Mt. Blue performs during Class A North regional cheering championships Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. The Cougars finished sixth and will go to compete in the state championship. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — Bangor came close last year to getting on Lewiston’s level by beating the Blue Devils in the KVAC cheering championship, before […]
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Nordic skiing: Yarmouth, Maranacook win Sassi Memorial team titles; Laukli, Niles are individual champs
Cam Bancroft, from Oxford Hills, powers up one of the first long uphills at the Sassi Memorial 5K at Black Mountain on Saturday. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) RUMFORD — In what might have been the best skiing day of the winter so far in Maine, the 2018 Sassi Memorial went off without a hitch and with […]
Girls’ basketball: Mt. Blue sidesteps Cony
FARMINGTON — If you were looking for Mt. Blue sophomore captain Lexi Mittelstadt, you could find on the perimeter, at the foul line or taking her lumps whenever she drove to the basket. The mobile guard was all over the court, and during those shining moments, she accumulated the game-high 22 points to lead the […]
Holding court at Mt. Blue food court
Students at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington hang out in the food court after classes Thursday. From left are brothers Bradley Shamba, a sophomore, and Brandon Shamba, a senior, Griffin Mayhew, a senior, and Haven Doyle and Farrah Vallou, both freshmen. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal)
PHOTOS — Alpine skiing: Edward Little boys, Spruce Mountain girls shine at Titcomb
Mt. Blue’s Ellie Pelletier cuts toward a gate in a slalom race at Titcomb Mountain in Farmington on Wednesday afternoon. Pelletier finished second with a combined two-run time of 1:31.73. FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue’s Sam Smith blazed across the slopes to a first-place finish with a combined time of 1:21.30 in the boys’ Otterslide Slalom […]
And One: Edward Little girls have difficult road ahead
Edward Little’s Grace Beaudet, right, dribbles under the basket as Lewiston’s Victoria Harris moves in to defend during Friday night’s game in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) The Edward Little girls’ basketball team had to grind out a rivalry win over Lewiston on Friday night. As tough as the Blue Devils made it, the Red Eddies’ […]
Girls’ basketball: Mt. Blue pushes back, shakes Leavitt
Mt. Blue’s Jocelyn Daggett (14) and Rebecca Harmon (12) try to stop Leavitt’s Taylor White from going to the basket in a basketball game in Turner on Friday. (Tony Blasi/Sun Journal) TURNER — The rattled Mt. Blue Cougars regained their composure and found their way back to the free-throw line in the last six minutes […]
Local roundup: Telstar girls’ basketball earns first win
Mt. Blue’s Ellie Pelletier makes her way down the pitch, skiing to a first-place finish at Titcomb Mountain in Farmington on Friday. BETHEL — In a battle for their first win of the season, sophomore center Lucy Rothwell contributed 23 rebounds to go along with nine points as Telstar edged Wiscasset 41-37 in girls basketball […]
Mt. Blue’s Mittelstadt is a player to watch — and applaud
Mt. Blue sophomore guard and captain Lexi Mittelstadt (24) takes the ball down the court against Skowhegan in Farmington on Monday night. (Tony Blasi/Sun Journal) FARMINGTON — Being the second leading scorer in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference A North is quite an accomplishment for a sophomore, but Lexi Mittelstadt’s exploits on offense has also […]
Girls' basketball: Skowhegan dismisses Mt. Blue
FARMINGTON — The absence of those short trips to the free-throw line hurt the Mt. Blue Cougars on Monday. Being a no-show at the foul line allowed Skowhegan to run away with a 70-44 victory over Mt. Blue in a girls’ basketball. “The problem was we couldn’t get a single call,” Mt. Blue coach Fred […]