Eagle boys’ basketball team soars past the Otters

The Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ basketball team beat Otter Valley, 67-37, this past Saturday.

The total number of deer weighed in Addison County in 2025 stands at 886.

In limited recent local high school girls’ basketball play, Vergennes won big on the road, while Mount Abraham came up short for a second time against Fair Haven, but with a better effort.

Division 1 Burlington/Colchester on Dec. 22 dealt the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team its first loss of the season, 8-0.

Vergennes won on the road, while Middlebury lost at home in recent local high school boys’ basketball action.

Middlebury Union girls’ hockey opened the season 2-0 with a dominant 3-1 win over Rutland, outshooting the visitors 63-7 and showcasing strong puck movement, defense, and goaltending.

The Middlebury Union High School boys’ Nordic team on Tuesday won a season-opening sprint race on home snow at Rikert Outdoor Center, while the girls’ team took fifth. 

Visiting Fair Haven buried the young Mount Abraham girls’ basketball team with an early barrage of three-pointers on Monday.

The Addison Northwest School District board in two meetings this month continued to wrestle with a spending proposal for the 2026-2027 school year.

As usual, there was plenty of enthusiasm at the Bristol school this month to accompany the short run-up to the season, with practices starting on Dec. 1 and action starting for all the teams within two weeks.

Most Middlebury Union High School sports teams enjoyed successful seasons this past winter, and there are reasons to hope for more of the same in the 2025-2026 campaign.

Vergennes Union High School sports teams fared pretty well overall in the winter of 2024-2025, even if championship hardware was largely elusive

MUHS’s wrestling team fared well this past weekend at the Tom Sawyer Invitational in Souhegan, N.H., as all six Tiger wrestlers who competed compiled winning records, two won their weight classes, and the Tigers overall finished sixth out of 16 teams.

The Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team opened its season on Dec. 12 with a 5-1 loss to visiting Rutland. 

The Middlebury Union High School girls’ basketball team won at Vergennes on Friday, Dec. 12.