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By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

NORTHFIELD, Vt. — The Hartford High boys lacrosse team came up short in its bid for a third straight VPA Division II championship, falling to Harwood, 7-4, in Saturday’s title game at Norwich University.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford High boys lacrosse team is heading to its fourth straight VPA Division II championship game — with a chance to win a third consecutive title — after a dominant 15-3 semifinal victory over Mount Anthony on Tuesday at the Alumni Athletic Complex.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

LEBANON — Head coach Dennis Reilly said he has been rebuilding the Lebanon High boys lacrosse team “brick by brick.” On Thursday, the construction job looked awfully sturdy as the Raiders notched a 10-6 victory over the visiting ConVal Cougars.

By: MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

HANOVER — The Hanover High boys lacrosse team took its lumps against St. Thomas in a NHIAA D-II matchup at Merriman-Branch Field on Friday.

By TRIS WYKES

NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Saturday’s VPA Division II boys lacrosse final between Hartford High and Harwood Union High began with a Highlander goal and the scorer immediately running towards the Hurricanes’ student section with a finger to his mask.Ninety...

By TRIS WYKES

HINESBURG, Vt. — Woodstock High, with the smallest enrollment among VPA Division I boys lacrosse programs, hasn’t won a state title since 1999. Champlain Valley Union has captured 12 crowns during that stretch, its success fed in part by an enrollment...

By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Hurricanes waited 24 years for a first title in boys lacrosse.They’d like to make the wait a lot shorter for the next one.Top-seeded Hartford overcame a spirited performance from fourth-seeded Milton to roll to a...

By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Five games from playoff time, the Hartford Hurricanes defense of the VPA D-II lacrosse championship appears to be going full speed ahead. The division-leading Hurricanes built an early lead with great defense then weathered a...

By TRIS WYKES

CLAREMONT — Last place was on the line Monday at Monadnock Park, and neither the Stevens High boys lacrosse team nor rival Lebanon wanted to claim the dubious prize.The NHIAA Division III squads entered a combined 0-18 and it was Lebanon that got off...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Monday night’s boys lacrosse game between host Hartford High and Woodstock came down to the final minute, with the Wasps prevailing, 11-10.The Vermont inter-division clash might have been decided, however, by a pair of goals at...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Dennis Reilly doesn’t shy away from the label “rebuilding season.” The first-year coach of the Lebanon High boys lacrosse team has a 26-player roster, and 19 are either freshmen or sophomores.“That’s the definition of rebuilding,” said...

Once you’ve finally been to the top of the mountain, what do you do for an encore?That’s the challenge facing the Hartford High boys lacrosse program this spring. After multiple attempts that came up short, the Hurricanes ran the table en route to...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — First came the police SUVs, blue lights flashing. Then the fire trucks, sirens wailing. Followed by Hartford High athletic director Jeff Moreno driving his pickup truck, its bed bedecked with flapping school flags on poles and...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The undefeated Hartford High boys lacrosse team has routed foe after foe during the Vermont Division II regular season, but a looming question remains.Can the Hurricanes finally claim a state title? Hartford (13-0) has reached a...

By TRIS WYKES

WOODSTOCK – The Woodstock High boys lacrosse team appears to be finally enduring a rebuilding season.Long known for merely reloading, the Wasps fell to 3-4 on Friday with a 17-7 loss to Vermont Division I foe Essex. Woodstock, which has seven...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — Sean Murphy has undertaken enough rebuilding projects that he should have his contractor’s license by now.The new Hanover High boys lacrosse coach most recently constructed an Indiana prep school program from scratch. Prior to that, he was...

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford High boys lacrosse player Joseph Barwood had an afternoon to remember Tuesday, pumping in eight goals during the Hurricanes’ 14-4 defeat of Harwood in the Vermont Division II semifinals.A junior attackman, Barwood split...

By TRIS WYKES

WOODSTOCK — The start of Wednesday’s boys lacrosse game between Woodstock High and South Burlington was delayed by about 20 minutes when the Wolves’ bus driver missed the nearest exit on Interstate 91, then again became lost upon arriving in town.The...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Lebanon High boys lacrosse coach Cole Flannery is a plainspoken man who lets his troops know exactly where they stand.Which, following Thursday’s 12-6 victory over Hillsboro-Deering, was squarely inside Flannery’s doghouse.Yes, the Raiders...

By GREG FENNELL

PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Jake Kriplin may have gotten on the ground floor of something only to have to step off the elevator.The Lebanon High senior repelled two years of entreaties by former boys lacrosse coach Rob Fett to give the game a try. You’d be a...

By GREG FENNELL

WOODSTOCK — Freshmen midfielders generally don’t draw saves in a lacrosse box score. Peyton Gray’s teammates should make an exception in his case.Gray bumped off a Woodstock defender, leaped and whipped a 12-yard shot over the head of Woodstock...