Sports
College basketball: Dartmouth batters Brown for first Ivy Madness invite
HANOVER — Ryan Cornish’s 18 points helped Dartmouth defeat Brown 78-58 on Saturday, a victory that secured the Big Green’s first invitation to the Ivy League’s postseason tournament.
High school boys basketball: Wildcats bound for Barre
By TRIS WYKES
SOUTH ROYALTON — The White River Valley High boys basketball team took in a horror film to start the season.
Local Roundup: Hartford and Thetford advance to boys basketball semifinals
Hartford 68, Lamoille 49
A Look Back: Newport man recalls 1980 Iditarod race
By STEVE TAYLOR
The stories are 45 years old right now, but they never cease to be entertaining and, for many, heartwarming. They’re about a Newport couple who set out to live a dream, and about how an extended community of neighbors and friends came together to make it happen.
Local Roundup: White River Valley, Oxbow win in girls hoops
Oxbow 61, Thetford 43
Column: How parents can engage kids in sports
By MIRIAM VORAN
The Upper Valley has sports for every taste. Take your pick of indoors or outdoors, individual or team, elite competition or ordinary recreation. Most parents believe that sports help children thrive — and there’s lots of evidence that speaks to those benefits.
Boys’ basketball: Whipple brothers lead Kearsarge to semifinal victory, D-III championship game
By DAN ATTORRI
BOW, N.H. — The chemistry between Kearsarge’s guards is undeniable. When you’ve been playing together your whole life, the connection looks easy.
Local Roundup: Woodstock boys hoops advance in playoffs
Woodstock 66, Randolph 59
During a snowy weekend, high schoolers learn about snow – and reflect on climate change
By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN
Two groups of high schoolers, one from Lebanon High School in New Hampshire, the other from Fajardo Academy in Puerto Rico, found themselves in several snowy situations last weekend.
Local Roundup: Vermont boys hoops playoffs begin
Hartford 69, MSJ 10
Local Roundup: Windsor girls hoops top Hartford
Windsor 40, Hartford 29
Strict co-operative program rules put Mascoma girl on boys hockey team — but it’s going well
By ADRIANA JAMES-RODIL
LEBANON — Montana Ballard is a ninth grader at Mascoma Valley Regional High School. But due to New Hampshire’s rigid rules around high schoolers playing for neighboring schools in sports where their own school doesn’t have a team, Ballard found herself this season competing for the Lebanon High School boys varsity ice hockey team.
School districts face conflicting guidance following Trump transgender sports executive order
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
In the weeks since President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at barring transgender girls and women from participating on female sports teams, New Hampshire school districts have been flooded with a flurry of conflicting guidance about how to proceed.
Stevens High School bowling team falls in quarterfinals
By PATRICK O’GRADY
The Stevens High School bowling team’s bid for back-to-back NHIAA championships ended quickly on Saturday.
Dartmouth mens basketball knocks off Tigers
By JON MARKS
PRINCETON, N.J. — It was February 21, 2009. Barack Obama was just beginning his stint in the Oval Office. The Philadelphia Phillies were atop the baseball world. “Slumdog Millionaire” was about to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Local Roundup: Stevens advances to girls basketball semis
Stevens advances to semifinals
White Mountain National Forest employees among federal staffing cuts
By TOM EASTMAN
U.S. Forest Service employees in the White Mountain National Forest are among the 3,400 recent hires in national forests throughout the country who are being terminated along with about 1,000 National Park Service workers under President Donald Trump’s push to cut federal spending, according to a report issued by the forest last Friday.
Killington to take a break from World Cup as it builds a new chairlift
By KEVIN O’CONNOR
When Vermont-schooled Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin arrived at the Killington Ski Resort last Thanksgiving for its annual World Cup women’s race, she didn’t expect a shocking fall would force her to take a break.
High school girls basketball: ‘Leprechaun’ Eshbaugh steps up and out in Raiders’ victory
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — The leprechaun got the last laugh on Wednesday night during Lebanon High’s 39-34 defeat of Hanover in girls basketball.
NHIAA D-III girls Basketball: Visitors upset shorthanded Tigers in tournament opener
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — The Stevens High girls basketball team’s game plan was simple: Put two or three defenders on Newport center Zoey Lord and let the others shoot from 3-point territory.
