PORTLAND — On a Sunday afternoon when the 39-degree game time temperature was exacerbated by a 16 mph wind blowing in from right field, it was fitting that the New Britain Rock Cats froze the Portland Sea Dogs’ four-game winning streak in slow, deliberate, keep-your-hands-in-your pockets fashion. New Britain put a number on the board […]
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Eastern League: Sea Dogs rock Cats again, 10-4
PORTLAND — Unlike their parent club, the Portland Sea Dogs are having little trouble hitting the ball with runners in scoring position. Or in any other position. For the third time in as many games in their season-opening home stand, the Sea Dogs registered double digits in the hit column Saturday. They also put together […]
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Police investigate ‘suspicious device’ in Portland
PORTLAND (AP) — Police say they have reopened a section of a downtown street in Maine’s largest city after closing it for several hours to investigate a suspicious device in connection to a robbery. The police said Friday that the closed area on Congress Street in Portland between Brown and Casco Streets is now open. […]
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Eastern League: Couch lends comfort to Sea Dogs at cold, windy Hadlock
PORTLAND — In a few weeks, it won’t be the heat as much as the humidity. For the Portland Sea Dogs’ home-opener Thursday night, it wasn’t the cold (47 degrees and rapidly dropping at game-time) so much as the wind (20 MPH straight out) that made things interesting for anyone trying to grip or catch […]
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Greater Portland women’s hockey team rules tourney
PORTLAND — Three teams from the Greater Portland Women’s Ice Hockey League won division championships at the She-Wolves Women’s Hockey Tournament in Wolfeboro, N.H. The Maine Coon Cats, with players ranging from ages 24 to 58, won the recreational division for the third consecutive year. The Breakaways and Murphys finished first in their respective divisions. […]
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Owens building expectations with Sea Dogs
PORTLAND — Perhaps Henry Owens had an inkling of what was to come when he was asked about the pressure that comes with rapidly advancing through the Boston Red Sox farm system as a highly-touted prospect. “I think it’s just building upon more expectation, and until those expectations are met, I’m still a 21-year-old kid […]
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Health care access preserved for Portland homeless
PORTLAND (AP) — Officials in Portland expect a smooth transition as a city-run health care clinic for the homeless scales back operations, while another nonprofit clinic picks up the slack. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1jqc7Qk ) reported that there had been concerns about a coverage gap. But Sheila Hill-Christian, Portland’s deputy city manager, wrote in […]
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Minor League Baseball: Becoming a team no minor task for Portland Sea Dogs
PORTLAND — As the son of a former Major League catcher and manager, Michael Brenly knows the dynamics of a professional baseball team better than anyone on the 2014 Portland Sea Dogs. Brenly knows relationships have already been forged and cliques formed over the course of a season or two or three in the low […]
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Caron returns to Lewiston, brings Lewiston into Pirates Hall
LEWISTON — As Tom Caron remembers it, his first game as the voice of the Portland Pirates was at what is now the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. “Preseason 1993, maybe the first game, I don’t know. But a preseason game, the Pirates played, we played here, and I did the game on radio,” Caron recalled. “It’s […]
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AHL: Pirates power past Monarchs
LEWISTON — It took the Portland Pirates nearly 13 minutes to realize shooting the puck would be not only advisable but quite fruitful Saturday night. Tim Kennedy scored on Portland’s first shot at 12:41 of the first period, opening a deluge of five unanswered goals as the Pirates rallied from an early 2-0 deficit to […]