UVM campus quiet after Red Sox sweep

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Celebrations erupted at the University of Vermont early Monday morning after the Boston Red Sox World Series sweep, but not the rioting of 2004.

Hundreds of students marched up Main Street in Burlington to the sound of bagpipes after the Sox wrapped up their four-game series win over the Colorado Rockies.

City and UVM police kept a crowd estimated at 700 under control, in part by barricading off streets and limiting the parade largely to Main Street.

The scene was in sharp contrast to the rioting that happened in 2004, after the Sox overcame a three-games-to-none deficit and defeated the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.

There was an estimated $50,000 in damage that year, and 13 students were criminally charged.

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