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Boys Basketball

Hartford 68, Lamoille 49

Key players: Hartford — Ryan Murphy (21 points, 10 rebounds); Noah Jenks )16 points); Rex Banning (9 points); Lamoille — Aziah Hungerford (25 points); Colby Hall (16 points)

Highlights: Hartford led 32-24 at halftime in Friday’s VPA D-II quarterfinal game. The second-seeded Hurricanes face third-ranked Harwood in Wednesday night’s semifinals at Barre Auditorium, tipping off at 7:45 p.m.

Coach’s quote: “Big win for the kids tonight. Overall, we played with tenacity and toughness. Ryan Murphy was outstanding with a double-double. To go back to the Barre Auditorium after losing four starters and seven players, it’s a testament to how hard the kids have worked this year.” — Hartford’s Mike Gaudette

Records: Hartford 19-3; Lamoille 13-8

Thetford 43, Woodstock 40

Highlights: With their quarterfinal win over the scrappy seventh-seeded Wasps, No. 2 Thetford travels to Barre Auditorium on Thursday night to face sixth-seeded Winooski, which toppled no. 3 Vergennes 43-40 on Friday night. Tip-off for the VPA D-III semifinal is 5:30 p.m.

Records: Thetford 19-3; Woodstock 15-7

Girls Basketball

Oxbow 64, Randolph 47

Key players: Oxbow — Braylee Phelps, Libby Swift, Maggi Ellsworth, Abby Longto; Randolph — Kayleigh Jarvis-Chabot, Harmony Bradshaw

Highlights: Phelps had five 3-pointers to help her reach a game-high 19 points for Oxbow, which clinched the top seed in this week’s VPA Division III tournament with the victory. Swift did an excellent job in the glass and threw in 12 of her own for the Olympians. Ellsworth, the floor leader for Oxbow, had 11 points, and Longto added eight.

Coach’s quote: “The team had a fun regular season. We are looking forward to the pairings coming out.” — Oxbow’s Barry Emerson

Records: Oxbow 18-2; Randolph 9-11

Indoor track

Hanover’s Valentino, TA’s Junker
top UV finishers at New Englands

Hanover High’s Andrew Valentino and Thetford Academy’s Uly Junker had the best finishes among Upper Valley athletes at Saturday’s New England Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston.

Valentino, a senior, was fourth in the two-mile race with a time of 9 minutes and 14 seconds, a personal record that was just 10 seconds behind the winner, Nathaniel Assa of Marblehead, Mass., (9:04).

Junker, a senior who led the Panthers to the VPA Division II indoor track championship last month, finished sixth in the 300-meter race with a personal record of 35.33 seconds. He also was seventh in the long jump.

Junker’s teammate, senior Brady Sloop, finished eighth in the 1,000-meter run with a personal record of 2:35, and Evan Rich of Thetford was 10th in the long jump. Distance runner Ava Hayden of Thetford also had a personal best of 5:11 with a 10th place finish in the mile.

Hartford senior Bennett Moreno, who holds the VPA Division II state record in the 600 meters, was eighth in the event with a new personal record of 1:23. Teammate Ayodele Lowe, the VPA Division II record-holder in the high jump, finished 13th with a jump of 6 feet, 3 inches, tying the mark with five other competitors. Barnaby Diehn of Mascoma, the NHIAA Division II shot put champion, was 16th in Boston, and Jack Hughes of White River Valley was 18th in the long jump.

About 280 schools sent athletes to the competition.