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LEBANON — High school sports coaching changes sometimes involve rebuilds and unfamiliarity between coach and players. Neither should hinder Dan McGee with the Lebanon-Stevens-Kearsarge girls ice hockey team this winter.The 50-year-old Lebanon native,...

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LEBANON — Jake Toulmin drove a compact car to Tuesday’s Lebanon Post 22 senior American Legion baseball doubleheader at Lebanon High.The recent Hanover High graduate had a sizable effect on the twinbill’s second contest against Manchester’s Sweeney...

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Josie Harper, who as Dartmouth College’s athletic director became the first woman to hold such a post in the Ivy League, died last week in White River Junction. She was 81 and had battled cancer.“It is a sad day for the Dartmouth community,” current...

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NORTHFIELD, Vt. — A half moon hung in the sky on Saturday night over Norwich University’s Sabine Field. Below, the evening was full of disappointment for the Woodstock High girls lacrosse team.The Wasps, who led U-32 by six goals with six minutes to...

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NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Saturday’s VPA Division II boys lacrosse final between Hartford High and Harwood Union High began with a Highlander goal and the scorer immediately running towards the Hurricanes’ student section with a finger to his mask.Ninety...

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Here’s a look at some of the Upper Valley residents who played varsity collegiate sports during the spring season:BASEBALLBowdoin (18-17) enjoyed the services of freshman pitcher Sam Sacerdote (Norwich/Hanover), who started three times in 15...

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HINESBURG, Vt. — Woodstock High, with the smallest enrollment among VPA Division I boys lacrosse programs, hasn’t won a state title since 1999. Champlain Valley Union has captured 12 crowns during that stretch, its success fed in part by an enrollment...

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THETFORD — If the White River Valley High baseball team was going to lose in Monday’s VPA Division III semifinals, timidity wouldn’t be a cause. Of that, Wildcats coach Devin Cilley was certain.Tied during the seventh inning and not wanting to hand...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — Chuck Simmons exploded off the white bucket on which he’d been sitting in the entry to the Oxbow High girls softball dugout on Friday.Bounding several steps toward the first-base line, the fourth-year coach raised both hands over his...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — A large piece of farm machinery rumbled several hundred yards behind the right-field baseball fence at Oxbow High on Tuesday, upturning the earth and sending clouds of dust drifting in its wake. On the diamond, the Olympians’ hopes for...

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BOW, N.H. — Hanover High baseball coach John Grainger elected to keep his sunglasses on for a family photo after Saturday’s 4-3 loss to Bow in the NHIAA Division II playoff quarterfinals. There might have been a few tears under the tinted lenses, the...

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LEBANON — If Declan Brandis made his final pitching start for Lebanon High on Thursday, he went out in fine form.The junior righthander allowed seven hits and one earned run while striking out one batter and walking one during a 3-1 defeat of Pelham...

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CONCORD — The Lebanon High girls tennis team’s impressive 2024 season ended in decisive fashion on Wednesday with an 8-1 loss to Littleton in the NHIAA Division III finals at Memorial Field.The Crusaders, winners of back-to-back titles and three of...

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HANOVER — Like a Hailey Schibuola backhand, the Lebanon High girls tennis team’s program has picked up speed and power in a startlingly short period of time.Less than a decade ago, the Raiders had no team because of a lack of interest. Last March, the...

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SOUTH ROYALTON — It’s not often that a victorious high school softball team surrenders eight runs during an inning. Add eight errors committed by that same squad and the odds become ever longer.Somehow escaping that situation Saturday was White River...

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WEST CANAAN — There are plans to raise the necessary funds for scoreboards at the Mascoma High baseball and softball fields. The Royals have played those sports for decades without all spectators being sure of who’s winning at what stage of a...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — In April, fewer than two months after guiding the Hartford High girls ice hockey team to the first state title in its 30-year history, head coach Kylie Young was fired by athletic director Jeff Moreno.Young, who worked on a...

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NORWICH — Lebanon High’s Ava Kaercher was under the weather Monday. The sophomore softball pitcher nonetheless lifted her team over the top, striking out 16 Hanover batters while throwing a two-hitter during the visitors’ 5-0 defeat of their archrival...

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CLAREMONT — Last place was on the line Monday at Monadnock Park, and neither the Stevens High boys lacrosse team nor rival Lebanon wanted to claim the dubious prize.The NHIAA Division III squads entered a combined 0-18 and it was Lebanon that got off...

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SOUTH ROYALTON — Had Friday’s baseball game between White River Valley High and Leland & Gray gone into extra innings, the path paced by Wildcats coach Devin Cilley in front of the home dugout might have become a trench.Back and forth walked the...

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PLAINFIELD — Maddie Jewell realized she was tired when she embarked on the half-hour drive home from Grantham late on a Saturday night last November.It had been a busy start to the school year for Jewell, a three-sport student-athlete at Lebanon High....