WISCASSET — What a difference a week makes. A little over a week ago, Lisbon and Wiscasset watched as a heavy round of showers washed out the baseball field on which they were playing. The Greyhounds led, 7-0, but the game was called off in the third inning, and the teams had to start all […]
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H.S. Baseball: Monmouth takes advantage of 10 Lisbon errors, wins 6-5 in eight innings
MONMOUTH — The conditions for Monday’s MVC baseball showdown between Lisbon and Monmouth were summer. The level of play at crucial times, well, decidedly spring training. Monmouth prevailed 6-5 in eight innings at Chick Field in a walk-off situation that you might never see again, but a fitting footnote to this one. Previously undefeated Lisbon dropped […]
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H.S. Baseball: Winthrop stays unbeaten, pulls away from Mt. Abram
Hickey delivered precisely that Saturday morning with a no-frills, four-hit complete game for the Ramblers in a 9-2 MVC baseball victory over stubborn Mt. Abram. Winthrop (4-0) needed three runs in the fifth inning and five in the sixth to pull away. Hickey didn’t give up a hit until there were two outs in the […]
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H.S. Baseball: Dirigo leapfrogs Oak Hill on Cooper Chiasson single in sixth
WALES — Dirigo baseball is senior-led and tradition-rich, as usual. When a freshman and a first-year junior starter are the ones coming up with the big hits in a late-inning rally, good luck to the rest of the MVC. The ninth-grader, third baseman and left fielder Cooper Chiasson, capped the Cougars’ comeback with a two-run single […]
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H.S. baseball: Cougars mop up Indians
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue pitcher Colton Lawrence was in mid-season form Monday afternoon at Hippach Field, throwing a three-hit, 11-strikeout 11-1 win over Skowhegan in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A baseball game. Featuring his fastball with limited breaking pitches mixed in, Lawrence dominated a young Skowhegan (0-2) team, while the Cougars (2-1) pounded […]
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H.S. Baseball: Big hit by Ben Allen, gem from Matt Sekerak rally Winthrop past Monmouth
MONMOUTH — Right guy at the plate. Right guy on the mound. Ben Allen’s two-run, two-out, opposite-field single broke a tie in the top of the seventh inning Monday, completing Winthrop’s rally to a 4-2 victory over Monmouth in the Ramblers’ MVC baseball opener at Chick Field. Pinch hitter Bennett Brooks’ single, also to right field, […]
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Local roundup: Monmouth baseball overcomes Dirigo; EL softball ekes out win over Mt. Blue
DIXFIELD — Junior catcher Gage Cote started and ended the game in grand fashion, singling in the first and doubling in the eighth, as Monmouth notched a 3-2 victory over Dirigo in MVC baseball action Friday afternoon. The Mustangs (1-0) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Cote scored on a ground out. […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lisbon slips past St. Dom’s, 2-1, as Kyle Bourget completes amazing comeback
In a baseball context, Lisbon High School pitching ace Kyle Bourget destroyed the curve. Bourget received medical clearance to return 4 months and 16 days after suffering the injury in a football playoff game. He continued the amazing comeback Friday, spinning a complete-game three-hitter to lead the Greyhounds past Saint Dominic Academy, 2-1. “They said […]
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H.S. Roundup: Oxford Hills baseball rolls past Cony
PARIS — Oxford Hills erupted for nine runs in the first inning Wednesday and ended its 11-1 KVAC baseball victory over Cony in the fifth by virtue of the 10-run rule. Bailey West cranked a bases-loaded triple in the fruitful frame. Brady LaFrance also drove in a run with a three-bagger. It was ample support […]