Local investors have been granted an expansion team by United Soccer League and will play games at Fitzpatrick Stadium, pending city approval.
Steve Craig
Staff Writer
Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.
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Gray-New Gloucester/ Raymond Little Leaguers are a hit at home
Community support, which was already strong, went ‘bonkers’ when the team won the New England Region championship Thursday night to earn a trip to the Little League World Series.
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Gray-New Gloucester/Raymond earns trip to Little League Baseball World Series
The Maine champions turn back a comeback bid by Canton, Mass., in the New England Region final, holding on for a 2-1 win.
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Gray-New Gloucester/Raymond one win away from Little League World Series
The undefeated Maine champions will play for the New England Regional title Thursday night against Canton, Mass. The game will be televised on ESPN at 7 p.m.
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College baseball: Jacob Humphrey transferring to Vanderbilt
The former Bonny Eagle three-sport standout has had two strong seasons at UMass-Lowell in America East.
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The crowds return on the 25th anniversary of Beach to Beacon
The Cape Elizabeth 10K road race attracts its biggest field of runners since 2017 on a day that featured tight races won by Ethiopia’s Addisu Yihune and Kenya’s Hellen Obiri.
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Obiri, D’Amato headline deep Beach to Beacon women’s field
Hellen Obiri of Kenya and Keira D’Amato of Virginia will race in the Cape Elizabeth 10K for the first time on Saturday morning.
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For 25 years, the legacy runners have never missed Beach to Beacon
On Saturday, 93 registrants plan to extend their streaks of participating in every Beach to Beacon 10K since the race started in 1998.
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Longtime friends have fueled the success of Beach to Beacon for 25 years
Race founder Joan Benoit Samuelson and race director Dave McGillivray have helped to make the Cape Elizabeth 10K one of the premier road races in America.
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25 years of memories from the Beach to Beacon 10K road race
Joan Benoit Samuelson’s race, with its iconic finish near Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, has provided plenty of highlights since 1998.