LEWISTON — The last time Messalonskee High School stepped foot on the Colisee ice, it won a Class B state title. In their first trip back to Lewiston on Wednesday, the Eagles took down a 20-time champion. Messlonskee’s Jared Cunningham netted a third-period hat trick, his final goal the dagger in the Eagles’ 4-1 win […]
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High school football playoffs: Messalonskee ends Mt. Blue’s season in East B quarterfinals
OAKLAND — A lot can change over the course of a season and no one learned that lesson harder than Mt. Blue on Friday. Mt. Blue got the better of Messalonskee when the two teams met three weeks into the season in Farmington. The Eagles returned the favor on their home field, hammering the Cougars […]
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Girls Soccer: Messalonskee tops Lewiston in rain-shortened match
LEWISTON — Considering what Messalonskee High School girls’ soccer has had to endure over the past week, a torrential rain storm felt like nothing more than a harmless mist. Playing their second game following the tragic death of teammate Cassidy Charette, the Eagles netted a pair of first-half goals en route to a 2-0, rain-shortened […]
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H.S. football: Gutsy comeback win for Mt. Blue as the Cougars top Messalonskee
FARMINGTON — It was the kind of news that would shake most teams. The Mt. Blue football team learned at halftime Friday night that standout senior JT Williams was out with a knee injury. He was done for the game and maybe longer. Instead of breaking them, the news solidified the Cougars. Mt. Blue rallied […]
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Field hockey: Messalonskee keeps rolling, topples Oxford Hills
“It’s the one we’ve been struggling with the most,” Messalonskee coach Katie McLaughlin said. “We must have done that one thirty times in practice (Wednesday).” On Thursday, it only took one try. Allison Corbett backhanded the ball out of the air past Oxford Hills keeper Shannon Fillebrown with 10:32 to play in regulation and the […]
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American Legion Baseball State Tournament: Bessey Motors beats Post 51, 7-2
BANGOR — The team in red went by the name Post 51, not Messalonskee, although there were enough Eagles on the Oakland-based American Legion baseball squad to make Bessey Motors of Oxford Hills nervous after three springs worth of mixed results on the high school diamond. Summer heat, a few additions on both sides, and […]
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H.S. softball: Vikings roll past Eagles
PARIS — As muddied as the Class A softball waters have been this season, Oxford Hills knew it couldn’t let Messalonskee hang around long. After scoring on one error in the fourth inning to snag a one-run lead, the Vikings went on a tear in the fifth, converting four hits, three errors and a hit […]
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H.S. Baseball: Eddies left stranded in fourth consecutive defeat
AUBURN — Nine days ago, Edward Little baseball was on a rapid ascent toward a top-three seed in the Class A East playoffs. As of now, there are no guarantees the Red Eddies will make it into the playoffs at all. It’s that kind of year in the KVAC, where the Eddies slipped below .500 […]
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Girls’ Lacrosse: Eagles’ early flight too much for Devils
Lewiston showed substantial heart Tuesday afternoon after watching Messalonskee fill the net seven consecutive times in the first half at Don Roux Field. The Blue Devils crawled to within a pair on three different occasions after intermission before dropping a 12-9 KVAC and Class A East verdict. “From about the 13-minute mark of the first […]
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H.S. Baseball: Messalonskee wins chess match with Lewiston
LEWISTON — Sometimes you play the percentages, and sometimes the percentages play you. Leading 2-1 and embroiled in a fifth-inning jam Friday afternoon, Lewiston went by the book and walked two of Messalonskee’s most vaunted hitters, Jake Dexter and Zach Mathieu, with first base open. Each time, however, a game-of-inches base hit by Jonathan Wilkie […]