TURNER — One by one, Maranacook girls’ soccer players took their turns embracing goalkeeper Elizabeth D’Angelo as she walked off Libby Field between overtime periods Tuesday night. D’Angelo returned the love with a good-natured jab: “Never do that again!” Only four days earlier, the junior goalie scratched, clawed, but couldn’t stop an overtime penalty kick […]
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Football Roundup: Leavitt steamrolls Lake Region
NAPLES — The scary thing about Leavitt’s 62-0 Western Class C football rout of Lake Region is that it probably could have been worse. It’s the second straight week the Hornets have won by that score. Leavitt (5-0) turned it over twice and had a pair of touchdowns called back due to penalties. And the […]
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H.S. Football: Aylward, Hathaway, Mynahan up for USA Today award
Jim Aylward of Mountain Valley, Dick Mynahan of Lisbon and Mike Hathaway of Leavitt are three of eight Maine football coaches vying to be named the USA Today’s Best High School Football Coach in the country contest. Aylward, Mynahan and Hathaway are joined on the ballot by Kevin Cooper of Bonny Eagle, John Hersom of […]
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H.S. Football: Hornets show air power against Knights
TURNER — The Leavitt Hornets have been so good at lighting up the scoreboard the past two weeks that even when they run the wrong play, they score. Tyler Chicoine threw for 190 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score as the Hornets dropped Poland, 62-0, at Libby Field Friday night. Leavitt (4-0) […]
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Hornets fall to Shipbuilders
BATH — Prior to Thursday’s Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference girls’ soccer rematch at the McMann Field Complex, Leavitt Hornets coach Chris Cifelli talked about the hard work his young team, with several freshmen and sophomores on the field preparing to take on a talented Morse Shipbuilders squad, has put in this season. After his […]
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Top Ten: Stags pad their advantage
1. Cheverus (3-0) Combined score the past two weeks: 121-8. And this was the season the Stags were maybe, possibly, looking vulnerable, right? 2. Brunswick (3-0) Week 3 fallout advanced the Dragons from darkhorse to clear favorite in Eastern B. 3. Bonny Eagle (3-0) Scots have surpassed 2012 win total and look like the same […]
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HS Football: All in a half’s work for Hornets
TURNER — In years past, Leavitt’s starters have been used to getting their work in for a half, then watching the backups mop things up in the final 24 minutes. But the Hornets haven’t just been letting teams hang around so far this season. They’ve had some legitimate nail-biters, which is why they welcomed Saturday […]
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H.S. field hockey: Hornets blank Windjammers
TURNER — One of the aftereffects of a state championship victory can be the target that teams feel the following season. With much of its team back this year, the Leavitt field hockey team knows that opponents just might be eying them a little more intently. That means there can’t be much let down in […]
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H.S. boys’ soccer: Leavitt falls short against Gardiner
TURNER — It was afternoon of hit posts, dinged crossbars and near misses, and the result of that was the Leavitt boys’ soccer team coming up short Saturday afternoon. Despite a strong effort and tying the game late in regulation, Leavitt watched Gardiner seize back the momentum and the lead in a 2-1 victory. “This […]
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H.S. Football: Opponents walk Leavitt’s line
TURNER — Every high school football team’s final loss of a season gets used as bulletin board and weight room wall motivational material. Leavitt seniors Matt Powell and Levi Morin took the stigma of a playoff disaster on their home field against Belfast to an even higher level. Sometimes Morin, a center and linebacker, would […]