Taylor Depot hits the ball at a recent game against Hamden Academy. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) The high school softball season is now a week old and many teams have played their first game, despite Mother Nature doing her best to prevent them from doing so. Preventing has been difficult for some of those teams that […]
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Roundup: Edward Little downs Hampden Academy in baseball; Lewiston softball opens with win
AUBURN — Grant Hartley had a solid all-around day to help lead Edward Little to a 5-1 victory over Hampden Academy in a KVAC baseball contest. Hartley, a senior, had three RBIs, including a solo home run in the bottom of the first. He had an RBI single in the third as the Red Eddies […]
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H.S. softball: Edward Little climbs past Hampden in walk-off win
Edward Little’s Anna LeBlanc reaches out to tag out Hamden Academy’s Samy Ouellette at first base during Wednesday afternoon’s softball game in Auburn. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) AUBURN — Edward Little softball coach Elaine Derosby found her team’s mantra after just one game. “We talk, and I’ve talked to a couple of them, and it may […]
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H.S. softball: Eddy pitches Traip past Buckfield in opener
KITTERY — Traip Academy pitcher Reilly Eddy had a dominant first start of the season, striking out 16 Buckfield batters and taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning of a 3-0 victory in a softball season opener. The Bucks (0-1) broke up the no-hitter on a Cara Merrill triple in their final turn at the […]
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H.S. softball: Catchers both the captain and anchor for teams
Meagan Gosselin is a catcher for the Lewiston High School softball team. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) It’s hard to miss a softball player clad in full pads. And that player — the catcher — is in many cases the most important player on the field. Yet Winthrop High School coach Chuck Gurney calls catcher”the often forgotten […]
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Is this the year a team takes D South region from Richmond?
Buckfield’s Abby Fogg dives back to first base before Rangeley’s Amber Morrill can put the tag on her during a game in Buckfield last season. Richmond players have come, and Richmond players have gone. For eight seasons that hasn’t mattered for the Bobcats, who have won regional softball championships each of those years. Yet maybe […]
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Gotta beat the Bulldogs in C South
Monmouth third baseman Hannah Anderson throws to pitcher Emily Chasse (2) while trying to catch Madison’s Aishah Malloy in a rundown after a pickoff attempt at third base in the third inning. Malloy was eventually tagged out by Chasse. The alphabet always starts with A, but in Class C South softball the power rankings always […]
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Team by team softball Capsules
Buckfield Bucks Coach: Sandy Albert (fifth year) Class: D South Conference: EWC Last year’s results: 15-3, lost in regional semifinals Returning athletes: Seniors — Carly Trimm, Cassidy Hart, Brittany Warren; Juniors — Hannah Shields, Julia Dow, Maggie Bragg, Kaylee Harvey; Sophomores — Deja Bennett, Molly Bourget, Katy Henderson, Chloe Warren Key losses: Kali Litchfield, Abby Shields, Abby Fogg, […]
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Class B South goes through WMC
Kennebunk’s Lindsey Gregoire catches the ball at first base to get Gray-New Glouster’s Jordan Grant during Monday evening’s game in Gray. The South has been dominated by the West ever since the state’s regional alignment moved to North-South. That is, the Class B South softball title has routinely been teams from the Western Maine Conference. […]
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Everyone trying to catch Skowhegan in A North
Skowhegan’s Ashely Alward delivers a pitch in the first inning against Oxford Hills during their playoff game last season. The most motivated team in Class A North this season might also be the region’s best. Skowhegan brings back everybody from a team that lost in the state final for the second straight year. And the […]