Local Roundup: Sophomore’s Hat Trick Paces Hartford Girls

White River Junction — The Hartford High girls hockey team downed North Country-Lyndon, 3-1, on Wednesday night, thanks to a star turn from sophomore Jasmine Wilson. The forward scored during each period at Wendell A. Barwood Arena as the Hurricanes improved to 3-4-3.

“She was moving her feet and crashed the net hard and released the puck quickly,” said Hartford coach Marc Gattie, whose team visits Rice (7-2-1) on Saturday. “It wasn’t our best game, but we’ve got a real challenge Saturday.”

Wilson scored unassisted during the 13th minute and midway through the second period off passes from Morgan Pero and Cecilia Spaulding. The visitors halved their deficit with two minutes remaining before Wilson completed her hat trick with 80 seconds to go off a Caitlin Gaudet feed. Wilson has four goals and two assists this winter.

Jacqueline Gour made 10 saves for Hartford. North Country-Lyndon, which lost to Rice, 10-0, last weekend and 8-0 to Hartford in December, is 0-7.

Woodstock 3Burr & Burton 0

Manchester, Vt. — Hannah Coates scored twice and Anna Hepler once and the Wasps improved to 7-2-1.

Lauren Forgione and Sadie Kuhn had assists, and Bridgit Black earned the shutout.

Woodstock hosts Missisquoi on Saturday.

Kimball Union 5
Vermont Academy 1

Meriden — Julia Surgenor scored a pair of goals to lead the Wildcats.

Despite controlling play for much of the first two periods, KUA led just 2-1 heading into the third period. The Wildcats then pulled away with three in the third. Natalie Whitehead, Mia Brown and Mikah Baptiste also scored.

Molly Flanagan, Colleen Donoghue, Molly Davis and Kyra Russman all assisted.

KUA visits Hebron on Saturday.

Boys Hockey

Berlin 5, Lebanon 4 (ot)

Berlin, n.h. — The Mountaineers scored four minutes into overtime after tying the game, 4-4, with 12 seconds remaining in the third period and their goaltender pulled for an extra attacker. 

“We made three major mental mistakes that led to three goals,” said Raiders coach Gary Smith, whose 5-6 team hosts Portsmouth on Saturday afternoon. “But the third period was one of the best we’ve played all season and hopefully we’ll learn and it will make us stronger.”

Nate Gariepy had a goal and three assists, Ian Garland had two goals and an assist, Nate Damren had a goal and an assist and Nate Chickering had two assists. Jordan Hammond made 28 saves.

North Country 10, Hartford 1

Newport, Vt. — Senior Ben Rouillard notched his 100th career point with his team’s goal.

“It’s disappointing it didn’t come under more positive circumstances, but Ben is a special player and it’s well-deserved,” Hartford coach Todd Bebeau said.

The Canes (7-2-0) had won their last six games. Hartford looks to regroup when it hosts St. Johnsbury on Saturday.

Woodstock 4, U-32 2

Woodstock — Luc Issa had two goals and an assist to help the Wasps pick up their second win of the season.

Issa, Lucas Piconi and Trevor White all scored in the second period to help Woodstock break open a scoreless game.

Issa then added an empty-netter late in the third period. Cullen McCarthy had two assists. Issa, Piconi and Daniel Robinson each had assists.

“It’s a good win for us, and we played well as a team,” Woodstock coach Jon Chamberlin said. “It was a terrific effort, hopefully something we can build on.”

U-32 outshot Woodstock, 30-16, but the Wasps proved opportunistic with their chances.

Goalie Jason Drebber had 28 saves for Woodstock (2-6-1), which plays host to South Burlington on Saturday.

Boys Basketball

Burr & Burton 62Woodstock 46

Woodstock — Down 22-4 after a quarter, the Wasps tumbled to 4-5 despite 18 points from Caleb Webb.

“We shot extremely poorly in the first half and (Burr & Burton was) 8-of-11 on 3-point shots,” said Woodstock coach Joel Carey, whose team hosts Springfield on Friday. “We had pretty poor help-side defense, and they just rotated the ball and got wide-open shots.”

Carter Vickers had 29 points for the Bulldogs.

Girls Basketball

Oxbow 42, Randolph 41

Bradford, Vt. — Kayleigh Trojanowski scored the winning points with 14 seconds remaining and the Olympians hung on to improve to 3-4. Randolph got off a late shot and grabbed the rebound before time expired.

“It was a lot of time left, and we had a lot of different strategies we were thinking about at the end,” Oxbow coach Barry Emerson said. “Sometimes good defense gets it done.”

Trojanowksi had 13 points, Alex Giesing had 12 and Sara Walker had seven for the Olympians, who visit Thetford on Friday.

Emily Grady had 13 points for Randolph. The teams were a combined 8-of-23 from the free-throw line.

Hartford 47Green Mountain 35

White River Junction — Megan Bushway had 16 points to pace the Hurricanes (5-2).

Corey Lieberman added eight points and Morgan White and Natasha Lovell each had six points for the hosts.

Hartford outscored Green Mountain, 29-11, during the middle two quarters.

The Canes visit Springfield on Friday.

Williamstown 43Whitcomb-Rochester 14

Williamstown, Vt. — Playing for the first time in 12 days, the Mountaineers were no match for one of the top teams in Vermont D-III.

Jayme Ducharme had 22 points to lead Williamstown. Hayley Mears had eight for Whitchester (2-6), which plays at South Royalton on Friday.

Rivendell 52, Twinfield 21

Orford — The freshman duo of Mikayla Stever and Sienna Carter lifted the Raptors (5-2).

Stever had six points, seven steals and five rebounds. Carter added six points and five steals. Both were in the starting lineup as they continue to carve out bigger roles with the Raptors, winners of three straight games.

Riley Thomson had 17 points and nine rebounds to lead Rivendell. Leah Rutherford added 10 points and Mikayla DeBois had nine. DeBois finished with nine rebounds, including six on the offensive end.

The Raptors visit Williamstown on Friday.

Tilton 76, Kimball Union 52

Meriden — Taylor Soule led all scorers with 28 points for the Widcats (6-6), who also received eight points from Caroline Merguerian and who host Holderness on Friday.