Sports
Norwich 13-year-old becomes youngest champ ever in Vt. chess tournament
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
NORWICH — When Walter Chesnut lost a chess match to Alexander Collins at the Vermont Open last weekend, he was pleasantly amazed.“I had not been dismantled so efficiently that way in a very long time,” said Chesnut, who organizes the statewide...
Dartmouth to spend millions to upgrade Nordic skiing trail network
By RAY COUTURE
HANOVER — Dartmouth College last week announced a $5 million plan to improve the trail system and facilities at Oak Hill-Storrs Pond Recreation Area, where the college plans to host the NCAA Skiing Championships in 2025.Project objectives include the...
Lebanon High cross country runner moving toward the next step
By TRIS WYKES
Lebanon High cross country runner Birhanu Harriman exploded onto the Upper Valley running scene last fall, extending his season to the Northeast regional race at Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, N.Y.College coaches took note of the 5-foot-5, 115-pound...
Leveling a legacy: 75-year-old ski jump demolished at Storrs Hill in Lebanon
By JOHN LIPPMAN
LEBANON — At 8:21 a.m., a crack like rifle fire shot through the cold autumn air, and with one short tug from an 85-horsepower John Deere skidder, the ski jump structure at Storrs Hill Ski Area collapsed into a heap of splintered wood.“I was here at...
East by Northwest: Bristol trades coaching boys soccer in Seattle for Thetford
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
THETFORD — Bob Bristol expected to be in Europe right now.After 35 years as a soccer coach, history teacher, dean and athletic director in Washington state, Bristol and his wife, a Dartmouth College alumna, moved to the Upper Valley in May expecting...
Lebanon football falls on hard times
By TRIS WYKES
LEBANON — The Lebanon High tailback received a handoff Saturday night and was met a step later by a trio of Souhegan tacklers. Driven backwards, the hapless Raider wound up beneath five or six opponents and five or six yards behind the line of...
2022 HS cross country preview: Runners going the distance to compete
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...
2022 HS boys soccer preview: Programs relying on experience
HANOVER Coach: Rob Grabill (17) Last year: 15-2-1 League: NHIAA Division 1 Returnees: Seniors — Ty Nolon (G), Becket McCurdy (D/M), Jack Gardner (F), Jack McGrath (M), Owen Smith (D), Juniors — Carter Guerin (M), Will Guerin (M), Ryder Hayes (M),...
2022 HS girls soccer preview: Schools looking to return to the playoffs
HANOVER Coach: Doug Kennedy (15) Last year: 5-10-2 League: NHIAA Division I Returnees: Seniors — Casey Havrda (F), Mia Madden (M), Riley McGuire (F), Emilia Torresani (F). Juniors — Maeve Lee (M), Sydney McLaughlin (F), Emma Campfield (M), Kiran Park...
2022 HS football preview: Teams looking to build on last season
HANOVER Coach: Sam Cavallaro (8) Last year: 6-4 League: NHIAA Division II Returnees: Seniors — Cam Bonner (TE/DL), Patrick Elder (OL/DL), Montana Hanchett (OL/DL), Matt Brock (RB/LB), Thomas Mosdal (OL/DL). Juniors — Roger Lucas (QB/DB), Jeffrey Vidou...
50 years later, how Title IX changed sports at Dartmouth and in the Upper Valley
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
Kylie Young first learned about Title IX as a Hartford High School senior, when she wrote a thesis on the U.S. women’s ice hockey team winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics — the first year women’s hockey was played at the Games.For her...
Low-key sport pickleball sparks fervent passion among Upper Valley players, surges in popularity
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — If you stop by the tennis courts at Maxfield Sports Complex anytime from dawn to dusk, there’s a good chance you’ll hear it: the gentle thwack of a hollow ball hitting a paddle.It sounds a little higher-pitched than a tennis...
Winslow wraps up 22 years with Hanover boys basketball
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
When Tim Winslow took over the Hanover High boys basketball program prior to the 2000-01 season, it was “unthinkable,” in rival Lebanon head coach Kieth Matte’s words, that the Marauders, as they were then known, would ever win a state championship.It...
Championship reflections: Hanover boys tennis built on camaraderie
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
After winning its first NHIAA state championship since 2013, and the first since moving up to Division I, the Hanover High boys tennis team celebrated in style.“We went to Buffalo Wild Wings,” senior Alex Rockmore said. “Is there anything else high...
Local Roundup: Hanover girls crew racks up medals at NEIRA Regatta
WORCESTER, Mass. — An extraordinary performance by the Hanover High School girls crew team on Saturday resulted in a silver and two bronze medals at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta.“This has never happened in Hanover High...
First Person: Time winding down for interim Dartmouth AD Peter Roby
By TRIS WYKES
Peter Roby, Dartmouth’s interim athletic director and a former Big Green basketball standout, is nearing the end of his time on the job and said he expects an announcement about his permanent replacement to occur around June 1.Roby, 64, arrived in...
After crash at Claremont raceway, driver on the road to recovery
By PATRICK ADRIAN
CLAREMONT — Driver Tyler Lescord appears to be recovering well from injuries he sustained three weeks ago in a crash during a race at Claremont Motorsports Park, according to Lescord’s family and friends.On April 29, Lescord, 36, was driving in the...
Spring H.S. sports preview: Softball
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
Back after a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Upper Valley softball squads had seasons to remember in 2021, with Oxbow winning the VPA Division III state title and Windsor and White River Valley in the mix as well. Lebanon may...
Spring H.S. sports preview: Track and field
By PATRICK O’GRADY
Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...
High school basketball: Hanover girls complete undefeated run through Granite State, claim D-II state title
By TRIS WYKES
DURHAM, N.H. — Unbeaten. Undeniable. Unbowed. That was the Hanover High girls basketball team Sunday night as it routed Bow, 55-24, to claim the NHIAA Division II title at the University of New Hampshire’s Lundholm Gymnasium. The top-seeded squad...
