LISBON — After two halves of scoreless high school field hockey, followed by another double overtime deadlock, Lisbon and Dirigo set up for penalty corners to decide the outcome of a Western Maine Class C semifinal on Saturday. Another two rounds of three turns each went by the wayside, with no shot besting Lisbon goaltender […]
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Hornets fall in semifinals
YORK — York coach Barb Marois finally had the chance to let the emotion which had been building up all afternoon out. She turned to the scoring table and let out a victorious yell. It was a moment of passion. A telling moment. It was a reflection of her teams’ hard fought 2-1 Western Maine […]
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H.S. field hockey: Lisbon shuts out Saints
LISBON FALLS — When you’re the defending state champion, there’s no room for anything other than your best effort. That was the message Julie Wescott was sending her team Thursday afternoon. Her Lisbon field hockey team had muddled through a good first half, but it wasn’t good enough as far as the Greyhound’s coach was […]
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Western Class C Field Hockey Quarterfinals: Dirigo circles past Traip
DIXFIELD — Thursday’s Western Class C field hockey quarterfinal at Harlow Park was all about circles. When host Dirigo gathered in its halftime circle, coach Gretchen Errington made it clear that if the Cougars didn’t cash in more of their opportunities in the scoring circle, they could forget about the Saturday game that probably was […]
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Western B Field Hockey: Phoenix seize opportunity, shut out Raiders
JAY — Miss an opportunity during the regular season and there is no sense in dwelling on it. Another one will come along. Miss an opportunity during the playoffs and it’s likely you’ll have nothing but time to dwell on it. Seventh-seeded Fryeburg Academy had a chance to seize control early in Wednesday’s Class B […]
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H.S. field hockey: Mt. Blue earns milestone win in East A quarterfinal
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue junior midfielder Jenna Bullen was thinking big thoughts prior to her team’s field hockey quarterfinal Wednesday. She was thinking about scoring a goal — a lofty one indeed considering she’d never scored a goal in high school. “Before this game, that was my goal — to score a goal,” Bullen said. […]
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Western Class C Field Hockey: Hutchinson hoists Clippers past Raiders
YARMOUTH — At the risk of mixing metaphors and making inexact comparisons, in this World Series frame of mind, it’s a reasonable analogy to say the Oak Hill field hockey team threw six innings of no-hit ball at Yarmouth on Wednesday evening. The only problem was that the Raiders couldn’t pitch around Clippers senior co-captain […]
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Field Hockey: No. 3 Ramblers edge No. 6 Red Riots
Sure, the defending Eastern Class C champions won 11 games. But they did so in dramatic fashion, winning seven of those 11 games by a single goal. “It’s how we’ve been playing all season, and it’s been killing me,” Winthrop coach Jessica Merrill said. The important part, though, was that they won those games. And […]
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Field Hockey: Hornets douse Lakers in West B quarterfinal
Kierstin Leclerc scored once and added two assists and three other Hornets found the back of the cage as No. 4 Leavitt ran away from No. 5 Lake Region 4-0 in the teams’ Western Class B quarterfinal on Tuesday. “It was important for us to know we could score early,” Leavitt coach Wanda Ward-McLean said. […]
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Field hockey: Win or lose, Vikings talk it out
PARIS — Communication is key in virtually every sport, but there are few where the athletes, coaches and fans talk as much about the importance of talking than in field hockey. The Oxford Hills Vikings take communication to a whole new level. Like their peers in the stacked Eastern Class A tournament, which for fifth-seeded […]