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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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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HANOVER — Dame Adelekun’s play in the post is unconventional. So much so that he came up with one of his signature moves on the fly.The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team was at Columbia last season, off to a 1-4 start in Ivy League play, and the...

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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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WEST CANAAN — Two and a half weeks after the Mascoma High boys basketball team put a 32-point beatdown on Stevens, what was Royals head coach Silas Ayres expecting when the teams met again in the NHIAA Division III quarterfinals on Friday night?...

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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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WEST CANAAN — The first step in what the Mascoma High boys basketball team hopes and expects will be a lengthy playoff run went exactly according to plan.The No. 3 seed Royals, boosted by a 19-0 run that bridged the first and second quarters, rolled...

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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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SOUTH ROYALTON — If this is what a rebuilding year looks like for White River Valley boys basketball, look out for the Wildcats in a year or two.Just about everything is new for WRV this year. The head coach, DJ Craven, spent the last four years as an...

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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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Jake Guidone figured he had left Dartmouth College and the Ivy League behind.After five years with the Big Green football program, culminating in a 2021 season that saw him earn first-team all-Ivy honors as a starting left guard, Guidone transferred...

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CLAREMONT — The Hartford High bowling team used to have it easy.When it was open, the Hurricanes practiced at Upper Valley Lanes and Games in White River Junction, less than a 10-minute bus ride from the high school. The short commute left plenty of...

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HANOVER — As a young downhill skier at Storrs Hill, Benton Smith was hitting every possible bump in the snow and trying to get air under him. His instructors noticed this and suggested he try ski jumping.Five years later, Smith, a Canaan resident and...

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HANOVER — Stella Galanes feared the worst as soon as she hit the floor.Hanover High’s senior point guard, committed to play women’s basketball at Tufts University, had led the Bears to the NHIAA Division II title last winter. Galanes averaged 18.6...

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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 — Dame Adelekun entered postgame media availability Saturday wearing the net from the north basket at Leede Arena around his neck.No, Adelekun hadn’t led the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team to an Ivy League championship, although the...

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THETFORD — Last year, suffice to say, was not the type of season the Thetford Academy boys basketball team aspires to have.After four straight appearances in the VPA Division III semifinals, including state championships in 2019 and 2020, the Panthers...

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HANOVER — Taylor Schram did a lot of moving about the United States over the last decade, all in pursuit of becoming a Division I college soccer head coach.Last month, Dartmouth gave Schram that coveted opportunity.The Big Green parted ways with...

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QUECHEE — Prior to last year’s playoffs, Mid Vermont Christian School boys basketball coach Erva Barnes wrote “1-10” on the chalkboard and asked his team if anyone knew what those numbers meant. Nobody did.Barnes, in his third season as head coach,...

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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...