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By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — A cacophony of noise descended upon Hanover High’s turf field in the waning minutes of regulation Friday night.Dozens of stomping feet rattled the bleachers. Parents’ voices clamored from the sidelines. The Hanover student section, glued to...

ALEX CERVANTES

The Hanover and Lebanon boys soccer teams didn’t need any reminders of their opponents on Tuesday.Lining up opposite the maroon-clad Upper Valley squads were the two teams that had defeated them in last season’s D-I and D-II state title games, Bedford...

ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — The Windsor football team, victors of the last three Division-III state championships, commenced another title defense Saturday hosting Division-II Fair Haven.But this offseason has been a period of transition for the Yellowjackets. Coach...

ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — Moments before kickoff, White River Valley girls soccer coach Kim Prestridge held up a large easel paper pad outlined with a list of goals for her team to accomplish Friday. Prestridge got the idea from her assistant coach, Omar...

By ALEX CERVANTES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford High football is getting back to its roots this season.“We’re one of the few teams that still believe in running the ball,” coach Matt Trombly said. “Everybody wants to spread it and throw it around. We still believe in...

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...

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — Isabel Konijnenberg’s seventh goal of the game in double overtime lifted the Woodstock High girls lacrosse team to a come-from-behind 15-14 win over St. Johnsbury in their VPA Division II quarterfinal game.Claudia Shoemaker added...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

BRADFORD, Vt. — Give the Oxbow High softball team an inch, and the Olympians will take a mile.Considering the amount of hard contact Oxbow made in Saturday’s VPA Division III quarterfinal against Windsor, the Yellowjackets played a mostly clean game....

BURLINGTON — Jordan Davis won the discus and javelin and Ayodele Lowe took first in the long jump as the Hartford High boys track and field team finished third at the Vermont Division II state meet, edging fourth place Peoples by two points.Burr &...

MANCHESTER, Vt. — For the first time in program history, the Hartford High softball team will open the upcoming playoffs as Vermont Division II’s top seed. The Hurricanes, who beat Division I Burr & Burton, 18-5, in five innings on Saturday, also...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — This time, the Hanover High girls tennis team took the more traditional path to the NHIAA Division I semifinals.A year after the Bears, as the No. 6 seed, upset Bedford on the road to reach the last four, Hanover’s 12-2 regular-season record...

DURHAM, N.H. — The Hanover High boys track and field team claimed second place, and Lebanon took fourth, in Friday’s NHIAA Division II state championship meet hosted by Oyster River.The Bears’ boys racked up five first-place finishes on their way to a...

WINDSOR — Sophomore Sophia Rockwood had 24 points, including 14 in the second quarter, to lead the Windsor High girls basketball team to a 56-31 win over White River Valley in a rematch of last year’s VPA Division III semifinals.The Yellowjackets...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

There was a time when interstate high school matchups were commonplace in the Upper Valley. The Connecticut Valley League, which featured schools from both sides of the river, pitted the likes of Hanover, Lebanon and Stevens against Hartford, Windsor...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford High boys hockey team won the 2022 Philippe Bouthillier Holiday Classic, which the Hurricanes hosted at Barwood Arena, with a 5-3 victory Wednesday over Burr & Burton.Hartford’s goals came from Lochlan Park, Joseph...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

SOUTH ROYALTON — Rather than sticking to a base defense, the White River Valley girls basketball team takes whatever shape it needs depending on the Wildcats’ opponent.Sometimes White River Valley will play a zone, sometimes man-to-man, and sometimes...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WINDSOR — There’s a different vibe inside Harry Ladue Gymnasium as fall turns to winter this year.The Windsor High boys basketball team, like always, is preparing for a new season. But for the first time in 39 years, the gym’s namesake is not leading...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

THETFORD — Bob Bristol expected to be in Europe right now.After 35 years as a soccer coach, history teacher, dean and athletic director in Washington state, Bristol and his wife, a Dartmouth College alumna, moved to the Upper Valley in May expecting...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

When Tim Winslow took over the Hanover High boys basketball program prior to the 2000-01 season, it was “unthinkable,” in rival Lebanon head coach Kieth Matte’s words, that the Marauders, as they were then known, would ever win a state championship.It...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

After winning its first NHIAA state championship since 2013, and the first since moving up to Division I, the Hanover High boys tennis team celebrated in style.“We went to Buffalo Wild Wings,” senior Alex Rockmore said. “Is there anything else high...