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Former Thetford Academy athlete Jesse Chapman won the Big East decathlon title this spring for UConn. (University of Connecticut photograph)

Ex-Thetford Star Leaps High at UConn

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The spring semester recently ended at the University of Connecticut, but junior track and field athlete Jesse Chapman is still hard at work. Handpicked by kinesiology professor Jeff Volek to assist with an on-campus lab study, Chapman, an exercise science major, is in the midst of testing how various sugar alcohols react to human blood markers in low-carbohydrate protein bars. …

NCAA Quarterfinals Have Ivy League Flavor

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Syracuse, n.y. — When top-seeded Syracuse faces off against Ivy League-champion Yale in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse tournament, the Orange will be staring at a mirror image of sorts. Just like Syracuse (14-3), the Bulldogs (12-4) seem to thrive when they’re down. Just ask Penn State. Yale trailed the No. 8 Nittany Lions 5-1 at halftime last week, …

Player Denies Abuse by Coach

Friday, May 17, 2013

Anchorage, Alaska (ap) — A former Alaska Anchorage hockey player acknowledges he was hit by his former coach with a stick during practice, but he said that it didn’t rise to the level of the abuse allegation being made by a former teammate. “I am not denying that there was an incident, but I will say in my opinion the story has been …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Preparing for Prom
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Dartmouth College’s Ennis Coble, right, exchanges high-fives with his teammates after their doubleheader sweep of visiting Harvard yesterday at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. (Valley News - Tris Wykes)

Big Green Wraps Up Another Rolfe Title

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Hanover — The Dartmouth College baseball team captured its sixth consecutive Rolfe Division title yesterday with a doubleheader sweep of archival Harvard. The larger prize of finishing atop the Ivy League’s overall standings will elude the Big Green …

Colby-Sawyer College women’s lacrosse goaltender Karley Hamilton adjusts her hairband during halftime of a game last weekend. Hamilton, a freshman and former Oxbow Union High standout, has appeared in 13 games while teaming with classmate Jodi Dumayne, a Claremont native and Stevens High product. (Valley News - Tris Wykes)

Upper Valley Goalies Give Chargers a Jolt

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

New London — The Colby-Sawyer College women’s lacrosse team has had trouble recruiting goaltenders in the past. “We’ve had a serious issue in getting them to come up to Northern New England,” said third-year Chargers coach Emily Rinde-Thorsen, …

Heat Take 2-0 First-Round Series Lead on Bucks

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Miami — Dwyane Wade scored 21 points, LeBron James finished with 19 and the Miami Heat took off in the fourth quarter to pull away and beat the Milwaukee Bucks 98-86 in Game 2 of the teams’ Eastern Conference first-round series last night. Chris Bosh, Shane Battier and …

Fired Rutgers Coach Guiding Girls AAU? That’s Deplorable

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

So what’s one of the most abusive, homophobic and misogynistic coaches in this country going to do after he gets canned in the wake of a national controversy? Hey, Mike Rice, is that you coaching an AAU team of 12- and 13-year-old girls? Mull that over for a …

First-Timer for Everything

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Hanover — Yesterday was a long haul for Drew Galbraith, one of Dartmouth College’s senior associate athletic directors. At 6:30 a.m., on a frost-tipped practice field in the shadow of Balch Hill, Galbraith informed the men’s soccer team …

BCS Begins Talks to Choose Tourney Hosts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

With the how and when of college football playoffs determined, it’s time to lock in the where. The conference commissioners in charge of putting together the four-team playoff system that will start after the 2014 regular season will meet starting today in Pasadena, Calif. At the top of …

Green Softball Up in Division

Monday, April 22, 2013

New Haven, Conn. — The championship of the Ivy League softball’s North Division will come down to this weekend’s doubleheaders between Dartmouth and Harvard. The Big Green took a one-game lead in the division with the two twinbills left on the schedule by completing a four-game weekend sweep …

Green Sweeps, Pads Its Lead In Rolfe Division

Sunday, April 21, 2013

New Haven, Conn. — Sophomore Matt MacDowell had two of his four RBIs during a four-run 10th after junior Dustin Selzer doubled home the go-ahead run to send the visiting Dartmouth College baseball team to a 7-3 victory and a doubleheader sweep of the Yale Bulldogs yesterday afternoon …

Dartmouth’s Liz Calby, left, works behind the net against Princeton’s Liz Bannatine. Calby scored twice, but the Big Green lost the Ivy League matchup, 15-13, at Scully-Fahey Field. (Valley News - Tris Wykes)

Loss Seals Third for Dartmouth Women

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Hanover — The Dartmouth College women’s lacrosse team played a lengthy and unfulfilling game yesterday, falling to Princeton, 15-13, at Scully-Fahey Field. The Ivy League contest, seemingly delayed every few minutes by Fox College Sports commercial breaks, saw …

Dartmouth College sophomore Bo Patterson flips his batting helmet to a teammate after flying out against St. Anselm on Wednesday. The South Carolinian plays center field for the Big Green’s baseball team and receiver for the football program. (Valley News - Tris Wykes)

Sophomore Balances Two Sports at Dartmouth

Friday, April 19, 2013

Hanover — Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens and his baseball counterpart, Bob Whalen, occupy offices about 40 yards apart on the third floor of Floren Varsity House. The men share not only a friendship and a trademark …