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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Until this February, Josh Park was living a normal teenage life.A junior on the Mascoma High track team, Park was unanimously voted the boys’ team captain for the winter indoor season, even though he takes most of his classes online and only attends...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Eventually, the Upper Valley Nighthawks’ pitching staff was due for a clunker. The surprising part was that it came against the team with the worst record in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.The North Adams SteepleCats...

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Most college volleyball programs aren’t in the market for a new head coach in the late spring.But when Gilad Doron abruptly stepped down from the head job at Dartmouth on May 10 to care for his aging mother in Israel, the Big Green were tasked with...

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Woodstock High has promoted from within to fill its boys basketball head coaching vacancy, naming Scott Brooks to the position after Steve Landon left to take over the girls’ team at Hartford.Brooks, who came on last winter as the Wasps’ junior...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Even before all of the Upper Valley Nighthawks’ pitchers had arrived, the hurlers were carrying the team to a strong start this summer. Now that the staff is nearly complete, opposing New England Collegiate Baseball League...

BURLINGTON — Rivendell Academy freshman Sydney Schoenbeck finished fourth, Hartford junior Jordan Davis finished fifth and the Thetford Academy girls were second in the team competition, finishing only behind Essex, the Division I state champion in...

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Linda Cimino did not expect to be out of a job this spring.The head women’s basketball coach at St. Francis Brooklyn had just completed her fifth season with the Terriers, finishing fourth in the Northeast Conference with an 11-9 record in NEC play....

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Adarius Myers may have played in just 10 games for the Upper Valley Nighthawks at the tail end of the 2022 season, but that was enough time for him to decide he wanted to be back in the Upper Valley this summer.Six games into...

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A visible reminder of Steve Landon’s first stint coaching the Hartford High girls basketball team hangs on the wall at Hanley Gym.In 2012, his sixth season with the Hurricanes, Landon led Hartford to its only state championship in program history....