-It was a slightly off-kilter opening day for the Brattleboro Bears varsity baseball team on a cold, gray, and blustery late afternoon on April 10 at Tenney Field.
The field itself is still a work in progress. The most notable change is the chain-link fencing that now stretches from the grandstand to the newly-installed bullpens alongside each dugout. Both dugouts are now enveloped BY fencing. With completion of the grandstand renovation project still a long way off, Bears fans coming to the games will discover their favorite spots to watch the games are gone now that the bleachers are situated next to the light poles near the first and third base foul lines.
-There is always a little extra pressure on a team when they are defending a championship. Last season's Brattleboro Unified basketball team went undefeated and won the school's second state title. With nearly all of the starters from that team back for this season, they fully expect to repeat...
-The Southern Vermont League (SVL) recently announced their all-league honors for boys' and girls' basketball, and for Nordic skiing. Plenty of our local athletes were honored. • Brattleboro's Jack Cady was named to the SVL A Division boys' first team, with teammates John Satterfield and Oscar Korson earning honorable...
-The spring sports season in Vermont got started last week with pitchers and catchers reporting on March 17 for softball and baseball, and Unified basketball teams beginning full practices. This week, team practices began around Vermont for baseball, softball, lacrosse, tennis, track and field, and Ultimate disc. It will be a couple of weeks before the outdoor spring sports get going, so Unified basketball will be the first to begin competition. Twin Valley will travel to Bennington to face Mount...
-The Brattleboro Hockey Association (BHA) has a long tradition of fielding competitive youth teams that can hold their own against hockey programs from bigger towns in western New England. The latest group of BHA players to hang a championship banner in Withington Rink is the 10U South team. They beat Westfield, Massachusetts, 4-2, on March 9 to win the Greater Springfield League Championship. "This is a very big deal for Brattleboro as we are the smallest hockey association in the...
-The Brattleboro Bears girls' basketball team's formula for success this season has been a simple one - play good defense and get the ball into the hands of junior guards Reese Croutworst and Abigail Henry. "When they score, we win," said Bears head coach Karen Henry. Croutworst and Henry delivered in the seventh-seeded Bears' 49-35 win over the No. 10 Colchester Lakers in a Division I first-round playoff game at the BUHS gym on March 5. Croutworst scored 22 points,
-The Vermont girls' basketball playoffs start this week with Brattleboro and Bellows Falls beginning their postseason journeys at home, while Twin Valley and Leland & Gray have first-round road games. • Brattleboro completed the regular season with an 11-9 record and the seventh seed in Division I. They will host the No. 10 Colchester Lakers (5-15) in a first-round playoff game at the BUHS gym on March 5. The Bears had their Senior Night game on Feb. 28 at the...
-Evan Wright clinched a home playoff game for the Brattleboro Bears boys' hockey team with an overtime goal to defeat the Woodstock Wasps, 2-1, at jam-packed Withington Rink on Feb. 22. Wright, one of four seniors honored before the game, scored both of Brattleboro's goals. Not resting on his laurels after scoring his 100th career goal against Stowe on Feb. 15, he gave the Bears a 1-0 lead with 5:50 left in the first period when he drove to the...