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ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 MATT DICKERSON

SPORTS

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Spring into summer with pike Wyatt Allenson caught a big pike. But I’m getting ahead of myself. My story this week is supposed to be about trout fishing in May. Hour for hour, the middle of May through early June is my most productive time of year for fishing Vermont trout streams. Waters have warmed enough to kick trout metabolism into high gear, but not so much to make them sluggish again. River levels are low enough to be easily waded — even in my favorite parts of Otter Creek, the biggest river in this neck of the woods. But it is not yet so low that the trout are perpetually spooked or that they all have moved back out of the riffs and into the deep pools. Mid-May we also start to see significant hatches of larger aquatic insects, which can spur trout into a feeding frenzy. Our local rivers boast dozens of species of mayflies, caddis flies and stoneflies that come out in somewhat predictable succession at different times of day all through the late spring, often three or four different hatches in a morning or afternoon. The large numbers of fish stocked in the local rivers in mid and early May doesn’t hurt the chances for success. It all results in late spring fishing at its best, when trout can be often hooked all day long. Unfortunately, mid-May is also the busiest time of year for me in my day job as a college professor. I have to give finals, and then grade finals as well as the term projects and papers I so foolishly assigned six weeks earlier. Then there are all of the activities associated with the annual college graduation: receptions and dinners with students and families, along with the commencement ceremony itself, which takes up much of a day. In the midst of all that, I get to spend four days teaching at a creative writing conference for high school students at the Bread Loaf campus in Ripton. Great days with wonderful kids and writers. But not fishing days. It seems, then, like I just bat an eyelid, and all of a sudden spring trout season is over and it’s pike season. So late on a hot afternoon just over a week ago, when the last of my meetings had concluded, I ignored the big stack of ungraded exams on (See Dickerson, Page 2B)

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 5/21 MUHS vs. St. Albans....................12-11 5/22 CVU vs. MUHS...............................10-9 5/27 S. Burlington at MUHS...................Late Boys’ Lacrosse 5/20 MUHS vs. Mt. Mansfield.................16-5 5/20 Mt. Abe vs. Lamoille.......................10-5 5/22 CVU vs. MUHS...............................13-9 5/22 Mt. Abe vs. VUHS...........................12-9 5/23 St. Johnsbury vs. OV......................13-6 5/26 U-32 vs. Mt. Abe.............................11-8 5/26 MUHS vs. St. Johnsbury................18-5 5/27 Montpelier at OV.............................Late Softball 5/20 St. J vs. VUHS..................................8-4 5/21 S. Burlington vs. VUHS..................11-5 5/21 Mt. Abe vs. N. Country....................14-2 5/21 Missisquoi vs. MUHS........................5-2 5/22 OV vs. Springfield.............................7-1 5/23 MUHS vs. Burlington......................14-0 5/23 VUHS vs. Rice................................22-2 5/25 OV vs. Leland & Gray...................16-14 5/26 MUHS vs. Colchester...................... 6-1 5/26 Spaulding vs. Mt. Abe...................13-12 5/26 Mt. Mansfield vs. VUHS..................17-2 Baseball 5/20 VUHS vs. St. J..................................5-2 5/21 S. Burlington vs. VUHS....................5-0 5/21 N. Country vs. Mt. Abe....................14-2 5/21 Missisquoi vs. MUHS.............. 17-16 (8) 5/22 Brattleboro vs. OV..........................15-7 5/23 Burlington vs. MUHS......................12-1 5/23 Rice vs. VUHS................................16-1 5/26 Colchester vs. MUHS.................... 15-3 5/26 Spaulding vs. Mt. Abe.....................13-3 5/26 Mt. Mansfield vs. VUHS....................5-1 Tennis Division I Playoffs 5/26 #9 CVU vs. #8 MUHS Boys..............7-0 5/28 #13 NCU at #4 MUHS Girls.........3 p.m. Division II Playoffs 5/26 #8 U-32 vs. #9 OV Girls....................6-1 COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse NCAA D-III Semifinal in Philadelphia 5/23 Cortland State vs. Midd................19-12

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

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Local nines find going mostly tough

ADDISON COUNTY — In recent local high school baseball action, only Vergennes managed to post a win, as Mount Abraham, Otter Valley and Middlebury all came up short. The regular season ends this week. The Vermont Principals’ Association will announce playoff pairings on Monday. VUHS, Mount Abraham and OV will qualify for the Division II postseason, but MUHS has been eliminated from D-I contention. COMMODORES On May 20, VUHS knocked off (See Baseball, Page 3B)

Sports BRIEFS

Otter golf earns Division II berth

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School sophomore Lily Smith reaches first on a bunt during Tuesday’s game against Colchester. The Tigers won the game, 6-1.

MUHS softball gets key win Tigers reach .500 by topping Lakers

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School softball team on Tuesday earned arguably its most important win of the spring, a 6-1 decision over a Division I Colchester squad that showed up at MUHS with a 12-2 record, a ninegame winning streak, and victories over Essex and BFA-St. Albans on its résumé. The result also pushed the Tigers up to .500 at 6-6 with one game left in the regular season, and moved them into sixth place in the D-II standings with one game to go in the regular season, at home vs. D-I St.

Johnsbury (9-6) at came together. Ev11 a.m. on Saturday. “We’ve been dragging erybody worked Senior first our feet a little together.” baseman and co- bit, and this has The work of captain Krisandra brought us back sophomore pitcher Provencher, who up. We needed the Payton Buxton contributed a key probably mattered single in the Tigers’ confidence booster. the most. Buxton five-run fifth, said Everybody came tossed a completethe game would together. Everybody game three-hitter, give the team a lift worked together.” walking three and with the postsea— Krisandra Provencher striking out 10, to son looming — the outduel a pair of Vermont Principals’ Laker hurlers, startAssociation will announce pairings er Ali Sheets and reliever Riley Maon Monday, with Colchester in good goon. Buxton’s performance came on the heels of a four-hit shutout vs. shape for a No. 4 seed in D-I. “We’ve been dragging our feet a Burlington on Saturday. “I don’t know where we’d be little bit, and this has brought us back up. We needed the confidence boost- without Payton. She’s unbelievable,” er,” Provencher said. “Everybody (See Softball, Page 3B)

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Senior pitchers earn state titles

TIGER SOPHOMORE PAYTON Buxton struck out 10 Colchester batters in Middlebury’s 6-1 home win Tuesday. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Area softball squads record some victories ADDISON COUNTY — In recent local high school softball action, Mount Abraham, Otter Valley, Middlebury and Vergennes all won at least once. The regular season will conclude this week, and the Vermont Prin-

cipals’ Association will announce playoff pairings on Monday. EAGLES On May 21, the Eagles edged visiting North Country, 3-1, as Rachael McCormick tossed a completegame four-hitter and also slugged an

RBI triple. Ashley Boise contributed two hits to the Eagle cause. On Tuesday, host Spaulding scored nine times in the sixth inning to erase a 9-4 Eagle lead and then survived a Mount Abe rally in the seventh for a 13-12 victory. The Tide threw out

RUTLAND — The Otter Valley Union High School golf team was one of the teams on Tuesday that qualified to compete for the Division II title by finishing among the top three at the South Sectional tournament at the Rutland Country Club. The Otters fired a collective 407 to edge Fair Haven for third place by a single stroke. Mill River (370) took first, with Woodstock (402) in second. OV will move on to the state final at the Green Mountain National course on June 4. Tom Kingsley led OV by shooting a 98, followed by Joey Scarborough (101), Colin Nicklaw (102) and Ben Lones (106). Mill River’s Johann Russell fired a 78 to claim medalist honors and spark his team’s big victory.

the potentially game-tying run at the plate to end the game, leaving the Eagles with an 8-7 record heading into a Thursday game at St. Albans. OTTERS On May 22, the Otters upset vis(See Wrap, Page 4B)

BRISTOL — Vermont Senior Games champions were crowned in a state horseshoe competition hosted by the Sodbusters Horseshoe Pitching Club this past Saturday at the club’s courts in Bristol. More than a dozen pitchers took part, and they ranged in age from the minimum 50 years old to nearly 80. The medalists, by age group, were as follows: • Age 50-54: gold, Mistylee Baird and Joe Forgues; silver, John Babcock; bronze, Brian McCormick. • 55-59: gold, Debra Brown; silver, Stan Bigelow; bronze, Blakley Bigelow. • 60-64: gold, Georgia McCormick; silver, Craig Brown; bronze, Mike Brown. • 65-69: gold, Juanita Ratta. • 70-74: gold, Donna Lewis. • 75-79: gold, Bev Forgues and Ron Williamson.

Boys’ lax: Eagles nip VUHS; two for Tigers ADDISON COUNTY — Mount Abraham avenged an early-season loss to Vergennes to highlight recent local high school boys’ lacrosse action. In other games, Mount Abe split two contests, and Middlebury won twice in three outings. The Vermont Principals’ Association will release playoff pairings on Monday. EAGLES VS. VUHS On May 22, the Eagle boys’ team avenged its setback to the Commodores with a 12-9 home victory. Charlie Meyer scored three times and Owein LaBarr contributed two goals and three assists to lead Mount Abe. Gus Catlin, Lucas Richter and Sam Paradee added two goals apiece for the Eagles and goalie Tucker Paradee had seven saves. Tyler Crowningshield led VUHS with three goals and two assists, while Erik Eisenhower tossed home three goals. Goalie Broc Clark stopped 10 shots for the 6-8 Commodores. The Eagles were coming off a 10-5 win over Lamoille on May 20. In that game, Catlin and Sam Paradee scored three goals apiece,

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Justin Stone carries the ball up the field during last week’s game against CVU.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Meyer chipped in two goals and two assists, and Tucker Paradee stopped nine shots.

On Tuesday, visiting U-32 outlasted the Eagles, 11-8, as goalie (See Lacrosse, Page 4B)

TIGER GOALIE NATHAN Lalonde made six stops in Middlebury’s 13-9 loss to CVU last Friday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell


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