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HANOVER Coach: Mallory Hillman (1).Last year: 9-6-1, lost in quarterfinals to John Stark.League: NHIAA Division II.Returners: Seniors — Savannah Walczak (F/capt.), Jolie Reznek (D). Juniors — Eva Bell (M/capt.), Sophia Costa (M), Lauren Evans (M),...

By BILL WILKINSON

HARTFORD Coach: Michael Barata (1) Last year: Fourth at VPA state tournament.Returners: Senior — Connor Rice; Juniors — Thomas Gross, Jack Grigsby; Sophomore — Coleman Waters. Newcomers: Junior — Logan White; Freshmen — Benjamin Potter, Triv-Ann...

HANOVER Coach: Joshua Flanders (1) Last year: seventh out of eight teams at state tournament League: NHIAA Division I.Home course: Montcalm Golf Club.Returners: Seniors — Adam Goodney, Andrew Cahoon, Trevor Lichtenstein, Jake Toulmin; Sophomores —...

HANOVER Coach: Hunter Gosselin (1) Last year: 6-9, lost in first round to ConVal.League: NHIAA Division II.Returners: Seniors — Rosa Bradley (OPP), Annika Lackstrom (MB), Ada Callaway (MB). Juniors — Laura Schaner (S), Dylan Simpkins (OH).Newcomers:...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Entering the 2021 season, the Hartford High football team had quite the competition on its hands for the starting quarterback spot.Senior Colin Vielleux, who had spent the previous fall as the backup to the since-graduated Cole Jasmin in the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Jon Farnham grew up in Hanover and first took up ski jumping at age 6 with the Ford Sayre Academy, continuing through his graduation from Hanover High in 1975. He was the Eastern junior national champion in 1974 and ’76, and after a stint in the U.S....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CLAREMONT — Patty Deschaine knew that when the time came for her to step down as Stevens High field hockey head coach, she would have a succession plan in place.For the last four seasons of her 20-year run leading the Cardinals, Deschaine has had...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

When Greg Balch was growing up in Windsor, the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl was the biggest event of the summer.The annual football game between top just-graduated high school seniors in Vermont and New Hampshire was held at Dartmouth College back then, so...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Nicholas Cain only took up boxing about 15 months ago, thanks to inspiration from his younger brother.The 32-year-old White River Junction resident, who lived in Windsor at the time, opted not to tell his brother that he had joined a boxing gym in...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

MONTPELIER — Time is running out on the Upper Valley Nighthawks.Monday afternoon’s 5-4, seven-inning loss to the Vermont Mountaineers at Recreation Field was the Nighthawks’ 13th defeat in their last 16 games, and it was a loss that, had Upper Valley...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Justin DeSanto had never picked up a tennis racket until halfway through his senior year of high school.Growing up in Pittston, Pa., DeSanto played basketball, football and volleyball and ran track in his youth, but he wanted to try something...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Six summers ago, Garrett Nance was a game-day operations intern for the Upper Valley Nighthawks, doing everything from running the scoreboard to putting on the mascot costume.“I was a Division III baseball player, so being able...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — It’s been roughly two years since Mat Pause was passed over for what many would consider a dream job: head baseball coach at his alma mater, in this case Hartford High.But Pause has moved past that disappointment and taken on a...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — Shannon Hadlock was a center back for the White River Valley girls soccer team. It was as simple as that.The senior anchored the Wildcats’ strong defense last fall, a unit that allowed just nine goals in 16 games. But on the Vermont team for...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — It was equal parts elation and relief when the Upper Valley Nighthawks mobbed Austin Beck in shallow right field after three hours and 40 minutes of baseball on a hot Thursday afternoon at Maxfield Sports Complex.An infielder...

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Six freshly graduated Upper Valley high school senior soccer players will take the field at Hanover High on Saturday for the Lions Twin State Cup games. The event is now in its 48th year and pits top seniors from New Hampshire and Vermont whose high...

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Sarah True was in position to win the Ironman European Championship in 2019, holding the lead less than a half-mile from the finish line.The West Lebanon resident and former two-time Olympian had already been on the course in Frankfurt, Germany, for...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — What was shaping up to be a highly disappointing day for the White River Junction Post 84 American Legion baseball team turned quite exciting late, as WRJ rallied from a six-run deficit, then coughed up a late lead before...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As the old saying goes, if you watch baseball long enough, you’ll see something you’ve never seen before.The eventual game-winning run scoring on a ball lodged inside the catcher’s chest protector was a new one for Upper Valley...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Gordie Barnaby watched the White River Valley girls basketball team play three or four times last winter and remembered thinking to himself that the Wildcats would be a fun group to coach.Barnaby coached for six years at The Sharon Academy and nine...