Monmouth’s Abby Ferland slides and beats the throw to Madison catcher Ashley Emerly in the fifth inning Friday at Monmouth Academy. MONMOUTH — Monmouth softball co-coach Dave Kaplan was proud and excited because he and the Mustangs found out they could play with 2016 state champion and 2017 unbeaten Madison. That revelation, however, came with […]
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H.S. softball: Morse swats Spruce Mountain
Spruce Mountain’s JuJu Doiron slides into home as Morse pitcher Marissa Parks put the tag on Doiron in the fourth inning of a softball game in Jay on Friday afternoon. JAY — Morse High School’s hits fell like the endless rain that has turned the Pine Tree State into one giant marsh this month. A […]
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Roundup: Hartley grand slam lifts EL baseball to win
AUBURN — Grant Hartley smashed a grand slam in the fifth inning to propel Edward Little to an 8-4 win over Messalonskee in a mid-season baseball tilt on Wednesday. Austin Brown also contributed for the Red Eddies (5-2) with two hits, while Damien St. Pierre earned his third win of 2017 with seven solid innings. […]
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Softball: Leavitt shakes Spruce Mountain loose
Spruce Mountain pitcher Alexis Bessey winds up for a pitch during Tuesday’s softball game against Leavitt in Turner. TURNER — Leavitt Area High School coach Kevin Leonard has learned to live with his Hornets’ come-from-behind victories this season. For Leonard, a win is win, despite the Hornets’ “long way around the barn” approach to beating […]
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H.S. Softball: Edward Little strikes first, finishes off Lewiston
Edward Little shortstop Taylor Depot makes a diving catch on a sharply hit ball for an out during Thursday’s game against Lewiston. LEWISTON — Neither Edward Little nor Lewiston could do much offensively the first time through the batting order of their rivalry softball game Thursday. The second time through, the Red Eddies’ bats woke […]
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Local roundup: Lake Region edges Gray-NG in baseball action
GRAY — Matt Casey and Luke Porter belted out key RBI singles in the second inning to propel Lake Region to a 3-1 win baseball win over Gray-New Gloucester. Tristan Chiant scored on a fielder’s choice to round out the Lakers’ final tally. Luke Nadeau scattered three hits in seven innings of work while earning […]
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Mountain Valley squeezes Carrabec in MVC softball tilt
RUMFORD — A sacrifice bunt by Emily Laubauskas sent Leigha Carrier across the plate to give Mountain Valley a 4-3 win over Carrabec in an early-season softball tilt Tuesday. Carrier had belted a line-drive single that plated Taylor Henry to tie the contest at 3-3. Carrier led the Falcons (3-2) with two hits and one […]
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Roundup: Lewiston rallies past Mt. Ararat in softball
LEWISTON — Jordyn Rubin peppered four singles to help Lewiston to a 6-4 triumph over Mt. Ararat in softball action Saturday afternoon. The Blue Devils (4-1) bounced back from giving up four runs in the top of the third inning with a pair of tallies in the bottom of the frame, and rallied for another […]
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Gray-New Gloucester runs away from Freeport in WMC softball matchup
FREEPORT — Freeport’ softball team’s defense did its job and then some on Friday afternoon against Gray-New Gloucester. Twice early in the game, a flashy catch erased a based-loaded jam and kept the score tight. The only problem? Patriots’ pitcher Haley True hardly needed her defense at all. True limited the Falcons to five hits […]
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H.S. Softball: Monmouth, Boothbay make best of mismatch
MONMOUTH — It was a grind-it-out kind of game when Monmouth Academy and Boothbay faced off on the softball diamond Friday. Yet there were no nails bitten, no clutch hits, no tense at-bats. There was a winner, a loser, and two teams trying to process what they learned in the outcome — a 21-0, five […]