Sports
Bears girls’ and boys’ soccer off to a good start
The Brattleboro soccer teams played host last week to their lower-division neighbors, Green Mountain and Leland & Gray, for a pair of games under the lights at Natowich Field.
The boys rolled to a 5-1 win over GM on Sept. 20 as senior forward Ozzie VanHendrick scored three goals. It was a little tougher for the Brattleboro girls, as the defending Division IV champions put up a good fight in a 4-2 loss to the Bears on Sept. 21.
Bears hang on, beat Patriots, win back Elwell Trophy
The Elwell Trophy returned to Brattleboro on Sept. 15 after the Bears pulled out a 14-9 victory over the Mount Anthony Patriots in a football game that had more emotional twists and turns than perhaps any other meeting in this long rivalry. This game violated most of the conventions...
Weather makes mess of sports schedules
Excessive heat, thunderstorms force cancellations, postponements, and truncated games
A week of hot weather and thunderstorms is not unusual in early September. However, last week's heat wave, followed by a series of violent thunderstorms, is highly unusual for this time of year. As a result of Vermont getting weather that was more like July than September, the high...