Sports Report – March 20, 2019
Winter sports end with wins and lossesYou can’t say that CVU’s winter sports teams didn’t give other Division I schools a good run for their money in several sports.
Winter sports end with wins and lossesYou can’t say that CVU’s winter sports teams didn’t give other Division I schools a good run for their money in several sports.
Whether holding their edges, lacing their skates, tiptoeing on the beam or firing baskets, CVU winter sports teams have done very well for themselves this year.
It’s Hornets against Hawks in gymnastics Although seeded second behind CVU during the regular season, Essex gymnasts managed to…
CVU sophomore Alice Larson was named the top cross-country runner in Vermont for 2018 by Gatorade last Monday. She follows in the footsteps of two other Redhawks.
My grandsons arrived from Providence late on Friday, and the first thing they wanted to do was collect skates and sticks and head to the rink behind Daddy’s old school. It didn’t matter that there was a bit of snow blowing or the possibility of the lights not working.
Rather than report game by game since our last issue in mid-December, we will focus on the honors earned by CVU athletics in 2018 according to the Burlington Free Press in its January 3 issue.
With fall sports wrapped up and winter ones just beginning, the lists of all-star selections by both coaches and…
CVU crews row to medals in Boston- November 17 seems like a late date to be rowing in open water, but that is exactly what teams from throughout New England did.
It has been a full fall sports schedule that is finally closing down with great success for many of the Champlain Valley Union teams and individuals. To call it “Redhawk Nation” on the basis of three months’ worth of wins and titles may be a bit excessive.
Redhawk runners hit the trail at Thetford Academy
The oldest independent school in the state, just over the Connecticut River from New Hampshire, was the site of this year’s Vermont State cross-country championship.
Both boys and girls Charlotte cross-country running teams placed second in the Shelburne Farms races last Wednesday, behind Shelburne. Six schools from the area sent runners. The top individuals for CCS were Owen Deale who won the boys’ race and Ethan Morris who placed third. Kate Kogut in third and Libby Manning in seventh were CCS high finishers among girls.
Back in the old days of fall sports, CVU was known as “Soccer Central” because it was that in the state, and there was not much else. Now, however, there is “else” in the Redhawk picture, primarily cross country and volleyball, which also stand undefeated this year, and football, which, while off to a rocky start, looks to improve over the course of the season so that its future years can make it competitive with its traditional rivals.
Redhawk cross country looking for 10 state titles in a row – While the Free Press seems often to focus on athletes other than cross-country runners, it might do well to take a glance at Coach Scott Bliss’s minions as they travel around Vermont, New England and upstate New York.
Four women who covered the distance in just more than an hour and a half led the fourth annual swim across 3.7 miles of Lake Champlain from the dock at Essex, New York, to the Charlotte town beach. Charlotte’s John Braun was not far behind in an hour and 46 minutes, finishing second among men. The event raised money for the Lake Champlain Committee.
Shelburne Little League baseball team to appear on Red Sox pre-game show – The Storm, Shelburne’s Little League baseball team, will appear live from Fenway Park before the Red Sox game with the Cleveland Indians on the NESN Clubhouse on August 26 at 11:30 a.m.
With ambient temperatures in the upper 90s and track temps reaching well into the triple digits, teams and drivers had to dig deep in the oppressive conditions during International Motor Sports Association’s 6 Hours of The Glen on July 1.
Seattle sees the best of Vermont in the Special Olympics – Representing Vermont in the interscholastic unified basketball tournament played last week in Seattle, Washington, the Green Mountain team was undefeated and carried home the gold medal.
‘Tis the time for honors, all-stars and “twin states” Let’s begin with the “Make-a-Wish All Star Twin State Ice Hockey Classic” scheduled for June 30 at Gutterson Fieldhouse. (If you were to put that title on jerseys, it would probably require front, back and socks.)
Four CVU teams ranked top in the state heading into the playoffs. Batters, men and women LAXers and women racketeers, all headed into their respective state tournaments ranked on top of the heap. As things turned out, two won and two lost.
Saturday, May 17, was a special day for the Redhawk baseball team, for the school itself and, particularly, for Storm Rushford, a sophomore who had contributed strongly to the team’s success through his all-around play as a pitcher, hitter and fielder – that is until physical weakness invaded his body and he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last summer.