In a game that featured two dramatic touchdowns that created lead changes in the final 1:09, the No. 5 seed Mount Abraham-Vergennes football team defeated No. 4 Rice, 43-40, in a Division III quarterfinal on Saturday.
The Otter Valley football team broke open Saturday’s Division III game against Mount Abraham-Vergennes with a three-touchdown second quarter on the way to a big homecoming win, 46-25. The result left both teams at 2-2.
The Mount Abraham/Vergennes football team won its Division III opener on Saturday, 20-14, at Poultney, snapping a 14-14 tie in the fourth quarter on the third of Jamison Couture’s three rushing touchdowns.
After two stirring playoff wins to earn the Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative program’s first championship game appearance, the fifth-seeded Eagles had hopes of adding the team’s first title to their résumé.
A strong start in Monday’s Division II final by undefeated Hartford proved to be too much for the Mount Abraham-Vergennes girls’ lacrosse team to overcome in a 10-7 setback.
All three area high school boys’ lacrosse teams prevailed in playoff quarterfinals last week, but only the Mount Abraham-Vergennes combined team won a semifinal.
The second-seeded Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative girls’ lacrosse team got past visiting No. 7 Stowe on Friday, 12-6, in a Division II quarterfinal.
