Sports

Boots and skis on display for the Winter Sports Sale

Rotary Club’s annual winter sports sale

WILMINGTON - Winter sports enthusiasts should be very enthusiastic about the return of the annual Winter Sports Sale. The sale, also called the ski and skate sale, has been a staple fundraiser for the Rotary Club of the Deerfield Valley until the pandemic forced the cancellation of the annual...

Leland & Gray’s Jeremy Graves and Twin Valley’s Caleb Dupuis battle for the ball in Friday’s match. R. Capitani

Rebels, Wildcats go to overtime again, Twin Valley advances in playoffs

TOWNSHEND - Twin Valley boys’ varsity soccer coach Buddy Hayford hasn’t had a losing season since 1983. On Friday, his current team guaranteed another winning season will be in the record books for Vermont’s winningest high school soccer coach with a nail-biting 4-3 overtime win over host Leland...

Horde ends Wildcats’ season

WEST RUTLAND - The Twin Valley girls’ varsity soccer team took to the road for their first-round playdown match with West Rutland. It was the second match in 10 days for the Wildcats and Golden Horde, and third meeting overall. West Rutland had won the previous two matches by a combined total of...

Moorings applications for 2022 season available

JACKSONVILLE- The Windham Sailing Club is accepting applications for sailboat moorings for the 2022 season. There are a limited number of mooring spots available for 20-foot or smaller sailboats at Ward’s Cove on Lake Whitingham. The lake is owned by Great River Hydro, LLC, and users are expected...

Twin Valley’s Ella Martinez, right, and West Rutland’s Peyton Guay race after the ball during Monday’s match. Guay ended the play by scoring the game’s first goal. RC

Golden Horde overcomes bad directions, finds back of the Wildcats’ net

WILMINGTON- The start of the Twin Valley girls’ varsity soccer game with West Rutland was delayed for about half an hour Monday evening, because the Golden Horde’s bus got lost on the way to Hayford Field. After first going to Twin Valley Elementary School, then Twin Valley Middle High School in...

Twin Valley bounces back, tops Terriers to snap three-game losing streak

ORFORD, NH - Twin Valley and Rivendell Academy have developed a healthy rivalry in boys’ high school sports, and that competitiveness was on full display during Friday afternoon’s soccer match. In the evenly-played game the host Raptors took advantage of a pair of penalty kicks and came away...

Charity golf tournament a big success

WEST DOVER - On Monday, September 20, the Southern Vermont Board of Realtors held a charity golf tournament at the Mount Snow Golf Course. John Hatton, SVBR president, presented a check for $3,454.10 to Chloe Leary, executive director of the Winston-Prouty Center for Child & Family...

Wildcats lose a double-overtime heartbreaker

WILMINGTON - The Twin Valley girls’ varsity soccer team played one of its best games of the season on Thursday, October 7, but were unable to come away with the win. The Wildcats lost 3-2 on a penalty kick to visiting Long Trail School in a double-overtime heartbreaker.
“They left it all...

Twin Valley boys lose in final seconds, drop match to top-ranked Mounties

WILMINGTON - One day after the Twin Valley girls’ varsity lost a double-overtime match, the Twin Valley boys’ varsity was also dealt a cruel blow by the soccer gods. A last-minute corner kick broke a tie and gave visiting White River Valley a 2-1 win Friday evening.
“We knew it would be a...

Twin Valley’s Leann Crafts, #10, takes on Leland & Gray’s Jacy Stillwagon in a match earlier this season. Crafts was cited for her play in the Wildcats’ most recent game. RC/File

Twin Valley process progressing

WILMINGTON - At the start of the current high school soccer season, new Twin Valley coach Taryn Lawrence said the young Wildcats would go through a developmental process this fall. With only one senior, no juniors, and several talented but inexperienced eight-, ninth-, and tenth graders, the...