CVU Sports and SportsShorts
By Edd Merritt,
January 26, 2012, pages 18-19.....

CVU Sports

Correction and Apology
In our last issue (January 12) we mistakenly called Jeremy Lerner, Patrick Lerner. We apologize and trust that it will not detract from his good hockey play. Best of luck, Jeremy, as the season moves on.

Redhawk women’s basketball team leads its league.
Boasting an undefeated 8-0 season so far, the CVU women’s basketball team has shown the value of depth time and again. Ute Otley’s charges beat St. Johnsbury on the Academy’s home court with three players hitting nine or more points. Elena Bayer-Pact led the way with 12. Four days earlier the Redhawks scalped twice-defeated BFA-St. Albans 49-38 with Lazrin Schenck leading the team with 11 points, followed closely by Remi Donnelly’s 10 point effort.

Basketball men are winning two-thirds of their games.
After winning a two-point squeaker over Essex, 50-48 on the Redhawks’ home court, CVU men hoopsters lost to Colchester 56-48. Brad Bissonnette scored consistently throughout both games netting 22 against Essex and 14 aginst the Lakers. A previous game saw the Redhawks lose by 30-points to Rice, a game in which another Bissonnette, Scott, led the Hawks with 10 points.

Snow means a go for CVU skiers.
No more training on dirt, grass or the wood of gym floors, the CVU ski teams are hitting the slopes and trails. Charlotte’s Sienna Searles and Callie Braun are mainstays of the women’s Nordic team. Searles led all racers in the recent Pursuit Races at Jericho’s Range course. Braun in sixth, Taylor Spillane in fourth, Kathryn Maitland in seventh and Autumn Eastman in eighth took a page from this fall’s successful cross-country running team by clustering at the finish line. Meanwhile, the men finished second in the Pursuit races. The week before, Sean Delaney and Emmett Peterson took second and eighth places over the same course.
Alpiners combined their men’s and women’s scores to finish second at Cochran’s Cougar Cup Challenge. Abby Owens was sixth among women, as was Mark DesLauriers among men. Bennett Hadley came in tenth.

Gymnasts win every event at Randolph.
Led by Sarah Kinsley’s first places in four events and the all-around title, CVU’s gymnasts defeated Randolph in an away match. Taylor Underwood, Megan Nick and Grace Casey helped the Redhawk cause by vaulting well, playing the beam and producing floor exercises with aplomb.

Tom Gallagher boards the slopes – gnarly man.
Just one and one-half points behind teammate Alden Melen, Charlotte’s Tom Gallagher finished second in the high school snowboard meet held at Okemo Mountain. Apparently, however, CVU did not have enough racers to record a team score.

Burhans prefers to run indoors.
Charlotte’s Haliana Burhans ran to a third-place finish among high school girls in the 55-meter dash at UVM. CVU finished 13th as a team, while the men finished 15th.

Wrestlers are testing their moves among high-powered opponents.
Splitting their efforts between dual meets and tournaments, CVU wrestlers have acquitted themselves very well this winter. The team finished second out of 13 schools in the Otter Valley Tournament to open the new year. Clark Poston grabbed first place at 182 pounds, and Charlotte’s Patrick Shea finished third in the 145-pound class. Five other Redhawks finished second, third or fourth in their weight divisions. The following week Spaulding edged CVU 30-28. Shea won the 145 bout, as did Liam Bowley at 106, Grant Posten at 160 and Clark Poston again at 182 pounds. Moving across Chittenden County to Essex for the Baker Classic, CVU faced wrestlers from 26 northern New England and New York high schools. They managed a tenth-place finish, fourth among Vermont schools. Clark Poston topped the Redhawk individuals, winning the 182-pound division, and Liam Bowley finished second at 99 pounds.

Men’s hockey finds the net elusive.
In a 5-2 loss to Stowe, goalie Jason O’Brien turned away 33 shots, with Griffin Brady and Patrick Keelan posting Redhawk goals. The following week CVU faced off against BFA-St. Albans. Playing gracious hosts the Redhawks were shut out 3-0 by the Bobwhites, improving BFA’s record to 10-1 over the season.

Redhawks Women’s Hockey can’t keep up to Bobwhites.
Scoring early and often, BFA-St. Albans women’s hockey team crushed CVU 9-0 at Cairns Arena. A little quicker on the ice, faster to get to the puck and, once there, stronger on it in the corners and in front of the CVU net, BFA dominated the play in its offensive zone. Redhawk goalie, Nicole Sisk, faced 41 shots, turning back 32 of them. With only three seniors on the team, CVU hopes to use this year to build strength and puck savvy for next year.

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SprtsShorts

Middlebury’s Marsten races classic and freestyle.
A Charlotte product, Middlebury College’s Chase Marsten skis for the Panther Nordic team. In the first carnival of the season at Maine’s Bates College, Chase finished 16th in the men’s 10K freestyle and 18th in the 10K classic race. In fourth place at the end of the first day, Middlebury moved into third overall by the end of the carnival. UVM was first, Dartmouth second.

Rally, UVM’s mascot, celebrates his 8th birthday.
Rally invited his friends from all over the area to celebrate his birthday before the hockey Catamounts faced off against Providence the other day. Gus Lunde and his friend Ben Vincent helped Rally honor the occasion and got their pictures taken with him as a result. The mascots played a scrimmage between the first and second periods of the UVM game. The Cats tried to live up to Rally’s name but fell short as Providence took them out in the third period. Perhaps Rally should have traded Cat horns for a hockey helmet and skated a few shifts for his colleagues, who were shorthanded by injuries.