For the first time since 2001, the Sun Journal won’t have one of our “local” teams to cover in a state championship game. The final five of the 14 teams (including Class E Telstar) that we cover regularly from our palatial Park Street newsroom and gridirons across the Androscoggin-Oxford-Franklin country region bowed out last Friday […]
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Yarmouth runs away from Presque Isle in B girls' soccer final
Yarmouth’s Ashlyn Feeley drives the ball up field Saturday during the Class B state championship against Presque Isle. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) Once the Yarmouth High girls’ soccer team showed it had beaten the competition, it started competing to top itself. Then it made history. The Clippers rolled to a championship finish of their […]
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Maranacook edges Fort Kent in C boys' soccer final
Kevin Bennett, for the Kennebec Journal The Maranacook boys’ soccer team celebrates with the gold ball after it defeated Fort Kent 1-0 in the Class C state championship at Hampden Academy on Saturday. (Kevin Bennett, for the Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — The Maranacook boys soccer team had seen one scoring chance after another go unfulfilled, […]
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Houlton holds off Madison for C girls' soccer championship
Houlton’s Mia Hanning jumps into the arms of a coach after a second half goal as Madison players walk back to the team bench during the Class C title game Saturday at Hampden Academy. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — Houlton girls soccer coach Tim Tweedie marveled at Kolleen Bouchard’s senior season, one in which […]
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Richmond falls to Bangor Christian in D boys' soccer championship
Richmond’s Ben Gardner, left, collides with Bangor Christian goalie Jeremiah McNally durig the Class D state championship game Saturday at Hampden Academy. (Kevin Bennett, for the Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — The tears were still welled up in Richmond High School forward Zach Small’s eyes when he said the words no athlete wants to say after […]
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Richmond holds off Ashland in D girls' soccer final
Richmond’s Bryannah Shea, right, jumps into the arms of Abigail Johnson after scoring the second goal of the Class D state game against Ashland on Saturday at Hampden Academy. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — In defending, a fine line exists between doing so successfully and sitting too far in as to leave the team […]
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Class B boys' soccer state final: Yarmouth challenged, but holds off Winslow again
The Yarmouth boys’ soccer team celebrates with their classmates after winning the Class B State Championship 2-1 against Winslow at Deering High School on Saturday. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald) PORTLAND — It was the same two teams as last year dueling for the Class B boys’ soccer state championship, but the rematch was much more […]
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In the Crease: Lewiston's Lumu played for more than just a state title
Lewiston High School keeper Dido Lumu, far right, watches as a Portland header sails wide during the Class A boys’ state soccer final at Deering High School’s Memorial Field in Portland on Saturday. (Justin Pelletier/Sun Journal) PORTLAND — All around him was celebration. And he celebrated, too, on the outside. On the inside, though, imposing […]
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Camden Hills outlasts Scarborough in A girls' soccer final
PORTLAND — With the help of two goals from Kassie Krul, the Camden Hills Windjammers finished the season as the lone unbeaten team in Class A on Saturday, handing Scarborough its first loss of the year in a 3-2 Class A state championship victory at Deering High School’s Memorial Field. Just four minutes into the […]
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Ali overtime goal lifts Lewiston over Portland in Class A state soccer final
PORTLAND — Golden cleats. Golden-dyed hair. Golden goal. Warsame Ali put himself in the right spot with those cleats, used his head with that hair to re-direct a free kick and scored the game-winning goal for Lewiston in overtime to beat Portland, 1-0, in the Class A boys’ soccer state championship game at Deering High […]