Coach: Jeremy Williams (fourth year) Class: C; Conference: MVC Last year’s results: Boys: Conference third, region seventh. Returning athletes: Boys: Junior — Geoffrey Shambarger. Sophomores — Izaya May, Michael Ray, Kadrian Rugullies, Alex Cole, Corbin Hall. Key losses: Boys: Michael Schlotterbeck, Kyle LaRoche, David Schlotterbeck. Promising newcomers: Boys: Sophomore — David Poulin; Freshman — Max […]
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Fall preview 2017: Edward Little High School cross country
Coaches: Ryan Getchell (second year) and Jamie Theriault (first year) Class: A; Conference: KVAC Returning athletes: Boys: Seniors — Russell Allen, Gabriel Withee, Reece Rodrigue, Gavin Hanson; Juniors — Matthew Syphers, Carter Shaw, Sabin Oliver, Alec Larson. Girls: Seniors — Melissa Pawlina, Annie Hazelton, Ella Henry; Juniors — Isabelle Asselin, Jillian Richardson. Key losses: Boys: […]
Fall preview 2017: Spruce Mountain High School cross country
Coach: Jessica Ellingwood (third year) Class: B; Conference: MVC Last year’s results: Did not have a scoring team. Returning players: Boys: Junior — Joel Soper; Sophomore — Eugene Lindsey. Girls: Seniors — Anneka Dubord, Caitlin Chaousis; Sophomore — Bailey Coates. Key losses: None. Promising newcomers: None yet. What to expect: The Phoenix look forward to […]
Fall preview 2017: Telstar Regional High School cross country
Coach: Willow Ochtera (fourth year) Class: C; Conference: MVC Last year’s results: Four of five runners qualified for regional; two earned spots at state. Returning athletes: Boys: Senior — Gaelan Boyle-Wight. Girls: Senior — Marta Opie; Junior — Emily Hanscom. Key losses: Kristi Hanscom. Promising newcomers: Boys: Junior — Ryan Beckerman; Sophomore — Jaxen Call; […]
Cross country preview 2017: Several boys' looking to rise to the top
Lewiston’s Abbas Muktar runs with Scarboroughs’ Harrison Osborn during the Class A Mstate cross country championshops in Belfast in Nov. 2016. There’s plenty of room at the top of the tri-county boys’ cross country hill. The girls’ scene should be more of the same. Most of last year’s top runners return: Edward Little’s Jillian Richardson, […]
Cross country preview 2017: Revived Oak Hill geared towards improvement in Year 2
James Greenwood, front, and Haley Gunn, in black, help pace the Oak Hill cross country team in a preseason practice. WALES — James Greenwood was more than satisfied with how he ran during Oak Hill’s 2016 cross country season. “For me, I thought I did wonderful because I had never run 5Ks competitively like that,” […]
Field hockey roundup: Hall-Dale takes season opener with Telstar in overtime
BETHEL — Telstar struck first, but Hall-Dale had the last laugh Wednesday in the teams’ field hockey season-opener. Georgie Marston rattled the cage with 41 seconds left in overtime to lift the visiting Bulldogs to a 2-1 win over the Rebels in an MVC contest. Lauren Hendrickson had Hall-Dale’s first goal in the first half, […]
Field hockey: Winthrop puts away Dirigo
Winthrops’ Kinli Dibiase controls the ball past Dirigo’s Ashley Walker in the season opener field hockey game at Winthrop High School on Wednesday afternoon. WINTHROP — The way Winthrop was playing in its opener Wednesday, a late timeout to set up a potential game-winning goal shouldn’t have been necessary. Yet despite dominating in scoring chances […]
Field hockey: Spruce Mountain beats Lisbon in return to MVC
LISBON — For 30-plus minutes, the Lisbon High School field hockey team held off every Spruce Mountain charge in the opening of the Mountain Valley Conference season on Wednesday. The Phoenix, who returned to the MVC after a few seasons in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference, finally found the net, not once but four times […]
Fall preview 2017: Telstar field hockey
Coach: Gail Wight (30th year) Class: C; Conference: MVC Last year’s results: 0-14 Returning players: Senior — Kaiya Corriveau (FB); Juniors — Sarahanne Wright (M), Emilee Harrington (HB), Crystal Chapman (HB); Sophomores — Kat Haley (M), Perry Morton (GK), Emily Fraser (FB), Olguine Lane (F). Key losses: Natasha Hart, Taylor Merrill, Sierra Ryerson, Wynter Morin, Caitlin […]