The first Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl wasn’t as close as its score would indicate. The West scored the first 24 points in a 24-12 victory at Thornton Academy’s Hill Stadium, the first of nine consecutive West wins. Matt Friedman scored the last West touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 46-yard run that ended in […]
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Lobster Bowl: Goff will be a Rambler on the field, a Mustang at heart
HEBRON — After Winthrop High School and Monmouth Academy decided to merge their football programs, a team meeting was set to get the cooperative effort off the ground. The programs weren’t just merging football players, they were merging identities, a dicey proposition for two schools that were still heated rivals in other sports. Before the […]
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Lobster Bowl: Thibeault likes his new digs
HEBRON — On a typical mid-summer day, Joshua Thibeault would be entrenched in the mud of a tidal flat, digging for clams. For the bulk of a rainy week of training camp, the Brunswick High School lineman has been digging into the muddy trenches at Hebron Academy, preparing for the 25th Annual Maine Shrine Lobster […]
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25th Annual Lobster Bowl: East line ready to get defensive
HEBRON — Defensive players and coaches know the deal going into the annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic. They will have to play with one arm tied behind their backs. And regardless of how well they play, the spotlight will always be on the other side of the ball. Offense sells tickets, which is vital […]
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Lobster Bowl: Old rivals gel quickly on West O-line
HEBRON — Bayley Beaulieu was nervous at first. And he probably wasn’t the only one. After spending the last four years literally butting heads with them, suddenly he found himself lining up side-by-side with some of his former rivals. These were people he’d spent many hot September afternoons and frigid October nights trying to put […]
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The Hot Corner: Local tradition juices up slow week in sports
This is notoriously the lamest week of the sports calendar year. That the Home Run Derby and ESPY Awards even exist are Exhibits A and B. Baseball’s almost forgotten All-Star Game (motto: “This time, it counts, because the year everybody was honest about the fact that it doesn’t embarrassed the crap out of us”) is […]
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Lobster Bowl issues severe weather advisory
The 24th Annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic is scheduled to kick off at 4 p.m. Saturday at Biddeford’s Waterhouse Field. But with severe thunderstorms in the forecast, organizers are preparing for the possibility of interruptions. Lobster Bowl officials said they are ready to take every possible step to play the game on Saturday, but not […]