Adam Aucoin

1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Adam Aucoin

The Rutland girls tennis team is young, but it's growing in confidence day by day. One of its young bright spots is freshman Brooke Flewelling, who hasn't backed down from the challenge of filling the No. 1 singles role so early in her high school career. Flewelling had the tightest of any of Friday's matches against rival Mount Anthony, a 7-0 Rutland loss at Whites Memorial Park. Flewelling and MAU junior Chloe Moore had a back and forth match that needed a 10-point tiebreaker to decide a winner.

1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Adam Aucoin

NORTH CLARENDON — As the sun was starting to go down, the level of momentum for the Mill River softball team was only going up. Down nine runs to White River Valley going into its at-bats in the bottom of the fifth, the Minutemen needed to flip a switch or risk being blown out. Mill River found itself in the late innings, nearly erasing the deficit, but came up just short as the Wildcats held on for a nail-biting 11-10 win. "We came into the game too late. We should have jumped from the start.

1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Adam Aucoin

The Barre Auditorium was the place to be to see Vermont best wrestlers in action on the first day of March for the high school state championships, but this Saturday, there's no better spot for grappling fans than Spartan Arena.

1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Adam Aucoin

Rutland senior Noah Bruttomesso is one of the best goal scorers in Division I boys lacrosse and that has been on full display throughout the early portion of the regular season. Over the first two games of the season, Bruttomesso had racked up nine goals, and on Tuesday against rival Mount Anthony, he doubled that total. Bruttomesso scored nine goals to lead Rutland to a 16-7 victory over the Patriots at Alumni Field.

1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Adam Aucoin

The Proctor baseball team owned the season series with rival Mount St. Joseph last season, but these Mounties have a renewed focus. MSJ has hopes of being among Division IV's best clubs and doing that requires the team to play well against some of the perennial elites, of which Proctor is with two straight top-three playoff seeds in its pocket. The early returns on the Mounties' contending hopes have been nothing but positive.