Tide ousts Mt. Abe girls’ hoop in first round

Tuesday’s first-round Division II opponent for the No. 6 Mount Abraham girls’ basketball team wasn’t just anyone — the 13-7 Eagles and No. 11 Spaulding, who came in 9-11 against a tough schedule, have a lot of recent history. 

There were good reasons to expect a competitive first-round Division II boys’ basketball playoff matchup on Tuesday between host No. 6 Otter Valley and No. 11. Mount Abraham.

The Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ basketball team did a lot of things right during Tuesday’s nip-and-tuck home game vs. Colchester, including taking care of the ball, outrebounding the taller Lakers, playing strong man-to-man defense, and getting … (read more)

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 of Thursday’s game on the way to a 48-30 victory. 

After spending eight falls coaching different levels of the Mount Abraham Union High and Middle School boys’ soccer program, including the past three as the varsity boys’ soccer coach, former Eagle player Rider MacCrellish resigned from the post this past … (read more)

Probably even more so than usual, the two teams involved in the Friday, Dec. 29, boys’ basketball game at Mount Abraham Union High School viewed the result — a 54-39 win for the host Eagles over Otter Valley — through different lenses.

In high school boys’ basketball action late last week, Mount Abraham split two games, with the victory the Eagles’ first of the season; Vergennes also won one and lost one, with the setback the Commodores’ first; Otter Valley picked up a one-sided road wi … (read more)

The Mount Abraham girls’ basketball team started and finished strong against visiting Montpelier on Tuesday, and that was enough for the Eagles to get past both the Solons and a few of their own mid-game struggles in a 40-30 victory.

Up in Bristol the Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ and boys’ basketball teams will both be looking to build on recent successful seasons, while the wrestling squad can find good reason for optimism with an encouraging influx of youth. 

The Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ soccer team, the number 8 seed in the Division II playoffs, had defeated Lake Division foe Rice — the No. 9 seed —  twice during the regular season, 2-0 and 2-1. But on Oct. 25, the visiting Green Knights won the … (read more)

Top-seeded Hartford eliminated the No. 8 Mount Abraham Union High School field hockey team from the Division II postseason on Oct. 27, 8-1, in a quarterfinal matchup. 

Maybe it was harder than it could have been given the Mount Abraham field hockey team’s dominance in possession and 19-2 advantage in penalty corners, but the 8th-seeded Eagles were all smiles after their 1-0 victory over visiting No. 9 Brattleboro in Tue … (read more)

MUHS boys’ soccer moved closer to a Lake Division championship when they turned back a challenge from visiting Mount Abraham this past Friday.

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. 

The Middlebury Union High School boys’ soccer team survived a scoreless first half in which host Mount Abraham had several golden opportunities, and then the Tigers rode three second-half goals from senior striker Eddie Fallis to a 3-1 victory over their … (read more)