MAV girls’ lax opens with new coach, competitive effort

The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative girls’ lacrosse team opened their season on Tuesday with a new coach and a competitive effort in a 14-10 setback against Hartford, Division II’s top tournament seed in 2024.

Saturday’s showdown in Middlebury between the nation’s two best NCAA Division III women’s lacrosse teams was as tense, well-played and close as might be expected.

The Middlebury Union High School boys’ lacrosse team had a successful season debut on Tuesday, when the Tigers prevailed over host Woodstock in a defensive battle, 7-3.

The Middlebury Union High School girls’ lacrosse team opened its spring season on Monday with a 22-12 victory over host Stowe.

The Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team showed encouraging signs in winning two out of three recent games and improving to 7-5.

The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team on Saturday protected its No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division III by rallying in the fourth quarter to defeat No. 4 Colby, 12-11.

The Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team scored twice in the final 17 seconds to knock off visiting NESCAC foe Wesleyan, 10-9, on Saturday.

The undefeated Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team won two more games this past weekend, including surviving a scare on Saturday at Wesleyan, when the Panthers erased a two-goal third quarter deficit to win, 10-9. Middlebury also defeated another NES … (read more)

The Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team rolled to a pair of wins in the past week and evened its record at 4-4 against what has been a tough early schedule. The Panthers are ranked No. 15 in NCAA Division III.

The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team picked up two more one-sided victories in the past week to improve to 6-0 and protect their No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division III.

The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team appears to be picking up where it left off in 2024. And in 2023 and 2022.

Nine members of the Division II Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative girls’ lacrosse team and three members of the young Division I Middlebury Union High School girls’ team earned all-state recognition from Vermont’s lacrosse coaches.

Five members of the Division I runner-up Middlebury Union High School boys’ lacrosse team received postseason recognition from the state’s D-I and Metro Division coaches, while eight members of the D-III champion Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative boys’ … (read more)

Recent history between the No. 2 seed Middlebury and No. 1 Champlain Valley union high school boys’ lacrosse teams heading into Sunday evening’s Division I championship game on UVM’s Virtue Field showed the margin between victory and defeat would likely b … (read more)

Mount Abe/Vergennes fell in the D-III titles games both of the last two years, but this season the senior-laden team was ready for Saturday’s state final.