Rutland tops Tiger boys’ soccer in debut

The Middlebury Union High School boys’ soccer team opened its 2024 campaign this past Saturday with a 4-2 loss at Division I foe Rutland. 

The new boys’ soccer coach at Middlebury Union High School knows his away around the Lake Division, the league in which the Tigers compete during the regular season. 

Solstice Binder, who will be a junior at Middlebury Union High School, made the Olympic Development Program East regional team.

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.

After spending eight falls coaching different levels of the Mount Abraham Union High and Middle School boys’ soccer program, including the past three as the varsity boys’ soccer coach, former Eagle player Rider MacCrellish resigned from the post this past … (read more)

Seven local high school boys’ soccer players were named to the Division II or III All-State Teams, and another 23 earned recognition from either the Lake Division or the Southern Vermont League B Division. 

Five area high school girls’ soccer players were named either Division I or D-II All-State Players by the state’s coaches, and another half-dozen earned recognition from either the Lake Division or Southern Vermont League B Division.

The Middlebury College men’s soccer team bowed out of the NCAA Division III tournament on Sunday, when host Amherst edged the Panthers, 1-0, in a quarterfinal matchup. 

The Panthers defeated Western New England on Saturday, 3-0, then on Sunday turned aside Johns Hopkins to take an NCAA regional final, 2-1.

Fourth-seeded Tufts upset the top-seeded host Middlebury College men’s soccer team on Saturday, 2-1, in a semi-final game in the NESCAC tournament.

No. 11 Vergennes Union High School boys’ soccer drew a familiar foe in the Division III playoffs this past Wednesday, Oct. 25: No. 6 Fair Haven. 

The Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ soccer team, the number 8 seed in the Division II playoffs, had defeated Lake Division foe Rice — the No. 9 seed —  twice during the regular season, 2-0 and 2-1. But on Oct. 25, the visiting Green Knights won the … (read more)

The Vergennes Union High School girls’ soccer team won one Division III playoff game before falling to the top seed in closely contested quarterfinal. 

No. 2 seed Tiger boys’ soccer advanced to the Division II semifinal by soundly beating No. 10 Lake Region on Saturday.

In high school girls’ soccer playoff action on Tuesday Mount Abraham, also the only team to play at home, was the only local squad to advance to the second round of the Division II postseason.