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B Section

THURSDAY, Â JULY Â 21, Â 2016

MATT DICKERSON

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Wild  Wyoming cutthroat  trout I’d  been  in  Wyoming  six  days  with  barely  a  chance  to  wet  my  line.  It  was  not  for  a  lack  of  good-­looking  water.  With  the  exception  of  a  six-­hour  trip  DFURVV D Ă€DW URDVWLQJ KLJK DOWLWXGH desert,  I’d  been  crossing  or  driving  alongside  one  beautiful  river  after  another.  Lovely.  Enticing.  And  a  bit  frustrating  since  I  was  looking  at  them  through  a  car  window  and  not  in  my  waders.  The  three  most  recent  of  those  six  days  had  been  spent  in  a  cabin  DW WKH FRQĂ€XHQFH of  the  South  LaBarge  Creek  with  the  main  stem  of  the  LaBarge.  It  was  a  historic  cabin  on  a  historic  cutthroat  trout  river  in  the  southern  end  of  the  Bridger-­ Teton  National  Forest  in  a  pass  that  a  century  and  a  half  earlier  had  been  part  of  the  famed  Oregon  Trail.  A  few  years  later  it  became  a  large  lumber  camp  where  hack  ties  were  cut  and  Ă€RDWHG GRZQULYHU IRU WKH QHZ UDLOURDG Now  it  was  once  again  looking  wild.  Mule  deer,  elk,  moose  and  pronghorn  antelope  roamed  the  valley.  Eagles  Ă€HZ RYHUKHDG $QG KXJH KDWFKHV RI PD\Ă€LHV URVH LQ FROXPQV RII WKH ZDWHU in  the  mornings  while  in  the  evenings  WKH VWUHDPVLGH EXVKHV ÂżOOHG ZLWK Ă€XWWHULQJ FDGGLV Ă€LHV But  those  three  days  had  been  consumed  working  long  hours  with  two  college  students  on  a  research,  writing  and  video  project  about  â€”  ironically  â€”  native  cutthroat  trout.  :HÂśG GRQH LQWHUYLHZV ZLWK ÂżVKHULHV biologists  and  spent  lots  of  time  getting  footage  of  the  river.  At  least  I  was  in  the  water,  even  if  I  wasn’t  catching  ¿VK $QG DFWXDOO\ HYHQ LI WKH ÂżOPLQJ hadn’t  consumed  my  time,  I  might  not  have  caught  any  trout,  because  there  were  few  to  be  caught.  LaBarge  Creek  was  the  site  of  a  project  seeking  to  restore  a  population  of  the  native  (See  Dickerson,  Page  2B)

SALISBURY  â€”  Kevin  Bouchard-­ Hall  of  Wadhams,  N.Y.,  shattered  the  bike  course  record  on  his  way  to  win-­ ning  Sunday’s  men’s  Vermont  Sun  Triathlon  in  1:00.13.  Donna  Smy-­ ers  of  Adamant  won  the  women’s  race,  held  at  Branbury  State  Park,  in  1:12:46. Cory  Coffey  of  Vergennes  was  WKH WRS ORFDO ÂżQLVKHU RYHUDOO WDNLQJ sixth  in  the  men’s  race  in  1:07:18  while  winning  his  35-­39-­year-­old  age  group.  The  Vermont  Sun  Triathlon  starts  with  a  600-­yard  swim,  followed  by  a  14-­mile  bike  ride  and  a  3.1-­mile  run. %RXFKDUG +DOO ÂżQLVKHG WKH VZLP in  Lake  Dunmore  in  sixth  place.  It  took  him  four  miles  of  the  14-­mile  bike  course  to  take  over  the  lead  from  Burlington’s  Jason  Franks.  His  bike  time  of  30:53  broke  the  course  record  by  a  whopping  1:13.  Franks  is  one  of  just  eight  men  who  have  broken  one  hour  on  the  course  over  the  past  25  years,  and  he  has  done  it  three  times.  â€œKevin  just  blew  by  me  on  the  bike,  I’ve  never  been  past  on  the  bike  before,â€?  said  Franks,  who  rode  the  day’s  second  best  (33:00)  and  was  attempting  to  break  the  course  record  of  59:06. Bouchard-­Hall  might  have  shat-­ tered  that  record  if  not  for  some  bad  luck.  The  swim  course  is  usually  600  yards,  but  on  Sunday  it  was  750  yards  because  two  of  the  buoys  marking  the  course  drifted  off  their  marks.  5DFH RIÂżFLDOV VDLG LW SUREDEO\ DGGHG two  minutes  to  the  day’s  times,  and  two  minutes  from  Bouchard-­Hall’s  time  could  have  meant  breaking  the  (See  Triathlon,  Page  2B)

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Threesome  wins  LQ )ULGD\ JROÂżQJ MIDDLEBURY  â€”  The  threesome  of  Frank  Broughton,  Betsy  Bourdon  and  Nicole  Laberge  prevailed  in  July  15  Friday  Night  Mixer  action  at  Ralph  Myhre  Golf  Course.  Taking  second  place  that  evening  was  the  foursome  of  Bernie  Andrews,  Joan  Guertin,  Wes  Smith  and  Andy  Bourdon. The  quartet  of  Jim  Craig,  Liz  Andrews,  Karl  Neuse  and  Mary  Ann  %URXJKWRQ ÂżQLVKHG WKLUG

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Legion  nine  GURSV ÂżYH RI VHYHQ RXW RI SOD\RIIV By  ANDY  KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY  â€”  The  Addison  County  American  Legion  baseball  team  saw  its  long-­shot  bid  for  a  North-­ ern  Division  playoff  berth  end  when  LW GURSSHG ÂżYH RI VHYHQ JDPHV DOO WR teams  higher  than  AC  in  the  Northern  Division  standings,  between  this  past  Friday  and  Tuesday. Just  before  that,  AC  had  won  three  straight  to  improve  to  5-­8,  but  that  stretch  dropped  the  local  nine  to  7-­13  and  out  of  postseason  contention  KHDGLQJ LQWR WKHLU ÂżQDO WKUHH JDPHV RI the  season.  AC  was  set  to  host  the  Orleans-­Es-­ sex-­Caledonia  Kings  in  a  Wednesday  doubleheader  at  the  Middlebury  Col-­ OHJH ÂżHOG DQG WKHQ WUDYHO WR /\QGRQ on  Thursday  to  meet  OEC  in  the  sea-­ VRQ ÂżQDOH The  7-­13  mark  already  represents  a  six-­win  improvement  over  2015  for  Coach  Mike  Estey’s  squad,  and  al-­ most  all  of  the  team  will  retain  its  eli-­ gibility  for  at  least  two  more  summers  â€”  those  who  will  not  return  include  FDWFKHU &KULV /HDFK ÂżUVW EDVHPDQ Dylan  Raymond,  and  multi-­position  player  Calvin  Desforges.  MONTPELIER,  6-­1 On  Friday,  July  15,  Montpelier’s  Sawyer  Ladesack  tossed  a  no-­hitter  in  his  team’s  6-­1  victory  over  AC.  Lade-­ VDFN ZDONHG IRXU DQG VWUXFN RXW ÂżYH but  surrendered  an  earned  run  in  the  ¿UVW LQQLQJ +H ZDONHG 'HYRQ .LP-­ (See  Baseball,  Page  2B)

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Champs top Middlebury in annual pool rivalry By  ANDY  KIRKALDY VERGENNES  â€”  The  host  Ver-­ gennes  Champs  on  Tuesday  defeated  their  county  rival  Middlebury  Swim  Team,  298-­171,  in  Champlain  Valley  Swim  League  action.  Vergennes  won  for  the  third  time  this  summer,  while  MST  remained  with  one  victory  heading  into  the  WHDPVÂś ÂżQDO PHHWV RI WKH VHDVRQ scheduled  for  this  Thursday  and  next  Tuesday. The  Champs  will  then  host  the  CVSL  championship  meet  on  July  29  and  30.  On  this  past  Tuesday,  leading  the  Champs  with  three  victories  apiece  were  8-­and-­under  girls’  swimmer  Amelia  Lamothe,  U-­8  boys’  swimmer  Will  Clark,  U-­12  boys’  swimmer  Car-­ son  Hoffman  and  U-­18  boys’  swim-­ mer  Jacob  Viera.  A  trio  of  MST  girls  won  three  races  apiece,  U-­12  swimmer  Holly  Staats,  U-­14  swimmer  Ellie  Ross  and  U-­18  swimmer  Courtney  White,  while  Connor  McNamara  won  three  U-­10  boys’  races.  Champ  U-­10  girls  Carlyn  Rapoport  and  Acadia  Clark  picked  up  two  vic-­ tories  apiece,  as  did  MST  swimmer  Devon  Kearns  in  U-­14  boys’  races.  The  larger  Champ  team  picked  up  more  wins  in  the  relays,  earning  a  7-­1  edge  in  medley  events  and  a  6-­3  advantage  in  the  freestyle  races.  The  relays  alone  gave  the  host  team  91  points  to  MST’s  28. Vergennes  and  Middlebury  swim-­ mers  scoring  points  with  top-­three  ¿QLVKHV LQ LQGLYLGXDO UDFHV ZHUH BUTTERFLY ‡ 8 JLUOV /DPRWKH 9 ‡ 8 ER\V &ODUN 9 ‡ 8 JLUOV 0DGHO\Q *LURX[ 9 & 5DSRSRUW 9 /LOD &RRN <RGHU 0 ‡ 8 ER\V &DOGHU 5DNRZVNL 9 0F1DPDUD 0 3DUNHU .D\KDUW 9 ‡ 8 JLUOV 6WDDWV 0 )DLUOH\ 2OVRQ 0 $XGUH\ 7HPEUHXOO 9 ‡ 8 ER\V +RIIPDQ 9 &O\GH 0DOKRWUD 0 $GDP &ODUN 9 ‡ 8 JLUOV 5RVV 0 6\GQH\ -HZHOO 9 $QQD 5DNRZVNL 9 ‡ 8 ER\V .HDUQV 0 1D WKDQ 9LHUD 9 1DWKDQ 6WRQH 0 ‡ 8 JLUOV :KLWH 0 &DOLVWD

(See  Swimmers,  Page  2B)

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