Vermont
Rebel girls win GM Holiday Tournament
The Leland & Grey women’ basketball group wasn’t capable of win its personal match to start out the season, however the Rebels made a giant splash within the Inexperienced Mountain Vacation Event final week in Chester.
Mary Sanderson scored the successful basket with two seconds to play to present the Rebels a 32-30 win over the host group, the Inexperienced Mountain Chieftains, within the championship recreation of the match on Dec. 15. The Rebels are off to begin to the season with a 4-1 report.
Sanderson and Maggie Parker scored eight and 11 factors, respectively, to guide the Rebels. This dynamic duo had been additionally the Rebels’ prime scorers within the tourney’s opening spherical recreation on Dec. 13 as Parker scored 23 and Sanderson chipped in eight factors in a 43-34 win over Lengthy Path Faculty.
Eighth-grader Callie Spaulding led the Chieftains with 14 factors and Colie Roby added six factors within the loss to the Rebels.
Boys’ basketball
• Twin Valley had a tough time of it within the boys’ aspect of the GM Vacation Event. Owen Traynor scored 41 factors as Mount St. Joseph blitzed the Wildcats, 79-21, on Dec. 13.
• Bellows Falls fared higher of their opening spherical recreation within the GM tourney on Dec. 13 with a 58-39 victory over Inexperienced Mountain. The Terriers rallied from a 17-8 deficit within the second quarter to finally take the lead and dominate the second half. Colby Dearborn led BF with 22 factors, whereas Caleb Merrill led the Chieftains with 13 factors.
BF then confronted Mount St. Joseph within the GM tourney’s championship recreation on Dec. 15, and the Mounties used a powerful second half effort to place away the Terriers, 55-37.
Owen Traynor led MSJ with 25 factors, whereas Walker James and Eli Allbee led Bellows Falls with eight factors apiece.
• Within the comfort recreation on Dec. 15. Inexperienced Mountain held off Twin Valley, 45-39. Twin Valley began off scorching and scored 18 factors within the opening quarter. However the Chieftains picked up steam and tied the sport by the beginning of the fourth quarter and outworked the Wildcats for the victory.
Eben Mosher led Inexperienced Mountain with 21 factors and Tanner Swisher added one other 12 factors. Noah Dornburgh led Twin Valley with 17 factors.
• Cam Frost placed on a present for the Brattleboro followers as he scored 24 factors to guide the Colonels to a 67-56 win over the St. Johnsbury Hilltoppers within the house opener on Dec. 13 on the BUHS health club.
Heart Paul McGillion completed with 10 factors and 15 rebounds and Tate Chamberlin contributed with 13 factors. The Colonels wanted large video games from their prime three scorers to counter the game-high 26 factors scored by St. Johnbury’s Harry Geng.
Along with a 63-58 street win over the Windsor Yellowjackets on Dec. 15, the Colonels are off to a 2-0 begin.
• Parker Jennings scored a game-high 18 factors as visiting Leland & Grey defeated the West Rutland Golden Horde, 54-45, on Dec. 13. The Rebels opened up a 41-12 lead on the half earlier than the Horde made the sport aggressive with a stronger second half effort.
Women basketball
• The Windsor Yellowjackets overpowered the Bellows Falls Terriers, 89-30, on Dec. 15 in Westminster. Sydney Perry had 15 factors and 10 assists, Sophia Rockwood scored 23 factors and Audrey Rupp had 13 factors, eight assists, seven steals, and 6 rebounds as Windsor managed the sport all the best way. Tela Harty and Laura Kamel every scored eight factors for the Terriers (0-2), whereas Nola Sciacca added six factors.
Within the Terriers’ season opener on Dec. 12 in Westminster, the Springfield Cosmos got here away with a 40-22 victory and put coach Pete Peck into an unique membership. Peck grew to become solely the fourth coach within the college’s lengthy historical past to win 100 video games, becoming a member of legends Bo Birsky, Richie Wyman, and Mike Hatt.
Sophomore level guard Macie Stagner led the Cosmos with a game-high 22 factors, together with 12 within the third quarter that keyed an 18-5 Springfield run that broke open what was a detailed recreation to that time. Aliya Farmer led BF with 5 factors, whereas Harty, Kamel, Izzy Stoodley, and Hannah Terry every added three factors.
• Each of Brattleboro’s scheduled video games final week acquired postponed. The Colonel women will probably be again in motion on Dec. 23 towards Honest Haven on the BUHS health club.
Ice hockey
• The Brattleboro boys received their house opener on Dec. 14 with a 3-0 victory over the Woodstock Wasps. Carter Mialkowski, Evan Wright, and Alex Dick had been the Colonels’ objective scorers. Rowan Lonergan tallied a pair of assists, and Will Miskovich and Dylan Sparks had been additionally credited with one help every as goalie Darek Harvey picked up the shutout victory for the 1-1 Colonels.
Give the present of looking and fishing in Vermont
• If you’re searching for a last-minute present, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Division has an answer: a present certificates for looking and fishing licenses.
“It’s an ideal present for a good friend or member of the family who hunts or fishes,” Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Christopher Herrick stated in a information launch. “You possibly can go to our web site (vtfishandwildlife.com/licenses-and-lotteries/license-center), fill out the present certificates, pay for it on-line, after which print the certificates to current to your recipient.”
The present certificates might be discovered by way of a hyperlink within the license part of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife web site. The recipient of the certificates should go to the web site to redeem their certificates and buy their licenses.
“You probably have a good friend or relative who hunts or fishes, that is a simple gift-giving resolution,” stated Herrick. “The present certificates can cowl licenses for 2023, or for future years.”
Rec. Dept. hosts Ice Skating ‘FUN’damentals program
• The Brattleboro Recreation & Parks Division says that the Nelson Withington Skating Facility nonetheless has room accessible in its Ice Skating “FUN”damentals program for these 3- to 30-years-old. Stacey Chickering, Suzanne McCaughtry, and Megan Pratt will probably be providing two periods of ice-skating fundamentals.
Session two will run on Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31 and Feb. 7 from 5 to six p.m. at Withington Rink. The price is $113 for Brattleboro residents and $128 for non-residents.
This session requires a minimal of 15 skaters to run. This hour-long class consists of classes and follow time. Skate leases can be found for $3 per night time, however should not included within the lesson price. Register on-line at register1.vermontsystems.com/wbwsc/vtbrattleboro.wsc/splash.html, or cease by the Gibson-Aiken Heart at 207 Major St. Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to midday and 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Circus lessons present health and wellness advantages
• Get match and have enjoyable with circus lessons on the New England Heart for Circus Arts (NECCA), with a brand new health routine that you could be truly wish to do in 2023.
No expertise wanted, as NECCA is a welcoming and inclusive circus college with progressive lecturers recognized for offering coaching that’s catered to the person. Weekly circus lessons at NECCA start Jan. 4 with greater than two dozen beginner-friendly lessons, together with a web based novice stretching class, low tight wire, tots and youth lessons, and weekly juggle jams.
NECCA says a lot of its college students start of their 50s and 60s (with a number of of their 70s) and the mixture of stretching and strengthening helps with stability and muscle tone for our bodies of all ages. There are additionally extra athletic lessons for adults together with trampoline (nice cross coaching for acrobatic skiers), associate acrobatics, German wheel and pole, plus all kinds of youth and teenage particular lessons for all ranges. For extra data, name 802-254-9780 or go to www.CircusSchool.org.
NECCA’s trapezium is positioned simply 1 mile north of downtown Brattleboro at 10 City Crier Drive, and is served by native buses in addition to center college and highschool bus routes.
Senior bowling roundup
• Week 16 of the autumn/winter season of the Brattleboro Senior Bowling League on Dec. 15 noticed first place Keglers 4 (49-31) have a 1-4 week and second place Good Occasions (47-33) have a 5-0 week to chop the Keglers result in two video games with two weeks left within the season.
The Strikers (42.5-37.5) are in third, adopted by Trash-O-Matic (41.5-38.5), Fortunate 7 (36.5-43.5), Previous Farts (36-44), Break up Occurs (36.5-44.5), and Gradual Movers (32-48).
Diane Cooke had the girls’s excessive handicap recreation (231), whereas Carol Gloski had the excessive handicap sequence (661). Chuck Adams had the lads’s excessive handicap recreation (259), whereas Duane Schillemat had the excessive handicap sequence (684). Trash-O-Matic had the excessive group handicap recreation (880) and sequence (2,483).
In scratch scoring, Robert Rigby led the lads with a 645 sequence that featured video games of 234 and 224. Chuck Adams had a 625 sequence with video games of 259 and 214, whereas Warren Corriveau Sr. had a 618 sequence with video games of 222, 199, and 195.
Schillemat had a 564 sequence that featured video games of 207 and 194 and Marty Adams had a 503 sequence. Different notable video games included Wayne Randall (212), Skip Shine (190), and John Walker (186).
Gloski had the ladies’s excessive scratch sequence (518) with video games of 177, 172, and 169.
Vacation cheer to every one
• That is the final sports activities roundup for 2022, as The Commons takes its annual vacation break subsequent week. We’ll be again on Jan. 4 with the primary concern of 2023. Thanks to everybody who has helped to make this web page of the paper a lot enjoyable to do each week, and will the approaching yr be one for us all.