Alex Dougherty scored three rushing touchdowns while leading Telstar to a 36-14 win over Bucksport in an eight-man Small School football game Saturday at Bethel.

Dougherty scooted to the end zone twice in the first quarter on 60- and 20-yard runs. His third touchdown came in the third quarter on a 45-yard scamper.

Telstar’s Brennan Walker found Bentley Merrill for a 25-yard scoring strike in the fourth quarter, and Hunter Koskela rushed for a touchdown.

Telstar is now 4-2. Bucksport dropped to 3-4.

SPRUCE MOUNTAIN 28, STEARNS 24: Austin Armandi scored his second touchdown late in the fourth quarter and Owen Kelvey sealed it with an interception as the Phoenix (5-1) beat the Minutemen (5-2) in Jay.

Armandi scored on a 5-yard run to give Spuce Mountain the lead, then got the winning TD from the 2.

Dylan Jewett also scored twice, on a 1-yard run and a 10-yard run. 

POLAND 35, FREEPORT 14: Damon Martin passed to Landon Cooper for four touchdowns and ran a score, leading the Knights (4-3) over the Falcons (4-3) in Poland.

Cooper had TD receptions of 18 yards in the first quarter, 56 yards in the second, 10 yards in the third and 38 yards in the fourth.

Martin broke a 7-7 tie with a 3-yard run in the second quarter. Poland led 21-7 at halftime and 27-7 after three quarters.

Freeport scored on a 1-yard run by quarterback Andrew Thomas in the second quarter and a 6-yard pass from Thomas to Sam Willard in the fourth.

PORTLAND 45, LEWISTON 0: Cordell Jones had 11 carries for 84 yards and two touchdowns, Alex Martin rushed 10 times for 76 yards and two touchdowns, and the Bulldogs (5-2) handled the Blue Devils (0-7) in Lewiston.

Justin Bouchard was 6 of 6 on extra points, kicked a 35-yard field goal and also had a rushing TD, as did Jake Johnson.

GIRLS SOCCER

GREELY 5, EDWARD LITTLE 0: Lydia Berthiaume recorded a hat trick as the Rangers (8-5) defeated the Red Eddies (2-11) in Cumberland.

Sami Santerre added an unassisted goal and set up a goal by Tori Zandan.

BOYS SOCCER

WINTHROP 6, MOUNTAIN VALLEY 2: Evan Bilodeau scored three times and Travis Donovan scored twice as the Ramblers (6-5-3) beat the Falcons (1-10-1) in Rumford.

Keenan Libby, Graham Hurt and Travis Donovan each had an assist for Winthrop, which benefitted from two own goals. Giannia Haefele had four saves.

Jack Glover and Ryder Merrill scored for Mountain Valley. Walker Flagg and Dexter Rice both had an assist, and Gabe Hall had nine saves.

GREELY 1, EDWARD LITTLE 0: Connor Skillin’s first-half goal was the difference in a tight contest between the Rangers (12-1) and the Red Eddies (5-5-1) in Auburn.

Edward Little outshot Greely 11-3, but Skillin buried one of the three Greely shots on goal.

CROSS COUNTRY

MVC CHAMPIONSHIPS: William Morris of Dirigo and Bryanna Hagopian of Madison were the individual champions, and the Winthrop boys and Boothbay/Wiscasset girls captured team titles at the conference meet in Augusta.

Morris, a junior, completed the 5-kilometer UMaine-Augusta course in 16 minutes, 39.6 seconds. Runner-up Alfie Cognata of Winthrop was more than a minute behind (17:49.3), followed closely by Madison’s Craig Paine (17:50.8), Boothbay/Wiscasset’s AJ Crocker (17:55.8) and Winthrop’s Keenan Libby (18:07.3).

Winthrop placed five runners in the top 14 to score 36 points, for a decisive victory over Lisbon (65).

Hagopian, a senior, also won by more than a minute. Her time of 20:09.6 was well ahead of teammate Leah Harper (21:32.6). Dirigo’s McKenzie Boyle (22:06.2), Oak Hill’s Abigail Gervais (22:52.1) and Mt. Abram’s Addie Paul (22:57.9) rounded out the top five.

Boothbay/Wiscasset, led by Maddie Andreasen in seventh place (24:02.7), edged Maranacook for the team title, 61-64. Madison was a close third with 72 points.