Belgrade Monday, May 21 MSGA Senior Team Championship results: Gross — T1 Len Cole/Tom Ellsworth/Gary Manoogian/Cash Wiseman Falmouth Country Club 137 ,T1 Jonathan Brogan/Tom Chard/Jim McFarlane/Rick Robichaud Purpoodock Club 137 ,3 Nelson Gosline/Michael Nowak/Mark Plummer/James Quinn Augusta Country Club 138 ,4 Reid Birdsall/Gary Laliberte/Chris Marco/Jeff Turner Bath Golf Club 139 ,5 Dennis Amell/Gary Auger/Mike Doucette/Darrell Herbert […]
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H.S. roundup: Buckfield softball rallies past Sacopee Valley
BUCKFIELD — Buckfield mounted a come-from-behind win, rallying for seven runs in the late innings to take an 8-7 victory over Sacopee Valley in softball action Saturday afternoon. With the Bucks trailing 5-1 after four and a half innings, Cara Merrill led off the bottom of the fifth with at triple. Before there were three […]
College roundup: Bates women win second straight rowing national title
The Bates College women’s rowing team won its second consecutive NCAA Division III championship in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday. SARASOTA, Florida — The Bates College women’s rowing team won its second consecutive NCAA Division III championship, and third in four years. Saturday’s national championship was especially sweet, though, because the Bobcats gold medal in both […]
Track and Field: Edward Little sweeps KVAC Class A titles; Cony girls, Lincoln boys win Class B
Edward Little’s Ella Boucher, left, and Grace Fontaine run the 300-meter hurdles during a rainy Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference track meet Saturday at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) TOPSHAM — By the time the 4×400-meter relay came around the final race of the KVAC outdoor track championships served as four victory […]
Poland girls win first conference track and field championship
NAPLES — Her arms may have failed Darcy Cochran, but never her legs. And depth didn’t fail the Poland girls, who won their first conference title. A sophomore from Cape Elizabeth, Cochran false-started before the 100-meter final of the Western Maine Conference track and field championships Saturday when she tipped forward from the blocks. “I […]
Gardiner man killed in 3-vehicle crash on I-295 in Freeport
FREEPORT — A Gardiner man was killed in a three-vehicle accident Saturday morning on Interstate 295 in Freeport, Maine State Police said. Raymond Bisson, 50, died when his southbound car went out of control and struck two other vehicles, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. It was the first […]
H.S. tennis: Lewiston freshman Svor reaches state quarterfinals
Alex Klemperer of Falmouth reaches during a volley with Clay Canterberry of Freeport during MPA state singles tennis championships at the Racket and Fitness Center on Saturday. (Jill Brady/Portland Press Herald) PORTLAND — Like 56 other players at the Maine Principals’ Association tournament, Abby Svor’s singles season came to an end at The Racket and […]
Lewiston students restore Civil War cannon
LEWISTON — Seeing a couple of old Civil War cannons and their rotted carriages in a shed at the Togus VA hospital a few years ago, John Footer offered to help rebuild them. His plan was to use the skills of the students and staff at Lewiston Regional Technical Center. The retired Lewiston stone mason […]
'Celebrate us': Hebron Academy graduates 69
HEBRON — Hebron Academy Salutatorian Rachel Brouwer, speaking at commencement Saturday, urged the Class of 2018 to “celebrate us” and to “take every new moment as an opportunity.” The 69 graduating students marched from the George Winfield Treat Science Hall to the Athletic Center, led by piper J. Christopher Pinchbeck, an alumnus who has served […]
Par for the Course: New head pro excited for first tournament at Poland Spring
John King has come home in a special and historic manner. The new head professional at Poland Spring was hired in March, after being an award-winning teaching pro in Florida and Alabama for many years. Moving from Florida to director of instruction at Saugahatchee Country Club in Opelika, Alabama, King made his mark with numerous […]