VUHS boys basketball hangs on to edge Mount Abe

VERGENNES — In a game not decided until the final minute, the host Vergennes Union High School boys’ basketball team held off Mount Abraham on Saturday, 52-45. The Commodores led by as many as 11 early in the third quarter and by six with the ball two minutes into the fourth, but the Eagles’ hard work on defense and the boards allowed them to twice tie the game down the stretch and at one point take a two-point lead. The Eagles wiped out the Commodores’ 37-31 lead in the fourth when Henry Cogswell stole the … (read more)

After a first half on Tuesday that featured a combined 23 turnovers and ended with the host Otter Valley girls’ basketball team clinging to a 9-7 lead over Mount Abraham, the question was whether either team was going to play up to its capabilities in the … (read more)

The Mount Abraham boys’ basketball team rode a big first half past Randolph on Friday, 60-43, in the season opener for both teams.

Visiting Fair Haven got off to a fast start on Friday and defeated the Mount Abraham girls’ basketball team, 38-29, in the season opener for both teams.

The winter of 2020-2021 was not the kindest to Mount Abraham sports teams. The COVID pandemic forced the school’s basketball programs, like those elsewhere, to play abbreviated seasons, and neither managed winning records.

No. 2 seed Woodstock ended the 11th-seeded Mount Abraham girls’ soccer team’s run through the Division II playoffs on Nov. 3, when the Wasps prevailed in the Friday semifinal, 3-1.

The Mount Abraham girls’ soccer team continued its late-season surge on Friday, when the Eagles bested Vergennes, 2-0, in the final regular-season game for both teams.

In a Tuesday boys’ soccer game that ramped up in intensity as it progressed, host Vergennes Union High School did just enough to get past rival Mount Abraham, 2-1.

The Mount Abraham field hockey team on Friday successfully navigated the first of three straight games against top Division I teams, defeating visiting Essex, 1-0. 

The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team converted seven Otter Valley turnovers into 30 points on Saturday as the Division II Eagles won for the first time this season, 44-20, at the visiting Otters’ expense.

The Mount Abraham Union High School field hockey team defeated host Mount Mansfield, 2-0, on Saturday in its only game between Oct. 6 and 12.

In a Tuesday battle of rebuilding high school girls’ soccer programs, host Mount Abraham defeated Vergennes, 2-0, after taking charge and scoring twice in the second half.

The victory set up the 6-0-1 Commodores for a showdown of unbeaten teams on Monday, when they host Milton with first place in the Lake Division on the line.

Mount Abraham split two games; Otter Valley won its only outing; and Middlebury came up short at home.

The Middlebury girls’ soccer team came to Bristol on Tuesday at 3-1-1 to face 0-4 Mount Abraham, but it didn’t take long for the Tigers to learn the feisty Eagles would give them all they could handle.