AUGUSTA — A 74-game regular-season unbeaten streak has produced plenty of highlights and high seedings for the Scarborough High School softball program. But the Red Storm hadn’t been able to convert such momentum into similar postseason dominance since the early days of that streak, when Scarborough topped Skowhegan to capture the 2013 Class A state […]
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Class B boys’ lacrosse championship: Cape Elizabeth holds off Yarmouth
PORTLAND — Cape Elizabeth claimed its fourth state title in five years by beating Yarmouth 16-7 in the Class B boys’ lacrosse championship game Saturday at Fitzpatrick Stadium. Yarmouth whittled down Cape Elizabeth’s big lead to 8-5 by the end of the third quarter. Then, Finnegan Raymond waded through a mass of defenders to score […]
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Class A girls’ lacrosse championship: Massabesic routs Messalonskeee
Teammates surround Madison Drain (20) after Massabesic claimed the Class A girls’ lacrosse state championship by defeating Messalonskee at Fitzpatrick Stadium on Saturday. PORTLAND — Massabesic earned revenge and a state championship by beating Messalonskee 13-4 in the Class A girls’ lacrosse title game at Fitzpatrick Stadium on Saturday. In this same game last year, […]
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Class B softball: Old Town, behind 19 Ks from McKenna Smith, stop Fryeburg
STANDISH — McKenna Smith didn’t allow herself to think about how she was pitching for seven innings. According to Old Town’s team rule, she’s only allowed to think about each out, hit, or otherwise for just seven seconds. She’ll have plenty of time to think about her pitching performance now. In what might be an […]
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Class C Baseball: Orono rallies for 4 in 7th to stun Lisbon
Members of the Orono High School baseball team and their fans celebrate after Connor Robertson scored the winning run to cap a four-run, seventh-inning rally to beat Lisbon 4-3 in the Class C baseball state championship game at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor on Saturday. BANGOR — It all started when Orono’s survival instincts kicked in. […]
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Class D baseball: Searsport walks off on Bangor Christian
STANDISH — Mitchell Philbrook saved his best for the final at-bat of his high school career. The Searsport High School senior helped his Vikings three-peat in dramatic fashion Saturday afternoon, launching a two-out, solo home run well over the left-field wall in the bottom of the ninth as Searsport edged Bangor Christian 6-5 at Saint […]
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H.S. Softball: Buzzell, Cooper, Bennett the backbone for Fryeburg Academy
FRYEBURG — Growing up, Mackenzie Buzzell remembers watching Fryeburg Academy win three softball state championships in four years, and she wanted to win one herself one day.. Now after going the first three years of her high school career without making a state final, let alone winning one, Buzzell is part of a trio of […]
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H.S. Baseball: Title games have familiar feel
Familiarity is the theme of three of the four state championship baseball games being played Saturday, whether it’s familiar opponents or familiar storylines. The one game that doesn’t come close to a been there, done that feel is the Class C championship (2 p.m., Mansfield Stadium in Bangor) pitting Lisbon (15-4) against Orono (13-6). In […]
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Lisbon seniors hoping to leave on top
Tyler Halls reacts after his seventh-inning one-run double drove in an insurance run against St. Dominic Academy last season. LISBON — Somewhere there are two runner-up medallions waiting for Nate Havlicek and several of his Lisbon baseball and football teammates to add them to their trophy cases. Havlicek, a senior, doesn’t know the whereabouts of […]
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H.S. Softball: Usual suspects square off in state finals
Three rivalries renewed and a returning champ against a return to the championship. Yes, the eight teams playing in Saturday’s softball state championships are all familiar names. The longest state final drought for any of the eight teams is a mere five years. Five of the eight teams were in state finals last year, with […]