High School Football
 Ruff 'n' ready
RUMFORD - Travis Ruff speaks for his fellow seniors when he evaluates the importance of Saturday's Class B championship game against Morse (11 a.m., Fitzpatrick Stadium).
Page 2: The Hot Corner - West may be best ... again
Two great tastes that taste great together, proclaimed the commercial that provided the soundtrack for so many Saturday morning cartoon marathons and promoted so many cavities.
Page 2: Top 10 football games of the fall
Saturday's state football finals have a tough act to follow.
Scouts' honor
WINTHROP - Ask a Winthrop High School student or football fan to identify the most indispensable parts of the Ramblers' Western Class C championship machine and you'll hear mostly the same answers.
Falcons get by Capers
RUMFORD - With the regional championship on the line and the most important drive of Mountain Valley's football season in motion, the last thing Matt Laubauskas was going to do was nurse his banged-up knee.
Regional final notebook
Edward Little's Saturday got off to an inauspicious start when star senior guard/nose tackle Grady Burns went down on the opening kickoff with a broken ankle.
Eddies fall to Indians
AUBURN - The bad omens started as soon as the first animated rain drop appeared on the local weather man's map. By Saturday afternoon, they were pouring down on the Edward Little Red Eddies.
Winthrop pitches 7th shutout in victory over Lisbon
WINTHROP - Fourteen seniors posed for posterity at what was rumored to be the 50-yard line at Maxwell Field on Saturday afternoon.
Eddies, Indians won't stray far from what got them here
AUBURN - It has been said that weather is the great equalizer in football.
Mtn. Valley, Cape Elizabeth ready for Round 6
RUMFORD - As Travis Ruff talks about the weather forecast from Saturday's championship game, he barely can contain a smile.
'Hounds and Ramblers will hold nothing back
WINTHROP - Lisbon has to tried to ignore Winthrop's 2008 football statistics - they're the kind of numbers that will make your eyes pulsate, anyway - and break down Saturday's Western Class C championship game into simplest terms.
'I love this stuff'
RUMFORD - Earlier this season, Jim Aylward watched his young sophomore quarterback prepare for another night on the football field. With just a few varsity games under his belt, Cameron Kaubris was asked by the Mountain Valley coach about pre-game jitters.
Rebuilding complete:
LISBON FALLS - Even vintage Lisbon High School football teams seem to start the season with eerie modifiers describing their offensive line in the scouting report.
Devils' food for thought
If the Lewiston Blue Devils want to be one of the elite teams in the Pine Tree Conference next year, coach Bill County says they need only look across the river to the team that handed them their only two losses this season, Edward Little.
Breaking down the 'real Super Saturday'
For the past 10 weeks, my wife and many others have been complaining about being football widows.
Bailey's wonderful life at EL
AUBURN - Cody Goddard's first pinpoint spiral through Saturday's blanket of fog over Walton Field got acquainted with Dominique Bailey's fingers before dropping to the dewy sod.
Bound by Red tape
AUBURN - Quick strikes.
Greyhounds never forget, dismiss Cougars, 16-7
DIXFIELD - The Lisbon football team came out angry Saturday.
Devils/Eddies: Here we go again
AUBURN - Edward Little coach Darren Hartley says he's run all the numbers and scenarios through his mind.
Shipbuilders sting Hornets
TURNER - In the four games following their last meeting with Leavitt, the Morse Shipbuilders have kept their end zone locked up and thrown away the key.
Falcons soar past Yachtsmen
RUMFORD - Mountain Valley wasn't quite sure what to expect out of the Falmouth offense Friday night.
Winthrop rambles over Livermore Falls
WINTHROP - It doesn't matter how good a football team you are. If you score more points in your first playoff game than you've given up all season, combined, it's a weighty accomplishment.
Giving opponents the runaround
AUBURN - What defenses see when they line up against Edward Little's spread formation is not always what they get.
Page 2: The Hot Corner: Visions of red and blue dance in our dreams
The sheer rumor of any event pitting Red vs. Blue right now gives me an aura that my head is about to implode.
Page 2: News and notes from around the region
As if the rest of Western Class C needed Winthrop to have any extra advantage in its pocket, the Ramblers enter the Campbell Conference playoffs sharp and battle-tested.
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Podcasts
Sports Talk Live: Class C Championship Vodcast
LEWISTON -- With less than one week to go before the biggest Class C football game of the season, the Sports Talk Live crew has gone video.
Sports Talk Live: Class B Championshiop VodCast
LEWISTON -- With less than one week to go before the biggest Class B football game of the season, the Sports Talk Live crew has gone video.
Sports Talk Live: Playoff edition
LEWISTON - With two weeks to play in the football season, we are almost at the end, and here we have the final 12.
Sports Talk Live Special: Lewiston vs. Edward Little
LEWISTON - For the 165th time, Lewiston and Edward Little will square off on the gridiron. This time, it's at Walton Field, and this time, it's for the right to play in the Eastern Class A title game. Edward Little's offense is more than an air attack, and Lewiston has more to offer than Wesley Meyers. But what do the so-called experts think?
Join Kalle Oakes, Randy Whitehouse and Justin Pelletier as they debate this critical Eastern Class A matchup, giving it the special treatment it deserves.
Sports Talk Live: General Playoff Preview
LEWISTON - So many great matchups, so little time this week, which is why we splintered off a bit and brought you two different discussions.
Sports Talk Live: Week 9 Wrap-up
LEWISTON - Through one week of the playoffs, and we've already had our fair share of bizarre games.
Sports Talk Live: Week 9 Wrap-up
LEWISTON - Through one week of the playoffs, and we've already had our fair share of bizarre games.
Sports Talk Live: Week 9 preview
LEWISTON - The playoffs are coming, the playoffs are coming!
Sports Talk Live: Week 8 Wrap-up
LEWISTON - What a week we had.
Sports Talk Live: Week 8 Preview
LEWISTON - The final week of regular-season play for many of our area's teams provides some interesting matchups, and none bigger in Lewiston-Auburn than Edward Little's trip across the bridge to visit the unbeaten Blue Devils.
Sports Talk Live: Week 7 Wrap-up
LEWISTON - The top matchup in Week 7 lived up to the hype, and set up a dandy finish in the Campbell Conference.
Sports Talk Live: Week 7 preview
LEWISTON - It's a big week this week in high school football, with a pair of battles pitting unbeaten teams against one another.
Sports Talk Live: Week 6 wrapup
LEWISTON - Lewiston made a statement, Edward Little rebounded, and, in a stunner, Leavitt lost to pesky Morse.
It was a pivotal week all over the place, as Dirigo remained unbeaten, and Winthrop posted its fourth straight shutout, setting up next week's battle of the unbeatens.
Sports Talk Live: Week 6 Preview
It's hard to believe, but we're down to the final three weeks of the Class A schedule, with four weeks left in other major conferences.
Sports Talk Live: Week 5 wrap-up
LEWISTON - With Week 5 in the rearview mirror, some teams are already making plans for the postseason, while others are thinking maybe, just maybe an undefeated season is in the works.
Sports Talk Live: Week 5 preview
LEWISTON - The matchups aren't quite as glamorous this weekend as they have been for the last couple of weeks, but there are some that bear close watching.
Sports Talk Live: Week 5 preview
LEWISTON - The matchups aren't quite as glamorous this weekend as they have been for the last couple of weeks, but there are some that bear close watching.
Sports Talk Live, Week 4 preview
LEWISTON - Kalle Oakes, Randy Whitehouse and Justin Pelletier are back for another week of high school football, breaking down this week's key games. This week, Edward Little travels to Bangor, Lewiston rides Route 4 to Farmington, Oak Hill will take on nemesis Winslow, and Lisbon hits the beach in Old Orchard.
Sports Talk Live: Week 3 Wrap-up
Leavitt won convincingly.
Sports Talk Live: Week 3 Preview
LEWISTON - Welcome to a new feature available to readers across the world here at sunjournal.com. Each week, we'll bring you a 10 to 15-minute preview of the coming weekend's football action, and we'll follow that up with a weekend wrap-up show of about the same length, either Saturday or Sunday, depending on the weekend's slate of games.
This week, join Randy, Kalle and me as we talk about Edward Little, Dirigo, Mountain Valley, Lewiston and about the Leavitt Hornets, hosting a tough Winslow team for homecoming Saturday afternoon.
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