BURLINGTON – Danville multi-sport budding stars Taryn Barrett and Willa Mantius helped lead the U14 Caledonia Flood soccer team to a Nordic Cup title over the weekend. Goalkeeper True Layn and the Cal Flood defense posted four consecutive shutouts en route to their dominant tournament run. Barrett, along with Phoenix[Read More…]
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NEK Warriors finish 2-1 at Essex Shootout
ESSEX – Three NEK Warrior age divisions were in action over the weekend at the Essex Shootout at Lang Farm. The U10 Warrior soccer team highlighted the day’s action with a 2-1 record, narrowly missing out on a chance to advance to the Final Four. Ainsley Cadorette and Ty Billings[Read More…]
Witherspoon earns All-Mountain League honors
MONTGOMERY – Rose Witherspoon, daughter of former Craftsbury Academy Vermont All-State soccer standout Allison (May) Witherspoon, earned Mountain League First Team honors for her Richford softball team this past season. Witherspoon, an eighth grader at Montgomery Elementary School this past spring, was outstanding offensively and defensively at second base for[Read More…]
Middle School track and field championships
BURLINGTON – Craftsbury Academy (CA) and Danville wrapped up the season, posting multiple podium finishes earlier this month at the Nathan Suter Middle School Track and Field Championships. CA eighth grader Hollis Allen led the way for the Chargers with a pair of fourth-place podium finishes. Allen posted his best[Read More…]
Vikings fall in state title game
BURLINGTON – The Lyndon Institute baseball team’s bid to end a nearly two-decade title drought came up just short over the weekend against top-seeded Mount Abraham. Mount Abe rallied from a two-run deficit to down the Vikings 5-3 and claim the Division II State Championship at Centennial Field on Sunday.[Read More…]
Vikings steamroll to Division II Final Four
LYNDON CENTER – Coming off a first-round bye, the Lyndon Institute baseball team dominated seventh-seeded Spaulding last week to advance to the semifinals in the Division II State Tournament. Logan Wheeler and Griffin Lawson combined for six hits and four RBIs to lead the second-seeded Vikings to a 14-5 quarterfinal[Read More…]
Richford solves Cal United a third time
RICHFORD – The Caledonia United (Twinfield-Cabot-Danville) softball team couldn’t solve Richford last week, falling to the 2024 Division IV champs for a third time this season in the opening round of the state tournament. Sophia Derby twirled a one-hitter, striking out 10 to earn the win in the circle as[Read More…]
Lady Chargers fall to Windsor in opening round
WINDSOR – The Craftsbury Academy (CA) softball team’s bid to earn its first win of the season came up a little short last week against Windsor in the first round of the Division IV State Tournament. Sixth-seeded Windsor advanced to the quarterfinals with a 15-2 home win over the Lady[Read More…]
Playoff run ends for Brown’s Bullets at Woodstock
WOODSTOCK – Hazen Union alum Mike Brown and his BFA-Fairfax baseball program breezed past Oxbow in the first round last week before fizzling against Woodstock in the quarterfinals of the Division III State Tournament. The sixth-seeded Bullets cruised past Oxbow 13-5 at home on Tuesday, but the offense ran out[Read More…]
Brown’s Bullets earn favorable draw
FAIRFAX – Hazen Union alum and current BFA-Fairfax baseball head coach Mike Brown closed out the regular season with an 8-5 record, guiding his Bullets to the #6 seed in the upcoming Division III state tournament. Fairfax pulled out an extra-inning nail-biter against Hazen at home, 5-4, on Thursday before[Read More…]
Montpelier to face uphill battle
MONTPELIER – The Montpelier baseball team, led by Twinfield’s Isidore and Ambrose Hochschild, will limp into the Division II Postseason on an 11-game losing streak. The Solons were competitive last week, but closed out the regular season with losses to Peoples Academy (6-2) and Lake Region (8-4). The Hochschild brothers[Read More…]
Vikings roll into postseason
MONTPELIER – Danville’s Sebastian Eldred and his Lyndon Institute baseball team closed out the regular season with their fourth straight win last week, improving to 11-2. Jackson Dwyer fired a complete game shutout to power the Vikings to a 4-0 road win over U-32 last Thursday. Dwyer scattered four hits[Read More…]
