WINTHROP — Unbeaten Monmouth Academy sent Nick Sanborn to the mound to try to put out a third-inning fire in Monday’s Mountain Valley Conference clash with rival Winthrop. The sophomore’s first two pitches can only be termed as accelerant. But Sanborn recovered and snuffed the Ramblers’ offense over the next three innings while the Mustangs […]
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The Hot Corner: Frustrations with mound trends too many to count
Pitch counts are killing baseball. Well, in fairness, statistical hyper-analysis is killing baseball, but the two are intimately interwoven. It all leads to my indisputable hypothesis that Tony LaRussa and Billy Beane are the Antichrist and Dr. Frankenstein of the national pastime, respectively. It’s all their fault that we can’t watch a major league game […]
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Thompson Baseball Camp
Former professional baseball player and current Division I assistant coach Edwin Thompson will hold a baseball camp for players entering grades 1-9 on June 18-20 at Kents Hill School. Registration for the camp is $80 for those signing up before May 30 and $95 thereafter. Cost includes a free t-shirt and other prizes. Instruction will […]
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College baseball: Jumbos eliminate Bobcats
MEDFORD, Mass. — Playing their second game of the day, Bates held Tufts University to just four hits, but the Jumbos captialized on nine walks and three hit batsmen to earn a 7-1 victory in an elimination game of the NESCAC championship Saturday afternoon. The Jumbos extended thir lead to 6-0 in the top of […]
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H.S. Baseball: Cougars trip-up Ramblers, 10-7
DIXFIELD — It is true that a team can’t count on winning very many games when it commits seven errors. But as Dirigo found out at Harlow Park Friday, the odds of victory increase when your opponent commits four costly miscues of its own and your shortstop ends the game with a great rally-snuffing catch. […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lewiston squeezes Mt. Blue in eighth
LEWISTON — The Lewiston coaching staff exhorted its young hitters with the words “right guy, right situation” for most of a raw, drizzly Friday afternoon. Never was the reading on the sincerity meter higher than when senior Matt Poulin stepped to the plate at Deschenes Field with the bases loaded and one out in the […]
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H.S. Baseball: Pushard puts passion for baseball to good use
AUBURN — Nate Pushard and Scott Annear have been collaborating on the baseball diamond for three years. It’s been a coach/player collaboration thus far. That venture will end in a few weeks, but they may yet have another in store after Pushard’s high school career ends. “We have a joke that we’re going to write […]
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H.S. Baseball: Gagne’s gem, nearly perfect, keeps Monmouth unbeaten
MONMOUTH — Monmouth Academy’s pitching strategy so far this unblemished baseball season has been three innings and a cloud of dust. So every time Nate Gagne made the short walk from the Chick Field mound to the home dugout Wednesday afternoon, coach Eric Palleschi would inquire, “One more? You got one more?” By the end […]
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H.S. Baseball: Poulin, Devils breeze past Vikings
PARIS — Lewiston’s Matt Poulin didn’t take the mound with an overpowering fastball or a mystifying array of breaking pitches Tuesday. But he did have two things behind him that favored a strike-throwing machine — a solid defense and a stiff breeze. Poulin pounded the strike zone, and the Blue Devils took advantage when Oxford […]
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College Baseball: One comeback not quite enough for Bobcats
Tufts freshman southpaw Tim Superko snuffed Bates’bid for another seventh-inning rally for a 4-2 win in Game 2 that earned the Jumbos the right to host the four-team tournament. But even though the Bobcats fell shy of their goal to host, a split with the top-ranked team in the conference gives them something to build […]