LEBANON — It wasn’t Gone With the Wind, although it might have felt that way to the Lebanon High girls tennis team on Monday.
Despite cold temperatures and occasionally stiff breezes, the Raiders cruised to an 8-1 win over Monadnock on the Carter Community Building Association courts to open their NHIAA Division III season. Lebanon (1-0) swept five of the six singles matches and all three doubles encounters to start the first of two consecutive three-match weeks.
Misia Delgado got Lebanon going with an 8-3 win over Kaylee Stenerson at second singles. Emerson Sleeper (8-5), Kaeley Skakalski (8-3), Lexi Zagarola (8-0) and Molly Neu (8-1) clinched the team win for Lebanon with their singles victories.
The Raiders completed the day by sweeping doubles. Skakalski teamed with Zola Campbell for an 8-5 decision at No. 1, Sleeper and Zagarola earned an 8-6 win at No. 2, and Caitlin McHugh and Crisi Patel linked at No. 3 for an 8-4 decision.
Lebanon returns to the CCBA courts on Tuesday to host InterLakes, then hits the road to visit Profile on Friday.
HANOVER — Dartmouth added to its list of Ivy League defensive player of the week honorees with goakeeper Kiera Vrindten’s award on Monday.
The junior returned from a two-week injury break to produced a huge game in Saturday’s 15-11 defeat of Harvard at Scully-Fahey Field. Vrindten had eight saves on the afternoon, four in each half, as the Big Green remained perfect on the league season at 3-0. She also had a pair of ground balls in the effort.
Vrindten joined teammates Kathryn Giroux and Claire Marshall as the third Big Green player to be recognized as such in as many weeks. The weekly honor was the first for Vrindten, who was the league’s goalkeeper of the year last season.
Dartmouth hosts UConn on Tuesday afternoon.
HANOVER — Senior linebacker Jack Traynor was named most valuable player on Sunday as the Dartmouth football program handed out postseason awards at its year-end banquet.
Traynor earned Coach Bob Blackman Trophy after being named a unanimous all-Ivy League first team defender for the second straight year. The Lake Forest, Ill., resident played a key role in a defense that ranked second nationally in points allowed (12.0 per game) and rushing defense (79.7 yards per game).
Junior quarterback Jared Gerbino won the Jakc Crouthamel Award as the underclassmen who made the greatest contribution to the offense. Junior cornerback Isiah Swann won the Kenneth T. Young Award for similar play on the defense after leading the nation with nine interceptions.
Other recipients:
■ Hewitt Award: Drew Hunnicutt.
■ Godwin Award: Jackson Perry.
■ Hershey Award: Matt Kaskey.
■ Bennett Award: Rocco Di Leo.
■ Hamilton Varsity Award: Bun Straton.
■ Hamilton Freshman Award: Zack Bair.
■ Doten Aard: Jake Guidone.
■ Pearson Award: Drew Estrada.
■ Manley Award: David Chalmers, Harry Kraft.
■ 12th Man Award: Matthew Shearin.
■ Special Teams Award: Jake Moen.
■S cout Team honorees: Kamana Hobbs, Jalin Mackie.
■ Reggie Williams Award: Kyran McKinley-Crudden.
■ Manners Makyth Man Award: David Emanuels.
LEWISTON, Maine — Guard Meredith Melendy recently completed her sophomore campaign with the Bates College women’s basketball team.
The Grantham native and Lebanon High School graduate saw action in 11 games, averaging about three minutes and 2.2 points per game. Melendy had a career-high 18 points in a 95-43 defeat of Maine-Farmington on Jan. 17, going 5-for-9 from 3-point territory in a game in which the Bobcats (12-12) netted a program-record 16 3-pointers.
BOSTON — Taylor Soule had a busy freshman season with the Boston College women’s basketball program.
The West Lebanon native and Kimball Union Academy graduate started 20 of the 29 contests in which she appeared for the Eagles (14-16). Soule had her best game in a 93-78 loss at North Carolina on Feb. 21, setting personal bests for points (21), minutes (35), rebounds (9) field goals (8) and field-goal attempts (17).