FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Former Peoples Academy standout and Vermont Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year Ben Alekson, mowed down Merrimack last week to help his Fairfield University baseball team improve to 29-9 on the season. The Stowe native struck out eight in seven innings of work, allowing just three hits[Read More…]
Sports Nuggets
Lady Mustangs Dominate NEK Tourney
CRAFTSBURY – The Hardwick Lady Mustangs varsity AAU team were perfect over the weekend, dominating the Kingdom Invitational at Craftsbury Academy. The Lady Stangs had double digit wins over Lake Region, Lamoille, Oxbow (Upper Valley), and Vergennes to take home the championship at the Kingdom Invitational. With several AAU teams[Read More…]
Bean Takes A.D. Position at Missisquoi Valley Union
SWANTON – Former Craftsbury Academy (CA) athletic director Connor Bean will be the new A.D. at Missisquoi Valley Union (MVU) starting next season. The move marks the third A.D. position in four years for Bean in three different divisions as he finishes up his second year at Bellows Falls. Bean[Read More…]
Fielder Leads Lady Cadets to Tenth Straight Win
NEW LONDON, N.H. – East Calais native Caitlyn Fielder found the goal eight more times last week, keeping her Norwich University women’s lacrosse team atop of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) standings (12-1) with wins over Colby-Sawyer College and Anna Maria College. The former U-32 standout has 16 goals[Read More…]
Hilltoppers Break State Record at Nationals
BOSTON, Mass. — The St. Johnsbury Academy (SJA) 4x800m relay team broke the Vermont State Record by 8 seconds last month at the New Balance Nationals. Emmett Johnson, Isaac Lenzini, James Hatch, and Andrew Thornton-Sherman smashed the state record with a time of 7:52.82. In a field of 207 competitors,[Read More…]
Fielder on Fire as Lady Cadets Win Eighth Straight
HENNIKER, N.H. – East Calais native Caitlyn Fielder scored eight more times in a pair of wins over New England College NEC) and Elms College as her Norwich women’s lacrosse team upped their record to a league best 10-1 in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference last week. Fielder found paydirt[Read More…]
Fielder Fuels Hot Start for Norwich Lacrosse
NORTHFIELD – East Calais native Caitlyn Fielder tallied seven goals in a pair of wins over Simmons University and Albertus Magnus College (AMC) last week as her Norwich University women’s lacrosse team surged to their sixth straight win. Fielder capped off a huge week with five goals in a 21-1[Read More…]
New Coaches for Local Track and Field Teams
HARDWICK, CRAFTSBURY — A couple of new faces will step in to lead local high school programs this spring as Maxfield English takes over the Hazen Union track and field team and Kyle Anderson will do the same at Craftsbury Academy (CA). English replaces Kathy Fortmann after seven years of[Read More…]
Improbable Run for Welcome’s Lady Wolves Continues
SOUTH ROYALTON – The Peoples Academy (PA) girls basketball team and their amazing turnaround under first year head coach and Hazen Union alum Rick Welcome will now go to the Barre Auditorium after wins over BFA-Fairfax and White River Valley last week in the Division III playoffs. Welcome and his[Read More…]
Welcome Leads Dramatic Turnaround at PA into Postseason
MORRISVILLE – Hazen Union alum Rick Welcome and his Peoples Academy (PA) varsity girls basketball team downed Harwood and Montpelier last week to earn the No. 5 seed in the upcoming Division III state tournament. The first-year head coach has his team on a five-game heater as the Lady Wolves[Read More…]
Chargers Get Much Needed Experience in First State Tourney
COLCHESTER – Head coach Ashley Gravel and her young Craftsbury Academy (CA) bowling team wrapped up their third season as a program over the weekend at the VT High School Bowling State Tournament at Sparetime. Coming off their first match win of the season, Gravel and her team made up[Read More…]
Basketball Playoff Watchlist
NEK – Former Craftsbury Academy legend Jeff Davis and his Colchester girls varsity basketball team along with the Danville girls varsity team start their march towards the postseason this week. Davis is in his second season on the sidelines at Colchester and will enter the Division I state tournament as[Read More…]
