Winter Sports Report: VUHS Commodores ready for a strong season

Based on their most recent history, the Vergennes Union High School teams most likely to raise banners after this winter wear wrestling singlets and running shoes. 

Slaters best VUHS boys’ soccer

No. 11 Vergennes Union High School boys’ soccer drew a familiar foe in the Division III playoffs this past Wednesday, Oct. 25: No. 6 Fair Haven. 

Top seed knocks out VUHS girls

The Vergennes Union High School girls’ soccer team won one Division III playoff game before falling to the top seed in closely contested quarterfinal. 

Eagle girls fly over VUHS

The Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ soccer team scored early and often in Tuesday’s home game on the way to an 8-1 victory over visiting local rival Vergennes. 

VUHS boys’ soccer gets off to slow start, falls to GMVS

The Vergennes Union High School boys’ soccer team allowed visiting Green Mountain Valley to get off to a quick start on Monday, and the Commodores never recovered in a 3-0 setback despite outplaying the Gumbies throughout the second half. 

MUHS girls outlast gritty Commodores, 2-1

In a hard-fought girls’ soccer match on this past Saturday, Middlebury outlasted Vergennes in the Commodores’ homecoming game, 2-1. 

Tigers roar at Eagle X-C meet

Soggy conditions didn’t slow down Middlebury runners noticeably at a cross-country meet hosted by the Mount Abraham Union High School team on Tuesday afternoon. 

Younger athletes could hold key for Commodores

In most cases youth will both be served by — and serve — the Vergennes Union High School teams this fall.

VUHS boys go OT, fall on road

Host Green Mountain Valley on Sept. 1 prevailed over the Vergennes Union High School boys’ soccer team, 2-1 in double overtime in the season opener for both teams. 

Two VUHS titles at D-III meet

The Vergennes Union High School boys’ track and field team won two events while finishing eighth at the Division III state championship meet on Thursday at an event hosted by Burr & Burton Academy. 

VUHS baseball reaches semis but falls, 10-6

In Division III baseball playoff action on Tuesday, No. 5 White River defeated No. 8 Vergennes Union High School, 10-6. Game details were not available at press time.

Commodore softball wins D-III opener

The Vergennes Union High School softball team, the No. 6 seed in the Division III playoffs, on Tuesday shrugged off an early deficit to visiting No. 11 White River Valley and cruised to a 10-4 victory. 

VUHS edges Eagle nine in 8

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.

MUHS softball sinks Commodores

The Middlebury Union High School softball team on Tuesday picked up a needed win after a recent rough patch, playing excellent defense and getting hits from everyone in the lineup in a 12-3 victory at Vergennes.

Commodore baseball falls to U-32

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. 

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