Leland and Gray Snowboard Team Update

It was a long week for the team last week. They started out on Monday at Bromley Mountain competing in a Snowboard Cross event, which was a bit more technical than they had seen before. The United States Amateur Snowboard Association has races every weekend, qualifying athletes for the National championships in Copper, Colorado, and when they have an event, they leave a course behind that is built a level above the quality of the average terrain our team ever sees. Boardercross is a combination of all the Snowboard disciplines; it contains features such as jumps and banked turns like Slopestyle and gates like Giant Slalom and Slalom races. The added difficulty, aside from the aforementioned, is that there are 4 riders vying for the finish at the same time. Each set of four has an elimination of two, with two advancing to the next heat. Each consecutive bracket gets more difficult as the level of riding gets more intense.

Kelsey Bruder rode the Boardercross course like a champ despite having a bit of difficulty during her practice run. She crashed and her knee hit her face

Read more: Snowboard Team Update 2012-2-21

Rebels Put Terriers on a Leash

Robert H. Litchfield III

TOWNSHEND – The Leland and Gray Boys Basketball team beat Bellows Falls last Monday, February 13th.  After gaining three consecutive wins, (including a sentimental victory over the Proctor Phantoms who held a 15 year-old winning streak against us) the Rebels entered the game with much tenacity.

In the first half, the game went back and forth between both teams with many turnovers, resulting in a 28-24 Terrier lead.  By the second half, the level at which both teams were playing on showed a phenomenal improvement; the Rebels played avid defense making plenty of down low put-backs whereas the Terriers held onto an astonishing rampage of three pointers.  By the end of the third, the Terriers established a 40-35 lead over the Rebels.

Read more: The Burrower - Sports Update - Boys Basketball 15 Feb. 2012