Nowhere in high school sports is the single-elimination format scarier for top-ranked teams and their coaches than baseball, the game in which a dancing curveball or a perilous hop can stymie the best on the wrong day. Easy to understand, then, why one potential quarterfinal matchup in Class C West quickens everyone’s pulse rate ever-so-slightly. […]
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High School softball: Marston hurls Mountain Valley past Lisbon
RUMFORD — Mountain Valley senior pitcher Lindsay Marston had too much to do Thursday to let the aches of an errant pitch spoil her day. As a batter in the bottom of the first inning, Marston took an offering off the jaw, ear and neck. “It hurt really bad,” Marston said. “It wasn’t fun. I’ve […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lisbon, Bourget mystify Mountain Valley, clinch first-round bye
RUMFORD — A high-and-mighty, early-afternoon sun probably cost Kyle Bourget a no-hitter, but Thursday otherwise was a perfect day for his Lisbon baseball team. With a 10-0, five-inning shutout of Mountain Valley at Hosmer Field, Lisbon locked up No. 4 in the Class C West Heal Point standings. The Greyhounds (13-3) know the significance, because it’s […]
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H.S. Track and Field: Kyle Farrar of Mountain Valley fights back, knows no sophomore jinx
RUMFORD — Some track athletes are natural. Others have a high ceiling with the right combination of coaching, commitment and confidence-building. Kyle Farrar is all that wrapped into one. The Mountain Valley High School sophomore was responsible for 32 of the Falcons’ 46 team points at the MVC championships, winning the 100-meter dash and long jump […]
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H.S. Baseball: Dirigo, Kaine Hutchins shut out Mountain Valley, 4-0
DIXFIELD — Dirigo senior pitcher Kaine Hutchins and coach Ryan Palmer might be on to something after Hutchins’ three-hit shutout of Mountain Valley on Thursday afternoon. The first of two weather-related delays wiped out both teams’ infield practice and all Hutchins’ pre-game throws at Harlow Park. He only needed 17 pitches to get through two […]
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H.S. Baseball: St. Dom’s tops Mountain Valley with Mitch Lorenz gem
AUBURN — The best Mitch Lorenz is a rested one. Thrown into a short recovery cycle and pitted against everyone else’s ace for much of the season, St. Dom’s senior lefthander hadn’t enjoyed the zip, the command or the wins everyone expected this season. It was all there Monday, when Lorenz took a no-hitter into […]
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H.S. baseball: Falcons fend off Wolverines
WISCASSET — Over the first eight games of the Mountain Valley Conference high school baseball season, Wiscasset coach Mike Bowles has watched his team commit untimely errors and fail to take advantage of base runners in scoring position. For the defending Western Maine Class D champions, a 2-6 mark at the halfway point of the […]
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High school baseball: Mountain Valley outguns Mt. Abram
RUMFORD — Mountain Valley’s Jacob Beauchesne and Tim Fitzgerald combined to throw a five-inning no-hitter Monday afternoon at Hosmer Field, helping the Falcons upend Mt. Abram 10-0 in a Mountain Valley Conference baseball game. Coming off a disappointing loss to Carrabec on Friday, Mountain Valley (4-3) was looking for something to spark the team entering a crucial […]
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Mountain Valley baseball preview
Coach: Steve LaPointe (36th year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year’s record: 4-12 Returning players: Seniors — Caleb Gauvin (1B), Ian Austin (LF/P), Josh Mason (CF); Junior — Tim Fitzgerald (P/OF), Alex Ridley (SS/3B); Sophomore — Nick Newman (C/P). Key losses: None. Promising newcomers: Junior — Wyatt Haddox (P/SS); Sophomores — Jacob Beauchesne (P), John Pepin (SS/P). Season outlook: The […]
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2015 Mountain Valley softball preview
Coach: Lisa Russell and Gary Dolloff (fourth year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year’s results: 13-6, lost in Western C semifinals. Returning athletes: Seniors — Lindsay Marston (P), Samantha Higley (3b), Adelle Oswald (2b); Juniors — Karen Flaherty (SS), Sydney Petrie (1b), Kelli Trenoweth (UT), Emily Laubauskas (3b), Abby Mazza (UT). Key losses: Aly Carlton […]