Rice and Burlington staged another one of their boy’s basketball classics on Thursday night on Bernie Cieplicki Court. Ben Shungu’s 35 points were just enough to give the defending state DivisionOne champs the win against their previously unbeaten arch-rivals. We don’t call this one the ancient and honorable rivalry for nothing. So many great games […]
If I turn out to be wrong I’ll certainly admit it, but right now it sure looks like the Vermont High School basketball Division One boys race is shaping up as a four team affair. With Burlington’s 66-58 win over Rutland last night the Seahorses are 9-0 on the season … the Raiders are 7-2 […]
by Bill Murphy How many of you have your Christmas shopping done? Over the years, people are habitually the same. They either shop early OR they shop late. I find, for the most part, people stay the same way they were in high school, when it came to term papers and test studying. They either […]
by Bill Murphy Still a very big proponent of Championship Saturday. Three games, one venue, a day in the outer limits for diehard high school football fans. Most of you know, New Hampshire, has many bigger schools, THUS, more outstanding players, BUT, what they don’t have, is the vision Vermont has. Seeing the success of […]
by Bill Murphy And then there were four, …… games that is, remaining in the 2015 Vermont High School Football season. No, we didn’t bump our head and forget OR purposely send out, the idea, that there are four Vermont Football playing divisions, even though we think there should be. No, there are four games […]
This is what makes covering sports in Vermont so much fun and it is the biggest weekend of the year as champions will be crowned in boys and girls soccer, high school field hockey, cross country and boys and girls volleyball. on top of that it’s semi-final weekend in high school football. Just sit back […]
When it comes to prognostications don’t ever bet the ranch I my picks, but when it comes to the Vermont High School football playoffs this weekend take the home teams … the top seeds … across the board. Having said that the road has been pretty good so far for the UVM Hockey Catamounts. After […]
by Bill Murphy It’s Final Four time in all divisions. Four unbeatens in three divisions have to be considered favorites and the question now is, ARE all or any of them going to move on to the finals. Looking from this vantage point, the chances look good, that there will be more than one undefeated […]
Game one of the world Series last night was great high drama late night TV … too bad few people were awake to see the final act. TV is paying baseball millions but for what? The game is choking slowly to death on TV money. Yes the ratings were good for the first couple of […]
by Bill Murphy Play-off football comes to Vermont this weekend, at least in two divisions. Divisions I and III, with twelve teams each, send eight teams to the dance, while Division II has one more week in the regular season to sort out their fourth and final team. Of the twenty teams, who will be […]
