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Leland & Gray’s Addison Eldridge had all three of the Rebels’ hits against  Proctor and used her speed and base running smarts to twice steal home in the Rebels’ 5-4 win over the Phantoms in a softball semifinal game on June 9.

Rebels defeated in state softball championship

-The Leland & Gray Rebels started the softball season with just three returning seniors. The rest of the roster was comprised of a senior joining the team for the first time, plus three juniors, two sophomores, seven ninth-graders, and two eighth-graders.

With so many young players, Rebels fans might have expected that this year would be a rebuilding season. Instead, the third-seeded Rebels made it all the way to the Division IV state championship game. They lost 19-4 to the top-seeded West Rutland Golden Horde at Vermont State University-Castleton on June 16. We'll have the full story in next week's roundup.

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Playoffs: Rebels still alive after opening week

-Last week was a busy one for Vermont's high school athletes as they cris-crossed the state for the opening rounds of the playoffs. There's a lot to cover, so let's get to it. Baseball • Bellows Falls earned the No. 3 seed in Division III and hosted the No.

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Local teams get ready for playoffs

-The regular season for high school sports in Vermont ended on May 31 the way it began in early April - with lots of rain forcing the cancellation of games. It was frequently soggy and cool this spring, but our local teams managed to get most of their scheduled...

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Bears come up short again as MAU sweeps season series

-It's always a treat to see two top high school pitchers throw strikes and frustrate hitters. Baseball fans got to see that on a chilly afternoon on May 21 as Mount Anthony's Jacoby Dicranian and Brattleboro's Jayke Glidden engaged in an old-fashioned pitcher duel at Tenney Field. Glidden and Dicranian are two of the best pitchers in southern Vermont. When they faced each other in Bennington on May 14, Dicranian and the MAU Patriots got the better of Glidden and...

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Bears fall to Bulldogs in Unified playoffs

-It's never easy for a team to win back-to-back championships. For the Brattleboro Unified basketball team, following up last year's state title with another championship was going to be tough. As head coach Tyler Boone pointed out when the season began, every team was going to be coming at the Bears with their best effort to beat the champ. The Bears made it through the regular season undefeated and had no problem defeating Twin Valley, 73-43, in the first round...

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A rainy week for local high school teams

-Last week was a wet one, and many of the outdoor sporting events got rained out. With about two weeks left in the regular season, there's not much time left to make up the postponed games. Such is the nature of spring sports in Vermont. Unified basketball • Brattleboro defeated Rutland, 50-33, on May 6 to finish the regular season undefeated with a 7-0 record. At press time, the Bears were set to face Twin Valley in a first-round playoff...

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Bears boys’ tennis starts off strong

-For a team that's in transition, the Brattleboro boys' tennis team looks like they are headed in the right direction. The Bears lost their opening match of the season to Burr & Burton on April 11 and were off for 11 days for the school's spring break. Once they got back into action, the team won five straight matches to improve to 5-1. Bears head coach Ben Brewer said he has nine new players on the roster this season. "We're...

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Terriers off to a solid start in softball this season

-The formula for winning softball is simple. Good pitching, good defense, and timely hitting usually means success. Bellows Falls had all those things last season and made it all the way to the Division III state finals. Those ingredients are there with this season's team, but Terriers head coach Don Laurendeau said they don't always show up at the same time. "We haven't had good at-bats or been able to make routine plays consistently, but when they get locked in,

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