LISBON — Hall-Dale boys’ soccer doesn’t give up many goals and almost never knows the feeling of seeing a bigger number in the opponent’s column on the scoreboard. The Bulldogs showed the Lisbon Greyhounds on Tuesday afternoon that they can handle adversity and prosperity with equal dexterity. It didn’t even take three minutes for Josh […]
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Girls’ soccer: Hall-Dale holds off Lisbon
LISBON — The Hall-Dale High School girls’ soccer team had only one approach going into its match-up against the Lisbon Greyhounds. Bulldogs coach Guy Cousins said the goal all season has been to, “Play their style of soccer,” and he thought his team “dictated that right from the beginning,” as visiting Hall-Dale defeated Lisbon, 1-0, […]
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H.S. football: Lisbon lands on Traip
LISBON — For the first time this season, the Lisbon High School football team played a game on Thompson Field. Throughout the summer and into the fall, the new track was under construction, forcing the Greyhounds to play “home” games at Brunswick and Lewiston. For Lisbon running back Henry Adams, Saturday was the first time […]
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Boys’ soccer: Greyhounds, Saints can’t settle the score
LISBON — As playoff season draws near, the battles become harder fought. That’s what Lisbon High School (5-2-1) and St. Dominic Academy (4-1-2) boys’ soccer demonstrated in Monday’s Mountain Valley Conference matchup, dueling through two overtimes to a scoreless tie. Monday’s game needed to be a momentum changer for the Greyhounds, losers of their last […]
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Field hockey: Philbrick, Lisbon top Winthrop
Monday, it was Kate Philbrick’s turn. Philbrick tapped home the second and third goals of the day for the Greyhounds as they held off Winthrop 3-1 in an MVC tilt. “She’s a scrapper,” Lisbon coach Julie Petrie said of Philbrick. “We call her the Rhinoceros because she just keeps going and going and going. She’s […]
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H.S. field hockey: Kahler helping Lisbon hold the line
The dull thud of the ball smacking the board at the back of the cage was a signal for everyone to stop. Everyone, that is, but Kahler, who reached down, grabbed the ball and ran back to the center of the field, signifying that it was she who nudged it past the keeper. In a […]
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Cross country notebook: A season of coaching changes
Cross country running teams saw quite the turnover in terms of coaching for the start of the 2014 season. Of the 14 schools that offer the sport in the tri-county area, five have hired new coaches — Lewiston, Lisbon, Oxford Hills, St. Dom’s and Telstar. That doesn’t include Spruce Mountain, either, which just added the team […]
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Field hockey: Oak Hill tops Lisbon in key MVC showdown
LITCHFIELD — If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind where the balance of power in MVC field hockey lies this season, the Oak Hill Raiders put that to rest unequivocally Friday. The Raiders turned a nail-biting, one-goal halftime advantage into a comfortable, sigh-of-relief-inducing four-goal margin with three flicks of Kylee Veilleux’s wrists in a […]
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High school football: ’Hounds hold on
BRUNSWICK — As good as things went for the Lisbon High School football team in the opening half, things took a turn to the dark side in the second. Against rival Winthrop/Monmouth in the Saturday heat and humidity, the Ramblers picked themselves off the dirt and battled back to close to within four points with […]
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2014 Lisbon football preview
Coach: Dick Mynahan (27th year) Conference: West Class: D Last year: 7-3, lost in regional semifinals Returning players: Seniors — Kyle Bourget (QB/DB), Joe Philbrick (FB/LB), Robert Wood (OL/DL), Darren Ward (OL/DL), Andrew Golino (TE/DE), Adam Desjardins (C), Sean Ball (FB/G/LB), Josh Collier (NG), R.J. Sargent (WR); Sophomores — Tyler Halls (WR/DB), Tanton Mattson (OL/LB/DT). […]