WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Windsor High varsity girls basketball team is small enough that coach Bruce Mackay feels compelled to bring up a few JV players each game for added depth. Some play two jayvee quarters and up to three with the varsity. Others, like sophomore Elliot Rupp, play just one junior varsity period in order to be able to play a full varsity game, if needed.
Rupp made the most of Saturday’s date at Hartford, scoring a career-high 22 points to lead the Yellowjackets to a 71-38 defeat of the Hurricanes at Hanley Gymnasium.
Rupp and senior Olivia Rockwood needed a quarter to warm up, as Hartford (9-7) kept Windsor (15-2) to a 10-10 tie through the opening period. Rupp then potted 12 points and Rockwood netted another seven in a 27-8 second period that decided the contest.
Rockwood finished with 21 points and Peyton Richardon added seven for the Jacks, who will get a big test from undefeated VPA Division II frontrunner Fair Haven at home on Wednesday.
Jasmine Jenkins paced Hartford with 11 points, and Kennedy Mullen added eight. The Canes host Stowe on Tuesday.
BRADFORD, Vt. —- The Olympians overcame a four-point halftime deficit and outscored Lamoille, 31-17, the rest of the way for the win.
Tiffany Longmore had 19 and Emma Parkin 18 for Oxbow (11-4), which held its opponents to four points in the fourth quarter. The O’s are home against Lyndon Institute on Monday.
WELLS RIVER, Vt. — With coach Dennis Fitzgerald away on personal business, the Raptors (5-9) did much of the on-court decision-making for fill-in coach Tim Goodwin in a loss to the Bucks.
Goodwin and his players concentrated on shutting down BMU star Lauren Alley, holding her scoreless in the opening quarter. The Bucks’ Kolby Nelson (14 points), however, opened the Rivendell defense with nine first-period points, creating room for Alley (game-high 22 points) to find her game.
Cora Day had nine points and Adele Tilden seven for Rivendell, which hosts White River Valley on Monday.
PROCTOR, Vt. — The Eagles ran into a hot shooting Proctor team that hit eight 3-pointers in the win.
Haley Goodwin paced MVCS with 11 points. Emma Foster had seven and Sydney Goodwin, still recovering from illness and playing only half the game, added five for the Eagles (12-5), who play at Blue Mountain on Wednesday.
ASHBURNHAM, Mass. — Haley Malozzi had 24 points, Jenna Santos had 17 points and Maddy Haynes added nine points for the Wildcats, who dropped to 5-11. KUA hosts Brewster on Wednesday.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Yellowjackets made a second-half comeback in the win.
Down 30-21 at the break, Windsor outscored the Canes, 35-24, in the second half.
Owen Abrahamsen had 19 points and Jordan Place 13 for Windsor. Hartford was led by Tarin Prior’s 21 points; Shea Bean and Danny Bushway had eight each. Both teams are 7-11.
TOWNSHEND, Vt. — Zach Gould had 26 points and Kyle Carter 11 points as the Raptors improved to 17-1. Rivendell coach Ross Convertino said the team was a little sluggish at the start and had trouble getting shots to fall.
The Raptors visit Green Mountain on Tuesday.
LYNDON CENTER, Vt. — Oxbow’s Bryce Ilsley was held to nine points, with one 3-pointer. Cooper Simmons added eight points for Oxbow (3-15), which goes to Williamstown on Tuesday.
NORTH BRIDGTON, MAINE — Quin Guth had a game-high 19 points and Rob Brown 16 in the loss.
Kimball Union returns to action Wednesday, traveling to NEPSAC Class AA rival Winchendon.
CONCORD — Greta Schutz scored the game’s only goal and netminder Rebekah Rudd included the denial of a penalty shot among her 23 saves as the Marauders (9-5-2, 9-3-2) knocked the Crimson Tide (11-1-0) from the ranks of the undefeated.
Schutz tipped home a point drive from Natalie Morhun with 1:03 left in the second period. Rudd made her penalty-shot save early in the third after a teammate covered the puck in the Hanover goal crease.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Nora Knudsen drew the Hurricanes within a goal with a third-period strike and Hartford enjoyed a 12-6 shots edge in the final stanza but couldn’t catch the Thunderbirds for their first win of the season.
Ceci Spaulding connected on a Nedra Dwinell pass in the first minute of the contest for Hartford’s other goal. Greer McCarty had the helper on Knudsen’s goal. Zoey Pfeiffer recorded 25 saves.
WEST LEBANON — Souhegan’s Clare Woodford completed a hat trick by scoring the winning goal on a power play with 2:45 remaining at Campion Rink.
Souhegan opened the scoring during the first period before Makayla Macciolli produced a 1-1 tie off the rebound of a Marissa Pickman shot 50 seconds into the final stanza.
The Sabers then scored twice in two minutes before a Pickman goal pulled the Raiders within 3-2 with eight minutes to play. Lily Barber earned an assist. Pickman struck again for a 3-3 deadlock with four minutes remaining. Macciolli and Barber had the assists. Kayleigh Treitsch made 10 saves for Lebanon.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Wasps dropped to 6-11-1 with the defeat.
WEST LEBANON — Sophomore defenseman Luke Greene opened the scoring with his first high school goal and the Raiders (6-9-0, 6-7-0) won their third consecutive game and their fourth in their last five contests.
Greene scored 31 seconds into the third period with assists from Jacob Kriplin and Griffin Auch. Jon Cloud scored unassisted two minutes later, and Kriplin fired into an empty net with 28 seconds remaining. Toby Cromwell made 18 saves for his team’s third shutout of the season.
WEST LEBANON — The Marauders (10-6-0, 8-5-0) bounced back from a lopsided loss at Concord by putting up 59 shots on the Crusaders.
Curtis Rice opened the scoring in the first period off a Jack Stadheim assist. John Hill’s tally with assists to Brendan Brigham and Spencer Lawe made the score 2-0 in the second period and after a goal by Memorial (2-13), Jack Gardener closed the scoring with assists to Cameron Wood and Rice.
Luke Ives made 11 saves for Hanover.
HIGHGATE, Vt. — The Yellowjackets scored twice on the power play. Woodstock’s goal came from Charles Greene and was assisted by Andrew Gubbins.
Henry Greene made 14 saves for the Wasps (12-3-2).
LYNDON CENTER, Vt. — Aidan Boonyaharn scored twice, James McReynolds and Kyle Hamilton each had a goal and an assist and Colston Allen had two assists to push the Hurricanes to 11-6-1.
A.J. DeBois also scored and Blaine Gour had an assist. Colby Boyce made 33 saves for Hartford.
MERIDEN —- The Wildcats led 3-0 after a period on goals by Zach Whitehead, Sullivan Mack and Paul Dore to rebound from Friday’s loss to New Hampton.
KUA pushed it to a four-goal lead when Luca Fantilli scored on a feed from Whitehead. Fantilli also had two assists. Holderness got on back late in the second before a third-period goal from junior Grant Eastwood, with assists from Revy Mack and Connor Chalmers, rounded out the scoring.
CLAREMONT — The Yellowjackets came out on top in a three-way match with Hartford and Springfield and will now go into the VPA team state tournament next month as the top seed, Windsor coach Steve Bly after Saturday’s match at Maple Lanes.
Grayson Frazer (205-212) and Rayce Gilbert (178-168) led Windsor to first in the qualifying rou nd for Baker matches w it h a score of 1,637. Springfield, the No. 2 from qualifying, beat Hartford, 2-1, in the Baker semifinals. W indsor won the final, 2-0, over The Cosmos.
Hartford’s Cean Lieberman Jr. bowled a 237-213 in qualifying, and teammate Hailey Rogers rolled 148-119.
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Scores that missed Saturday’s paper due to deadline. Find updates online at www.vnews.com.
Hartford 51, Springfield 40
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Eleven players scored at least a field goal for the Hurricanes (8-10).
Brandon Potter and Danny Bushway each had nine points to lead the way. Alex Bushway, Shea Bean and Dylan Morse had six points each. Hartford led, 35-26, at halftime.
NEWPORT — Newfound scored 22 points in the fourth quarter to overtake the Tigers (3-13 overall, 3-11 NHIAA).
Greysan Beaulieu had 14 points for Newport. Riely Skarin and Alyssa Burr each had eight points. Beaulieu and Burr made a pair of 3-pointers each.
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — The Cougars used a pair of 3-pointers and a 3-for-4 effort at the charity stripe in the fourth quarter to pull away from the Cardinals (8-10, 6-9).
Stevens spent most of the night chasing the game after scoring just five first-quarter points. Alyssa Paquette paced the Cards with 10 points, followed by eight from Sydney Miller and seven from Jaci Morin.
Newport visits Stevens on Tuesday.