Vermont and New Hampshire resume their rivalry battle on Saturday, July 20 with the long-running Lions Twin State Soccer Cup on tap at Hanover High School.

The girls game is slated to kick off at 1 p.m.; followed by the boys contest at 4. The event, in its 49th year, pits recently graduated high school seniors from each state against each other.

Kim Prestridge of White River Valley is the Vermont girls head coach. Milton’s Cait Fogel, Arlington’s Brandon Smith and White River Valley’s Omar Calhum-Flowers will also serve on Prestridge’s staff.

Shane Bufano, recently hired to take over the Champlain Valley program, will direct the Green Mountain boys squad, along with assistants Rob Cole (CVU) and Chris George (Middlebury) and retired South Burlington coach David Martin.

After New Hampshire swept both games last summer, the Granite State extended its lead in the all-time series — 21-14-5 on the girls side and 20-18-10 in the boys matchups.

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The rosters:

VERMONT GIRLS

BFA-St. Albans: Adelaide Hughes, defense; Tessa Sweeney, midfield. Burlington: Brooks DeShaw, midfield/forward; Rosalie Perkinson, defense. Burr and Burton: Maura Grazioso, midfield; Isabella Lam, forward. Champlain Valley: Stella Dooley, defense/midfield; Chloe Pecor, forward. Colchester: Isabel Benoure, defense. Essex: Hailey Routhier, defense; Avery Stockamore, midfield/forward. Leland & Gray: Maggie Parker, midfield. Montpelier: Estherline Carlson, forward. Mount Mansfield: Finley Barker, midfield; Kate Leach, defense. North Country: Maya Auger, goalie; Charli Kellaway, midfield. Randolph: Shiloh Lake, forward. Rice: Raven McCray-Fay, defense. South Burlington: Rachel Kelley, forward; Oakley Machanic, midfield. White River Valley: Amara Calhum-Flowers, midfield/forward; Tanner Drury, defense.

VERMONT BOYS

Brattleboro: Ozzie VanHendrick, forward. Burlington: Max Ladner, midfield. Champlain Valley: Chandler Turner, forward; Luke Sampson, midfield. Colchester: Jacques Alfani, forward/midfield. Enosburg: Landon Paulson, forward. Essex: Henry Kinney, midfield/defense. Middlebury: Eddie Fallis, forward. Milton: Finn Kascha-Hare, midfield. Mount Mansfield: Evan Chicoine, defense; Liam Goslin, defense; Oscar Howard, forward. Montpelier: Brio Levitt, goalie. Rice: Luke Broussard, midfield. South Burlington: Hammad Ali, midfield/forward; Oliver Clifford, defense; Omar Daoudi, midfield/forward. Stowe: Aaron Lepikko, defense; Brock Roick, goalie. Twin Valley: Cody Magnant, forward. U-32: Bennett Clark, midfield. Vergennes: Oakley Francis, midfield.

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Langdon, N.H. residents Alex Andrews, 12, Dria Andrews, 10, Raeleigh Walker, 9, and Kristen MacKinnon, 5, look at some of the tadpoles swimming around at the bottom of Hamilton Falls in Jamaica on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation (FPR) has embarked on an initiative to sustainably manage the growing popularity of Hamilton Falls Natural Area and will have a public meeting on July 18 at the Windham Meeting House.

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to border patrol agents.

Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vt., as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to an agent’s affidavit filed in U.S. federal court. United States Customs and Border Protection agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other people, including a man who was believed to be her husband, had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side of the lake toward the United States, according to an agent’s affidavit.

The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for about $1,400 each, according to the affidavit.

Ng is charged with attempting to export the turtles from the U.S., in violation of the Endangered Species Act. A federal judge on Friday ordered that she remain detained. The federal public defender’s office, which is representing her, declined to comment.

Border patrol agents first spotted Ng at the Airbnb rental in May when they noticed a vehicle with Ontario plates travelling on a Vermont road in Canaan in an area used by smugglers, they said. Lake Wallace has been used for human and narcotic smuggling, the affidavit states. The vehicle had entered the U.S. in Alburgh, Vt., agents said.

Ng was admitted to the United States in May on a visitor visa with an intended destination of Fort Lee, N.J., the affidavit states. Border patrol agents learned on June 18 that she had again entered the U.S. in Buffalo in a vehicle with a Quebec plate and was expected to arrive at the same Airbnb on Lake Wallace in Vermont on June 25, the affidavit states. They then started to surveil the property.