AC baseball makes playoff push

The Addison County American Legion baseball team won five straight games in the past week to push itself back into what is a tight race for one of four Northern Division playoff berths. 

MIDDLEBURY — A rough weekend saw the Addison County American Legion baseball team fall below .500 at 6-8. AC dropped doubleheaders on Saturday to South Burlington, 6-1 and 1-0, and on Sunday to St. Johnsbury, 6-2 and 7-6. AC’s Tuesday home game vs. St. Jo … (read more)

The Addison County American Legion baseball team opened its summer campaign by winning three out of five games between June 25 and 30 after bad weather wiped out AC’s first few outings. 

Nineteen members of the Middlebury, Mount Abraham, Otter Valley and Vergennes union high school baseball teams received postseason recognition from either the Lake Division or Southern Valley League B Division. 

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After uncooperative weather washed out the Addison County American Legion baseball team’s first four scheduled games of the summer, AC opened at home at Middlebury Union High School on Tuesday with a 7-4 victory over Champlain Valley. 

It could be said two baseball teams won Saturday night’s Division II high school baseball final between No. 6 Mount Abraham and No. 8 Middlebury, which was played at UVM’s Centennial Field.

The Mount Abraham baseball team is going to the Division II championship contest for the first time since winning the last of six titles under former Coach Jeff Stetson in 2016. 

After nail-biting wins in the Division II quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, the No. 8 seeded Middlebury Union High School baseball team will be making the program’s first-ever appearance in a title game.

Top-seeded Thetford held off the No. 9 Vergennes Union High School baseball team, 5-2, on Saturday in a Division III quarterfinal. 

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On paper Tuesday’s Division II first-round playoff game between the host No. 8 seed Middlebury Union High School baseball team and No. 9 Otter Valley looked like a close game. 

The No. 6 Mount Abraham baseball team in Division II and the No. 9 Vergennes squad in D-III each won first-round games on Tuesday and advanced to quarterfinals scheduled for Friday. 

In a Tuesday matchup with Division II postseason implications, the Mount Abraham baseball team survived a wild seventh-inning rally by visiting Middlebury to prevail, 10-9. 

Middlebury’s hot streak continued to highlight recent high school baseball action. With three more recent wins, including one over Vergennes this past Saturday, the Tigers pushed their winning streak to six games and their record to .500 heading into a Tu … (read more)