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Brattleboro’s Emerson Deyo is tagged out at the plate by Bennington catcher Weston Becker as she tried to score in the first inning of their Little League 10U District 2 playoff game on June 29 in Brattleboro. Deyo was credited with an RBI triple on the play.

Brattleboro LL teams reach district finals

-It looks like another exciting July for the Brattleboro Little League All-Star teams as both the 10U and 12U stormed through the first round of round-robin play in District 2 to clinch the top seed and home field advantage for the best-of-three elimination round for the district championship.

The 12U team is scheduled to host Rutland on July 8 at South Main Street Field in game 1 of that series, while the 10U team is set to host Bennington in their series opener on July 9.

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SVL names its spring all-star teams

-The Southern Vermont League (SVL) announced the all-league honorees for baseball, softball, boys' and girls' lacrosse, track and field, tennis, Ultimate Disc, and Unified basketball last week. • In baseball, Brattleboro's Jayke Glidden and Sam Bogart were named the A Division first team, with teammates Sean Cozza, Eric Kurucz,

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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...

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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. 14 Windsor Yellowjackets in a first-round game on June 3 at Hadley Field, and advanced with a 6-1 victory. Steve Joslyn was the winning pitcher. That set up an epic quarterfinal...

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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 games played. Now, they are preparing for the postseason. Boys' lacrosse • Brattleboro had its Senior Night on May 29 at Natowich Field as Nathanial Domina, Alexander Dick, Justin Packard, Marco...

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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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