STANDISH — Sacopee Valley won more than its first Class C West baseball championship in 21 years this spring. It claimed the Mountain Valley Conference Invitational. And don’t you dare think the Hawks aren’t finding that part of the equation just as satisfying. “I feel like they were overlooking us,” senior pitcher Anthony Haskell said, […]
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H.S. Baseball: Saints followed Dostie to their goal
AUBURN — Patrolling shortstop for St. Dominic’s regional final-bound baseball team requires Caleb Dostie to have more range than he did protecting the net for the Saints’ regional champion hockey team. But the philosophy remains the same. The results are pretty close to identical, too. Dostie was the linchpin of the Saints’ defense late in […]
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H.S. Playoff Notebook: Saints’ tradition marches on
The emotion in the eyes of St. Dom’s junior pitcher Mike Bryant was hard to miss Saturday after he struck out 11 and delivered two bases-loaded walks at the plate in an 8-4 Class C West semifinal win over Dirigo at Harlow Park in Dixfield. It’s easy to understand why. Without his heroics, the third-seeded […]
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Class C West Baseball Semifinal: St. Dom’s dismisses Dirigo
DIXFIELD — Mike Bryant spent his Saturday afternoon climbing out of holes. On the mound, where the St. Dom’s junior fell behind Dirigo by three runs, five batters into the first inning. And in the batter’s box, where Gavin Arsenault and Kaine Hutchins made a habit of putting him in a no-ball, two-strike conundrum. “Mike […]
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H.S. Tennis: Leavitt, McCarthy make it a Falmouth sweep; Silverman tops Hammond in semifinals
The Brunswick senior gutted out a first-set win over Falmouth’s Olivia Leavitt and went ahead two games in the second, destined to atone for last year’s loss to Leavitt in the state singles final. But Leavitt had the last laugh Monday, rallying to win six straight games to force a third set, where she battled […]
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H.S. Baseball: Halls, Greyhounds handle Saints
AUBURN — It pays for pitchers to have short memories. Lisbon freshman Tyler Halls got lit up by Monmouth in his last start. Although there’s no shame in giving up six runs in three innings to the top team in the Western C Heals, he had more than enough incentive to forget that nightmare and […]
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H.S. Baseball: Hutchins, Dirigo strike back at St. Dom’s
AUBURN — Kaine Hutchins is one of those top-of-the-rotation guys whose arm strength, body language and command improve with repetition. The way his starts have played out lately, that’s good news for Hutchins and for Dirigo’s aspirations of a third consecutive Class C baseball title. Hutchins hurled an adventurous four-hitter Monday afternoon — walking seven, […]
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H.S. Notebook: Rare loss didn’t slow Saints
St. Dom’s bounced back from its first loss of the season, 4-3 at Wiscasset on May 7, in impressive fashion. The Saints have won four in a row and sit atop the Western Class C Heal Points with a 9-1 record. They’ve handed their two closest pursuers, Dirigo and Monmouth, their only losses of the […]
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H.S. girls’ tennis: Lewiston, St. Dom’s, Mt. Blue, Spruce Mtn. singles emerge from qualifier
LEWISTON — Kyleigh Letourneau was rushing through the early stages of her Region 4 tennis singles qualifier match at Bates College’s Merrill Gym on Saturday, and it was no mystery why. “I have prom after this, so I think my mentality was, ‘OK, the faster you’re done, the faster you get to go home,’” the […]
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H.S. Baseball: Saints hand Mustangs first loss
MONMOUTH — Mitch Lorenz found himself in an unenviable position in the seventh inning of a key Mountain Valley Conference contest. Alex Curtis had refused to bite on the sliders Lorenz tried feeding him. So with Monmouth’s cleanup hitter representing the winning run and down in the count, 3-0, Lorenz went to his fastball, despite […]