Lake Region, North Country girls are state champs

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Lake Region’s Tia Marie Martinez beats a Vergennes defender as she lofts a three-point shot Saturday. The Lady Rangers capped their perfect record and won the Division Three girls title by defeating the Commodores 53 to 37. Lake Region took the lead in the first minutes of the game and never relinquished it. Photo by Joseph Gresser

by Joseph Gresser

BARRE — In an ordinary year half of Orleans County would have been screaming its lungs out at the Barre Auditorium here on Saturday and Sunday. That is, if you believe an ordinary year includes having three of the area’s high school basketball teams playing in the state finals.

At the end of a strange and truncated season, both the North Country Union High School girls and boys teams made the finals, as did the Lake Region Union High School girls.

The Falcon and Ranger girls came away with championship banners — in North Country’s case the first in school history — but the Falcon boys were bumped by a strong Montpelier team.

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