JAY — When Spruce Mountain started rebounding and made the usual second-half adjustments, everything fell into place in that critical fourth quarter at The Nest on Wednesday night. What they lacked in height, the Phoenix (4-3) made it up with their tenacious defense. When Spruce’s shots started falling, the Phoenix ended up choreographing a splendid […]
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Boys' Basketball: Bulldogs roll over Phoenix, 58-40
FARMINGDALE — The numbers tell the story of why, but not how, Hall-Dale beat Spruce Mountain, 58-40, in a meeting of two Mountain Valley Conference unbeatens on Wednesday night. The Bulldogs shot 56 percent (22-for-39) from the floor and limited the Phoenix to just 3 3-pointers on 19 attempts for the game and six points […]
Local Roundup: Gray-NG girls edge York in overtime
YORK — Gray-New Gloucester pulled off a 40-38 victory in overtime Thursday, defeating York by a score of 40-38 in a key early-season Western maine Conference girls’ basketball tilt. Jordan Grant led the Patriots with 17 points, while teammate Bri Jordan chipped in 13 of her own in the win. Nina Howe scored 19 for […]
Hall-Dale holds off Lisbon in C South quarterfinal
WATERVILLE — Whether it was the artificial turf at Thomas College, or the rain coming down in hard spurts, a near two-minute stretch of the first half doomed the Lisbon High School boys soccer team in its Class C South quarterfinal game on Thursday against Hall-Dale. Goals by Josh Nadeau and Beaux Vachon 1:39 apart […]
Boys' soccer: Monmouth, Hall-Dale settle for draw
Monmouth Academy’s Avery Pomerleau, left, and Hall-Dale’s Josh Nadeau battle for ball during a game at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale on Thursday. FARMINGDALE — The Hall-Dale soccer team has seen enough of Monmouth’s Avery Pomerleau. The senior striker scored an overtime goal earlier this season to hand the Bulldogs their only loss. Thursday, in […]
Lisbon boys' soccer falls to Hall-Dale
FARMINGDALE — Senior Tyler Nadeau’s 59th-minute penalty kick Friday afternoon might have best summed up the Hall-Dale boys soccer team’s 2-0 victory over Lisbon in a Mountain Valley Conference game at Simmons Field, in that it wasn’t ideally executed despite being effective enough to get the job done. “I’ll take it, but it was a […]
Roundup: Buckfield posts comeback win over Sacopee Valley
HIRAM — Buckfield came back from a one-goal first-half deficit to defeat Sacopee Valley 3-2 on Saturday. The Hawks led 2-1 at the break, but the Bucks battled back in the second half, culminating in Max White’s game winner when he put home an Ethan Jackson corner with 10 minutes to go. Victor Ferrill had […]
Roundup: Edward Little doubles up Oxford Hills in girls' soccer
AUBURN — Piper Norcross netted a pair of goals Friday to lead Edward Little to a 4-2 girls’ soccer victory over Oxford Hills. Caroline Hammond and Lauren Berube also tallied for the Red Eddies (1-0) to complete the scoring. Julia Colby and Cecelia Dietrich scored for the Vikings (0-1) in the second half. Taylor Depot […]
H.S. baseball: Amero’s clutch hit and pitching lead Mustangs to 7-5 win over Bulldogs
FARMINGDALE — Monmouth’s Avery Amero paid close attention from the on-deck circle as Hall-Dale reliever Cole Lockhart took his warm-ups in the seventh inning of a tie game. “I kind of measured his speed to see how hard he was throwing and where it was going to be,” Amero said. “I timed it up right […]
C South Boys': Panthers come back from 18 down to beat Bulldogs
AUGUSTA — Hall-Dale owned the first half of Monday night’s Class C South quarterfinal with North Yarmouth Academy, so much so that the Bulldogs threatened to break the tournament record for 3-pointers in a game in half the time it took Maranacook to set it in 2014. When it was over, though, the fifth-seeded Bulldogs […]