PORTLAND — With the playoffs rapidly approaching, St. Dominic Academy is looking to get some momentum coming down the home stretch. The Saints may have something brewing. After disposing of Brunswick on Tuesday at Bowdoin College, the Saints scored a goal in all three periods in a 3-1 victory over Cheverus on Saturday at William […]
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Boys’ basketball: Saints repel Rebels
AUBURN — Two teams struggling to stay afloat in the Mountain Valley Conference turned what could have been a ho-hum basketball game into a dogfight that featured clutch performances and raw determination Friday night. St. Dom’s and Telstar picked away at each right down to the final seconds and provided fans with some surprising melodrama […]
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Boys’ hockey: Lewiston, St. Dominic Academy battle to 3-3 deadlock
The only thing they didn’t get was a clear winner. Forty-five minutes of regulation and another eight minutes of overtime solved nothing as the Saints and Blue Devils battled to a 3-3 tie in front of a capacity crowd Saturday at Norway Savings Bank Arena. “We played a team that everybody knows is loaded with […]
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Girls’ hockey: Lewiston gets better of St. Dom’s
AUBURN — New year, same old Lewiston High School. Riding a 10-game winning streak entering 2015, the Blue Devils began the new year the same way they closed out the old one: with a victory. Lewiston’s Allison Frechette recorded a hat trick and the Blue Devils stretched their winning streak to 11 games, remaining unbeaten […]
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Boys’ hockey: Pratt, Saints stifle Rams
AUBURN — Another St. Dominic Academy hockey game, another fellow Class A title contender wearing the opposite sweater, another big day from a player who wasn’t in the Saints’ lineup to start the season. Dillon Pratt scored two goals in only his second game since returning from a fall concussion, leading St. Dom’s to a […]
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Boys’ hockey: Falmouth races past St. Dom’s
FALMOUTH — Neither two-time defending state champion Falmouth nor 24-time state champion St. Dominic Academy earned anything to add to their trophy cases Saturday, but the teams each found out plenty about themselves in an early season tilt between a pair of teams favored to reach another title game. The Saints learned quickly that the […]
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Girls’ Swimming: Father-daughter relationship continues to grow for Robitailles
In the pool, whether it’s during practice or at a meet, Nicole addresses her father in a different manner. Coach. For the past four years, Nicole and Marc have balanced the father-daughter relationship with the more businesslike coach-athlete relationship. As a coach with a kid on the team, Marc doesn’t want to show favoritism, but […]
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Boys’ basketball: Winthrop wallops St. Dom’s
AUBURN — With his Winthrop boys’ basketball team nursing a roomy 17-point lead two minutes into the third quarter Friday night, Todd MacArthur calmly directed the Ramblers to “tighten up on defense.” Sure, Coach. Anything you say. The Ramblers raced to the finish with vise-grips in hand, holding St. Dom’s to four points and shutting […]
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Boys’ Hockey: St. Dom’s captain Berube returns to ice
Just like in every other game St. Dominic Academy has played over the past three seasons, senior forward Brad Berube was on the bench Wednesday during the Saints’ season opener against Scarborough at Norway Savings Bank Arena. This time, Berube wasn’t wearing a home white sweater like the rest of his team. The St. Dom’s […]
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Boys’ hockey: Roy’s overtime goal vaults St. Dom’s over Biddeford
AUBURN – Saint Dominic Academy enjoyed the relative eternity of three minutes to draft its strategy for the overtime face-off after the end of regulation Saturday night. The Saints also had senior sparkplug back Brad Berube, who missed the entire preseason and first regular-season game while recuperating from a broken wrist, back in the fold […]