PORTLAND — When you’re riding a 35-game winning streak and chasing a second consecutive field hockey state championship, it isn’t always easy to critique your own performances. York knows if there is one flaw in the slaw, however, it is the Wildcats’ tendency not to fly out of the starting gate at full speed. Two goals […]
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Field hockey: Defense does it for Leavitt Hornets
Saturday, it was a finger. After other games this season, bags of ice covered Hartford’s shins, ankles or arms. “It’s definitely really stressful, being back there, being behind the goalie with the ball just bouncing around everywhere,” Hartford said. Behind the goalie? Yep. Given a field hockey goalie’s copious padding, awkward gait and inability to […]
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Field hockey: Eells goal lifts Leavitt past Spruce Mountain in Class B South semifinal
While the truth may lie somewhere in the middle, one thing no one can dispute: The senior defender’s strike was a game-changer — and a game-winner. Eells’ tally, and the Hornets’ swarming defense, stood up against a flurry of Spruce Mountain pressure late in the second half as Leavitt clawed its way into the Class […]
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H.S. Football: Leavitt belts Biddeford; Boothbay shocks Winthrop/Monmouth
BIDDEFORD — Leavitt’s first trip to storied Waterhouse Field in Biddeford was a triumphant and productive one Friday night. The Hornets clicked on all cylinders offensively and played one of their toughest defensive games of the season, as well, taking out the Tigers, 40-27. With its third consecutive victory, Leavitt (6-2) likely clinches the No. 2 […]
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Girls’ soccer: Lakers sting Hornets with two late goals
TURNER — After Lake Region and Leavitt combined for four goals in the first half of their Class B South girls’ preliminary soccer game, offensive chances were much more difficult to come by in the second half. With the game tied a two with four minutes remaining, Lake Region High School’s Aisley Sturk put home […]
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KVAC Championships: Lewiston’s Doorow claims KVAC race, Mt. Blue girls’ take first
AUGUSTA — A year ago, Osman Doorow just didn’t feel like himself. He tried running his best, but the results just weren’t there. He finished the KVAC meet seventh overall. For many, that’s a wonderful finish, but for Doorow it was a disappointment. “Last year, my blood was not 100 percent and I was not […]
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H.S. Football: Smith returns home for Leavitt senior night
TURNER — Carrying the axe that has become his team’s “chip away at the stone” trademark, Adam Smith led the Leavitt football team in a slow procession Friday evening from the locker room, through the chain link fence and onto Libby Field. The thumping beat of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” blared over the public address system, but […]
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Leavitt’s Adam Smith released from hospital
PORTLAND — Leavitt Area High School senior Adam Smith will have plenty to reflect on during senior night festivities tonight in Turner. Smith, a lineman, has been hospitalized since last Saturday after suffering a shattered spleen during a game against Greely in Cumberland. On Friday, according to our media partners at WGME, Smith went home, and […]
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H.S. Football: Craig, Green unstoppable for Leavitt against Spruce Mountain
TURNER — Leavitt football Senior Night was unofficially dedicated to Adam Smith, with good and obvious reason, but fellow upperclassmen Levi Craig and Max Green put on a show Friday night that the Hornets and their fans at Libby Field won’t soon forget. Craig was 21-for-37 for a staggering 423 yards, and Green caught all four […]
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Adam Smith upgraded to fair condition; doctor identified
The first responder who treated Leavitt football player Adam Smith for a ruptured spleen at a football game Saturday only began her work with the Greely High School athletic program this season. In an email Monday morning, Thaddeus Pecorak confirmed that his wife, Dr. Kate Quinn of Maine Medical Partners Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, was […]