Eagle girls’ hoop wins one, lose one; OV splits

ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school girls’ basketball games played last week, Mount Abraham split two games, while Otter Valley came up short twice. Monday games were played after the early holiday edition for this paper. Vergennes was set to visit Richford on Monday and will visit Lamoille on Thursday. Middlebury was idle and will travel to play Missisquoi on Thursday, Jan. 2, and host Randolph on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. EAGLES On Dec. 23 host Fair Haven scored the final 10 points of the game to defeat th … (read more)

VERGENNES — A back-and-forth girls’ basketball game on Saturday at Vergennes Union High School ended with visiting Harwood dominating overtime and dealing the Commodores a 51-40 setback in the opener for both teams. Harwood and VUHS traded the lead five t … (read more)

RANDOLPH — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ basketball team on Saturday posted its first win since the 2017-2018 season, 41-37 at Randolph. Freshman guard Cady Pitner scored 12 points to lead the Tigers in her varsity debut; she sat out the team’s … (read more)

FAIR HAVEN — Burr & Burton on Saturday rallied to edge the Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ basketball team, 43-42, in the opening round of Fair Haven’s annual holiday tournament. Both teams were making their season’s debut. The Eagles led by 24-15 … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — An experienced Otter Valley Union High School girls’ basketball team used a big early run to take charge in the Otters’ 51-25 victory this past Wednesday over host Middlebury. A young MUHS team starting one senior and four sophomores held its … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — A young Middlebury Union girls’ basketball team took its lumps this past winter, but Coach Jen Heath is hoping for at least a modest step forward this season as the Tigers begin to mature. Certainly, Heath was able to list some positives abou … (read more)

VERGENNES — A year ago Coach Billy Waller’s Vergennes Union girls’ basketball team won nine times and then took a 15-win team into overtime in the first round of the Division II tournament. A half-dozen of those Commodores graduated, but Waller was not si … (read more)

BRISTOL — Almost all the players have graduated from the Mount Abraham Union girls’ basketball teams that won the 2018 Division II title and then earned the top seed in 2019 before being upset in a close semifinal. But Coach Connie LaRose is not complaini … (read more)

BRANDON — The move from Division II to Division III may be more of a lateral move for the Otter Valley Union High School girls’ basketball team this year. While they will no longer have to travel to Brattleboro and Mount Anthony, they will have to deal wi … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Mount Abraham outpaced Middlebury on Friday to highlight local high school girls’ basketball play last week. In other action, the Eagles and Tigers each dropped games earlier in the week, while Vergennes and Otter Valley each split two ga … (read more)

EAST MONTPELIER — The Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ basketball team lost a lead in the final seconds and fell to host U-32 on Thursday, 29-27. U-32’s Payton Gariboldi’s basket scored to tie the game with five seconds left, and then Casey Flye sto … (read more)

FAIR HAVEN — Host Fair Haven, a Division II finalist a year ago, eased past the visiting Middlebury Union High School girls’ basketball team on Tuesday, 43-18. The Slaters used pressure defense to score 18 points in the second period on the way to a 30-7 … (read more)