Predicted winners in bold. Season records, correct picks first, in parenthesis. ADAM ROBINSON (14-12) Edward Little at Brewer Gray-New Gloucester at Yarmouth John Bapst at Poland Morse at Spruce Mountain Mountain Valley at Maranacook Mt. Blue at Deering Oak Hill at Lisbon Sanford at Oxford Hills Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale at Madison/Carrabec/Valley Dirigo at Traip Telstar at Sacopee […]
Lee Horton
Staff Writer
Lee Horton is the Varsity Maine Editor for the Maine Trust for Local News. He joined the Sun Journal as assistant sports editor in July 2016, then served as sports editor from May 2018 to May 2024. Prior to moving to Maine, he was the sports editor at the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles, Washington.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Weekend Blitz: Big showdowns in 8-man football
Edward Little (1-1) at Brewer (1-1) Friday, 7 p.m. The Red Eddies return to Maine, where they are unbeaten this season. The Witches already have been on both sides of blowouts. Gray-New Gloucester (1-1) at Yarmouth (2-0) Friday, 7 p.m. Possible offensive shootout. The Patriots have scored 26 and 40 points this year, while the […]
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H.S. football: Week 2 staff predictions
Predicted winners in bold. Season records, correct picks first, in parenthesis. ADAM ROBINSON (6-7) Edward Little at Spaulding (N.H.) Leavitt at Portland Bangor at Lewiston Morse at Gray-New Gloucester Mountain Valley at Sacopee Valley Old Orchard Beach at Dirigo Spruce Mountain at Ellsworth/Sumner Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale at Hermon Fryeburg at Lisbon Mt. Blue at Falmouth Traip at […]
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Weekend Blitz: Class A powers Oxford Hills and Thornton clash in Week 2
Edward Little (1-0) at Spaulding (N.H.) (1-0) Friday, 6:30 p.m. The Red Eddies travel to Rochester, New Hampshire, to take on the Red Raiders. Both teams were winless last year, and both opened the 2022 season with wins last week — Edward Little scoring late to beat Messalonskee for its first win since 2018. Mt. […]
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H.S. football: Week 1 staff predictions
(Predicted winners in bold) ADAM ROBINSON Telstar at Mountain Valley Greely at Gray-New Gloucester Brunswick at Mt. Blue Cony at Oxford Hills Dirigo at Maranacook Foxcroft at Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale Lisbon at Freeport Messalonskee at Edward Little MDI at Spruce Mountain Sanford at Lewiston York at Leavitt Poland at Fryeburg John Bapst at Oak Hill WIL KRAMLICH […]
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Oxford 250 live blog: Watch winner Cole Butcher cross the finish line
Butcher is the first Canadian driver since 1995 to win the Oxford 250 and the first champ from Nova Scotia.
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Gray-New Gloucester boys dominate Maine soccer in the late ’70s and early ’80s
The team took three state titles over a five-year period starting in 1979.
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‘Fights smell bad’: A non-sportswriter covers Ali-Liston fight in Lewiston
“A Newsman Who Is Not A Sportswriter Ordinarily Finds Fights ‘Smell Bad,’” from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.
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The night Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston made Lewiston the center of the sports world
“‘The Fight’ Will Be Argued About For Many Weeks,” by Lewiston Evening Journal Sports Editor Norman S. Thomas, as it appeared in the May 26, 1965, edition of the newspaper.
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The Journal broke the news that the Ali-Liston fight was to take place in Lewiston
“Clay-Liston Championship Match Set for Lewiston’s CMYC May 25,” from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.