Coach: Jess Merrill (second year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year: 11-2-1 Returning players: Juniors — Olivia Audet (B), Julie McConnell (M); Sophomores — Emily Molino (F), Katriona Hadjuk (M). Key losses: Cat Ouellette, Micaela Hadjuk, Emmah Spahr, Jess Ames, Rachel Ingram, Alyssa Arsenault. Promising newcomers: Senior — Annie Guerette (F); Juniors — Celeste Hannum […]
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High School Field Hockey: Playing, smiling in Winthrop
One late-arriving field hockey player jumped out of a car that had barely stopped moving and ran to meet the rest of the group all gathered in the sparse shade alongside the brick-and-stone wall of Winthrop High School. The field was bathed in sunlight, the air saturated in late-summer, sweat-inducing humidity. The late teammate fumbled […]
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2014 Preview: Winthrop golf
Coach: Lonney Steeves (sixth year) Conference: Mountain Valley Conference Class: C Last year: 9-1 , (MVC champions, Runner-up in Class C State Championship) Returning players: Seniors — Ben Caprara, Adam Hachey, Taylor Morang; Junior — Anthony Owens; Sophomores — Zac Robertson, Carl Stimson, Brogran Plossay, Charlie deHaas, Kyle Keezer. Monmouth: Ethan Thombs (independent). Key losses: Zach […]
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2014 Fall Preview: Winthrop boys’ soccer
Coaches: Dave Morin, Marc Fortin (second year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year: 2-11-1 Returning players: Seniors — Matt Sekerak (G), Patrick Ouellette (MF/SK), William Grimes (MF), Kevin Chamberland (MF), Judson Cobb (FB), Kellen Glaser (MF); Juniors — Derek McLaughlin (FB), Tyler Nussinow (SK); Sophomores — Jared Colby (FB), Brandon Baxter (FB), Zack Lynch (MF/G), […]
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H.S. Football: St. Hilaire named Winthrop/Monmouth football coach
Dave St. Hilaire knew how to make one team out of two schools long before Winthrop and Monmouth combined their football programs last fall. St. Hilaire, a long-time varsity and youth coach in the area, has been named head coach of the Winthrop/Monmouth football team, pending school committee approval on Wednesday night. St. Hilaire, 49, […]
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H.S. Football: Stoneton resigning to become Winthrop AD
WINTHROP — As a football coach, Joel Stoneton knows the timing of his departure couldn’t be worse. Personally and professionally, he realizes it couldn’t be better. Stoneton, 40, has resigned from coaching after 19 years with the Winthrop/Monmouth football program, the past 10 as head coach. He signed a contract Wednesday morning to become athletic […]
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H.S. lacrosse: Maranacook/Winthrop falls to Yarmouth in East B semifinal
Despite controlling most of their draws, the Maranacook/Winthrop Hawks lost possession in the moments following those faceoff wins with more regularity than they’d care to admit. More than a few of those missed possessions turned into Yarmouth goals as the No. 4 Clippers toppled the No. 1 Hawks, 10-7, in their Eastern Class B semifinal […]
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H.S. tennis: Winthrop, Spruce Mountain fall in regional finals
PORTLAND — Rivals in the Mountain Valley Conference, Winthrop and Spruce Mountain were two peas in a pod at the Western Maine regional tennis finals at the Racket and Fitness Center. Both girls’ squads are filled with players who rarely — if ever — play indoors, and neither team had faced an opponent with the […]
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Class B East Boys’ Lacrosse Quarterfinal: Maranacook/Winthrop stays unbeaten, ousts NYA
READFIELD — For the relatively short history of Maine high school lacrosse, players from outside Cumberland County might have been willing to sign away their future first-born child or cut a deal with the netherworld for a chance to beat North Yarmouth Academy. Now, the undefeated cooperative program from Maranacook/Winthrop has done it twice in […]
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Class C West Baseball Preliminary: Red-hot Ramblers rout ‘Gulls
WINTHROP — Every tournament, in every sport, at every level has the red-hot, lower-seeded team that no favorite in its right mind wants to face. In this year’s Class C West baseball playoff, there’s no doubt the unsung foe invoking fear is No. 6 Winthrop, which ousted No. 11 Old Orchard Beach, 9-0, from the […]