Vermont High School Football News

As the clock wound down toward the finish of Tuesday's Montpelier-Spaulding boys basketball game, everyone in the Montpelier High School gym let their excitement show.

A heads-up play by a Mount Mansfield Union football player has won his high school $17,500 as the grand prize winner of the Friday Night Feats video contest sponsored on YouTube by State Farm Insurance.

It took a titanic fall for U-32's Carter Austin-Bradley to finally get angry on Saturday.

Middlebury's size, quickness and defense was too much for Fair Haven as the Tigers defeated the Slaters 58-40 in a girls nonleague basketball game on Tuesday.

Charlie Burnett, head coach of the defeated Division I state champion Essex Hornets, will direct the Vermont team when the 57th annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl football game is played in Windsor next August.

With only three teams slated to take the ice Wednesday evening for first round of U-32's annual Karen Weiss Ice Hockey Tournament, the host Raiders were assured of one thing: an unblemished record going into Saturday evening.

Librizzi, an honorable mention for the Free Press team for two years behind some standout quarterbacks, had a breakout season, completing 232 of 369 passes for 3,335 yards.

The Burr and Burton Academy boys varsity basketball team used overwhelming defense throughout the second half to defeat Otter Valley, 56-35, in the opening game of the Mount St.

After more than two years as an unused space, a Depot Street storefront is being put back into use, as the home of a 24-hour fitness club.

The Vermont Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association has named Kris Sabourin of Norwich University football and Hannah Rowe of St.

Despite Burlington's 3-9-2 mark during its title-defense 2009 season, Pasic produced another rock-solid showing between the posts.

She allowed six goals in 18 games this fall and only one in the playoffs. She finished with 12 shutouts this season and 29 in her career.

Northeast Kingdom native Bob Benson is the associate head coach at Colorado School of Mines.

The South has risen again. In the ninth-annual North-South Classic, the boys from southern Vermont suprised the much-heralded North 61-39 at Middlebury College.

Vermont Interscholastic Football League scheduler Mike O'Day said the games on the schedule handed to league members at Monday's meeting is set and that those will definitely be the games played in 2010.

HARTFORD - Vergennes Union, which sent eight students to play football at Winooski High School this fall, could join forces with neighboring Mount Abraham Union to form a cooperative football team for next season.

A running back and defensive back, Weigel was also a solid kicker for the Olympians, who scored 227 points and allowed 223 this fall.

Williams was not only the Solons' quarterback but he also spent time as linebacker and defensive end.

Bielecki, also a strong candidate for Player of the Year, was a dominating force for the Olympians, who went 5-4 overall in Division III.

It was North against South, but the game was pure Wild West. The South outgunned the North 61-39 in a record-breaking North-South Senior Classic, the ninth edition of the Vermont All-Star high school football game played Saturday at Middlebury College.