Otter Valley nine gets D-II playoff win

After high school baseball playoff action on Tuesday, only Otter Valley was still standing in Division II, while Vergennes was waiting on deck to enter the D-III fray on Wednesday.

One way for a team to make the most of a losing season is to defeat a local rival on its Senior Day. 

Host Middlebury defeated Vergennes in extra innings to provide one local high school baseball highlight between May 17 and 23. Mount Abraham also hosted the Tigers on Tuesday.

The Middlebury College baseball team dropped two straight games this past Friday and Saturday at a four-team, double-elimination NCAA D-III Tournament regional hosted by Bridgewater State and saw its season conclude with a 27-13 record.

On a Tuesday afternoon not fit for man nor beast, never mind baseball, an exciting game of the latter nevertheless broke out at Vergennes Union High School, when the host Commodores needed eight innings to get past rival Mount Abraham, 11-10.

Host Tufts defeated the Middlebury College baseball team in the championship game of the NESCAC tournament on Sunday, 12-1, but the Panthers earned an NCAA Division III tournament bid despite the setback.

Middlebury topped Mount Abraham to highlight high school baseball action between May 9 and 16, while elsewhere the Eagles picked up a win, the Tigers split two other games, and Vergennes and Otter Valley each won two out of three. 

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The Middlebury College baseball team swept visiting Trinity, 14-7 and 13-12, on Saturday, to win a best-of-three NESCAC quarterfinal series. 

Middlebury College plans to install artificial turf surfaces on its baseball and softball fields, which abut each other east of South Street near Porter Hospital.

The difficulties the Division III Vergennes Union High School baseball team have had so far this spring against D-I and D-II opponents continued on Saturday, when D-II U-32 topped the Commodores, 6-1. 

The Middlebury College baseball team won three out of four recent games, including two out of three at NESCAC West rival Amherst, to improve to 23-9.

In limited recent local high school baseball action, Otter Valley spit two games, while Mount Abraham came up short twice. 

Saturday’s 13-2 loss to visiting St. Albans capped off a tough opening stretch for the MUHS baseball team, which stands at 1-4 after four games against Division I teams.