HEBRON — The Hebron Academy field hockey team captured the MAISAD championship by defeating Kents Hill 1-0 on Wednesday. The MAISAD title is the Lumberjacks’ first since 2014. The game’s only goal came with less than two minutes remaining in the first half when Hebron’s Maggie Kinasewich put one home. Kents Hill ramped up the […]
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Lewiston track and field team receives donations from an unlikely friend (with video)
LEWISTON — There was a time that Lewiston track and field coach Paul Soracco saw his athletes take off their running shoes and give them to a teammate, just so that teammate could go run his or her own race. Those days are over now, thanks to a “big” day, an “unbelievable day,” according to […]
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Girls’ Hockey: Saints taking nothing for granted as they start title defense
AUBURN — St. Dominic Academy girls’ ice hockey coach Paul Gosselin’s message to his team on the opening day of practice was simple and direct. “We’re starting from square one. We’ve proven nothing this year,” he said. “We’re back to where we were at the beginning of last year.” Where they were Monday was a […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Surprise, surprise in semifinals
Ever since Tyler Halls took over the starting quarterback position for Lisbon, head coach Dick Mynahan has been trying to get him out of the spot. It’s not that Halls is a bad quarterback. He has a great throwing arm, he has the smarts to play the position, and Mynahan has been able to craft […]
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Girls’ State Cross Country: St. Dom’s run to third-place state finish
It wasn’t quite the finish the Saints were aiming for, but 2016 was still a high-water mark for the program. “At the end of the day, it’s probably the best season St. Dom’s cross country team’s ever had. So we’re proud of that,” Saints co-coach Josh Brown said. “We thought we would come in a compete […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Ashland wins Class D championship in overtime
PORTLAND — There was no stopping it. After almost 100 minutes of hard-fought, end-to-end soccer in the girls’ Class D state championship at Fitzpatrick Stadium on Saturday, Ashland utilized a weapon Richmond simply doesn’t have. In the second overtime period, Hornets winger Morgan Doughty swung a corner into the box from the far side. Cassidy […]
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Boys’ Soccer: Yarmouth beats Winslow for third straight Class B title
HAMPDEN — As the teams lined up across the Weatherbee Complex field for lineup introductions Saturday, the Yarmouth High School boys’ soccer team’s size advantage over its opposition from Winslow was hard to ignore. But it was more than sheer physical stature that propelled the Clippers to a 5-2 victory and a third consecutive Class […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Yarmouth wins Class B title with second-half onslaught
HAMPDEN — That feeling of inevitability can either have a positive or negative swing on a soccer team over the course of a state championship confrontation. For the Yarmouth girls team, which was sailing all over Waterville’s defensive third of the field in the second half of the Class B state championship match, the inevitable […]
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Boys’ soccer: Bangor outlasts Gorham in a battle of the Rams, earns Class A title
PORTLAND — 110 minutes of well-played soccer were not enough to determine the Class A boys’ state championship between the Bangor Rams and the Gorham Rams. The teams were tied 1-1 when the game entered penalty kicks at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland. For Bangor, the most stressful situation in the game was “Payneless.” Senior goalkeeper […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Orono blanks Waynflete in Class C state championship game
HAMPDEN — The Orono High School girls’ soccer team won its first state championship a year ago, and senior goalie Katelyn Richards said they had an intense desire to repeat Saturday to “prove it wasn’t a one-time thing.” The Red Riots did just that. Richards turned in a superb six-save performance to help Orono beat […]