LEBANON — The accolades continue pouring in for Lebanon High’s Becky Wright with her senior season on the horizon.
Wright, a Weathersfield native, was named NHIAA Division II player of the year for the second consecutive season by the New Hampshire Basketball Coaches Organization in a news release on Monday. A junior, she averaged 20.08 points in 24 games for the Raiders this season, leading all female Upper Valley scorers, and scored 67 points in three playoff games. She also scored her 1,000th career point this winter. Lebanon fell to Kennett in the D-II semifinals.
Hanover junior Maddie McCorkle, who averaged 12.4 points per game for the D-II champion Marauders, was also named to the division’s first team. Hanover’s Diana Schwarz (10.3) and Lebanon’s Anna Wolke (5.5) were named to the D-II second team. Lebanon’s Sally Rainey (9.8) and Hanover’s Julia Golder (8.7) were honorable mentions.
Woodsville’s Olivia Sarkis was named to the D-IV first team, leading the Engineers with 14.3 points per game. Woodsville’s Emily Prest (9.7) made the D-IV second team. In D-III, Newport’s Selena Coronis (6.6) and Mascoma’s Michaela Dowd (7.5) were named honorable mentions.
On the boys side, Woodsville’s Billy Green (13.3) made the D-IV second team. Sunapee’s Jordan Chappell (13.6) and Woodsville’s Patrick Reardon-Estes (8.1) made the D-IV honorable mentions. Hanover’s Charlie Adams (17.3) made the D-II second team. Lebanon’s Wade Rainey (12.8) made the D-II honorable mentions and Mascoma’s Dakota Decocq (11.7) made the D-III horable mentions.
Spaulding’s Ari Breakfield and Pinkerton’s Brooke Kane were named Mr. and Ms. New Hampshire Basketball.
Woodstock sophomore forward Allie Cimis and Hartford pair Jasmine Wilson, a senior forward, and Cecelia Spaulding, a junior defender, made the 2019 Vermont high school All-Star first teams in a release by the Vermont Girls Ice Hockey Coaches Association on Sunday.
Cimis, who was named the Tier II first team, has 24 points — 12 goals, 12 assists — for the Wasps ahead of Thursday’s VPA Division II championship game against Missisquoi on Thursday at UVM. Spaulding (one goal, two assists) and Wilson (seven goals, six assists) made the Tier III first team.
Woodstock junior Lizzie Peck (11 goals, two assists) and senior goaltender Bridget Black made the Tier II second team.
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Former Upper Valley Nighthawk Davis Mikell, of Castleton University, was named Little East Conference player of the week for the third consecutive week.
Mikell, who played with the Nighthawks last summer, went 7-for-7 at the plate during a doubleheader sweep of Bard College on Saturday including five extra-base hits — three doubles and two triples — and earned three walks, drove in four and scored eight times.
HANOVER — Big Green men’s basketball junior guard James Foye was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America second team by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
The economics major with a 3.96 GPA started all 30 games for Dartmouth this season. Foye is the first Big Green player to be chosen for one of the teams in men’s basketball in 22 years.
HANOVER — Big Green sophomore Katharine Ogden was announced as one of 30 semifinalists for the 89th annual James E. Sullivan award presented to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
The award is for the 2018 calendar year in which Odgen, as a freshman, won both the women’s Nordic races at the NCAA skiing championships last March, becoming the first Dartmouth skier to win two titles in one championship in 56 years. The finalists will be announced next Monday.