The Telstar girls’ soccer team has opted to take this fall season off because of low numbers. The Rebels team is still a fledging club having gone varsity only a few years ago, but the squad only had five to seven players during preseason tryouts. “It’s just because of the numbers,” said Telstar athletic director […]
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H.S. boys’ soccer: Mountain Valley has something to prove
What the Mountain Valley boys’ soccer team did last year was memorable and one of the best seasons it has had in decades. It also wasn’t enough as far as the players coming back this fall. Though Mountain Valley lost 14 players from last year’s club, the returning players want to prove last fall was […]
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Opening day: Family first for surging Poland field hockey program
As they ambled down the dirt path, they heard a familiar sound — click, clack, click, smack . . . thunk. A senior a year ago, Emily Gibson was already on the field with a ball, dribbling back and forth and occasionally plunking the back of the cage, waiting for a new group of varsity […]
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Class C West Baseball prelim: St. Dom’s, Mitch Lorenz take out Madison
Nobody who has watched St. Dom’s baseball go to 11 Class C West championship games under coach Bob Blackman had any doubt what the Saints were going to do. Madison even knew, and it was destined to work, anyway. “I really wanted to score first,” Blackman said. “I felt that we could play better from […]
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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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MVC Track and Field: Lisbon boys make it 10; Monmouth ends girls’ streak
LISBON — Lisbon High School track and field has dominated the Mountain Valley Conference for so long that when the Greyhounds began their streak of nine consecutive clean sweeps, Monmouth Academy was a second-year expansion team. A decade later, the Mustangs have more than doubled in size and have accomplished what other league rivals found impossible […]
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H.S. Track: Weather delays MVC Championships to Monday
After a torrential downpour delayed the start of the Mountain Valley Conference Championship track meet at Cony High School’s Alumni Field, a second storm less than two hours later forced officials to delay the rest of the event until Monday. It will resume at 2 p.m. Ten events were run to completion before the postponement […]
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H.S. Baseball: Dirigo finally gives up run, holds off Monmouth
MONMOUTH — Dirigo baseball defeats are so infrequent that they get taken personally, especially when the Cougars feel there were extenuating circumstances. There are no asterisks in the Heal Point standings, of course, but the absence of seniors Kaine Hutchins, Tyler Frost and Mitch Kubesh didn’t help Dirigo’s cause in a season-opening home loss to Monmouth. […]
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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. softball: Hall-Dale gives Dirigo the Rush
With two outs, two strikes and two runners on, the Hall-Dale senior wasn’t being picky. “I knew there were two people on and I knew I had to do something productive,” the Hall-Dale third baseman said. “Actually, the pitch was high, and I don’t usually swing at those. I knew I had to protect, and […]