AUBURN — Getting the top seed hasn’t always been that rewarding. It has seemed in recent years that if the St. Dom’s girls’ soccer team earned the top-ranking in Western C, they drew a pretty stiff opponent in the first round to go with it. Either those foes were good enough to give the Saints […]
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Field Hockey: NYA victorious over Lisbon in West C final
It took four tries to earn a positive result the first time around. Tuesday, they went one round less, but it was North Yarmouth Academy doing the celebrating. Charlotte Eisenberg collected the ball at the right post and slid it past Lisbon keeper Stevie Charest on the team’s third penalty corner, and the Panthers’ defense […]
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H.S. Notebook: Hornets leaving nest for huge test
Winning a preliminary game in the Class B soccer tournament is a trick-or-treat proposition. You’re moving on, but there’s a good chance you’re going to be facing a southern or coastal team whose players have been refining their skills since they stopped crawling and sleeping in a crib. That’s the plight of the No. 7 […]
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H.S. boys’ soccer: Patriots pay back Poland
GRAY — It was a loss that has lingered. It was one of those bad days and frustrating outcomes that can be hard to forget. And when the Gray-New Gloucester boys’ soccer team drew Poland in Saturday’s Western B preliminary game, the Patriots made sure they remembered. “We didn’t feel that day was our best […]
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Waynflete dismisses Lisbon
PORTLAND — Henry Cleaves scored first to ignite the Waynflete offense, as it routed Lisbon 7-2 in a Western Class C boys’ soccer preliminary round matchup. Waynflete utilized five different scorers on a brisk Saturday afternoon in Portland. Cleaves led the offense with two goals, while Abel Alemayo, Isaac Scher, Serge Syirikamba, Aaron Lee and […]
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Field hockey playoffs: Cutler’s goal puts Greyhounds over the top
LISBON — After two halves of scoreless high school field hockey, followed by another double overtime deadlock, Lisbon and Dirigo set up for penalty corners to decide the outcome of a Western Maine Class C semifinal on Saturday. Another two rounds of three turns each went by the wayside, with no shot besting Lisbon goaltender […]
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H.S. Football: Spruce wins coin flip for No. 3 seed
After seeing its five-game winning streak come to an abrupt end against undefeated Leavitt, Spruce Mountain caught a little bit of a break Saturday from the football gods. Spruce Mountain won a coin flip with Yarmouth and earned the No. 3 seed in the six-team Western Class C playoffs. Yarmouth will go in at No. […]
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Blue Devils run away with it
BELFAST — The Lewiston Blue Devils used superior depth to win the Eastern Maine Class A boys cross country championship at the Troy Howard Middle School course Saturday. The Brunswick girls squad had to dig even deeper to claim its Eastern A crown — winning a sixth-runner tiebreaker over Hampden Academy after the teams were […]
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H.S. Football: Raiders better than Greyhounds on balance sheet
WALES — The rest of Western Class D has been given fair warning — Oak Hill is a very balanced football team, and as it showed Saturday, even cold, wind, rain and a very good Lisbon defense that had been giving up less than 10 points per game couldn’t knock them off-balance. Alex Mace rushed […]
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H.S. Football: Lanham, Rams run through Vikings, 27-6
PARIS — Bangor tailback Logan Lanham wasn’t himself during last week’s 49-7 loss to Cheverus, so the coaches decided they needed to push their work horse during practice this week to get him back into form for the regular season finale at Oxford Hills. The senior responded well to the whip all week and Friday […]