AUBURN — The best Mitch Lorenz is a rested one. Thrown into a short recovery cycle and pitted against everyone else’s ace for much of the season, St. Dom’s senior lefthander hadn’t enjoyed the zip, the command or the wins everyone expected this season. It was all there Monday, when Lorenz took a no-hitter into […]
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Rams, Reilly dismiss Vikes with 10-2 win
BANGOR — Bangor High School senior pitcher Emily Reilly said her team has been focusing on delivering two-out hits this season. “We’ve been saying, ‘Two outs, so what,’” said Reilly after her Rams scored eight two-out runs to beat Oxford Hills of South Paris 10-2 in a battle of the top two teams in the […]
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H.S. Baseball: Maranacook takes out Spruce Mountain after Max McQuillen pinch homer provides lift
READFIELD — Max McQuillen missed Maranacook’s first nine baseball games with two fractures in his back. It sounds serious, because it is. One swing Friday afternoon against Spruce Mountain was pretty much all McQuillen was medically cleared to take. And one was all he needed. McQuillen’s no-doubt pinch home run to right field with one out […]
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H.S. Baseball: EL, Norcross-Plourde take out another top team, shut out Messalonskee, 2-0
AUBURN — The mythology that KVAC baseball might feature Bangor and Messalonskee at the banquet table and everybody else scrambling for crumbs has been shattered. For that, everyone can at least partially thank Edward Little. The Red Eddies now have beaten both preseason favorites after Thursday’s 2-0 shutout of the Eagles at Austin Field, a verdict […]
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H.S. baseball: Mt. Blue stuns Oxford Hills
FARMINGTON — Colton Lawrence hit a high-bounding ball to the left side of the infield to score the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning, giving Mt. Blue a stunning, 10-9 win over Oxford Hills in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference baseball game at Hippach Field on Wednesday afternoon. Oxford Hills (8-2) entered […]
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H.S. baseball: Falcons fend off Wolverines
WISCASSET — Over the first eight games of the Mountain Valley Conference high school baseball season, Wiscasset coach Mike Bowles has watched his team commit untimely errors and fail to take advantage of base runners in scoring position. For the defending Western Maine Class D champions, a 2-6 mark at the halfway point of the […]
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Sox have the last say, 6-3
TORONTO (AP) — The day after their second team meeting in less than a week, the Boston Red Sox turned in a winning performance. Mike Napoli hit a three-run homer, Pablo Sandoval added a two-run shot and the Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. “The way […]
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Local roundup: Buckfield baseball, softball sweep Forest Hills
JACKMAN — Senior catcher Jared Eastman produced four hits in the first game, while Gerry Gagne and Ralph Dunn collected three hits each in the nightcap as Buckfield swept Forest Hills, 8-7 and 16-4, in EWC baseball action Saturday afternoon. Eastman had two doubles in the early innings of the first game and two triples […]
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H.S. Baseball: Winthrop strikes early, extends St. Dom’s skid to three games
AUBURN — Now in their fourth year watching Mario Meucci ruin otherwise glorious May afternoons, MVC baseball coaches and pitchers aren’t offering the Winthrop third baseman many chances to tee off. Meucci took advantage of the rare generosity Friday afternoon, ripping Mitch Lorenz’s two-strike offering to the gap in right-center field. The two-run triple triggered a […]
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Baseball: Devils give Eagles the slip
TOPSHAM — Friday’s Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference contest between Mt. Ararat and Lewiston High School featured a back-and-forth game with no clear decision on which team was going to win. But the Blue Devils got the extra push in the seventh inning to take home the 5-4 victory. “I thought we had them in the […]