The Otters started the Division II high school varsity football season under the lights Friday night, smothering the Springfield High School Cosmos, 48-6.
Springfield wasn't much of a test for the visiting Otter Valley Union gridders. The Cosmos, who won a state championship back in their undefeated 2008 season, have fallen on hard times, turning in back-to-back losing seasons in 2010 and 2011.
The Otters appear to be back on the winning track after five consecutive losing but competitive seasons. Otter Valley Union had its own undefeated, championship season in 2005, when the school competed in Division 4.
With the opening game in the recordbooks, the Otters are tied atop their division with the Burr & Burton Academy Bulldogs (who beat Mount Anthony, 52-33, at home Friday) and the Bellows Falls Terriors (who won at Fair Haven Union, 20-14). Four teams in the ten-team division have not yet played.
Otter Valley's junior varsity visits 2011 Division II champion Fair Haven Union on Tuesday night, Sept. 4. The next varsity contest will be home against the Lyndon Institute Vikings on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 8.
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