Tigers collar Bulldogs to reach D-I football final

MUHS football on Friday scored twice in the first half then stopped the Bulldogs three times deep inside Tiger territory on the way to a 27-7 home victory in a Division I semifinal.

Despite losing the league playoffs Saturday, Middlebury College field hockey earned a chance to win the program’s eighth straight NCAA title and will play Westfield State in Middlebury.

The Tigers defeated No. 3 Enosburg, three hard-fought sets to none, to claim the Division II championship.

The finest Mount Abraham boys’ soccer season in a dozen years did not end the way the Eagles had hoped.

The top-seeded Middlebury Union High School football team shrugged off cold and rainy weather and No. 8 St. Albans in a 35-6 Division I quarterfinal win this past Thursday.

Here’s what happened in Addison County sports recently, plus the schedule of upcoming games and events.

The Mount-Abraham Vergennes cooperative football team blanked visiting Springfield, 26-0, in a Division III quarterfinal.

No. 2 seed VUHS relied on a gritty teamwide defense, sensational early saves from sophomore goalie Addie Smith, and well-struck goals from Ava Francis and Sophia James to defeat Peoples for the title.

The MUHS girls’ cross-country team finished third in Division at Saturday’s state championship meet.

The Eagles posted their sixth straight shutout this season.

The No. 2 seed Commodores struck first and last to earn a 2-1 victory over visiting No. 3 Stowe in Wednesday afternoon’s tense Division III semifinal. The title game is Saturday.

The MUHS football team eased past host Burlington/South Burlington this past Friday night, 35-14, to nail down the top seed in the Division I playoffs.

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Visiting No. 6 seed Thetford on Friday, Oct. 24, knocked the No. 3 Vergennes boys’ soccer team out of the Division III playoffs.

In a Division II field hockey semifinal game played in St. Johnsbury on Tuesday, No. 3 seed U-32 scored four unanswered goals in the first half on the way to a 5-2 victory over No. 2 Otter Valley.