That’s where the Spirit’s inaugural NA3EHL junior hockey season will continue after the team punched its ticket to the East Division championship round. L/A completed a sweep of its contentious best-of-three semifinal series on Saturday night, dispatching the New England Stars, 3-1, at Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Linder Kenyon, Dylan Vrees and Clay Janowiak scored for […]
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Junior Hockey: Fighting Spirit win feisty series opener, 5-1
That was the toll of Friday night’s opener in the best-of-three NA3EHL East Division semifinal series. Yet somehow the rivals will lace up, sharpen the blades and do it again Saturday. Dylan Vrees and Thomas Puetz collaborated on the first goal in the Spirit’s 5-1 victory at Androscoggin Bank Colisee. By the end of the […]
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Class D South football championship: Oak Hill outlasts Lisbon, 21-20
The Raiders get a stop, helped by the fickle fate of a loose pigskin, to protect the lead in the fourth quarter. Then they bleed the clock dry. It worked again on a blustery Saturday afternoon, and yet again at Lisbon’s expense. After the Greyhounds’ third unanswered touchdown of a titanic comeback ended in a […]
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Class B North football championship: Brunswick blasts Brewer
While nothing ever adequately explains a 49-0 shellacking in a regional final, perhaps that tale of a warm front colliding with a cold front makes sense of the perfect storm that allowed the Dragons to defend their title with ease. “We came in obviously wanting revenge for that one loss,” Brunswick senior quarterback Thomas Hanson […]
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Class D South Football Final: No secrets between Oak Hill, Lisbon
Two Class D championship runs showed Oak Hill the value of regular-season losses as teachable moments and motivators. The Raiders were knocked off by Old Orchard Beach and Winthrop in 2013 and Dirigo in 2014 before hoisting championship gold. Now Oak Hill enters the Class D South title game undefeated, at home, against a Lisbon […]
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Class D South football semifinal: Oak Hill survives Winthrop/Monmouth
“This senior group has seen it all in the past,” Oak Hill coach Stacen Doucette said. “They kept their composure and made the plays when it got tough.” Two of those upperclassmen provided the go-ahead heroics when Dalton Therrien threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Connor Nilsson on the opening play of the fourth quarter. […]
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Class C South football semifinal: Yarmouth routs Fryeburg
YARMOUTH — Lucas Uhl rushed for three touchdowns Friday night and No. 1 Yarmouth overwhelmed No. 4 Fryeburg, 54-12, in the Class C South football semifinals. Yarmouth (10-0) will host Wells (8-2) for the title next Saturday. The Warriors won a 20-14 thriller at Cape Elizabeth in the other semifinal. Jack Snyder scored two touchdowns in […]
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Class D South football semifinal: Adams’ catch vaults Lisbon past Dirigo
DIXFIELD — Lisbon’s heart-stopping football playoff history includes The Drive. The Stand, times two. And now you can add The Catch. Henry Adams reached up to cradle Tyler Halls’ throw to the Lisbon sideline with his fingertips. He tucked it in, planted his left foot inside the chalk and kept his right foot in the air. […]
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Class C South girls’ soccer final: Waynflete ousts Monmouth in OT
Monmouth discovered that the hard way Wednesday afternoon in the Class C South girls’ championship at Chick Field. Ava Farrar’s service from the corner had a tricky trajectory and slipped through goalkeeper Mikayla Cameron’s fingers. Cameron dove valiantly after the ball. Players from both sides flailed at it. But it was Flyers’ senior co-captain Arianna […]
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H.S. Football: Fletcher rushes for 3 TDs as Cheverus blanks Lewiston
Round two against Cheverus this season was substantially more competitive for Lewiston, even if the scoreboard doesn’t show it. Beaten by 52 points in Week 2, the No. 6 Blue Devils trailed the No. 3 Stags by only two touchdowns with a minute remaining in the first half Saturday. As is the Stags’ championship tradition, […]