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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 — 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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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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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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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 — For all the history the Hartford High softball team made this spring, the Hurricanes’ season ended in an all-too-familiar way.Hartford’s run in the VPA Division II playoffs came to a halt at Maxfield Sports Complex at the hands...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Isabel Konijnenberg admitted she didn’t think anybody on the Woodstock High girls lacrosse team expected to win Tuesday.The Wasps were up against their biggest rivals — undefeated and top-seeded Hartford — and the Hurricanes...

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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...

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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...

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SHARON — It hasn’t been long since ultimate, formerly known as Ultimate Frisbee, was the most popular sport at The Sharon Academy.The school first offered ultimate in 2011 as a club sport, and after the Vermont Principals’ Association made the Green...

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HANOVER — Make it three Ivy League wins in a row for the Dartmouth College women’s lacrosse team.The Big Green won a back-and-forth battle, 15-14, over No. 24 Princeton on Saturday, putting them in position to potentially earn a spot in the conference...

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WEST CANAAN — Britt Lewis knows what high school sports can mean to a community. He is from Texas, after all.But Lewis, Mascoma High’s fourth head baseball coach in the last three years, knows academics come first and that strong athletics programs...

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HANOVER — Following a season in which the Dartmouth College baseball team won six of its seven Ivy League series and finished in third place, the Big Green were pegged for the No. 3 spot again in the 2023 preseason poll and even received a first-place...

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Upper Valley sports fans tuning into the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four on Friday night weren’t just taking in an exciting semifinal matchup between Virginia Tech and LSU — they were watching one of their own.Taylor Soule, who grew up in West...

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Jay Campion was an employer at a women’s clothing store in Hanover in the mid-1980s, hiring several students from Hanover High.Some of the girls who worked for Campion had boyfriends on the school’s hockey team and complained to him that it wasn’t...