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Jay Campion was an employer at a women’s clothing store in Hanover in the mid-1980s, hiring several students from Hanover High.Some of the girls who worked for Campion had boyfriends on the school’s hockey team and complained to him that it wasn’t...

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QUECHEE — Mid Vermont Christian School has been banned from participating in sporting events in the wake of its decision to forfeit a girls’ basketball playoff game rather than play against a team with a transgender student-athlete.The Vermont...

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BARRE, Vt. — A year after everything fell apart at the worst possible time for the Rivendell Academy boys basketball team, the Raptors put it all together on Saturday.Rivendell’s fourth-quarter lead, once as large as 13 points, had been whittled down...

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BARRE, Vt. — The Windsor High girls basketball program just doesn’t do rebuilding years.After graduating their entire starting lineup from last year’s VPA Division III state champions, the 2022-23 Yellowjackets roster featured just two seniors and one...

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BARRE, Vt. — The Windsor High girls basketball team absorbed Peoples Academy’s best punch and hit back twice as hard.After holding the Wolves to two points in the first quarter of Thursday night’s VPA Division III semifinal at Barre Auditorium, the...

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SOUTH ROYALTON — The White River Valley boys basketball team had a sign behind its bench for Tuesday’s playoff opener that read “Finish the Mission.”The Wildcats’ girls team put up the sign for their own playoff run last week, which ended in a...

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KEENE, N.H. — Following the Mascoma High boys basketball team’s semifinal win Wednesday over St. Thomas, star senior guard Zach Thompson praised the Royals’ scout team for preparing them to face their toughest opponent yet.No scout team, however,...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — The “Trash Ladies,” as they call themselves, cleaned up on the offensive glass for the Oxbow High girls basketball team on Tuesday night.The Olympians’ two starting post players, freshman Emerson Fuller and sophomore Libby Swift, each...

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CLAREMONT — Down a key interior starter in Tara Sullivan, the Stevens High girls basketball team got a hot-shooting night from junior guard Kiley Bundy to get past Winnisquam, 52-32, in the NHIAA Division III quarterfinals on Saturday night.Sullivan...

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CLAREMONT — It’s not a misprint: The Stevens High girls basketball team really held visiting Campbell to six points in a playoff game.The No. 3 seed Cardinals, whose only two losses came against top-seeded Conant, took the No. 14 seed Cougars to task...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth’s chase for its first-ever Ivy League men’s basketball tournament berth, which was thrown off course a week ago? It’s back on.Led by a combined 46 points from senior forward Dame Adelekun and junior forward Dusan Neskovic, the Big...

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NEWPORT — Kayden LaClair only found out over the summer that he would not be spending his senior year at Stevens High.LaClair’s family, which includes his father Christopher and seven sisters, had lived in Claremont for Kayden’s entire life. But...

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With Hanover and Windsor coming off state titles, it's shaping up to be another exciting year for girls basketball in the Upper Valley. Mascoma, Newport and Stevens are all poised to improve in NHIAA Division III, and White River Valley has a deep...

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No Upper Valley boys basketball teams brought home state championships last winter, but several came close — none more so than White River Valley, which dropped the VPA Division IV title game to Blue Mountain on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer. Rivendell,...

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All four Upper Valley wrestling programs are back this winter, with Mascoma aiming for a state title and Lebanon rising quickly. Newport has an entirely new group, while Colby Shepard will fly solo for Stevens.LEBANONCoach: Chauncey Wood (fifth...

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WEST CANAAN — For one side, at least, Monday night’s game was worth the wait.The Mascoma High boys basketball team’s home game against Stevens had been postponed twice because of inclement weather and, along with it, the banner-raising ceremony for...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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SHARON — Ben Montenegro is used to having a lot on his plate.A 2021 graduate of Wagner College, Montenegro balanced his academic workload with NCAA Division I baseball at the Staten Island, N.Y., school. So after he moved on to pursue an accelerated...