Watch as Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel reporters analyze the upcoming MPA boys’ basketball tournament. Or listen to it below. Winthrop High School’s Cam Wood is surrounded by Spruce Mountain High School defenders during a basketball game in Winthrop this season. (Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal Photo)
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Boys' basketball: Tournament returns to Edward Little HS
Ibn Khalid of Edward Little High School shoots over Trey Ballew of Portland High School during a game last month in Auburn. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) Edward Little High School isn’t completely unfamiliar with hosting tournament basketball. The school gymnasium was a hub of state tournament action as recently as the 1960s. The Red Eddies hosted […]
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Class B South Wrestling: Wells defends title, Mountain Valley runner-up
RUMFORD — With the support of her family and teammates, Zoe Buteau always feels unstoppable on a wrestling mat. Buteau’s confidence was evident at Saturday’s Class B South wrestling championships at Mountain Valley High School, as the Oak Hill junior picked up her first regional title in the 120-pound class. Next Saturday at Wells High […]
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H.S. roundup: Mt. Blue’s Charles wins another KVAC Nordic title
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue’s Meghan Charles earned a KVAC Nordic skiing championship for the second consecutive day at Titcomb Mountain on Friday. Charles followed up Thursday’s girls’ classic title with a first-place finish in Friday’s freestyle race, which she finished in 18:02.6, more than 30 seconds ahead of second-place Laura Parent of Maranacook. The Black […]
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Roundup: Edward Little girls edge Messalonskee
Oxford Hills’ Caroline Burns carves a turn on the lower part of the course at Mt. Abram in Greewood on Friday on her way to a first-place finish in a KVAC race. (Brewster Burns photo) OAKLAND — Hannah Chaput drilled 12 points as Edward Little held on for a 47-44 victory over Messalonskee in girls’ […]
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Boys' basketball: Hall-Dale avenges loss to Dirigo
Hall-Dales’ Jett Boyer, left, and Dirigo’s Luke Lueders battle for a rebound during a game in the Penny Memorial Gym on Thursday at Hall-Dale High in Farmingdale. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) FARMINGDALE — Hall-Dale took lessons learned from its only loss of the season, mixed in home-court advantage and a tournament-like atmosphere and had the perfect […]
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Roundup: Lewiston girls post big win over Windham
LEWISTON — Senior forward Victoria Harris tossed in a team-high 16 points as Lewiston toppled Windham 54-47 in girls’ basketball action Wednesday evening. The Blue Devils (7-9) were slow to start, trailing 24-19 at the half, but, Lewiston turned up the tempo in the fourth quarter with a 23-12 run. Maddy Foster and Emily Strachan […]
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Boys' basketball: Dirigo duo 'still here to win'
Dirigo senior guard Luke Lueders was a contributor to the Cougars’ last Class C South title team as a freshman and hopes to end his career with a state title. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) DIXFIELD — Cooper Chiasson and Luke Lueders grew up immersed in the proud Dirigo basketball tradition, and together, as best friends, they […]
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And One High School Basketball Notes: C? It isn't that easy
Dirigo was hoping to build off of the momentum of handing top-ranked Hall-Dale its first loss of the season on Jan. 20, but it wasn’t just the long layoff before the Cougars’ next game that led to Friday’s 48-36 loss at Madison. It was just another example of the unpredictable nature on the Mountain Valley […]
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Cheering: Lisbon repeats as C South champion; Sacopee Valley edges Monmouth for 2nd
The Lisbon High School Cheering squad, performing the routine that won then the the Class C South regional title at Augusta Civic Center on Saturday morning. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) AUGUSTA — The Lisbon cheering team has one goal for every time it performs its routine: be clean. Perfect is a pipe dream, but clean is […]