FAIR HAVEN, Vt. Hartford High brought on former Stevens High softball standout Danielle Tenney as coach with a goal of giving the Hurricanes hope for the future. Seems to be working.Eleventh-ranked Hartford charged back from a 13-6 deficit after.
Local roundup: Patience pays for Windsor softball
Kate Murphy
Modified: 5/1/2021 10:25:59 PM
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Patience proved to be a virtue for the Windsor High softball team on Saturday.
The Yellowjackets (3-2) combined seven hits with 15 walks and used them to earn a 19-3 win over Hartford in a five-inning Southern Vermont League softball contest at Hartford High School. As for the hit parade, Hannah Wood, Paige Kleefisch and Kate Murphy led the way by driving in three runs apiece. Wood and Murphy both went 2-for-3, and Kleefisch delivered all of her RBIs with a three-run homer in the third inning.
D-II Nordic championships: Hopkinton girls finish second, Kearsarge boys third
Kearsarge s Steven Williamson competes at the Division II Nordic championships on March 4, 2021, at Great Glen Trails in Gorham. Williamson finished fifth in the classic race and sixth in the skate race to lead the Cougars to a third-place result in the team standings. MELISSA CURRAN Monitor staff
Hopkinton s Francie Trafton competes at the Division II Nordic championships on March 4, 2021, at Great Glen Trails in Gorham. Trafton finished fourth in the skate race and eighth in the classic race and Hopkinton finished runner-up to Lebanon, 732-728. MELISSA CURRAN Monitor staff
Hopkinton s Michael Eggers-Emerson competes at the Division II Nordic championships on March 4, 2021, at Great Glen Trails in Gorham. Eggers-Emerson finished 15th in the classic race and 21st in the skate race to help the Hawks to a fifth-place team finish. MELISSA CURRAN Monitor staff
Worth the wait: Lebanon girls win first NHIAA D-II cross country ski crown
Ayla Weale
Modified: 3/4/2021 10:06:46 PM
PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. In the end, it was worth the wait.
Delayed by two days when weather softened the course, the Lebanon High girls cross country ski team won its first NHIAA state championship on Thursday, taking the Division II crown at Great Glen Trails. Senior Ayla Weale recorded a pair of top-10 finishes for the Raiders, who had previously recorded four runner-up results in various divisions in the 1970s and ‘90s, long before the NHIAA set up Nordic skiing for its own state honors.