The award is given to the top Class A senior player in the state, and each of the trio of Twin Cities teams has (at least) one senior who has been a driving force on the road to the regional semifinals. The three players are all different, but their respective impacts to their teams are […]
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Class A North boys’ hockey: Title shot is Lewiston’s to lose
Players to Watch: Jr. F Jeromey Rancourt, Lewiston; Sr. F Kyle Morin, Lewiston; Fr. F Alex Robert, Lewiston; Sr. F Austin Roy, St. Dom’s; Fr. F Reese Farrell, St. Dom’s; Soph. D Gavin Bates, St. Dom’s; Sr. D Ben Steele, Edward Little; Sr. F Liam Benson, Edward Little; Sr. F Trevor DeLaite, Bangor; Jr. G […]
Girls’ Hockey: St. Dominic Academy powers past Scarborough for state title
LEWISTON — The state’s highest-scoring team during the regular season was held in check through two periods in the girls’ hockey state championship game Saturday night. Then, St. Dominic Academy got a shot in the arm from two power plays to rally past Scarborough and win its second state title, 2-1, at the Androscoggin Bank […]
Girls’ hockey: Tia Rotolico relishes opportunity to lead St. Dom’s into final
AUBURN — The road to a state championship game is never paved the same way twice. There might not be two more different roads than the ones that St. Dominic Academy and Scarborough have traveled on their respective trips to this year’s girls’ state hockey final on Saturday night at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. On […]
Boys’ hockey: St. Dom’s stuns Scarborough — Saints hand Red Storm first loss
SACO — Reigning Class A state runner-up St. Dominic Academy is playing some of its best hockey of the year as the season winds down, and that continued Thursday night against the team the Saints lost to in last year’s Class A boys’ hockey final — Scarborough. The Saints played arguably their best game of the […]
Girls’ Hockey: St. Dominic Academy slays Greely with last-second goal
LEWISTON — Finally. After two tough losses to Greely in the regular season, St. Dominic Academy figured out the Rangers when it mattered the most. With the season on the line in the teams’ Northern Maine final, St. Dom’s showed more, did more, and scored more. The third meeting was a charm for the Saints, […]
Girls’ Hockey: Fearsome foursome look to dominate postseason
The top four teams in the girls’ hockey playoffs — two from the North and two from the South — get byes into the regional semifinals. The way the regular season turned out, it wouldn’t be a surprise for all four teams to find their way into the regional championship games at the Androscoggin Bank […]
Girls’ Hockey: It’s the year of the freshmen for local teams
Conventional wisdom took a year off this season in Maine high school girls’ hockey. In a sport where teams try to build toward success over a few years as the players grow and mature, some teams have found another way — win with youth. There’s no better example than St. Dominic Academy. The Saints’ success […]
Boys’ Hockey: Lewiston holds off St. Dominic Academy
Those two goals were the difference, with Nick Bisson’s buzzer-beater providing an answer to a St. Dom’s goal with a two-man advantage late in the second. A Saints’ rally then fell short in the third as the last word in the longstanding rivalry remains with Lewiston. “Thankfully tonight we were able to get one more […]
Girls’ Hockey: St. Dominic Academy finishes off Lewiston/Monmouth/Oak Hil
It took the Saints (16-2) half of the opening period to find the back of the net, but once they did, they found it on repeat. Emma Theriault started the goal streak, then Kristina Cornelio re-directed a Izzy Frenette point shot on the power play just over a minute later. “It starts the momentum,” St. […]