Tiger baseball clinches D-II title in tense game vs. Eagles

It could be said two baseball teams won Saturday night’s Division II high school baseball final between No. 6 Mount Abraham and No. 8 Middlebury, which was played at UVM’s Centennial Field.

The Mount Abraham baseball team is going to the Division II championship contest for the first time since winning the last of six titles under former Coach Jeff Stetson in 2016. 

The second-seeded Mount Abraham/Vergennes boys’ lacrosse team rolled past No. 3 Fairfax on Tuesday, 15-6, in a Division III semifinal. On Saturday at 1:30 p.m., the 10-4 Eagles will play for the program’s first title at Norwich University.

Host No. 2 seed Lyndon ousted the No. 7 seed and defending champion Mount Abraham softball team in a Division II quarterfinal on Friday, June 7, 13-10. 

In a Tuesday matchup with Division II postseason implications, the Mount Abraham baseball team survived a wild seventh-inning rally by visiting Middlebury to prevail, 10-9. 

The Middlebury Union High School softball team continued to roll on Tuesday, this time at the expense of host and defending Division II champion Mount Abraham. The Tigers won, 17-4, in six innings. 

The Mount Abraham Union High School baseball team just might be ready to make a move up in the Division II standings. 

The spring of 2023 overall treated Mount Abraham Union High School athletes pretty well, even considering a few glitches.

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)