A four-run third inning is the key for the Red Eddies. Also, the Edward Little softball team shuts down the Eagles and a pair of Bates track athletes are going to the NCAA Championships.
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Local and community sports coverage from the Sun Journal.
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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.
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Area college roundup: CMCC softball’s season ends with loss in USCAA tournament
The Mustangs score early runs but fall to Penn State-Hazelton to bow out of the double-elimination tournament. Also, postseason honors for a Lewiston grad as well as Bates rowers.
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Area roundup: Five St. Dom’s athletes sign to play at college level
Also: Leavitt softball hands Gardiner its first loss, Dirigo baseball outlasts Hall-Dale in 11 innings, and more from Monday’s baseball, softball and lacrosse games.
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College softball: CMCC drops tournament opener
The Mustangs fall in the bottom of the seventh in their first game of the double-elimination national tourney.
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Racing roundup: Curtis Gerry high-gears to first win of the season at Oxford Plains Speedway
The 2017 Oxford 250 champ and 2019 Oxford Plains SLM champion bests the division’s top rookie and the defending title winner. Also, PASS and NESS a no-go because of rain, and a big-money victor at Wiscasset.
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Photos: Off and rolling in Auburn
Maine Mini Golf Tour event marks start of 10-week summer league.
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MMA: Ryan Sanders knocks out Mark Gardner to cap off ‘Battle of L/A’
New England Fights returns to the Twin Cities with a card of eight professional and nine amateur fights at Norway Savings Bank Arena.