CVU Sports
by Edd Merritt,
June 3, 2010, page 18.....

Individual state championships mark the beginning of the end for tennis season.
Members of CVU’s undefeated women’s tennis team headed to Stowe for the state individual championships. Charlotte’s Kylie deGroot and Colleen McCarthy played singles, while Kristen Donaldson partnered up with Shelburne’s Christina Parker for doubles. McCarthy continued her unbeaten streak through the first round before dropping a second-round match to her Harwood opponent. DeGroot, after a bye in the first round, made it through to the semi-finals before losing a close match. She then defeated her teammate Anna Clare Smith for third place. Donaldson and Parker ran into fellow Redhawks, and eventual doubles’ champions, Emily Polhemus and Claire Stoner in the quarterfinals, losing 7-6, 6-3.
In an article in the June 20 Charlotte News we noted that Colleen McCarthy was undefeated in the three matches on which we reported for that issue. We failed to say that she was, in fact, undefeated in her last 13 matches with the longest winning streak on the team, a feat that deserves recognition. Good job, Colleen!
The top-ranked and undefeated women’s team now heads into the team championships hoping to defend its Division I title successfully.
Charlotte’s Tabor deGroot played in the individual bracket for men, and Will Hall, with his partner Brice Guerriere of Shelburne, played in the doubles tournament. Fighting through two rounds, deGroot finally lost the battle in a three-set, third-round match. Likewise, Hall and Guerriere carried their opponents to three sets in the quarterfinals before falling.

Redhawk lacrosse men lose their first game of the season and take it out on their next two opponents.
Essex and CVU seem to be the powers in men’s lacrosse. After beating the Hornets in double overtime earlier in the season, the Redhawks faced an Essex squad bent on revenge. However, it required a strong Hornet defense to hold off a late CVU rally and hang on to a 9-8 victory in the “Junction.” Charlotters carried the CVU offense with Jake Marston tallying two goals and Peter Hiser and Nick Spencer garnering one apiece. Lawrence Dee was the playmaker in the attack zone, moving skillfully behind the net to deliver three assists. In the final two games of the regular season, a 12-5 victory over Mount Mansfield and a 10-1 home win over BHS, Marston, Dee and Nate Wells helped CVU attain a 14-1 record. Dee was again impressive with his superb ball control and playmaking in both games, and Marston won face-offs consistently.
Women’s lacrosse defines the term “nail-biter.”
Of the Redhawks’ last six games, five were determined by three goals or fewer, clearly demonstrating the team’s progress as the regular season wound down. A Charlotte trio of Sydney Beldock, Lucy Halvorson and Michaela Kiley has led the attack consistently in late May. Two of the one-goal victories came over Middlebury and Burlington with each of the three women contributing one or more scores. The Redhawk’s record stands at 3 wins, 9 losses.

Charlotte makes its presence felt on the track, in the field and in the pits.
CVU men’s track team scored a close second behind Essex before topping South Burlington 87.2 to 62. In the latter meet, Chris Sulva and Josh Olsen took second and third respectively in the 800-meter run, while Tyler Barnes joined two teammates to secure the first three places in the triple jump. Josh Olsen and Jacob Hinsdale were second and third throwing the discus. Barnes and Olsen joined Williston’s Dale Conger to take the three top spots in the javelin.
The women also defeated South Burlington and ran second to Essex, ahead of Missisquoi and St. Albans in a four-team meet. Haleigh Smith won the triple jump and Sara Lewis the pole vault at Essex. In a close dual-meet win over the Rebels, CVU was aided by first, second and third place finishes in the pole vault (with Charlotte’s Maya Grevault finishing second) and in the high jump. Redhawk runners also won the 4X400 and 4X800 meter relays.

CVU baseball ends the month at 8 and 8.
With two wins preceding two losses, the Redhawk baseball team ended May with a .500 won/lost record. Lawrence Halvorson’s RBI in the seventh inning against Spaulding nearly tied the game, but the Crimson Tide’s relief pitcher closed the door on CVU for a one-run Spaulding victory. Drew Leckerling pitched well in St. Albans but ended up the losing pitcher, 8-4.

Softball ends three and two in late May.
Three wins sent the CVU softball team off in late May with hopes for a strong finish to the season. Unfortunately, in the fourth game the Redhawks ran into powerful pitching, striking out 14 times in an 11-4 victory for BFA-St. Albans. Then, errors reared their ugly heads against Colchester, as the Lakers knocked them off 10-4, leaving CVU with a 6-win, 10-loss season record.