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Jaden Bazin of Bellows Falls was one of two local players selected to the Vermont Basketball Coaches’ Association (VBCA) Boys Outstanding Underclassmen list for 2025.

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 beat Westfield, Massachusetts, 4-2, on March 9 to win the Greater Springfield League Championship.

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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

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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...

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Wright leads Bears to overtime win against Wasps

By
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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Bears do well at their first home Nordic meet

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 — Issue 800

-The Brattleboro nordic ski team had its first home meet of the season on Jan. 24 at the Marlboro Ski Club. Thanks to about 8 inches of snow on Jan. 19 and some of the coldest weather of the winter thus far, the course was in excellent shape for the Southern Vermont League (SVL) classic race. Woodstock was the boys' team winner with 19 points. Mount Anthony was second with 37 points, followed by Brattleboro with 42, Rutland with 57,

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