Thirteen is more than a lucky number for Rob Leighton. A baker’s dozen put him in the Maine Maritime Academy football history book Saturday afternoon.

Leighton matched Keith Beaulieu atop the Mariners’ all-time list with his 13th career interception. That pick stopped a Massachusetts Maritime drive with 22 seconds remaining in the first half and maintained MMA’s momentum in a 26-7 victory.

The win left Maine Maritime in possession of the Admiral’s Cup, symbolic of supremacy in the coastal rivalry, for the fifth consecutive year.

While the Auburn native and Edward Little High School graduate summoned the telling defensive stop for Maine Maritime, two other local standouts provided all the points as the Mariners crested the .500 mark at 4-3, including three wins in four New England Football Conference contests.

Jim Bower of South Paris (Oxford Hills) carried 37 times for 212 yards. He rushed for touchdowns of 9 and 13 yards.

Quarterback Tyler Angell of Leeds (Leavitt) added 21 scampers for 128 yards on the ground, including TDs of 24 and 29.

Tops on the trail

Last weekend, Tyler Jasud underscored his status as one of the premier men’s cross country runners in New England.

Now the Rumford native and Mountain Valley High School product can add best in Maine to his list of laurels.

The University of Southern Maine’s Jasud won the individual title Saturday in the State of Maine Championships, pulling away from Thompson Ogilvie of Bowdoin for a nine-second win at Twin Brook Recreational Center in Cumberland.

Jasud completed the course in a time of 25:47.82. If it’s enough to earn him Little East Conference runner of the week honors, Jasud will celebrate that distinction for the fourth time this fall.

He was 18 seconds quicker last Saturday, when he finished 38th out of 316 male runners in the Open New England meet at Franklin Park in Boston. Jasud stood seventh among Division III competitors in that race.

Justin Richardson of Turner (St. Dom’s) finished fourth for Southern Maine (26:08) in the state run.

Banner year for Flagg

Taryn Flagg presumably hoped to return stronger than ever after missing her sophomore field hockey season at the University of New England due to a knee injury.

Now Flagg has the numbers to prove it.

With two goals in a 6-1 rout of Commonweath Coast Conference rival Gordon on Thursday, Flagg broke her own UNE record for goals in a season. Her second strike of the day and 13th of the season topped the mark Flagg established in her 2006 freshman campaign.

The Livermore Falls graduate also scored the Nor’easters lone goal in a 3-1 loss to the University of Maine at Farmington earlier in the week. Alyssa St. Pierre picked up her fourth goal of the season for UMF.

Two of Flagg’s goals have been game-winners. She has logged six assists.

Zero intolerance

Bates and Bowdoin were actively involved in the end of three double-digit unbeaten streaks this past week.

The Bobcats went on the road and took out two previously perfect men’s soccer foes. Bates downed MIT, 3-0, earlier in the week and backed that up with a 1-0 Saturday win at Middlebury. Dae Ro Lee nailed the lone goal for the Bobcats off a corner kick late in regulation, snipping the Panthers’ 18-game unbeaten string.

Reigning NCAA Division III field hockey champion Bowdoin saw the end of a 31-game unbeaten skein and a four-year run of 39 home games without a loss when Trinity took home a 2-0 triumph Saturday.