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By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — So close, yet so far. So disappointing.After clawing out of the losers’ bracket and into the Vermont American Legion state tournament’s title round on Friday, the White River Junction Post 84 baseball team lost to Franklin...

By Greg Fennell

Manchester — The alarm sounded with neither bell nor buzzer, but a blast and the bustling of two stocky legs.Catcher Andrew Hadlock’s two-out, 10th-inning triple to the right-center field fence prefaced an RBI single from Joey Perras, a combination...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — In New England baseball circles, the phrase “The Impossible Dream” immediately conjures up memories of the Boston Red Sox, their unlikely 1967 American League pennant run and subsequent trip to the World Series.Should the White...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — Dylan Spencer plans to major in civil engineering when he attends the University of Vermont later this year. Tuesday, the White River Junction Post 84 American Legion pitcher created a subtle masterpiece when he threw a...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — The White River Junction Post 84 American Legion baseball team’s anticipated drive to the Vermont state title spun into the proverbial ditch on Sunday. The tournament hosts were shellacked, 10-1, by the Orleans-Essex-Caledonia...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — Get your dukes ready. The White River Junction Post 84 American Legion baseball team ain’t here to dance.That’s certainly the case after this year’s host of the Vermont state tournament had to fight tooth and nail to defeat S.D....

By Tris Wykes

Manchester — The Lebanon Post 22 senior American Legion baseball team won its first state tournament game in three years on Friday, pinning a 7-5 defeat on Exeter Post 32 at Gill Stadium. Seanon May whacked a double and a triple, and Henry Day and...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — The Vermont American Legion state baseball tournament kicks off Saturday at the Maxfield Sports Complex, hosted by one of the event’s top-seeded teams, White River Junction Post 84.The eight-team competition promises excitement...

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Sanford, Maine — Upper Valley Nighthawks starting pitcher Danny Wirchansky allowed seven hits and five runs in two innings and suffered his first loss of the summer Wednesday as the New England Collegiate Baseball League team lost its third...

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Hanover — The Dartmouth College women’s swimming and diving program has lost its fall competition schedule as punishment for a finding of hazing by school authorities. Dartmouth’s athletic department announced the sanction in a news release on Monday...

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Randolph — White River Junction Post 84 scattered 11 hits and never trailed in a 10-3 win over Randolph Post 9 on Tuesday night at Randolph Union High School that secured the regular-season title in Vermont American Legion baseball’s Southern...

By Tris Wykes

Lebanon — If the Lebanon Post 22 senior American Legion baseball team’s 10-9 loss to Sweeney Post 2 on Saturday wasn’t the most frustrating in program history, it must be a major contender.Lebanon led, 9-2, before surrendering eight runs during the...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — The Upper Valley Nighthawks began last Tuesday’s batting practice without musical accompaniment. However, once the necessary electronics were arranged behind the Maxfield Sports Complex backstop, general manager Noah Crane was...

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Englewood, Colo. — Former Mid Vermont Christian School athlete Sam Proctor received the Western Athletic Conference’s Stan Bates Award on Thursday as one of the league’s top student-athletes.A cross country and track standout for Grand Canyon...

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Guildford, England — Former Dartmouth College women’s lacrosse goalkeeper Devon Wills is set to represent the United States for the third time at the FIL Women’s Lacrosse World Cup.The 2006 Dartmouth graduate is on the 25-player U.S. roster for the...

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New London — Colby-Sawyer College hired Ken Pape as its women’s rugby coach on Friday, putting him in the role of guiding the club program to varsity status over the next year.The Chargers are currently a five-time club conference champion in the New...

By Tris Wykes

Lebanon — Just about everything was perfect for Sunday’s Lebanon Post 22 American Legion junior-senior baseball doubleheader at Lebanon High. There were five hours of baseball involving four teams, a military veterans color guard and honor ceremony,...

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White River Junction — Anthony Godino hit a two-run home run into center field in the bottom of the fourth inning to cap the Upper Valley Nighthawks’ 11-0 victory in five innings over the North Adams SteepleCats on Thursday night at Maxfield...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — The White River Junction Post 84 senior American Legion baseball organization is selling T-shirts for next month’s Vermont state tournament, which it will host at Maxfield Athletic Complex. The shirts’ slogan reads that...

By Tris Wykes

White River Junction — The winner of Saturday night’s senior American Legion game between White River Junction Post 84 and Lebanon Post 22? Upper Valley baseball. An announced crowd of nearly 700 people gathered at the Maxfield Athletic Complex’s...