MONMOUTH — Monmouth Academy knew it might not be your normal No. 14-seed vs. No. 3-seed playoff matchup. The Mustangs had only defeated Hall-Dale by two a few weeks before, and they also knew that the Bulldogs were playing some of their best basketball, including a regular season finale win over Dirigo. Monmouth also knew […]
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Boys’ basketball: Buckfield bid falls short against Vinalhaven
BUCKFIELD — Zack Grover didn’t have much time to get a shot off at the end of Saturday’s game. Nor did he have much time to hope, pray and cross his fingers that it would drop. Grover’s last-ditch effort for the Buckfield boys’ basketball team as it tried to cap a comeback with a last-second […]
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Girls’ basketball: Vinalhaven dashes Buckfield tourney hopes — again
BUCKFIELD — It was already tourney time as far as the Buckfield girls’ basketball team was concerned. Unfortunately for the Bucks, the season ended early, and in similar fashion to last year. Vinalhaven dashed the Bucks’ tourney dreams, sweeping Buckfield in a night/day doubleheader to eliminate them from playoff contention. The Vikings won a nailbiter […]
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Boys’ Soccer: Waynflete flies past Monmouth, into state final
PORTLAND — If defense wins championships the Waynflete boys’ soccer team has a pretty good chance to lift the gold ball Saturday. The Flyers punched their ticket to the state final with their 12th shutout victory of the season, a 4-0 win over Monmouth Academy in the Class C South regional final Wednesday at the […]
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H.S. soccer: Monmouth Academy teams back in title contention
After a successful run as a Class D South (formerly West) team, the Mustangs struggled with low numbers and stiffer competition in a jump to Class C due to higher enrollment figured. When Joe Fletcher took over as coach in 2009, the team was a shell of its former self. “We were on the verge […]
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Boys’ Soccer: Monmouth heads past Hall-Dale, into regional final
FARMINGDALE — For the second game in a row, Monmouth Academy sophomore Avery Pomerleau scored a goal in overtime. Friday, he did it twice. Pomerleau’s first boot was nullified after officials ruled he was offsides, but with a second chance — on a third rebound off the crossbar — he didn’t miss. Pomerleau’s header in […]
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Girls Soccer: Waynflete sinks St. Dom’s with second-half spree
AUBURN — St. Dom’s and Waynflete wrote another chapter in their girls’ soccer playoff rivalry Tuesday, and as the story has gone in recent years the Flyers continued their winning ways. No. 6 Waynflete outlasted the third-seeded Saints in a 5-0 victory in a Class C South quarterfinal. The perennial playoff matchup between schools in […]
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H.S. Baseball: Sanborn, Monmouth Academy shut out Dirigo
“That’s not your typical nine seed. This wasn’t your typical one-nine game,” Monmouth coach Eric Palleschi said. “This was perfect for us. And we knew it was going be this type of battle.” The Mustangs (17-0) hadn’t played in a week, since a loss to St. Dominic Academy in the exhibition MVC championship game. They […]