-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 less experienced this year, but we still have four guys who were in the playoffs last season, and they are helping out the younger guys, who are improving quickly."...
-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...
-The first weeks of baseball season in Vermont can be a rollercoaster of experiences - battling the unpredictable weather, getting used to playing baseball outdoors after weeks of being cooped up in a gymnasium, and the challenge of pulling a team together that can handle the sprint of a...
-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...
-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 as champions. But head coach Tyler Boone is doing what can be done to temper expectations. While 13 players are returning, Boone says several of them are dealing with injuries and...
-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 mention. In the C Division, Twin Valley's Brayden Brown and Green Mountain's Tanner Swisher were first team selections. Honorable mentions included Caleb Merrow of Green Mountain, Cody Hescock and Ely White...
-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...