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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WINDSOR — Mike Lopez swears it doesn’t hurt him to run, no matter how uncomfortable it may look.Considering Lopez was learning how to walk again at this time last year, running without pain is remarkable progress – and so is suiting up for baseball.A...

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SHARON — It hasn’t been long since ultimate, formerly known as Ultimate Frisbee, was the most popular sport at The Sharon Academy.The school first offered ultimate in 2011 as a club sport, and after the Vermont Principals’ Association made the Green...

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LEBANON — Morgan Kantor has been running on the track at Lebanon High since the age of 8. She’s been one of the Raiders’ top sprinters throughout her time with the high school team.But the old track at Lebanon, which was only about half as thick as a...

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NORWICH — Megan Sobel knows as well as anyone that softball is not a marquee sport at Hanover High.Since becoming the school’s athletic director in 2018, Sobel has overseen championship teams in soccer, hockey, tennis and much more. The softball...

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LEBANON — A few short months ago, Lebanon High was facing the distinct possibility of a second consecutive season without a varsity girls tennis team.Head coach Rob Johnstone was in Dubai last spring, where his wife is working at an American school,...

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HANOVER — If the Dartmouth College softball team’s dugout looks unusually empty when the Big Green are on the field, that’s because it is.With just 14 players on its roster, Dartmouth is easily the smallest team in the Ivy League, with none of the...

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WEST CANAAN — Britt Lewis knows what high school sports can mean to a community. He is from Texas, after all.But Lewis, Mascoma High’s fourth head baseball coach in the last three years, knows academics come first and that strong athletics programs...

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The Hanover High girls tennis team was supposed to open the home portion of its 2023 schedule with a highly anticipated rematch of last year’s NHIAA Division I quarterfinal against Bedford on last Friday. But because the Bears’ home courts at Storrs...

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THETFORD — Coming off three straight trips to at least the VPA Division III semifinals, the Thetford Academy baseball team looked every bit the part of a unit ready to make it four in a row in Saturday’s season opener.The Panthers scored 10 runs over...

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WINDSOR — Shortly after learning that Wendy Moody would be the varsity head coach for Windsor High softball this spring, Sydney Perry walked into her office with a fun suggestion.“I was like, ‘Wendy, I think we should have walk-up songs,’ ” Perry...

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It’s been more than three decades since Bill Craib and his then-girlfriend, Sue Easler, spent six months traveling all over the United States and Canada to see every major and minor league baseball stadium during the 1991 season.But Craib’s...

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Last summer at a Vermont Basketball Coaches Association meeting, Champlain Valley Union girls coach Ute Otley suggested the VBCA create a scholarship in the name of Eric Ward, the beloved former coach at Thetford Academy who died after a battle with...

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Upper Valley sports fans tuning into the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four on Friday night weren’t just taking in an exciting semifinal matchup between Virginia Tech and LSU — they were watching one of their own.Taylor Soule, who grew up in West...

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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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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. — Nearly a month after Hazen star Tyler Rivard torched the Thetford Academy boys basketball team for 40 points, the Panthers limited him to six in Thursday night’s VPA Division III semifinal.By giving the 6-foot-4 post player an inordinate...

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BARRE, Vt. — This time, there would be no late collapse for the Rivendell Academy boys basketball team.Instead of letting a big lead slip away in the final minute, as they did in last year’s state semifinal, the Raptors created separation in the...

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BARRE, Vt. — Down by 14 points early in the fourth quarter, senior guard Joel Roberts led the Mid Vermont Christian School boys basketball team to a stunning 47-46 win over Long Trail on Monday night at Barre Auditorium to reach the program’s first...

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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...