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Twin Valley guard Kate Oyer, right, seen here driving against Leland & Gray defender Rihanna Dryden in a January game in Townshend, was elected to the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association’s Outstanding Underclasswomen teams.

Unified basketball kicks off spring sports season

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

-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.

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BHA 10U South team wins league championship

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 — Issue 807

-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...

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BUHS girls win first playoff game since 2014

Boys’ hockey team bows out in Division II semifinals

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 — Issue 806

-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...

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Bears open girls’ basketball, boys’ hockey playoffs at home

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 — Issue 805

-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...

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Wright leads Bears to overtime win against Wasps

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Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 — Issue 804

-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...

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Slovenia’s Uhr Rosar wins again at Harris Hill

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Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 — Issue 803

-With a big winter storm bearing down on Brattleboro on Feb. 16, the folks who run the Harris Hill Ski Jump decided to combine the U.S. Cup and the Fred Harris Memorial Tournament events into one day of competition on Feb. 15. Uhr Rosar of Slovenia won the Open Men's division for the second straight year. His two jumps of 101 and 99.5 meters gave him 257.5 points, Norway took the next two spots as Ole Gravermoen had jumps of...

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Conathan-Leach wins SVL individual Nordic title

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Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 — Issue 802

-While the Brattleboro Bears Nordic ski team will not win the Southern Vermont League (SVL) Championship this season, the Bears do have an individual championship to celebrate. Brattleboro's Nico Conathan-Leach won the SVL boys' classic race on Feb. 4 on the Marlboro Nordic Ski Club's trails. He covered the course in 14 minutes, 30 seconds, just two seconds faster than runner-up James Underwood of Woodstock. Together with his fourth-place finished on Jan. 28, Conathan-Leach clinched the SVL boys' individual title.

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Bears run down Terriers, 57-18

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Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 — Issue 801

-The Bellows Falls Terriers' girls' basketball team has had a great season so far, but they got tested on Jan. 30 when the Brattleboro Bears visited Holland Gymnasium. The Bears' dynamic backcourt of juniors Reese Croutworst and Abigail Henry finished with 26 and 16 points, respectively, as the Bears rolled to a 57-18 victory over the Terriers. In the first quarter, Croutworst (16 points) and Henry (eight points) were particularly effective during a 26-0 run that gave Brattleboro a 26-4...

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