Two Edward Little High School graduates propelled the Plymouth State College softball team to a surprising run in the recent Little East Conference tournament.
Plymouth State upset the University of Southern Maine in the early rounds before bowing to Eastern Connecticut State, 3-1, in an elimination game.
Senior outfielder Michelle Dubois of Auburn scored the lone run for the Panthers after a leadoff double. On the season, she appeared in all but one of Plymouth’s 33 contests, starting 29.
Becky Norton, a sophomore catcher and Minot native, appeared in 11 late-season games and made an immediate splash in the Panthers’ playoff push, batting .348. Despite playing in only one-third of Plymouth State’s schedule, Norton’s eight RBIs tied for third on the team.
Stellar senior season
Plymouth State’s baseball team finished the season with victories in seven of its last dozen games, and Lewiston senior Derek Guimond led the charge throughout the campaign.
Guimond concluded his final season as the Panthers’ leading hitter at a toasty .331. He smashed the Plymouth State single-season record by scoring 50 runs while topping the team with 50 hits, 27 walks, 22 stolen bases and 12 doubles.
Stood and delivered
Sarah Cook was one of the pioneering girls’ lacrosse players at Lewiston High School, helping launch the program before she graduated in 2001. That self-sacrificing approach is magnified by the fact that she endures one of the most thankless jobs in all of sport: lacrosse goaltender.
Cook, who has logged more victories in goal than any stopper in the history of Colby-Sawyer College women’s lacrosse, recently reaped the school’s highest athletic honor when she was named Wynne Jesser McGraw Award as female scholar-athlete of the year.
With a 7-4 record this season, Cook reached the career 20-win plateau.
Bobcats in bronze
The Bates College men’s track and field team took third in a field 26 teams strong at the NCAA Division III New England Championships last weekend in Springfield, Mass.
Matt Capone, a sophomore from Auburn, ran a blistering leg for the 4×100 relay team that set a new school standard, snagging second place in the event with a time of 42.26 seconds. Adam Macbeth of Ellsworth, Joe Northrup and Joel Colony shared the honor with Capone.
Macbeth also set two individual school records in both the 110- and 400-meter hurdles. Northrup won the decathlon. Senior Dustin Gauthier finished third in the shot put with a heave of 50 feet, 11 1/2 inches. Gauthier, Northrup and Macbeth all qualified provisionally for the NCAA Championships. Williams and Massachusetts Institute of Technology were the only teams to top Bates’ 72 1/2 points.
Tourney time
Amy Sarrazin, a sophomore women’s tennis player at Quinnipiac College of Hamden, Conn., will lead the Bobcats into NCAA Tournament play this weekend at the University of Georgia.
Georgia is ranked No. 8 in the country, and the school will host the NCAA national championship match later this spring. Lewiston High grad Sarrazin has been in the mix at singles and doubles, winning 11 doubles matches with partner Danielle Rodriguez at the No. 3 rung.
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