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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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: Mike Bryant battles back to continue family tradition
After more than a decade of timely hits, diving catches and 1-2-3 mound innings from the band of four brothers, losing senior pitcher and shortstop Mike to a strained hamstring was a two-week struggle the Saints would just as soon forget. “He went down in the first inning of the second game, down to Boothbay,” […]
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High school lacrosse: Lewiston twin bill among playoff highlights
The Lewiston High School girls’ lacrosse team is hoping the third time is truly the charm. As the Heal Points stopped spinning Friday and the brackets for this year’s Eastern Class A playoffs were etched in stone, the Blue Devils, the No. 4 seed in this year’s bracket, saw a familiar foe line up at […]
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Boys’ lacrosse: Lewiston pulls away from St. Dom’s in season finale
The Lewiston boys’ lacrosse team will take it. The Blue Devils weathered an early onslaught from St. Dominic Academy, slowly picked their way back to even, and then dominated on defense in the second half to lock down a 7-4 win over the rival Saints in the teams’ final game of the regular season. The […]
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H.S. Tennis: Hammond reaches final, falls to defending champion Leavitt
Playing in her first State Singles championship match, the St. Dom’s sophomore fended off match point five consecutive times in the second set and briefly grabbed a 6-5 lead against two-time defending state champion Olivia Leavitt of Falmouth. But the top-seeded Leavitt showed her experience at the end, winning the ensuing game and the resulting […]
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H.S. Tennis: St. Dom’s Hammond advances to round of 16 at State Singles Championships
The No. 2-seeded sophomore had a first-round bye and her second-round match wasn’t slated until 5:30 p.m. — the last on the girls’ side. Hammond didn’t end up stepping onto the court until a little after 6 p.m., approximately nine hours before the tournament got under way. Hammond didn’t wait long to earn a berth […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lisbon completes season sweep of St. Dom’s
LISBON — A lot has happened since the last time Lisbon went head-to-head with St. Dominic Academy on April 24 in the season opener for both clubs. One thing the Greyhounds remembered from that meeting was Saints’ starting pitcher Mitch Lorenz and what he had in his arsenal. In its second go-round with Lorenz, Lisbon […]
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H.S. Track: Collier shatters personal best in 300 hurdles as Lisbon sweeps MVC meet
Collier accomplished that feat Tuesday, and did so against one of the top Class C hurdlers in the state, Boothbay’s Morgan Crocker. In her first meeting of the season with Crocker, Collier ran a personal best of 49.46 seconds in the 300 as Lisbon once again swept a Mountain Valley Conference meet. “I had tougher […]
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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 […]