Monday wrap: Playoffs this week for basketball, girls’ hockey teams

ADDISON COUNTY — Local high school girls’ and boys’ basketball teams and the Middlebury girls’ hockey squad all wrapped up their regular seasons with games last week and will begin postseason action this week. See separate stories on the first-round playoff game played Saturday by the Tiger boys’ hockey team, and the final regular-season clash between the Mount Abraham and Vergennes boys’ basketball teams. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL The VUHS girls made a pre-playoff statement by rolling to a 53-27 victory on Thursda … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — The Middlebury boys’ basketball team won its third straight game, this one at the expense of rival Vergennes, to highlight high school sports action late last week. Other winners included the Eagle boys’ and Otter Valley and Tiger girls’ … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school sports late last week the Vergennes girls’ basketball team kept rolling and the Middlebury hockey teams each split a pair of games while maintaining winning records. But Tiger girls’ hoop, and Commodore and Otter Vall … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — The first full weekend of the high school winter sports season was highlighted by a Friday win for the Vergennes girls’ basketball team over visiting rival Mount Abraham. In a successful stretch, the Middlebury and Mount Abe boys’ basketb … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont high school sports competitions, which mostly had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will kick into gear on Friday, Feb. 12, Gov. Phil Scott announced at his regular press briefing this Friday. Locally, this will a … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY / BRANDON — Fifteen athletes from the Mount Abraham, Middlebury and Otter Valley union high school field hockey teams received postseason accolades from either the Metro Division or the Southern Valley League B Division. Two members of the … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — The Vergennes Union High School boys’ and girls’ soccer teams both won quarterfinals in the Division III playoffs this weekend, but the Mount Abraham-VUHS cooperative 7-v-7 touch football team bowed out of the Burlington Region postseason … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Highlights in high school sports action late last week include the top-seeded Mount Abraham field hockey team advancing in the Division II playoffs and key wins for the Vergennes girls’ soccer and cooperative Eagle-Commodore football team … (read more)

SWANTON — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ cross-country team won the Small School Division at this past Saturday’s NVAC championship meet, while the MUHS and Vergennes boys ran 2-3 in the Small School boys’ race. MUHS sophomore Seina Dowgiewicz an … (read more)

Otter Valley Union High School’s Walking Stick Theatre group is planning to make a return appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, they have plenty of time for fundraising. OV Theater director Jeff Hull said the … (read more)

BRANDON — The Otter Valley Unified Union school district board last week approved a proposed $20,377,427 fiscal year 2021 budget that would increase spending over the current year by 2.22%. Board members call it a modest increase as the district handles t … (read more)

SPRINGFIELD — The Otter Valley Union High School field hockey team cruised past host Springfield on Saturday, 5-1, as Alia Edmunds racked up four goals. Riley Keith also scored as the Otters improved to 4-1, and Morgan LaPorte and Livia Bernhardt picked u … (read more)