AUBURN — Helped by long bus rides south, creative scheduling and some marathon, cold days, Edward Little baseball overcame the lack of outdoor time that plagued other tri-county teams this preseason. “I don’t know how many games, but we had 50 innings, I think,” sophomore shortstop Jarod Norcross-Plourde said. It showed Wednesday, when EL rolled […]
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College baseball: Endicott emerges late, bashes Bates
No worries for Endicott, which did a twin bill’s worth of damage with the bats, and then some, at Bates’ expense in the sun-drenched, breezy opener. Every member of the Gulls’ starting lineup notched at least one hit, and eight of them were repeat offenders against five Bobcats’ pitchers in a 22-8 rout. Bates (8-10) […]
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Class A East Baseball: Lewiston, EL, Mt. Blue under new management
Let’s try to keep this straight. Dave Jordan, the former Lewiston coach, is now at Edward Little. Andrew Cessario, an assistant football coach at Edward Little and a teacher in the Auburn school system, takes over for Jordan at Lewiston. The rivals are scheduled to meet Wednesday, April 22, in the KVAC season opener at […]
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Class D West baseball: Rangeley revives program
The baseball program at Rangeley isn’t new, but it might as well be. Current players are barely old enough to remember when the Lakers won back-to-back Class D West titles in 2007 and 2008, capping the second run with a state championship. For most of them, though, that’s the extent of what they know about […]
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Class C West baseball: Saints, Cougars part of loaded championship chase
St. Dom’s has appeared in 11 of the past 12 Class C West baseball championship games. Three out of five state titles this decade have gone to Dirigo. If you’re expecting those two MVC powers to come back to the pack this spring, you’re probably out of luck. Each team returns a one-two combination atop […]
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Class B West baseball: Just like starting over for Poland
Statistics and baseball go together like hamburgers and ketchup. One such number has a bitter taste for Poland in the WMC and Class B West preseason. “We will have six seniors who had a combined seven games played on varsity last year,” Poland coach Mike Connor said. Alex Biron accounted for five of those contests […]
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Edward Little baseball preview
Coach: Dave Jordan (first year) Conference: KVAC Class: A Last year’s record: 7-10, lost in Class A East preliminary Returning players: Seniors — Lew Jensen (P/IF), Brandon Knapp (P/OF), Elijah Roe (OF), Luke Sterling (OF), Seth Sterling (IF/OF); Juniors — Drew Lashua (IF), Brandon Varney (C/P). Key losses: Nate Pushard, Mike Hammond, Evan Raymond, Brian Crane. Promising […]
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St. Dom’s baseball preview
Coach: Bob Blackman (13th year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year’s record: 14-5, lost in Class C West final Returning players: Seniors — Mike Bryant (P/1B), Mitch Lorenz (P/1B), Ray Mosca (SS/3B), Ryan Harvey (2B), Matt Keaney (RF); Sophomore — Justin Keaney (C). Key losses: Caleb Dostie, Chase Hainey. Promising newcomers: Senior — Caleb Labrie (UT); Sophomore — Sam […]
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Monmouth baseball preview
Coach: Eric Palleschi (11th year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year’s record: 16-2, lost in Class C West semifinals Returning players: Senior — Noah Bates (2B); Juniors — Nick Sanborn (P/OF), Jariah Caissie (3B), Chandler Harris (2B/SS/P), Tommy Small (IF/P); Sophomore — Hunter Richardson (SS/P). Key losses: Kyle Fletcher, Nate Gagne, Brandon Goff, D.J. McHugh, Alex Curtis, Phil […]
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Oxford Hills baseball preview
Coach: Shane Slicer (13th year) Conference: KVAC Class: A Last year’s record: 12-6, lost in Class A East semifinals Returning players: Seniors — Brady LaFrance (OF), Will Frank (P), Aiden Heikkinen (P/OF); Juniors — Matt Smith (C), Blake Slicer (P/OF). Key losses: Nick Attaliades-Ryan, Matt Beauchesne, Nick Bowie, Riley Chickering, Walter Feeney, Ty Martin, Dalton Rice. Promising newcomers: Senior […]