Eagle field hockey starts fast and outlasts Tigers

In a Monday matchup at Mount Abraham Union High School between two Division II field hockey teams that have played hard this fall, but could use more positive results, the host Eagles used a fast start and held off a second-half Middlebury push to claim a 3-1 victory.

The Division II Mount Abraham girls’ soccer team achieved its main objectives on Tuesday at Vergennes, playing crisply, passing the ball and defending well, and coming away with a 3-1 victory.

The second year of volleyball is off to a strong start at Mount Abraham Union High School, with last year’s club team now playing as a Junior Varsity squad, who took on the Middlebury Union High School Tigers as their first opponents and now are into leag … (read more)

Overall, the Mount Abraham Union High School teams will be aiming for a little more success this fall than last fall.

Cross-country runners from Middlebury, Mount Abraham and Vergennes competed at this past Saturday’s season-opening Essex Invitational meet, which drew high school competitors from all Vermont divisions.

It’s a good place to start while trying to win soccer games if a team doesn’t allow a shot on goal, and that’s just what the Mount Abraham girls accomplished against visiting Peoples Academy on Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles came away with a 1-0 victory.

The Mount Abraham Union High School field hockey team outscored host Middlebury, 3-1, this past Saturday in the season debut for both teams.

The new Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ soccer coach is a 1997 graduate who wore Eagle maroon while playing for storied coach Mike Corey and has extensive youth soccer coaching experience.

During the pandemic, Atocha completed the equivalent of two years’ worth of Spanish classes in one academic year. As a result, during his senior year, he took part in Mount Abe’s “Do Unto Others” program, volunteering as a teacher’s assistant for Spanish … (read more)

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.

For almost 50 years now, the maroon gowns, black caps and diplomas have remained a constant for graduating classes at Mount Abraham Union High School.

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.