Sports
LOC going big for Storrs Hill’s 100th birthday
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
LEBANON — The Lebanon Outing Club — best known for its operation of Storrs Hill Ski Area — will celebrate its centennial anniversary this weekend with a slate of events, including a dinner, raffles and DJs.The festivities kick off from 6-9 p.m. on...
Local roundup: Rupp’s big night leads Windsor girls basketball over Hartford
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Windsor High girls basketball team defeated Hartford, 62-42, on Monday at Hanley Gymnasium. Audrey Rupp scored 26 points and added nine steals and three assists for the Yellowjackets (9-2), who also received 17 points, 13...
Dartmouth roundup: Men’s hoop keeps up winning ways
ALLSTON, Mass. — Two days after defeating Ivy League preseason favorite Penn at home, the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team raced out to an early double-digit lead, then hung on for dear life to defeat Harvard, 60-59, at Lavietes Pavilion.The...
Hanover’s new boys basketball coach gives squad fresh perspective despite winless start to season
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — The third quarter concluded and Ben Davis crouched in front of his seated starters on the Hanover High boys basketball bench. The winless Bears led visiting Bow by six points last week and there was optimism in the air that the hosts would...
In a season impacted by patterns of climate change, ski areas work to be ‘adaptable’
By EMMA COTTON
The start of the winter season has been difficult for snow sport enthusiasts across Vermont. Save for a few December inches of snow — including one storm that brought rain, a flash-freeze, near-record wind and lightning — the floor of the earth has...
Local roundup: Hanover boys hockey downs Salem on the road
SALEM, N.H. — The Hanover High boys hockey team got two goals and two assists each from Ryder Wilson and Jack Wilkinson and scored three times in the third period for a solid 5-2 road win against Salem, the third-ranked team in NHIAA Division I.“The...
Dartmouth College club helps people of color enjoy the outdoors
By FRANCES MIZE
Dartmouth College junior Valeria Pereira Quintero grew up in Houston, where she rarely pursued outdoor recreational activities.But since coming to the Upper Valley, the 21-year-old Hispanic woman has made the outdoors another home, in large part...
With Penn win, Dartmouth men’s basketball smack in the middle of Ivy race
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
HANOVER — At the first media timeout of the second half Saturday afternoon, the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team was allowing visiting Penn to shoot 62% from the floor, a big reason why the Big Green stared a 13-point deficit in the face.But...
The racket is up: Dartmouth’s Ng pausing career to chase pro tennis dream
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
HANOVER — By her own estimation, Taylor Ng had picked up a tennis racket twice in nearly two years after graduating from Dartmouth College in 2017.One of Dartmouth’s best women’s tennis players ever, Ng was named Ivy League Player of the Year as a...
Local roundup: Woodstock girls hockey rolls over South Burlington
WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock High girls hockey team got a pair of goals and two assists from Kassidy Haley and two goals and an assist from Gracelyn Lapere in 6-0 win over South Burlington on Friday night.Isabel Konijnenberg and Laura Audsley also...
VN’s Rosenberg is NH’s top sportswriter
WEST LEBANON — Valley News staff writer Benjamin Rosenberg has been named New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Rosenberg, a graduate of Northwestern University, joined the Valley News in October 2021. He is...
Local roundup: Oxbow girls basketball overwhelms Rivendell
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BRADFORD, Vt. — The Oxbow High girls basketball team bounced back emphatically from back-to-back losses, cruising to a 56-7 victory over a rebuilding Rivendell squad on Thursday night.Sophomore Maggi Ellsworth led the Olympians (5-3) with 19 points,...
Rutland settles on ‘Rutland’
By MAGGIE REYNOLDS
Forget the Raiders and forget the Ravens: The Rutland City School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to make “Rutland” the team name for Rutland High School sports.The vote was the culmination of more than two years of negotiations — and sometimes...
Dartmouth football sending four to Japan all-star affair
HANOVER — The Dartmouth College football team is sending four players to Tokyo for the Japan-U.S. Dream Bowl, which will be played Jan. 22 at the National Stadium, site of the 2020 Olympic Games.The contest will pit a team of Ivy League seniors and...
Local roundup: Hanover boys hockey secures shutout of Exeter
WEST LEBANON — The Hanover High boys hockey team delivered what coach Dick Dodds called the Bears’ best performance of the year in a 2-0 shutout victory over Exeter at Campion Rink on Wednesday night.Jo Jo Drent made 30 saves for Hanover, recording...
Three little sisters fueling Windsor basketball’s quest to repeat
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
WINDSOR — Reese and Sydney Perry’s one-on-one driveway basketball games were intense, physical affairs.“We had a rule: That we played until one of us started bleeding or crying,” said Sydney Perry, the younger sister and a junior forward on the...
Local roundup: Offense carries Lebanon boys in win over Kingswood
LEBANON — The Lebanon High boys basketball team put together four complete quarters to earn a quality win, 79-61, over Kingswood on Tuesday night at Lang Metcalf Gym.The Raiders drained 11 3-pointers as a team, with Dawson Bates making four on his way...
Local roundup: Lebanon girls basketball falls to Derryfield
LEBANON — The Lebanon High girls basketball team didn’t leave the Lang Metcalf Gymnasium court during halftime of its NHIAA Division II game against Derryfield on Monday. Instead, the Raiders reran their pregame warmup drills, second-year coach Chris...
Big Green can’t fend off Bears
HANOVER — The Dartmouth College women’s basketball team was in good shape to pick up its first Ivy League win on Saturday evening, scoring 27 points in the third quarter to take a two-point lead over visiting Brown.And then the Big Green’s offense...
Local roundup: Hartford girls hockey ends three-game skid
STOWE, Vt. — The Hartford High girls hockey team got back to its winning ways after a three-game losing streak as Madison Barwood scored twice in a 3-1 defeat of Stowe.While Hurricanes coach Kylie Young was pleased to even the record, she had hoped...
