northfield footraces, on September 2, opened the town’s traditional Labor Day Weekend Festival. Runners and walkers, ages 5 to 84, were dispersed among a 5k run-walk, 5k Power Walk, and one-mile kids’ race. With 128 finishers, the 5k run-walk started the action[Read More…]
Wildcats Retool with Youth
by Ken Brown HARDWICK – Head coach Allison Paradee brings back a solid senior core to help usher in a new youth movement for the Hazen Union varsity boys’ soccer program this fall in her third season at the helm. The Wildcats navigated their second season in the rugged Capital[Read More…]
Twinfield-Cabot Boys Poised to Make Another Deep Run
by Ken Brown MARSHFIELD – Despite Mother Nature relegating the Twinfield-Cabot boys’ soccer team to practicing on goal less farmland and robbing them of home matches this fall, the Trojans remain loaded with talent and are poised to make a third straight appearance in the Division IV Final Four. Head[Read More…]
New Era for Danville-Twinfield-Cabot Athletics
by Ken Brown DANVILLE – The Twinfield-Cabot girls’ soccer team is merging with Danville this fall to officially begin the cooperative membership agreed upon between the three schools. Seth Wilmott steps aside as the Lady Trojan head coach after six seasons that included hosting back-to-back playoff matches in 2020-21 and[Read More…]
Hazen Union Girls Practice
Local Bikers and Runners Excel in Race to the Top
STOWE – Athletes from towns covered by the Hardwick Gazette excelled at Sunday’s 15th Annual Race to the Top of Vermont. The rigorous event involved biking or running up the 4.3-mile Mount Mansfield Toll Road. A total of 288 runners and 57 mountain bikers conquered the 2,564 vertical feet climb.[Read More…]
Blake Turns Around Mid-Season Slump
BARRE – After starting off with a heavy mist just after opening the pit gates for teams on Thursday, if you can believe it, teams waited out the showers. After drying the track, the Thunder Road faithful again put on another stellar showcase of auto racing on the Barre highbanks,[Read More…]
