Sports
Nordic skiing: Team New Hampshire bests Vermont, wins Eastern High School Championships for first time in nearly three decades
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
For the first time since 1995, Team New Hampshire took home the Eastern High School Championships title at the Holderness School on Sunday. The Nordic skiing competition features up to the top 48 skiers (24 boys and 24 girls) from each of New...
Kenyon: Karp’s Klassic youth basketball tournament resumes in new location
By JIM KENYON
It’s mud season and Paul Karp is back where he belongs: In the far corner of a basketball gym with his “bible,” watching hundreds of kids play in the end-of-winter recreational tournament that bears his name. After a two-year hiatus due to the...
Dartmouth refuses to work with basketball players’ union
HANOVER — Dartmouth College will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join earlier this month, the school said Monday in a move that could send the case to federal court.In a statement announcing...
Hartland’s Hammond Cove Shooting Range to open April 1
HARTLAND — The Hammond Cove Shooting Range is set to reopen on April 1 after its closure for the winter season.The range, which includes a six-port, 100-yard rifle range and a pistol bench, operates under rules set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife...
Big Green hockey in conference semifinal
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — It was a little like the old days in Thompson Arena on Saturday.The fourth-seeded Dartmouth College men’s hockey team defeated sixth-seeded Union, 4-2, sweeping the Garnet Chargers in an ECAC best-of-three quarterfinal series. It was the Big...
Dartmouth’s third-line center makes a difference on the ice and in the locker room
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — He’s not the ECAC hockey conference’s leading goal-scorer. That’s Luke Haymes.Nor is he the 6-foot-8 goaltender who’s stopped more than 90% of the shots he’s faced. That’s Cooper Black.Dartmouth College’s Steven Townley is merely a humble...
NLRB certifies union to represent Dartmouth basketball players
BOSTON — The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday certified a union to represent Dartmouth men’s basketball players after the deadline passed for the school to object to the election.Big Green players voted 13-2 on March 5 to join the Service...
Hanover boys basketball turnaround ends with runner-up finish
By TRIS WYKES
DURHAM, N.H. — One of the greatest turnarounds in Upper Valley sports history came up short of a fairy-tale ending Sunday when the Hanover High boys basketball team fell to Pelham, 51-41, in the NHIAA Division II final at UNH’s Lundholm Gymnasium.The...
Bears author storybook ending in NHIAA D-I title game
By TRIS WYKES
MANCHESTER — The story is told by Hanover High girls hockey coach John Dodds only if his team reaches the NHIAA final and at the conclusion of its last practice before the big game.The tale describes how Dodds’ 1973 Hanover boys hockey team used an...
Hazen’s second-half surge denies Windsor girls in D-III final
By BEN HOOKE
There was no three-peat for the Windsor High girls basketball team.The second-seeded defending VPA Division III champions fought valiantly for a half but ultimately found themselves outmatched by a sizzling shooting performance by the top-seeded Hazen...
A Life: Craig ‘CJ’ John Lanzim ‘was always upbeat and positive’
By PATRICK ADRIAN
PLAINFIELD — Craig John Lanzim, or “C.J.” as he was known, was a role model to many for how to treat others. He had a gift for making people feel valued, whether a close friend or a stranger. He accepted others as they were and exhibited patience and...
White River Valley loses in semi-finals
By TRIS WYKES
BARRE, Vt. — Two teams of Wildcats clashed in girls basketball Thursday night at the Barre Auditorium. Sadly for Upper Valley fans, the wrong bunch of Felis Silvestris prevailed in the Vermont Division III quarterfinals.Top-seeded Hazen’s 70-49 defeat...
Nonprofit community ski hill sees one of the worst seasons in memory
By FRANCES MIZE
EAST CORINTH — A few weeks ago, Ben Nalette, a freshman alpine skier at Thetford Academy, was using rub-on hard wax to try to coax his skis into better shape for the dicey cover at Northeast Slopes.Rain had made the main face of the hill slick with...
Windsor 46, Richford 33: No. 2 to face No. 1 Hazen in Saturday’s final
By TRIS WYKES
BARRE, Vt. — Saturday’s Vermont Division III girls basketball title game at the Barre Auditorium will be a clash of past and recent champions when Windsor High and Hazen meet at 7:30 p.m.The second-seeded Yellowjackets, who coolly dispatched...
Hanover’s Oak Hill hosts ski championships
Due to the lack of snow and with temperatures approaching 50 degrees on Wednesday, the NHIAA’s Nordic skiing state championships for Divisions I and II were moved from the White Mountains to the 3.8K course of man-made snow at Hanover’s Oak...
Season ends in semifinals for Hanover boys hockey
MANCHESTER — The fifth-seeded Hanover High boys hockey team lost, 5-1, to top-seeded Windham during an NHIAA Division I semifinal on Wednesday at J.F.K Arena.“Windham showed why they are number one,” said Hanover coach Dick Dodds. “They took advantage...
Hartford boys complete hockey sweep for Hurricanes
By TRIS WYKES
BURLINGTON — Hartford High boys hockey coach Todd Bebeau was conducting a postgame interview outside the Hurricanes’ Gutterson Field House locker room Tuesday night when the conversation was interrupted by the exit of a screaming Ezra Mock.The senior,...
Hartford girls hockey wins program’s first state championship
By TRIS WYKES
BURLINGTON — Storylines abounded Tuesday following the Hartford High girls hockey team’s 5-3 defeat of Missisquoi in the VPA Division II title game at Gutterson Field House. It was the 30-year old program’s first state crown.Head coach Kylie Young, a...
Hanover 49, Pembroke 43: Bears use smart, methodical play in semifinal
By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL
DURHAM, N.H. — Entering Tuesday night’s Division II boys’ basketball semifinal, the No. 3 Pembroke Spartans (18-3) knew exactly what No. 2 Hanover (19-1) was going to do: run a remarkably methodical offense and play smart, disciplined defense.Pembroke...
Hanover girls shut out Bishop Guertin to advance to NH title game
By TOM KING
CONCORD — The tournament meetings between the Bishop Guertin and Hanover High School girls hockey teams are usually classics, tugging at nerves and emotions every minute.Not this time.No, Tuesday night’s 6-0 Bears semifinal win over the Cardinals at...
