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.
Make it five straight. The Mount Abraham boys’ basketball team pulled away from visiting Middlebury in Tuesday’s second half to win big, 66-39, and improve to 7-4.
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 min … (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.
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