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Windsor avenges previous defeats by dominating Montpelier for title
11-03-2024 6:31 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

BURLINGTON — The Windsor High field hockey team had been playing for this game, a state championship rematch with Montpelier, since the beginning of the season.The Solons, the defending two-time state champs, had ousted the Yellowjackets from the...

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No words needed: Hartford wins again
11-03-2024 5:33 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

BURLINGTON — All Hartford High’s Charlotte Jasmin needed was a head nod from Madison Barwood. No words needed to be spoken between the teammates. The quick gesture and some simple eye contact sufficed.Just a shade under five minutes into the third...


Upper Valley athletes buck the trend of single sport specialization
11-01-2024 6:31 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

The sun had set on a Saturday in early October and Windsor senior Audrey Rupp’s body was aching.Rupp had begun her day donning shoulder pads and a helmet, trotting out onto the Yellowjackets’ football field for an early afternoon clash with Poultney....


Special teams flub only thing keeping Harvard from being undefeated like Dartmouth
10-31-2024 6:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

Let’s rewind to late September. On the same day sophomore kicker Owen Zalc’s heroics ensured Dartmouth escaped North Andover, Mass., with a 16-14 victory over Merrimack, Harvard kicker Kieran Corr was lining up for a standard 27-yard field goal at the...


Pizza-loving midfielder strikes twice in Windsor victory
10-31-2024 5:02 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — It’s time to bring Kemari Wildgoose her Pizza Chef.It’s said to the victor go the spoils. In the case of Wildgoose, a junior midfielder for the Windsor High girls soccer team, her postgame reward for scoring a header involves the finest the...


Wild finish denies Hartford boys soccer’s bid for first championship
10-30-2024 6:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As the horde of Stratton Mountain School boys soccer supporters flooded the field at Maxfield Sports Complex following the final buzzer’s sound, several Hartford players jogged toward Ben Lang.Lang, the Hurricanes’ senior...


Dartmouth roundup: Football and women’s rugby both start 6-0
10-29-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

For just the second time in the two programs’ histories, the Dartmouth College football and women’s rugby teams have each started the season 6-0.Following a 31-15 victory over Quinnipiac on Saturday, the Big Green are now the lone unbeaten squad in...


Big Green in Ivy driver’s seat after victory
10-27-2024 6:03 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

NEW YORK — The football bounced once off the Columbia logo at midfield before nestling into the arms of Dartmouth senior defensive back Sean Williams.Williams had recovered the Lions’ onside kick, the hosts’ last-ditch effort to potentially extend...


Hartford girls volleyball earns first postseason win
10-24-2024 6:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The second-round VPA Division I girls volleyball playoff clash between Hartford and St. Johnsbury came to an abrupt conclusion when a Hilltopper’s serve didn’t clear the net.There was no extended rally, no punctuating kill or...


Unbeaten Dartmouth vs. one-loss Columbia is deja vu all over again
10-24-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

You have to go back almost 30 years, all the way to 1996, to find the last meeting between an undefeated Dartmouth squad and a one-loss Columbia team.That year, the Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, the New York Yankees were in the...


Hanover field hockey advances
10-23-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Hanover’s Greta Mancini was somewhat astounded that her shot had trickled into the cage.Mancini’s first-quarter goal was the Bears’ lone tally in a 1-0 win over Pembroke in the first round of the NHIAA Division II field hockey playoffs on...


Dartmouth roundup: Men’s soccer rout of Yale keeps bid for Ivy tourney relevant
10-22-2024 4:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — The Dartmouth men’s soccer team wanted to send a message, plain and simple.The Big Green did just that Saturday night against Yale, securing a 4-0 victory — the team’s second clean sheet of the season — over the reigning Ivy League...


Big Green stays perfect by doing the little things often and correctly
10-20-2024 4:55 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Isaac Boston leapt twice and waved his hands wildly in the back of the end zone. The Springfield, Mass., native who called Hanover his home for the first four years of his collegiate career, made a concerted, flailing effort to capture the...


After thrilling OT win, undefeated Big Green faces Central Connecticut State on Saturday
10-17-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

Days removed from overseeing the largest comeback in program history, Dartmouth College football coach Sammy McCorkle joked that he was delighted to be on the right side of history in last Saturday’s 44-43 overtime triumph over Yale.The second-year...


High school girls soccer: Lebanon offense erupts against Plymouth
10-16-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

LEBANON — A weight was lifted for the Lebanon High girls soccer team in its 3-0 win over Plymouth on Tuesday.In recent games, coach Breck Taber felt as if there was some invisible barrier keeping the Raiders from capping any attacking push with a...


Dartmouth roundup: Football ranked; men’s soccer all tied up
10-15-2024 3:31 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

The Dartmouth football team is off to its best start since 2021 following a thrilling 44-43 overtime victory over Yale on Saturday. The win, which saw coach Sammy McCorkle’s squad overcome a 23-point deficit in the third quarter to manufacture the...


Dartmouth beats Yale in fourth quarter comeback
10-13-2024 7:32 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — How did this even happen? Sophomore Grayson Saunier, a 6-foot-2-inch quarterback from Lafayette, La., joked that he had never played more than 10 snaps in a game for the Big Green. But on Saturday he engineered a miraculous 21-point...


High school boys soccer: Tactical tweak yields hat trick in Lebanon win
10-13-2024 7:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

LEBANON — When the Lebanon High boys’ soccer team took the field Friday against Pelham, Abe Pearson was not among the Raiders’ starting 11, a first this season.Ahead of the game, Lebanon coach Rob Johnstone tried to make it clear to the junior forward...


Local golfers perform well in Vermont Division II state championships
10-11-2024 4:03 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

BURLINGTON — Late in the afternoon on Thursday, with a gaggle of onlookers gathered adjacent to the 18th green at Burlington Country Club, Hartford’s Rowan Irvine stood over a short putt for par. The sophomore needed to sink it. Having already torn...


Dartmouth football: Big Green works to repeat itself
10-10-2024 5:30 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

Off to the program’s best start since the 2021 season, Dartmouth football coach Sammy McCorkle finds himself leaning on the “24-hour rule” early in the 2024 campaign.“Winning is hard,” McCorkle said. “Hey, you better enjoy it, but enjoy it quick. … We...


High School Field Hockey: Cards happy at home
10-09-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX CERVANTES

CLAREMONT — A loud roar erupted from the Stevens High field hockey sideline upon the conclusion of its game against Mascenic on Tuesday night. A similar elation reverberated from the opposite end of the field where the Cardinals’ cheering contingent...

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