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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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,...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Sometimes you have to get down and dirty, whatever it takes, to get the job done. The Hartford High boys basketball team did just that on Tuesday night, using relentless team defense to win its fifth straight game, 48-43 over...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Windsor High girls basketball team defeated Hartford, 62-42, on Monday at Hanley Gymnasium. Audrey Rupp scored 26 points and added nine steals and three assists for the Yellowjackets (9-2), who also received 17 points, 13...

ALLSTON, Mass. — Two days after defeating Ivy League preseason favorite Penn at home, the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team raced out to an early double-digit lead, then hung on for dear life to defeat Harvard, 60-59, at Lavietes Pavilion.The...

SALEM, N.H. — The Hanover High boys hockey team got two goals and two assists each from Ryder Wilson and Jack Wilkinson and scored three times in the third period for a solid 5-2 road win against Salem, the third-ranked team in NHIAA Division I.“The...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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...

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock High girls hockey team got a pair of goals and two assists from Kassidy Haley and two goals and an assist from Gracelyn Lapere in 6-0 win over South Burlington on Friday night.Isabel Konijnenberg and Laura Audsley also...

WEST LEBANON — Valley News staff writer Benjamin Rosenberg has been named New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Rosenberg, a graduate of Northwestern University, joined the Valley News in October 2021. He is...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — The Oxbow High girls basketball team bounced back emphatically from back-to-back losses, cruising to a 56-7 victory over a rebuilding Rivendell squad on Thursday night.Sophomore Maggi Ellsworth led the Olympians (5-3) with 19 points,...

HANOVER — The Dartmouth College football team is sending four players to Tokyo for the Japan-U.S. Dream Bowl, which will be played Jan. 22 at the National Stadium, site of the 2020 Olympic Games.The contest will pit a team of Ivy League seniors and...

WEST LEBANON — The Hanover High boys hockey team delivered what coach Dick Dodds called the Bears’ best performance of the year in a 2-0 shutout victory over Exeter at Campion Rink on Wednesday night.Jo Jo Drent made 30 saves for Hanover, recording...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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...

LEBANON — The Lebanon High boys basketball team put together four complete quarters to earn a quality win, 79-61, over Kingswood on Tuesday night at Lang Metcalf Gym.The Raiders drained 11 3-pointers as a team, with Dawson Bates making four on his way...

LEBANON — The Lebanon High girls basketball team didn’t leave the Lang Metcalf Gymnasium court during halftime of its NHIAA Division II game against Derryfield on Monday. Instead, the Raiders reran their pregame warmup drills, second-year coach Chris...

HANOVER — The Dartmouth College women’s basketball team was in good shape to pick up its first Ivy League win on Saturday evening, scoring 27 points in the third quarter to take a two-point lead over visiting Brown.And then the Big Green’s offense...

STOWE, Vt. — The Hartford High girls hockey team got back to its winning ways after a three-game losing streak as Madison Barwood scored twice in a 3-1 defeat of Stowe.While Hurricanes coach Kylie Young was pleased to even the record, she had hoped...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

LEBANON — Tim Kehoe was never one to relish the spotlight.The longtime Lebanon High girls basketball coach, who stepped down after the 2019-20 season to focus more on his family, was honored at Friday night’s game with the John Wooden Legacy Award....

CLAREMONT — The host Stevens High boys basketball team erased a four-point halftime deficit with a second-half eruption to top Windsor, 60-47, on Friday night.The Yellowjackets scored 18 points in the second quarter to build a 29-25 lead at halftime....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CLAREMONT — Anyone walking into Frederick W. Carr Gymnasium at Stevens High on Wednesday evening could make no mistake about who the man of the hour was.Colby Shepard, a Stevens senior, has been wrestling since he was in second grade, through the...