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OV's Owen picked for Shrine Bowl football team

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



BRANDON — Otter Valley Union High School senior Justin Owen has been added to the Vermont roster for the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl football game, said OV activities director Steve Keith this week.

Owen saw action for OV as a defensive back, running back and quarterback this past fall. He joins Mount Abraham’s Wade Steele, a lineman who attends Vergennes, and Middlebury lineman Walter Odell as local representatives on Vermont’s Shrine football team.

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Alignment may move Otter Valley football

Posted on December 3, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont Interscholastic Football League’s alignment committee has proposed a new two-year alignment that would retain the three-division structure, drop Otter Valley Union High School from Division II to Division III, and leave the cooperative Mount Abraham/Vergennes program in D-III.

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Panther football wraps up record-breaking season

Posted on November 15, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — When the Middlebury College football team pulled away in the fourth quarter from visiting Tufts on Saturday to win, 35-13, the Panthers had put the finishing touches on the team’s best season since 2007.

Middlebury this fall equaled the 2007 season’s 7-1 record, even if a result elsewhere on Saturday meant the Panthers had to settle for second place, unlike the program’s 2007 co-championship: Just before the Panthers finished off the Jumbos, Trinity (8-0) won vs. Wesleyan in overtime to take the 2012 NESCAC title.

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Locals to play in North-South football game this Saturday

Posted on November 15, 2012 |
By Addison Independent



CASTLETON — The foliage will be gone and the state titles will have been decided by Saturday, Nov. 17. But the footballs will not be put away. That’s the day of one of the season’s highlights: The Annual Vermont Senior Bowl that pits the top high school seniors from the North against their counterparts from the South.

The scene shifts back to Castleton State College’s Spartan Stadium. The game has been remarkably competitive, something not lost on the state’s fandom as last year’s classic at Middlebury College was the best attended yet.

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Hartford mauls injury-plagued Tiger football team

HARTFORD – Top-seeded host Hartford knocked an injury-plagued No. 5 Middlebury Union High School football team out of the Division I playoffs, 34-0, in a Friday night semifinal.

The 10-0 Hurricanes will be seeking their 26th straight win and their third straight title and fifth in six years when they face No. 2 BFA-St. Albans on Saturday at South Burlington.

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Football: Mount Abe eleven makes statement

Posted on November 1, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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BRISTOL — Needing a big win this past Saturday to earn a berth in the Division III high school playoffs for the second straight season, the Mount Abraham-Vergennes football team did just that.

With the No. 4 seed on the line, the Eagles scored touchdowns the first six times they had the ball and held visiting Poultney to 30 first-half yards on the way to a 38-0 halftime lead and a 45-24 victory.

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Tiger football tames Rutland Raiders, 42-14

Posted on October 29, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



RUTLAND — The No. 5 Middlebury Union High School football team rolled over host No. 4 Rutland on Friday, 42-14, in a Division I quarterfinal, by rushing for about 500 yards.

The 6-3 Tigers will next travel to face undefeated two-time defending champion Hartford in a semifinal. Their date with the top-seeded, 9-0 Hurricanes had yet to be officially announced as of Sunday, but was expected to be set for 7 p.m. this coming Friday.

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Tiger football routs CVU, Raiders up next

Posted on October 25, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School football team put a rain-soaked exclamation point on its regular season on Friday, Oct. 19, when the Tigers dominated visiting Champlain Valley, 35-7, to enter the Division I playoffs with a 5-3 record and the No. 5 seed.

All the D-I quarterfinals are set for this Friday at 7 p.m. The Tigers will play at No. 4 Rutland (5-3). The winner of that game will meet the winner of  No. 1 Hartford (8-0) and No. 8 South Burlington (4-4) the following weekend.

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Tiger football dominates CVU, 35-7

Posted on October 22, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School football team put a rain-soaked exclamation point on its regular season on Friday, when the Tigers dominated visiting Champlain Valley, 35-7, to enter the Division I playoffs with a 5-3 record and — according to several sources — the No. 5 seed.

The Tigers are expected to play at No. 4 Rutland (5-3) on Friday, with the winner of that game facing either undefeated No. 1 Hartford or No. 8 South Burlington (4-4) the following weekend.

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Sports column: Time ripe for four divisions in Vermont football

Posted on October 18, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



 

In the coming weeks, Vermont football officials will gather and decide how to align divisions for the state’s 34 football-playing high schools.

Currently, there are three divisions, with 14 schools in D-I and 10 apiece in D-II and D-III. That alignment has been in place since 2011.

In 2009 and 2010, there were 10 teams in D-I and 12 apiece in D-II and D-III.

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