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RANDOLPH — To help minimize spread of the coronavirus, Vermont high school bowling has gone virtual this winter.No, nobody is running Wii bowling tournaments online. Teams are instead staying at their home lanes and bowling by solo. Scores are due...

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WEST LEBANON — The NHIAA’s official scoresheet for hockey features 10 slots to record goals scored for each team.On Tuesday night at Campion Rink, the Hanover High girls hockey team nearly filled up the entire column in the first period. The Marauders...

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HANOVER — Dan O’Rourke stood at mid-court with his Hanover High girls basketball team on Friday night, making sure each one of his players had a chance to hold the Weschler Cup. Senior Charlotte Johnson snagged a selfie with the golden trophy. Melissa...

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HANOVER — With less than 35 seconds remaining in Tuesday night’s game, the Lebanon High boys basketball team clenched a one-point lead at Hanover and held possession under its own basket coming out of a timeout.The Marauders were sitting in a...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When Karl Nott was two months old, his sister Katrina would play music to her younger brother. Although he couldn’t walk, Boomer would be shaking his hands and feet to the music, reminding Katrina of the boxer Ray “Boom Boom”...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Standing outside Wendell A. Barwood Arena after picking up his first career victory, Davey Bradley answered media questions nonchalantly.The goaltender made 14 saves for the Hartford High boys hockey team in his first varsity...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Headed for an easy fast-break layup late in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s game, Tarin Prior slowed down near midcourt on the run to adjust his mask.The junior on the Hartford High boys basketball team quickly pulled up...

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HANOVER — Entering January, Jason Liu was starting to accept the tough reality that his time hitting the green for the Big Green was coming to a close.A senior, he didn’t have a team on which to compete because Dartmouth’s program had been cut in...

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HANOVER — After more than a decade at Dartmouth College, Harry Sheehy will retire from his role as the Big Green’s athletic director this month, leaving big shoes to fill and uncomfortable questions to answer.The 68-year-old helped Dartmouth stay...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...

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HANOVER — When Dartmouth College announced last week that it was reinstating five varsity sports it had dropped during July budget cuts, it explained the reversal by saying data used to make the decision “may not have been complete.”In fact, the...

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HANOVER — Coady Keller asked himself a simple question at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.How do we bring Dartmouth College to recruits through a computer screen?The recruiting coordinator for Big Green football started to make a list of things...

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HANOVER — Stas Van Genderen’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing with notifications on Friday morning. Lying in his bed, sore from skiing the day before, he finally picked up an incoming phone call from his mom.“My phone is just blowing up, million text...

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Thetford Academy boys basketball coach Jason Gray would’ve laughed at the beginning of last season if you told him he would win his second consecutive state championship.Now, he has a chance to go for three consecutive trophies. That’s the least of...

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On Saturday, Oct. 12, 1918, the Stevens High football team defeated Manchester High, 53-0, at Monadnock Park on a wet and slippery field in a drizzly rain.Five days later, the team was looking for opponents and Claremont’s The National Eagle wrote a...

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DURHAM, N.H. — For a few days last April, Jon Willeman was unsure what his future would look like.The COVID-19 pandemic had just shut down the NHIAA Division II boys basketball tournament, and Willeman was adjusting to his senior year at Lebanon High...

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Mack Levy never thought twice about it.To him, the Hanover High mascot has always been a sign of validation and status. Levy, who is a two-sport athlete, remembers growing up in the Dresden School District and looking up to those who were able to wear...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Kylie Young hasn’t forgotten the final game of her career as a defenseman on the Hartford High girls hockey team, even if it was nearly 20 years ago.The 2002 Hartford grad laughed on Tuesday when asked about the state...

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HANOVER — The Hanover Hockey Association (HHA) has overturned its decision to allow three of its youth teams to play games against clubs outside of Grafton County.The ruling was made in an emergency board meeting Thursday night after the...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Kylie Young hasn’t forgotten the final game of her career as a defenseman on the Hartford High girls hockey team, even if it was nearly 20 years ago.The 2002 Hartford grad laughed Tuesday when asked about the state championship...

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When Jordy Allard’s college career eventually ends, he’ll have attended a school in each of the NCAA’s three divisions.The Hartford High grad and former Upper Valley Nighthawk announced via Twitter on Tuesday that he will be attending the University...