CASTLETON – Stephen Lavesque, the Vermont men’s Lions’ Cup soccer coach, couldn’t have drawn it up any better.
Josh Beayon had a game baseball players ordinarily get to dream about. Rutland Post 31's Beayon had three hits and amassed seven RBIs in Saturday's 16-5 victory over Randolph.
CASTLETON — The Vermont team could easily identify where they lost the women's game of the Lions Twin State Soccer Cup, a 3-1 setback to New Hampshire in Saturday's annual all-star game pitting the recent high school graduates of the two states against one another.
Rutland Post 31 shot down Bellows Falls 8-0 on Friday night at St. Peter’s Field with Josh Beayon having a mammoth night at the plate.
CASTLETON — Nobody has scored more goals in the history of Vermont boys high school soccer than West Rutland’s Eric Maxham. He has 128 of them.
CASTLETON — Milton’s Tatum Shappy is a winner. She played on Milton girls soccer teams that won the state championship all four of her seasons with the Yellowjackets.
CASTLETON — Milton’s Tatum Shappy is a winner. She played on Milton girls soccer teams that won the state championship all four of her seasons with the Yellowjackets.
CASTLETON — Stevens High School’s Audrey Puksta likely felt she had walked off the soccer pitch for the last time with her team on the losing end of the score in the state championship game, a tough 2-1 overtime loss to Hopkinton.
The Rutland Post 31 baseball team found a way to come from behind and they couldn’t have done it at a better time.
FAIR HAVEN — Randolph and Lakes Region have had some close games this season and Thursday they had another at Fair Haven Union High School’s Bill Wood Field. It took a squeeze bunt that Dylan Lee got down in the last inning to end the game in a 6-5 Lakes Region victory.
FAIR HAVEN — It was still early morning on the soccer practice field Thursday at Fair Haven Union High School, but the July sun was already heating up. The players at the soccer camp seemed oblivious to the heat. They were intent on getting better under the watchful eye of Antonio Saviano.
CASTLETON — There are essential qualities needed to be a goalkeeper good enough to be selected for the Lions Twin State soccer team. Great hands is one of them. The ability to read the ball off the foot is another. Agility helps a lot.
NORTH CLARENDON — Green Mountain College closed its doors but another door has opened for former GMC women's basketball coach Brad Rideout. He is the new girls varsity basketball coach at Mill River Union High School.
Christopher Bell is good. Really good. But his chances of winning Thursday’s Vermont Governor’s Cup 150 at Thunder Road are slim to hopeful at best. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong on this.
On Aug. 12, the juices will start flowing again for Dave Capman. It doesn’t matter that he has greeted his players for the first day of football practice 39 other seasons. The passion still burns.
45th ANNUAL LIONS TWIN STATE
45th ANNUAL LIONS TWIN STATE
You might not see a more jubilant Post 31 dugout than the one that was celebrating after Tuesday evening's 5-0 victory over Brattleboro Post 5 at St. Peter's Field.
CASTLETON — The Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl, the annual all-star high school football game between Vermont and New Hampshire, will be played at Castleton University’s Dave Wolk Stadium on Aug. 3.
GRANVILLE, N.Y. — Rutland Post 31 dropped its non-league doubleheader to Granville Post 323 on Monday evening, 3-1, but now everything gets a bit more serious.
WEST HAVEN — The full moon hovering over Devil’s Bowl Speedway seemed to influence just about every lap of the dirt track racing action on Sunday as a wild night developed at the annual Brown’s Quarried Slate/Brown’s Orchard & Farm Stand event. Frank Hoard III and Floyd Billington ended …
Whether or not Black River will be able to field a boys soccer team this fall is going to practically come down to the midnight hour — it will be a penalty kick tiebreaker off the field, if you will.
Rutland Post 31 received a pitching gem from Pat McKeighan and Nate Hudson went 3 for 3 in Sunday’s 2-1 victory over White River Post 84 in American Legion baseball action at St. Peter’s Field.
CASTLETON — Lakes Region and Brattleboro Post 5 have proven to be the cream of the Southern Division in American Legion baseball this summer and both teams had reason to be philosophical about their doubleheader split with one another Saturday at Spartan Field.
As the Mountaineers continue their 18-game stretch and near the last few weeks of the regular season, things are starting to heat up. They’re 16-13 right now, and have a three-game stretch on the road coming up on Sunday. With 15 games left in the season and the NECBL All-Star Game yet to co…
CASTLETON — The red hot Lakes Region team scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh Friday night to edge White River Post 84 5-4, hiking its Southern Division leading record to 11-3.
Four Rutland High School linemen put themselves on the line Friday at the Pro-Style Combine at their high school, pushing themselves to get the best possible results as a way to enhance their college options.
Brattleboro’s Shawn Baker did some amazing things as a Vermont amateur golfer and the absolute best happened at Rutland Country Club 30 years ago this month.
Make some room, Tom Pierce. Drake Hull is calling.
One of the coaches on the staff of the Vermont Football Camp at Rutland's Alumni Field this week is Jim Shortle, but the camp is just one of many diverse components to his football year.
BRANDON — Otter Valley Union High School has announced the hiring of Michael Stark as head boys varsity basketball coach beginning in the 2019-2020 winter sports season.
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CASTLETON — The Castleton University football program announced its official 2019 schedule Wednesday afternoon, a slate that features nine contests with four home dates. The season opens at home against Plymouth State with a 1 p.m. kickoff Sept. 7. It marks the 10th consecutive season those …
CASTLETON — Lakes Region erupted for eight runs in the fourth inning and reliever Zach Bates kept Rutland Post 31 from having its own big inning for an 11-4 victory Wednesday.
Kenny Tremont Jr. is, quite simply, one of the best stock car drivers that has ever turned a wheel on a short track.
Virginia is for lovers. Apparently, it is for Blue Devils, too.
The chase is on and Drake Hull is still the target, but he's looking a little closer in contenders' crosshairs.
CASTLETON — It doesn’t get any better than this.
WEST HAVEN — Kenny Tremont Jr. did it again. He made it four consecutive victories at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday, taking the Rutland Regional Medical Center “Hometown Heroes” event in a wild 30-lap run.
We have been without one of the great football traditions in Rutland for about a decade now. The storied Rutland High vs. Mount St. Joseph Academy rivalry was one that stirred the passions of alumni of both schools and went well beyond the gridiron.
Rutland Country Club and Drake Hull were the big winners at the first day of the Vermont Amateur, Hull by a substantial margin and the course by a little.
It is still a few months away from Grantland Rice’s blue-gray October sky, but Sunday in July there were as many footballs in the air in Rutland County as there are when the sport is in season.
The Vermont Amateur begins Tuesday at Rutland Country Club with a field of 99 hopefuls chasing the men's state golf championship.
RANDOLPH — Rutland American Legion Post 31 romped in a 27-2, 15-3 twinbill sweep over Randolph on Sunday.
CASTLETON — Lakes Region's Aaron Szabo was coming to the plate to lead off the bottom of the fourth on Saturday and his team was leading White River Post 84 6-2 when a thunder clap caused the plate umpire to delay the game. It never got started again — a hard rain soon pelted the Castleton U…
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Saturday's Bellows Falls-Rutland Post 31 American Legion baseball game at St. Peter's Field was postponed due to a shortage of players for visiting Post 37.
WEST HAVEN — Kenny Tremont Jr. has long been the leader in all-time victories and championships at Devil’s Bowl Speedway, and his victory on Wednesday had some personal milestones attached to it. Tremont thrilled a massive grandstand crowd at the Bruno’s Towing Independence Day Spectacular p…
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