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By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Five games from playoff time, the Hartford Hurricanes defense of the VPA D-II lacrosse championship appears to be going full speed ahead. The division-leading Hurricanes built an early lead with great defense then weathered a...

By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — If the Hartford Hurricanes want to make a deep run in the upcoming VPA Division II baseball playoffs, they can scarcely afford more performances like Tuesday night’s. The Hurricanes battled well at the plate against Brattleboro...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The pass was perfect, a classic backdoor feed that arced from Paisley Danaher to Madison Barwood and resulted in the winning goal Saturday for the undefeated Hartford High girls lacrosse team.The strike lifted the host...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Lea Perreard’s wrists are wrapped in bracelets. How many? The Hanover High sophomore isn’t sure, but 15 would be a solid guess.Rubber bracelets, woven bracelets, string bracelets with beads on them. It takes Perreard roughly five minutes to...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Monday night’s boys lacrosse game between host Hartford High and Woodstock came down to the final minute, with the Wasps prevailing, 11-10.The Vermont inter-division clash might have been decided, however, by a pair of goals at...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

Lebanon and Hanover have been historically joined at the hip in all sorts of high school sports. Tennis is no different.What puts the Raiders and Bears in the same conversation these days is their success rather than head-to-head battles. Hanover is...

When it comes to Upper Valley high school softball, one program stirs the proverbial championship drink.In three years under coach Chuck Simmons, Oxbow High has reeled off 49 wins in 53 games and raced relatively unimpeded to state honors each time....

Two words best describe Upper Valley high school girls lacrosse: quality and consistency.All four squads made the playoffs last spring. While none came home with a state title, Hanover and Woodstock made their finals, with the Wasps’ trip coming at...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

As surely as snapping the finish-line tape signifies a winner, the Upper Valley is filled with high school track and field potential this spring.A number of area schools won outdoor titles last year, and some followed that up with indoor successes...

Once you’ve finally been to the top of the mountain, what do you do for an encore?That’s the challenge facing the Hartford High boys lacrosse program this spring. After multiple attempts that came up short, the Hurricanes ran the table en route to...

By TRIS WYKES

WINDSOR — How does Windsor High baseball coach Jamie Richardson keep his players emotionally afloat as they face their notoriously tough schedule each spring? “There are a lot of hugs and back rubs,” the veteran bench boss said.It worked last season,...

The arrival of the Upper Valley high school baseball season marks the return of one top-shelf rivalry (Thetford vs. White River Valley, last year’s VPA Division III title-game matchup) along with another roster (Hanover) good enough to hang some...

By TRIS WYKES

Here’s a look at some of the Upper Valley residents who played varsity college sports this winter.Men’s basketballPlymouth State men’s basketball was 8-17. Sophomore guard Max Galbraith (Hanover) appeared in seven games and totaled 21 minutes… Kansas...

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,...

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...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

COLCHESTER, Vt. — After 12 years of coaching, two state championships and two individual state champions, Windsor bowling coach Steve Bly is stepping down.Bly, who will be succeeded by Cody Warner next year, was given the Joe James Award at Saturday’s...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — It will take at least another year to supplant Hartford High’s Whirlwind Five.That’s the nickname given to the last Hurricanes’ boys basketball team to win a state title — in 1929. Sadly for backers of the red, white and blue, that...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — There was hacking and whacking Wednesday night when the Hartford High and Woodstock boys hockey teams clashed in a Vermont Division II playoff quarterfinal.The neighboring rivals chirped at each other. They collided in hits...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Exhaustion, illness, injury and overtime. The Hartford High girls hockey team overcame it all Wednesday during its 2-1 defeat of Stowe in a VPA Division II playoff quarterfinal at Barwood Arena.Zoe Zanleoni’s jam-shot goal at...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — A recent Hartford High social media post touted T-shirts celebrating the boys basketball team’s advancement to the VPA Division II semifinals. The tongue-in-cheek update claimed they’d been discovered in a box dating to 1984 — the last...