The Eagles played three games in the past week, and the Tigers had two.
Milton beat the combined team from Mount Abraham and Vergennes union high schools 9-2 on Friday, April 24.
The teams are just two to start their spring seasons with wins.
No. 1-ranked MUHS was losing to No. 2 Mount Mansfield until the final seconds of regulation in Friday’s game, then the Tigers pulled out the game-winner.
A Middlebury Union High School boys’ lacrosse team with a veteran defense and a reconfigured offense is off to a strong start this spring. An 8-3 victory over visiting Woodstock pushed the Tigers’ record to 4-0.
On this past Saturday, host St. Johnsbury posted a 14-6 victory over the Mount Abraham/Vergennes cooperative boys’ lacrosse team.
Mount Abe/Vergennes fell in the D-III titles games both of the last two years, but this season the senior-laden team was ready for Saturday’s state final.
Saturday’s 16-8 victory in some ways looked like the Toby Draper show; it followed a closer contest with the defending state champs.
Only Mount Abraham-Vergennes picked up a victory among local high school boys’ lacrosse teams in recent play.
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