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Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens has lost his right leg as a result of his March 16 bike crash in northern Florida, his wife wrote Tuesday night in a brief message published on the college athletic department website.“We would like to...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. — The Hartford High baseball team won its opener Thursday night at the Maxfield Sports Complex under slightly strange circumstances.Take the weather at first pitch — roughly 70 degrees. One attendee arrived wearing a winter...

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HANOVER – The ranks are always a bit thin during the Dartmouth College football team’s spring practices. Many of the seniors have exhausted their eligibility, leaving Floren Varsity House and Memorial Field to younger warriors.That being said, the Big...

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Jon Willeman would do it again.The former Lebanon High three-sport athlete, now a University of New Hampshire basketball reserve, said he’s happy with his current situation, despite minimal playing time.“I knew what I was getting myself into,” said...

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Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens’ “failure to yield right of way” contributed to him being struck by a pickup truck while riding a bicycle earlier this month in Florida, according to an enhanced Florida State Police crash report released...

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HANOVER — Joyful screams echoed through the sleet early Saturday evening at Dartmouth College’s Scully-Fahey Field. A contingent of about a dozen fans rushed on to the whitened turf, joining the Big Green men’s lacrosse players as they mobbed winning...

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BURLINGTON — It wasn’t until Ian Coates arrived at the University of Vermont’s Gutterson Field House on Thursday that the 10th-year Woodstock High girls hockey coach realized he’d forgotten to pack the permament VPA Division II title plaque.The...

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HANOVER – The Hanover High girls basketball team had both its 48-game home winning streak and its season ended Saturday night with a 55-47 loss to Laconia in the NHIAA Division II quarterfinals.The Bears (15-5) never led after the first quarter’s...

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BARRE, Vt. — When Barre’s Board of Recreation ice arena was being constructed in November 1972, the project came to a crashing halt when a strong wind arrived at just the wrong time.The contractors were installing the last of 12 giant wooden arches...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The main culprit in Hartford High’s 5-2 loss to Middlebury on Tuesday in the opening round of the VPA Division II girls hockey playoffs wasn’t difficult to discern, said head coach Kylie Young.“Every game we feel we’re supposed...

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GIRLSHANOVERCoach: John Dodds (18)Last year: 17-5-1League: NHIAA Division IReturnees: Seniors - Kali McDonnell (D), Mackenzie Liu (F). Juniors - Maeve Lee (F), Rory Seelig (F). Sophomores - J.J. Masland (G), Hannah Gardner (D), Eleanor Bradley (F),...

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HANOVER — Lebanon High and Hanover played ugly boys basketball Thursday night, the archrivals’ intensity leading to poor passing, botched shots and more turnovers than occupy the nearby Co-op Food Store’s pastry section.Balls sailed out of bounds,...

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LEBANON — The Lebanon School Board on Wednesday unanimously approved the high school’s plan to drop its football program to the JV level for the upcoming season.The board also signed off on athletic director Mike Stone’s upcoming attempt to add...

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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...

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LEBANON — Birhanu Harriman has grown up in the Upper Valley’s rural serenity, but he’s headed to the big city for the next step in his running career.After a standout fall season, the Lebanon High senior recently committed to Georgetown University in...

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HANOVER — Noah Kahan’s father taught him how to play the guitar around age 8.Around the same time, he suited up for a Stafford rec soccer team and the activities fed off each other as he grew up. Playing for the local Lightning Soccer Club and Hanover...

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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...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens usually spots his wife, Kirsten, during the latter stages of his team’s practices on Memorial Field.Kirsten Teevens often arrives to chat and bring her husband dinner in a small bag. Often it’s...

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LEBANON — Brandon Little was inconspicuous at Lebanon High on Saturday, watching the Twin State all-star boys lacrosse game in a flannel shirt and a baseball cap while leaning on a chain-link fence.The 43-year old, however, had an outsized impact...

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For the past couple of years, whenever Emmanuel College (Mass.) men’s lacrosse coach Trevor Craven has hosted a prime recruit on campus, it’s been Ben Hartig-Orr he’s had show the prospect around.“He can talk to anybody,” said the Saints’ second-year...