Sports

As the regular season came to a close, the Champlain Valley Union High baseball team was not able to hang onto its No. 1 ranking in Division 1

A loss at South Burlington knocked the previously unbeaten Champlain Valley Union down to 6-1, but it didn’t seem to blur their focus on reaching the postseason ranked No. 1.

You could call Elise Berger a Swiss Army knife, a state champion — even Captain Chaos, the nickname she earned for her messy room as a kid. Now, as her time at Champlain Valley Union High School comes to end, you can call her Miss Basketball.

The two opponents faced each other on the strip inside the Charlotte Central School gym, glinting blades held upright in front of their stone-still bodies.

The Champlain Valley Redhawks are still soaring through the season. Despite one setback against South Burlington.

Charlotte resident, Anna McGrade, 21, will represent the United States in taekwondo at the Pan American University Games in Cali, Colombia, this November.

Although the baseball preseason was challenging with the team stuck inside much of the time because of the weather, it hasn’t slowed the Champlain Vallley Union High team down so far.

Ute Otley had played basketball most of her childhood, but it was the summer between seventh and eighth grade when she realized this game was something special.

This has been another remarkable year for the Champlain Valley Union alpine ski team.

After a hard fall to the floor that drew an audible gasp from the crowd when Merrill Jacobs’ head hit the floor of Patrick Gymnasium with a loud thump, CVU’s senior guard got to her feet and calmly sank the resulting free throws, putting the Redhawks up 38-33.

“The best offense is a good defense,” an old sports cliché goes. The Champlain Valley Union High girls basketball team proved on Sunday night that sometimes old sports clichés still ring true.

Almost perfect — that’s what the Champlain Valley Union High girls basketball team’s season has been like.

The season ended too soon for the Champlain Valley Union High football team, but that culmination marked the beginning of awards season.

Trickeration transformed the Champlain Valley Union-Burr and Burton Academy state playoff contest into an epic.

Champlain Valley began its football schedule this year with its lone blemish on the season, a 38-28 loss to Burr and Burton Academy.

Since losing its opening game of the season to Burr and Burton 38-28, the Champlain Valley Union football team has gone on a tear, outscoring and shutting down opponents over the next six games 242-21.

Hopefully, any CVU football players reading The Charlotte News have stopped reading this story before now.

After a season opening loss, the Champlain Valley Redhawks jumped back onto a two-game win streak with victories over Bellows Free Academy and South Burlington-Burlington-Winooski.

After an unbeaten season and Champlain Valley Union High’s first state football championship last year, hopes were high among Redhawk faithful for another unblemished season this year.

To say that this summer was an amazing season for the three Champlain Valley Little League All-Star baseball teams is an understatement — try astonishing, unbelievable …