A win over three-time defending Class D state champ Oak Hill was unsurprisingly one of them, as was a week two road win at Traip, which came on the heels of a big season-opening road win at Lisbon. The other game that came down to the wire was a home win against seemingly depleted Dirigo. […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Party over here, tears over there
Two distinctly different emotions erupt in the moments immediately after the conclusions of an overtime playoff football game. One, obviously, is euphoria, especially when it comes from a program that hadn’t won a playoff game in 16 years (before some players on the team were born) and hadn’t won a home playoff game in 22 […]
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Football: Dirigo holds off Old Orchard Beach
DIXFIELD — Second verse, same as the first for Dirigo High School. One week after earning the fourth seed with a win over Old Orchard Beach, the Cougars hosted the Seagulls again at Harlow Park on Friday. This time, though, there were no secrets — just hard-nosed football in a Class D South quarterfinal. Cooper Chiasson […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Cheverus 35, Lewiston 20 Kennebunk 28, Leavitt 20 Spruce Mountain 36, Freeport 13 Cape Elizabeth 42, Poland 6 Fryeburg 26, Mountain Valley 20 Dirigo 20, Old Orchard Beach 14 Oak Hill 30, Traip 12
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H.S. Football: Weekend blitz
No. 5 EDWARD LITTLE (3-5) at No. 4 OXFORD HILLS/BUCKFIELD (4-4) Friday, 7 p.m. A rematch of what might have been the game of the year, a comeback 32-28 win for the Red Eddies. the playoff matchup will also take place in South Paris, with the Vikings hosting their first home playoff game in 15 […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: A familiar face on sidelines
But he got it anyway. Standing alongside Mynahan on the home side of Thompson Field was his brother, Tim, as a special guest assistant for Lisbon. “It was great. Tim is my biggest fan,” Dick Mynahan said. “He’s been coming to these games for as long as I have.” Tim Mynahan can hold his own […]
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HS Football: Cougars clinch home field for next week with 12-6 win over Seagulls
DIXFIELD — Old Orchard Beach opened the second half of Friday night’s Campbell Conference Class D season finale with a surprise for Dirigo — the wildcat formation. The wildcat solved the Seagulls’ problems moving the ball more consistently, but not their tendency to draw penalties that kept them from capitalizing on scoring chances. Hunter White, […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Mountain Valley 24, Spruce Mountain 16 Edward Little 34, Lewiston 20 Oxford Hills/Buckfield 35, Bangor 8 Dirigo 27, Old Orchard Beach 20 Poland 26, Gray-New Gloucester 14 Skowhegan 34, Mt. Blue 20 Oak Hill 36, Traip 14 Lisbon 38, Medomak Valley 6
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H.S. Football: Weekend blitz
Friday, 7 p.m. The goal is simple for the Hornets: win and they’re in the playoffs. But that would mean beating a Biddeford team that will be motivated after losing its first game of the season last week. SPRUCE MOUNTAIN (4-3) at MOUNTAIN VALLEY (4-3) Friday, 7 p.m. A home game in the first round […]
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Field hockey: No. 3 Traip eliminates No. 6 Dirigo
KITTERY — Sierra O’Brien knew where she had to be. And now the Traip Academy field hockey team is going back to where it wants to be. O’Brien, a senior forward, scored a goal in each half and the third-seeded Rangers played their most complete game of the season, downing No. 6 Dirigo, 2-0, in […]