Updated: Connie LaRose fired as Eagle girls’ basketball coach

BRISTOL — More than a week after Mount Abraham Union High School Athletic Director Devin Wendel fired Eagle girls’ basketball Coach Connie LaRose, 78, on Monday, June 13, the official reasons why she will not return after 31 seasons guiding the program are no clearer. During her tenure, LaRose’s Eagle teams compiled a 462-222 record, reached 11 Division II finals, and won five D-II titles, four of them since 2012. Previously she coached for two years at other schools, winning 24 games and losing 10. Her Mou … (read more)

Longtime successful Mount Abe coach doesn’t understand why she was fired.

For the second straight season, the No. 2 Mount Abraham Union softball team won two Division II playoff games, but then came up short vs. No. 3 Enosburg, its Lake Division rival, in a home semifinal.

The 29th annual Eagle Basketball Camp will be held in Bristol from June 27 to 30 for grades 2 through high school.

Host Spaulding defeated the Mount Abraham-Vergennes boys’ lacrosse team on Saturday, 9-3. The Tide improved to 3-1 with their third straight win, while the Eagles dropped to 1-1.

The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative boys’ lacrosse team spotted Otter Valley an early lead on Tuesday in Bristol and also had to hold off a late Otter rally, but the Eagles ultimately prevailed, 11-8.

The Mount Abraham softball team jumped to a quick 11-1 lead over visiting Spaulding on Tuesday and cruised to a 15-6 victory in the Eagles’ opener.

The spring of 2021 saw the Mount Abraham softball team and its joint boys’ lacrosse squad with Vergennes reach semifinals, the baseball squad win a first-round Division II game after winning 10 regular season games, and the track and field program qualify … (read more)

After years of limited success at the Division II level, the Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative high school football team will play in Division III this fall.

Host No. 2 Montpelier ended the No. 7 Mount Abraham boys’ basketball team’s strong season in a Friday Division II quarterfinal, 64-35.

Before the No. 6 Mount Abraham girls’ basketball team won the Division II title on Saturday the Eagles had to survive a rally by No. 2 Enosburg in Wednesday’s semifinal at the Barre Auditorium to win, 52-48.

BARRE — Saturday’s Division II girls’ basketball final began with Mount Abraham senior center Laura Bonar sending favored Spaulding a message. Bonar blocked four early Tide shots, and a team that had walked over the Eagles by 26 points in February knew it … (read more)

It had been since 2008 that the Mount Abraham boys’ basketball program hosted a Division II playoff game, and since 2009 that an Eagle boys’ team had won in the postseason — that year the No. 12 Eagles defeated No. 5 Middlebury.

While all four local high school girls’ basketball teams won their first-round playoff games, only Mount Abraham advanced to a quarterfinal matchup.

The Commodores look the lead four minutes into the game, held the Eagles to 10 first-half points, and knocked off their rivals, 43-32, on the night they honored seniors Felicia Poirier, Ryley Dubois and Geneva Verburg at their final home game.