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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....

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...

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

BARRE, Vt. — And on the 108th day of the Thetford Academy basketball season, a VPA Division III boys hoop championship was created. How would coach Jason Gray celebrate? “We’re going to go back to the academy to have some cupcakes and Gatorade,” the...

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — The Barre Auditorium’s inner arena was deserted Thursday evening, half an hour after Thetford Academy and White River Valley concluded their Vermont Division III boys basketball playoff semifinal.Silence inside the 85-year old building...

By TRIS WYKES

THETFORD — Thursday’s rematch between the Windsor High and Thetford Academy girls basketball teams again proved the Yellow Jackets’ superiority, though this time with much less on the line.The visiting Yellow Jackets, who rallied to knock off the...

By TRIS WYKES

Here’s a look at some of the Upper Valley residents who competed in collegiate varsity sports this fall: CREW Union College (N.Y.) finished eighth among NCAA Division III varsity women’s crew teams and 36th overall with junior Lena Nowell (Lebanon)...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CASTLETON, Vt. — Chuck Simmons was reluctant to label his Oxbow High softball program a dynasty when the Olympians won their second straight Vermont Division III state championship last spring.After Oxbow completed a perfect season with a third...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

BURLINGTON — Xander Oshoniyi may have fallen three outs shy of a no-hitter, but leading the Thetford Academy baseball team to its first state championship in 37 years as a freshman still makes for a pretty good Saturday.Oshoniyi baffled the White...

By KAELI BENNETT

THETFORD — Thetford Academy celebrated the accomplishments of 42 graduating seniors at the school’s 204th commencement Friday night. Thanks to Thetford Academy’s tradition of having solely student speakers, the audience heard from them directly about...

BRADFORD, Vt. — The brilliant pitching of Anastase Bourgeois, not to mention an explosive offense, was more than enough to help top-seeded Oxbow softball earn a berth in the VPA Division III state championship game.The Olympians topped fourth-seeded...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

THETFORD — Baseball has been at the core of Mason and Boone Fahey’s relationship for years.A junior and sophomore, respectively, at Thetford Academy, the Faheys are always talking baseball, whether it’s their own games, college ball or their beloved...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

THETFORD — Michelle Morgan realized this season could be different for the Thetford Academy softball team early on. The second-year head coach’s players are now starting to realize it as well.With seven sophomores, six of whom played on the varsity...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — After suffering a 6-3 loss to visiting Springfield in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Maxfield Sports Complex, the Hartford High softball team came roaring back for an 18-3 victory in the nightcap, scoring 11 runs...

THETFORD — Xander Oshoniyi drove in four runs on two hits, and on the mound he struck out seven and allowed two hits and one earned run over four innings in the Thetford Academy baseball team’s 9-7 win over Lamoille.Owen Goodrich and Nolan Pepe had...

COLCHESTER, Vt. — The dominant Hartford High girls lacrosse team etched another in the win column on Tuesday afternoon, beating host Colchester by a 17-2 final score.Audrey Rupp had four goals and three assists for the Hurricanes (8-0), who built an...

ENOSBURG FALLS, VT — The Oxbow High softball team continued to roll as the top-ranked team in VPA Division III with a 7-0 win over previously unbeaten Enosburg Falls.Pitcher Anastase Bourgeois shut down the Hornets, allowing just two hits and striking...

PLAISTOW, N.H. — It was a slow start for the Hanover High girls lacrosse team, which found itself down by four goals early to Timberlane before rallying to lead by five at halftime and going on to win, 19-10.Maggie Higgins had five goals and three...

SOUTH ROYALTON — Boone Fahey tossed a gem for the Thetford Academy baseball team on Tuesday, leading the visiting Panthers over White River Valley, 9-2.Fahey went all seven innings for Thetford, striking out 13 while allowing four hits and zero earned...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Joseph Barwood scored five goals and became the Hartford High boys lacrosse program’s all-time leading goal scorer with 150 as the Hurricanes routed Otter Valley, 17-1.Barwood surpassed Reece Thompson, a 2019 graduate, who still...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – The Hartford High baseball team overcame an early three-run deficit to tie the game in the fourth inning and take the lead for good in the fifth on a two-out triple by Christian Hathorn, who later scored on a throwing error in a...