Keene's Vann Morrelli (0) comes flying in from behind the play to get the block on Seton Catholic's Michael Mannix (11) as they would get the 60-56 victory. We would have Mountain Valley Athletic Conference action inside Section VII as the Seton Catholic Knights would host the Keene Beavers in an early season tilt. The game would start quickly, with both teams going up and down the court, and the Knights would have a slight 15-12 lead after the first quarter. In the second quarter, the high pace of both teams would continue as the Beavers would win the quarter 19-15 and take the slim 31-30 lead into the intermission. When the teams return for the second half, they will still have the high pass up and down the court, as the Beavers will have the 14-11 and get a slightly bigger lead at 45-41 after three quarters. In the quarter, the Knights would give everything they have to get back in the game and, a couple of times in the quarter, have the deficit within one; still, they would be unable to get over that hump in the quarter, and the teams would tie for the quarter at 15, but the Bevers would hold onto get the 60-56 victory. With the Keene Beavers going to 2-1 on the season as the Knights fall to 0-2, both teams will be back in action later in the week before the holiday break. Gallery

The Chazy Eagles would be crowned the 2024 Section VII Class D Boy's Soccer champion for the 7th straight year with the 2-0 win over the Keene Beavers. It would be the Class D Section VII Boy's Soccer Championship from Beekmantown High School, and there would be a traditional powerhouse there; still, this time, they would be the underdog as they would come in as the #2 seed and take on the #1 Keene Beavers, with the winner headed to the New York State tournament. The Chazy Eagles would be looking to defend their title and would get the game's opening goal at the 15-minute mark from Madox Tyndall to make it a 1-0 game, and that is where the game would stay through the first half. The game would stay there till the 55th minute when the Eagles and Tyndall would score again and take control of the game at 2-0. That is where the game would finish, and the Eagles would win as they go 17-2-1 in the season and will take on the winner of Section X on November 9th in the quarterfinals of the state tournament. As for the Keene Beavers, their season would end at 16-3 on the season. Gallery

Keene's Haylie Buysse (11) with the mid-range jumper over Seton Catholic's Abby Pearl for two points. It would be a Mountain and Valley Conference game featuring the Seton Catholic Knights and the Keene Beavers from Seton Catholic. It would be a lower scoring tight game to get started as the Knights would have a 6-4 lead after the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Beaver's offense would come alive for a huge quarter at 13-4 and take a 17-10 lead into the intermission. When the teams came back for the third quarter the Knights would have some fight in them and win the quarter 11-2 and retake the lead at 21-19. In the fourth quarter, the Beaver's defense would completely shut down the Knights with a 13-0 quarter and get the come from behind win at 32-21. With the win, the Beavers go to 5-1 while the Knights fall to 4-5 on the season. Gallery

Elizabethtown/Westport Griffins would score midway thru the second half to defeat Keene Beavers 1-0 in nail biting Section VII Class D Semi-Finals. The Grifins now advance to the Finals taking on the winner of the Minerva-Newcomb/Chazy game at PHS. In the second half, Trevor Brooks(24) - E-Town/Westport - would score the loan goal of the game at 60:11 assisted by Isaiah Turner(3) as the Griffins would win 1-0. The Griffins had 13 shots, 7 saves, 5 corner kicks, 5 fouls, 0 offsides. The Beavers had 3 shots, 13 saves, 2 corner kicks, 9 fouls, 1 offsides and 1 yellow card for delay of game (60:43).

Keene Lady Beavers shuts out Westport Lady Eagles 3-0 in girls MVAC soccer. In the first half Amanda Busha(3) - Keene - scored at 34:18 assisted by Corrie Ann Stoner(13) to make it a 1-0 game. In the second half Baily Vanness(8) - Keene - scored at 45:50 assisted by Hannah Whitney(11) to make it 2-0. Later on, in the half Whitney would score at 22:34 assisted by Sydney Jennette(14) to give the Beavers a 3-0 win. The Lady Beavers had 14 shots, 8 saves, 4 corner kicks, 6 fouls, and 1 offside. The Lady Eagles had 9 shots, 11 saves, 5 corner kicks, 3 fouls, and 0 offsides.

Westport's James Moricette (2) slides into 3rd base as Keene's Brandon Dumas (20) is there to make the play as the Eagles defeat the Beavers 13-2 in Section VII Class D 1st Round action. The Eagles will now play in Chazy in the Quarterfinals on Friday, May 23rd. The game would be 5-2 Eagles leading going into the bottom of the 5th when John Doyle (10) would open up the inning with a walk. Then Ryan Davis (5) would reach 1st base on a fielding error by SS Warren Ashe (13) then the next 5 batters would walk: Sam Napper (25), Dylan Limlaw (22), Moricette, Brian Christian (6) and Tyrel Tryon (27). This would allow Doyle, Davis, Napper, Limlaw to score making it a 9-2 game. Then Rylan Hance (19) would strikeout with the bases loaded to get the 1st out of the inning. Then Moricette and Christian would both score on outside pitches during Thomas Mero's (4) at-bat. He would end up walking and Tyron would score on an outside pitch making it 12-2. Doyle would now be battling for the 2nd time in the inning and he would strikeout for the 2nd out of the inning. Then Davis would flyout to Keene's LF Rory Riggins (8) to end a disastrous inning for the Beavers. Pitcher Limlaw would pitch the 1st 3 innings with no hits as he picked up a complete-game win with 9 strikeouts, 3 hits, 2 walks and 1 hit batsman in the outing. Keene's Colton Venner (11) would have a bad outing as he picks up the loss by allowing 10 walks and 4 hits. On the positive, he would strike out 12 Westport batters during the outing. Gallery.