BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College announced Thursday that football coach JB Wells will not return next season. Wells took over the program in January 2015 and compiled a 3-31 record over four seasons, including a 1-8 record in 2018. The lone win this past season came against Bates College and snapped a 24-game losing streak by […]
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2018-19 Bates women's basketball preview capsule
Coach: Alison Montgomery (fourth year) Conference: NESCAC Last year’s results: 7-17 overall, 1-9 in conference. Returning players: Senior — Erika Lamere (1.1 points per game last season); Juniors — Melanie Binkhorst (10.3), Carly Christofi (injured); Sophomores — Julia Middlebrook (7.6), Skye Conley, Meredith Melendy, Olivia O’Regan, Taylor McVeigh (3.0). Key losses: Emily Freedland, Lyse Henshaw, […]
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Women's basketball: Erika Lamere, Melanie Binkhorst lead young Bates team
LEWISTON — Erika Lamere stepped onto the Alumni Gymnasium floor for the first time as a freshman with three other players in her class and first-year head coach Alison Montgomery. Fast forward to the present day, and Montgomery and Lamere are the last ones standing from that 2015 Bates women’s basketball team. While others fell […]
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Men's basketball: Jeff Spellman more than just a scorer for Bates
Jeff Spellman and the rest of the Bates College Bobcats have a new floor to play on this season inside the 92-year-old Alumni Gym. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Jeff Spellman has had to prove himself every season for the Bates men’s basketball team. As a freshman, he had to prove he could play and […]
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2018-19 Bates men's basketball preview capsule
Coach: Jon Furbush (11th year) Conference: NESCAC Last year’s results: 12-12 overall, 4-6 in NESCAC play (tied for seventh place). Returning players: Seniors — G Eli Frater (3.9 points per game last year), F Brandon Galloway (2.4 ppg), C Nick Lynch (8.5 ppg), G Max Hummel (7.7); Juniors — G Kody Greenhalgh (5.2 ppg), G Jeff Spellman […]
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College football: Hamilton blocks Bates' chance at a win
Bates’ Kyle Flaherty runs past Hamilton defenders during Saturday’s season finale. Flaherty, a Litchfield native and former Oak Hill High School standout, ran for 86 yards in his final colllege game. (Theophil Syslo/Bates College) LEWISTON — In the span of less than three minutes, Bates’ season finale spiraled out of control, and all because punter […]
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Public invited to Bates-led walking tour in Phippsburg
PHIPPSBURG — A walking tour at the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area led by a Bates College geologist and an artist participating in a Bates exhibition will relate geologic time and climate change to human history. The “Chronicle of Mud Walk” begins at 11:45 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at the conservation area parking lot, Route 216, Phippsburg. […]
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Atlanta rapper bound for Bates
Bates College presents Waka Flocka Flame, the Atlanta rapper known for his influence on the high-energy Trap movement. Famed for the hit single “No Hands” (No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100), Flame brings a performance style that helps explain his nickname “Turn Up God.” The show is at 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, Gray […]
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College football: Bates drops CBB matchup to Bowdoin
BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin hadn’t won a football game in its last 24 tries. All it took was one attempt under the lights at home. The Polar Bears are a perfect 1-0 when they play under the lights at Whittier Field. Saturday’s game against Bates marked the first night game at Bowdoin since renovations to the […]
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Heading home from Bates College
Geoffrey Stehli heads home after visiting the Museum of Art at Bates College in Lewiston on Thursday. Stehli visits the campus often, but it takes him a bit longer to get there now that he is using a walker to get around. Stehli said that he is looking forward to Saturday’s Bates Orchestra concert and […]