No. 5 Bangor (2-6) at No. 4 Edward Little (3-5) Friday, 7 p.m. Red Eddies trying to back up their huge comeback win at Cameron Stadium in September. Rams seek revenge after giving away two-touchdown lead. No. 6 Lewiston (2-6) at No. 3 Cheverus (5-3) Saturday, 12:30 p.m. Stags won 68-16 the first time around. […]
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Class C South field hockey semifinal: Collier launches Lisbon past NYA in OT
YARMOUTH — Between the first and second overtime periods Saturday, Lisbon field hockey sniper Chase Collier received a quick reminder about what to do if her speed produced a breakaway during the 7-on-7 sequence on North Yarmouth Academy’s fast, sometimes slippery artificial turf. “She has a lot of pressure on her. She’s aggressive and she’s fast. She’s […]
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Class B South girls’ soccer prelim: No. 12 Fryeburg rolls past No. 5 Oak Hill
WALES — Oak Hill probably saw two or three girls’ soccer teams in the Mountain Valley Conference that could compete with Fryeburg Academy. What the Raiders probably didn’t encounter was a player who could locate corner kicks, or anything in the neighborhood of the flag that could resemble a corner kick, more accurately than Esme […]
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H.S. Football Playoff Peek: Shaking the Crabtree and watching fallout
Your winning percentage, plus your opponents’ collective winning percentage, times 10. That’s the relatively simple Crabtree point formula used to rank Maine high school football teams for postseason play. We all know from experience, of course, that Week 8 results can change that picture dramatically. Here’s a quick primer on how things should shake out […]
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Class A North Field hockey quarterfinals: Lambert, Cony oust Oxford Hills
AUGUSTA — If Class A North field hockey playoffs are the Messalonskee and Skowhegan Invitational, according to custom, Cony can’t do worse than being best-of-the-rest. The Rams continued their relative stroll through the remainder of the KVAC on Wednesday afternoon. Freshman Kami Lambert delivered the first two goals in an opening-half onslaught that made No. 3 […]
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Class C West baseball semifinal: Winthrop, Meucci stave off frantic Monmouth comeback
Given the chance to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning Saturday and give his reeling team a lift, Meucci defied logic in every way imaginable. His second triple of the day, this one to the gap in right center field, put No. 2 Winthrop back in business. Meucci beat throw home by a […]
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Class C West Baseball quarterfinals: Mike Bryant, No. 8 St. Dom’s dismiss No. 1 Dirigo
DIXFIELD — With apologies to LL Cool J: Don’t call it an upset. St. Dom’s has been here for years. Led by the live, rested arm of senior Mike Bryant, the Saints looked like the same baseball club Thursday they’ve been for a decade-and-a-half, no matter what the Heal Points or Class C West tournament say […]
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The Hot Corner: Saints … Devils … playoffs … as it should be
LEWISTON — Whaddya say, St. Dom’s and Lewiston hockey loyalists? Same time, same place, next year? Few administrative decisions in high school athletics elicit more hand-wringing, objection and outright bellyaching than Maine Principals’ Association class structure and assignment of schools. Even Tuesday, as hockey’s Class A final four prepared to lace it up at Androscoggin Bank […]
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Husson football to face MIT in Division III playoffs
BANGOR — Husson University football will host the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Division III Football Championship Saturday at noon at the Winkin Complex. Fresh off their 2014 ECFC Championship on Saturday, the team gathered in the D. Bruce MacGregor Sports Hall of Fame Room on Sunday […]
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Class C West Football Championship: Leavitt locks down Wells, 14-9
TURNER — November in Maine doesn’t favor the kind of football offense that traditionally prevails in video games and summer 7-on-7 drills. When Leavitt backs and receivers saw a cadre of volunteers taking shovels and snow blowers to Libby Field on Friday morning, surely they suspected it would take a titanic defensive effort Saturday afternoon […]