MAV football closes with 41-20 win; heads to playoffs in No. 3

The Mount Abraham/Vergennes cooperative football team dispatched winless host Poultney, 41-20, on Saturday in a Division III matchup to conclude the Eagles’ successful regular season at 7-1.

The Mount Abraham/Vergennes cooperative football team dispatched winless host Poultney, 41-20, on Saturday in a Division III matchup to conclude the Eagles’ successful regular season at 7-1.

The Commodores are the highest-seeded team left in the D-III postseason.

A successful Mt. Abe field hockey season came to an end on Oct. 22, when visiting No. 7 seed Stowe upset the No. 2 Eagles in a Division III quarterfinal, 1-0, in a double-overtime marathon.

The 6th-seeded Mount Abraham girls’ soccer team exited the Division II playoffs on Saturday after losing a heartbreaking penalty kick shootout to host No. 3 U-32.

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

Top seed Bellows Falls defeated the MUHS field hockey team in an Oct. 24 Division II playoff quarterfinal, 7-0.

No. 1 seed MUHS girls’ volleyball easily got past a skunky, but overmatched, No. 9 seed Vermont Commons School squad in a Division II quarterfinal, three sets to none.

The No. 3 seeded VUHS boys’ soccer team cruised past No. 14 seed Oxbow on Tuesday, 5-0, in a first-round Division III playoff game.

The big news in high school girls’ soccer this fall has been the Vergennes team, which finished 13-1 and earned the No. 2 seed in Division III.

The Division III Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team rallied past visiting D-II Spaulding on Saturday, 14-7, to remain in the running for a No. 2 seed in the upcoming playoffs. 

The MUHS boys’ soccer team earned the No. 1 seed in Division II and earned a bye into the quarterfinal round.

Middlebury Union High School volleyball was awarded the No. 1 seed for the Division II playoffs.

Otter Valley (11-3) in Division II and Mount Abraham (10-4) in D-III each received No. 2 seeds entering the playoffs, while Middlebury (2-10-1) in D-II received a No. 8 seed.

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