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Third time's the charm: Greyhounds rally to win state Unified title

WINSLOW — With their team trailing Bucksport by 10 points and a bit despondent at halftime of Thursday night’s Unified state basketball championship, Lisbon’s Tyler Halls and his fellow player partners and coaches needed to draw inspiration from somewhere to pick Lisbon’s spirits up for the second half. Halls, who was quarterback of Lisbon’s Class […]

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CMCC women's basketball team gets its day to celebrate national title

Hayley Peterson, of Bethel, center, holds the National Championship trophy she and her teammates from Central Maine Community College basketball team recently won. She and teammates Holly Decourcey, left, Ellie Harrington, right, and the rest of the players and coaches, were honored for winning the championship during a ceremony at the CMCC gym Thursday afternoon. […]

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Unified Basketball: Oak Hill runs past Lewiston in South semifinal

WALES — Oak Hill called a timeout just over six minutes into Friday’s South regional Unified basketball semifinal so that coach Peter Dennis could have a “heart to heart” talk with his players. The Raiders responded. When Lewiston coach Bill County did the same thing at halftime of the contest, it was for a different […]

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Unified basketball: Lisbon defeats Edward Little, moves on to semifinals

Lisbon High School student-helper Nick Lerette, left, tosses the ball to teammate Dawson Martel under the basket during a Unified basketball quarterfinal game in Lisbon on Thursday. The Greyhounds advanced to the semifinals with a 41-29 win. LISBON — The Lisbon High School Unified basketball team may only go as far as Jake Patenaude takes […]

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Unified Basketball: Edward Little beats Marshwood/Noble in prelim

AUBURN — Behind a 20-point outburst from Gage Cloutier, Edward Little downed Marshwood/Noble, 54-27, in a South regional preliminary round unified basketball game on Monday. The Red Eddies (5-4) also received eight points each from Ben Dumont, George Kampstra and Chet Barnard. Carter Culleton dished out a team-high in assists. Max Blackwin led Marshwood/Noble (3-6) […]

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Lisbon tops Brunswick in Unified basketball game

LISBON — There were two thoughts heading into Wednesday’s Unified basketball regular-season finale between Brunswick and Lisbon. First, the Greyhounds are in full preparations for what they hope is a long playoff run as the two-time defending regional champs. The Dragons were looking to finish strong and see the continued improvements from the players that […]

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Unified basketball: Freeport edges Poland

POLAND — Bill Ridge typically has a certain look on his face during a sports season. Whether leading the Freeport High School baseball team or boys’ basketball squad, Ridge has that serious look, contemplating that next move for his Falcons. On Tuesday in a Unified basketball game, the middle school special education teacher coached his […]