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High school roundup: EL girls edge Messalonskee
OAKLAND — Lauren Berube converted a pass from Grace Beaudet at the 21:14 mark of the second half to give Edward Little a 4-3 victory over Messalonsklee in a girls’ soccer tilt Tuesday. Piper Norcross led the Red Eddies (2-0) with a pair of goals, while Olivia Jensen also scored to complete the scoring. Makenna […]
Girls soccer: Monmouth boots Mountain Valley, 8-0
MONMOUTH — The Fletchers came to play. Haley and Audrey Fletcher combined for four goals and four assists in Monmouth’s 8-0 girls’ soccer victory Tuesday. Haley Fletcher quickly got the scoring started in the third minute of the game. The senior captain finished with three goals and two assists. Audrey, a freshman, scored one goal […]
High School Field Hockey: EL overcomes early struggles in win over Lewiston
After a slow first half, the Red Eddies pulled away from their rivals, the Lewiston Blue Devils 3-0 on Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Heights Elementary School. “We were kind of running into each other’s positions a little bit at first,” EL coach Greg Perkins said. “I thought we passed better in the second half. We […]
High school girls’ soccer: Lisbon, Oak Hill call it a draw
LISBON — The flip throw-in is a weapon that several Lisbon High School girls’ soccer players have perfected over the years. One of the best for the Greyhounds might have been Gabby Ouellette, who has moved onto college. But, Ouellette has since passed the knowledge of flip throws onto little sister Sydney Douglass, who used […]
The football season came in like a gorilla
A gorilla ran out onto the field during Edward Little’s win over Bangor on Friday night. Here are a few more things about the first week of high school football: Winthrop/Monmouth had the biggest first week in the tri-county area, if not the state. The Ramblers opened the season on the road against Lisbon. The […]
Local roundup: Leavitt starts quick, beats Morse 4-0
TURNER — Leavitt came out strong and pressured the Morse defense early, scoring twice in the first half and finishing with a 4-0 victory in field hockey action Saturday afternoon. Allie Belaire scored the first goal of the game five-and-a-half minutes into the contest and assisted on the next two for the Hornets (2-0). Kaitlyn […]
High School Football: Ramblers open with big win over Lisbon
After a close game in the opening half, the Ramblers were ground down by the Greyhounds in an opening-day loss. In the 2016 opener for both teams Saturday on Thompson Field, Winthrop/Monmouth showed its grit throughout its 31-12 Class D South win in a battle of highly regarded teams. The Ramblers (1-0), who visit Traip […]
High School Football: Oak Hill clobbers Maranacook
WALES — Matthew Strout threw a 56-yard touchdown pass and Brian Thorpe scored on a 52-yard run in Oak Hill’s season-opening 38-18 victory over Maranacook. Those two plays and a few others contradict what Raiders coach Stacen Doucette said he was expecting in the 2016 season. “He said it wasn’t going to happen,” Strout said […]
High School Football: Poland falls to Freeport 22-8
The Freeport High School quarterback was a freshman the last time his football team won — it was a wild, double-overtime homecoming game in 2014 against Mountain Valley. And he was a running back. In his first game behind center Saturday against Poland, Burke went back to his ground-game roots to deliver a much-needed victory […]