LISBON — It’s hard to imagine many teams keeping Deliah Schreiber and Lisbon off the scoreboard for an 80-minute girls’ soccer game. Now, Hall-Dale has done it twice, including Saturday morning on the stage where it mattered most. Eva Shepherd and Dani Sweet each scored a goal and No. 9 Hall-Dale’s defense did the rest […]
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Boys’ soccer: Hall-Dale rallies past Lisbon
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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Western Class C softball: Madison shuts down Hall-Dale for regional crown
STANDISH — When Emily McKenney was asked prior to Tuesday’s game what her game plan was, she answered with a blank stare. “My pitching coach asked me what my strategy was, and I was like, ‘Um I don’t have one,’” McKenney said. No strategy? No problem for McKenney and the Madison Bulldogs. The senior pitcher […]
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H.S. softball: Bulldogs edge Falcons in 10 innings
FARMINGDALE — Eva Shepherd didn’t get exactly what she wanted but it was what she and her Hall-Dale teammates needed. The Bulldogs shortstop had the winning run standing at third base Monday and the bat and destiny in her hands. “Usually I’m so nervous,” Shepherd said. “I was just thinking about getting a single. Of […]
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H.S. softball: Bulldogs ditch Mustangs
FARMINGDALE — Bulldogs have a nasty bite at the plate, but the Mustangs were tough to break. No. 2 Hall-Dale left teeth marks in the third and fifth innings against a resilient Monmouth Academy squad in a Western Maine Class C softball quarterfinal game Thursday. The seventh-ranked Mustangs got their second wind in the top […]
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Greyhounds race past Bulldogs
LISBON FALLS — With rain coming down during Monday’s Mountain Valley Conference high school baseball game between Lisbon and Hall-Dale, Joe Philbrick didn’t want to waste much time standing at the plate as the water splashed off his helmet. Twice, Philbrick swung at Hall-Dale starter Ryan Sinclair’s first pitch, delivering two key hits in the […]
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H.S. Baseball: Gagne’s gem, nearly perfect, keeps Monmouth unbeaten
MONMOUTH — Monmouth Academy’s pitching strategy so far this unblemished baseball season has been three innings and a cloud of dust. So every time Nate Gagne made the short walk from the Chick Field mound to the home dugout Wednesday afternoon, coach Eric Palleschi would inquire, “One more? You got one more?” By the end […]
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Western C prelim: Hall-Dale ousts Lisbon
BRUNSWICK — The last time a Lisbon High School boys’ basketball team advanced to the postseason, it was the 2005-06 season. The seventh-seeded Greyhounds that year lost to Poland in a Western Maine Class B preliminary contest. What followed was eight years of tough times before this year’s Greyhounds put together an eight-game mid-season winning […]
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Western Class C Boys’ Soccer Semifinals: Bulldogs, Longfellow run down Saints
FARMINGDALE — Having Konnor Longfellow as a soccer teammate is a faith-building exercise. Hall-Dale fullbacks and midfielders know that they have the freedom to boot the ball up the field even when Longfellow’s white jersey is merely a blur in the corner of their eyes, and the opponent’s colors are the only ones they can […]