Andies hit the accelerator

It’s a new year with a mostly new cast of characters in the box score, but the bottom line looks the same for Livermore Falls.

The Andies rank No. 2 in the Class C division of the Campbell Conference in scoring offense. They scored a total of 84 points in wins over Boothbay and Madison.

They’re doing it with a backfield that entered the season with a blank slate of varsity experience.

Halfback Alex Rose is the lone senior and the only returning starter. Junior Tommy Lee and sophomore Brent Buote have emerged as a successful platoon at fullback. Junior Steve Michaud shares the halfback duties with Rose, while sophomore Nate Hamblin is an emerging threat at quarterback.

“Our goal is to get better every week,“ said Livermore Falls coach Brad Bishop. “We don’t have much of a preseason the way it’s set up.”

But the schedule has helped. Livermore Falls travels to winless Maranacook this week for a game that should be tougher than the records indicate. It’s the final tune-up for a home showdown with Winthrop next Friday.

Livermore Falls’ hopes of winning that one and getting the inside track to a No. 1 seed in the playoffs hinge upon an offensive line that features seven senior starters, including the ends.

“It’s going to get tougher every week,“ cautioned Dillon Newcomb, a senior two-way tackle, “but it’s a good start.”

Pick six, times three

So much for the Golden Rule.

Cam Kaubris has been Mountain Valley High School’s starting quarterback since his sophomore year. Izaak Mills took a few snaps under center last season, leading the Falcons to one victory while Kaubris nursed a shoulder injury.

That didn’t stop the two of them from combining for a hat trick that made their Gray-New Gloucester signal calling counterparts queasy last Friday night.

Kaubris returned two interceptions for touchdowns and Mills added another in a 55-0 victory over the Patriots.

With the help of those defensive strikes, Mountain Valley became one of only three teams in the state to score more than 100 points in its first two games. Winthrop and Thornton were the others.

Century club

Gary Parlin became only the third active coach in the Sun Journal’s tri-county coverage area to reach the 100-win plateau at his current school last Friday night.

Mt. Blue’s longtime boss hit the century mark in a 19-0 victory over Oxford Hills.

Being in charge of the Cougars is similar two what playing left field was for the Red Sox during the Williams-Yastrzemski-Rice era. Before becoming head coach in 1993, Parlin served many years as an assistant under Ray Caldwell, for whom the field in Farmington is named.

Jim Aylward of Mountain Valley and Dick Mynahan of Lisbon cleared the 100-win hurdle many years ago. Bill County also is in triple digits over his combined 19-year tenure at Leavitt and Lewiston.