basketball
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Faith Gong: Basketball, a love story
Around the time he turned two years old, my son began noticing basketball hoops everywhere. Driving through town, we’d be startled by periodic shouts of “Basketball!” from the…
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Commodore boys’ hoop declaws Tigers
The host Vergennes Union High School boys’ basketball team erupted in Tuesday’s second quarter to take charge against Middlebury in what can be fairly called a surprisingly one-sided…
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Only MUHS earns girls’ hoop victory
In a limited local high school girls’ basketball schedule between Feb. 1 and 6, only Middlebury prevailed. Division II Mount Abe lost at a D-I foe, D-III Vergennes…
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Boys’ hoop teams on the upswing
In recent high school boys’ basketball play, Vergennes won twice, including a victory over rival Mount Abraham; Middlebury also won twice to stretch a winning streak to five…
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Boys’ hoop: Tigers, OV prevail
In recent local boys’ basketball play, Middlebury and Otter Valley each picked up victories, while Vergennes dropped a pair of road games.
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Girls’ hoop: Eagles, VUHS win
In local high school girls’ basketball action between Jan. 24 and 30, Mount Abraham picked up three victories, one over Middlebury; the Tigers dropped three games; Vergennes split…
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Tiger boys’ hoop outscores Eagles in Middlebury game
Two trends continued, one of them happier than the other, when the Middlebury Union High School boys’ basketball team shut down visiting Mount Abraham in the second half…
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Shorthanded MUHS girls fall to T-Birds
Despite being shorthanded due to a key injury on Monday, the Middlebury Union High School girls’ basketball team showed grit while hanging with visiting Missisquoi until the late…
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Tiger girls’ hoop tops OV; others lose
Middlebury topped Otter Valley in their Route 7 rivalry game, and that proved to be the only victory for a local girls’ basketball team between Jan. 17 and…
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Boys’ hoop: Tigers break through; VUHS, Mount Abe net wins
In local high school basketball play between Jan. 17 and 23, Middlebury broke through for its first two wins, Vergennes split a pair of games (not counting its…
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Late surge takes Commodore boys’ hoop team sailing past Tigers
The Middlebury Union High School boys’ basketball team looked like they had Saturday’s game sewed up, but the Vergennes boys had a different idea.
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Eagle, VUHS girls win in local rivalry games
Mount Abraham defeated Vergennes, and the Commodores knocked off Middlebury as road teams prevailed in rivalry games to highlight recent local girls’ high school basketball action.
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Otters, VUHS the winners in boys’ basketball
In recent local high school boys’ basketball play, Otter Valley won twice, including avenging an earlier loss at Mount Abraham; Vergennes came out on top its only outing;…
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Women’s hoop rolls on, thumps Saints in 2nd half
Sometimes statistics can be misleading. But in Tuesday’s night’s home game for the Middlebury College women’s basketball team against St. Lawrence, the underlying numbers pointed to the truth:…
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College basketball teams net wins
As Middlebury College basketball teams began NESCAC play, the women’s hoop team picked up two road wins to earn a spot in first place, while the men’s squad…
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OV boys’ hoop tops VUHS; Eagles win
In high school boys’ basketball play between Jan. 3 and 9, Otter Valley won big over Vergennes and claimed another victory, Mount Abraham split two games, and Middlebury…