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CVU gymnasts have home meet on Tuesday

A rare, weekday home competition awaits the Champlain Valley Union High gymnastics team Tuesday when the St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltoppers come to Williston’s Green Mountain Gymnastics (240 Pioneer St.) for a meet starting at 1 p.m.

The Redhawks came away from Saturday’s Rebel Invitational with some solid performances.

In the four divisions of competition, which matched competitors by their high school class, Ashley Bachand, Madision Bourdeau and Amanda Holman came away with significant scores.

Bachand took top honors among sophomores in the vault and bars and tied for the lead on the beam. Her scores on the vault and bars were the best of the day.

Bourdeau posted the top freshman scores on the vault, bars and beam.

Holman was runner-up among seniors on the vault and tied for second on the bars.

Two CVU athletes nominated for scholarship

Two Champlain Valley Union High senior athletes are among six Chittenden County high school fall sports stars nominated for scholarships by Burlington’s Ethan Allen Club.

Kelsey Jensen for field hockey and Addie Peterson in soccer were two of the three girls sports participants to receive a fall nomination. There will be additional nominees for winter and spring sports, with the winners of the $2,500 scholarships, one for boys, one for girls, to be announced at a June dinner.

Several criteria are used for selecting nominees including athletic achievement, academic success (at least a B-plus average) and community contributions.

Linsey Judge of Essex High cross country was the third girls nominee.

Boys named were Max Librizzi of Essex football, Ben Lustgarten of Burlington High cross country and South Burlington High soccer player Andrew Mercier.

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Dec. 23, 2009

Some old antagonists were on the holiday schedule for the Champlain Valley Union High girls basketball team, which took a spiffy 5-0 record into its Tuesday night home contest against 2-3 Rice Memorial High.

On Monday, the Redhawks will take a ride to Barre for a 7 p.m. meeting with a solid Spaulding High team before returning home Wednesday for a 5:30 p.m. rematch against South Burlington High.

So far, the Redhawks are looking good on facing teams a second time around. At least once, that is.

On Friday, coach Stan Williams and his merry hoopsters travelled to the Jericho Center digs of the Mount Mansfield High Cougars and laid a 43-30 licking on the Big Cats. This after the two teams had gone to overtime before CVU could pull out a 55-51 victory in the season-opener on Dec. 4.

Allison Gannon unloaded 20 points on the Cougars, who fell to 2-4.

The Redhawks’ bench also chipped in as nine players got into the scoring column.

Tesse Bugbee was a force for MMU, swishing three treys among her 11 points.

— Mal Boright, Observer correspondent

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Boys hockey team has three straight victories

Dec. 23, 2009

By Mal Boright

Observer correspondent

The Champlain Valley Union High boys hockey team will be skating for a fourth straight victory Wednesday when 2-3 Hartford High comes to Cairns Arena.

The puck drops at 5:30 p.m.

Next up for the defending Division 1 champion Redhawks will be their first meeting of the season with the Essex High Hornets a week from Wednesday in Essex, at 5 p.m. The last contest between the two rivals was in the title game late last winter.

The young CVU skaters (4-2) earned their third consecutive victory Saturday by smartly dispatching previously unbeaten Rutland High 4-1 at Cairns Arena. The Red Raiders left town with a 3-1-1 record.

“This is a young team and the guys work hard,” CVU head coach Doug Hopper said.

It is and they did.

The visitors never recovered from a troubled first period in which they were out shot 17-2, leaving their goalie Andrew Boyle possibly wondering if he was a target in a puck proving grounds.

Part of Rutland’s problems in the period was caused by six penalties. Despite swarming around the Raider net, CVU’s lone score came on a power play with 1:02 remaining. Nate LaCroix fired in a rebound off the stick of Kyle Logan, who got an assist.

Boyle had pulled off some robbery specials, especially of Redhawks Robbie Dobrowski and Logan.

CVU got much more efficient with the shots in the second period and lit the lamp three times in nine pops at the net.

Logan fired a riser from 15 feet at the 9:58 mark, Derek Goodwin and Griffin Brady notching the helpers.

The prettiest score of the day came less than a minute later at 9:06. Dobrowski got a puck 20 feet out and neatly stick handled through the entire Rutland defense, deked about four ways and lifted a short shot past Boyle, who had no chance after the Dobrowski moves. LaCroix and Mayson Kropf were given assists.

Sam Parent notched CVU’s final goal at 6:20 when, on a power play, he gathered a loose puck in Rutland territory and let loose a stinging slap shot for the 4-0 edge.

In the meantime, defensemen Cully Millikin, Wilson Yandell and Quinn Kropf, among others, kept the Raiders from mounting any sustained assaults on goalie Mark Albertson, who had 18 stops.

Rutland’s lone tally came with 1:09 remaining in the game when Greg Roy unloaded a zinger.

Boyle wound up with 32 stops on a very busy afternoon.

Last Wednesday, the Redhawks picked up a solid road win, zapping Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans 5-2. Dobrowski and Logan each scored twice while swiftie J.P. Benoit added a singleton.

Albertson collected 19 saves as CVU outshot the Bobwhites 25-21.

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