Coach: Tom Menendez (17th year) Class: C, Conference: MVC Last year’s results: Girls: MVC champs, seventh at regionals, eighth at state. Boys: Not enough runners to field a scoring team. Returning athletes: Girls: Amber Currie, Abbie Hunt, Kaitlin Hunt, Megan Knowles, Danielle Parker, Elliott Sharples, Bea Stewart, Emma Vierling and Moira Burgess. Boys: Kyle Gunnels. […]
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Fall preview 2017: Lewiston High School cross country
Coach: Rebecca Dugan (fourth year), Kim Wettlaufer (fourth year) Class: A; Conference: KVAC Last year’s results: Girls: seventh KVACs, eighth regionals. Boys: fifth KVACs, sixth regionals, 14th state. Returning runners: Girls: Seniors — Jenna Burton, Kaitlyn Reny; Juniors — Zaid Teklu, Maria Bellegarde; Sophomores — Juliet Bolduc, Melina Masselli, Cece Racine, Jordyn Rubin, Zeneit Teklu. […]
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Fall preview 2017: Gray-New Gloucester High School cross country
Coach: Adam Zukowski (10th year) Class: B; Conference: WMC Last year’s results: Girls: 13th B South; Boys: 10th B South. Returning athletes: Boys: Seniors — Ethan Ray, Seth Levier; Junior — Parker Morse, Christian Ducharme; Sophomore — Michael Twohig. Girls: Senior — Kylie Trawick; Juniors — Abbey Chandler, Lillian Wilson; Sophomores — Alison MacDonald, Alyssa […]
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Fall preview 2017: Dirigo High School cross country
Coach: Gunnar Bradbury (ninth year) Class: C; Conference: MVC Returning players: Girls: Senior — Elizabeth Farrar. Boys: Junior — Ethan Coutour; Sophomore — Damien Nadeau. Key losses: Lily Meehan, Zoe Tacheny, Greta Freiburger, Emma Sommers, Maddy DeGroot. Promising newcomers: Boys: Freshmen — Owen Libby, Blaine Wilkins. What to expect: Dirigo cross country enters a building […]
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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, […]
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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,” […]
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Lewiston High School teams will be scattered during field construction
July flyover of the construction site at Lewiston High School where crews are busy on the new athletic fields and elementary school.A view of the Russell Street Field at Bates College in Lewiston. LEWISTON — The fall sports season is little more than three weeks away, and Lewiston’s teams are preparing for a vagabond existence […]
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To train in the rain in Maine
The Bates College cross-country team trains in the rain Thursday afternoon in Lewiston.
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HS Nordic Skiing: Leavitt, Gould win Oxford Hills Classic
“(The Sassi course) is kind of the opposite of this,” he said. “Instead of all up and then all down it’s all down followed by all up. And it’s definitely High School Hill that everyone thinks of when it comes to the Sassi.” Oxford Hills’ home course doesn’t have anything to equal the iconic climax […]
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Nordic skiing: Telstar Relays kick off high school season
After all, many competitors consider the real winners to be those lucky few among them who get to pick out a pair of crazy skiing tights during the traditional post-race raffle. Nevertheless, the event is one of the most anticipated of the cross country season. “This sets the pace for the season,” Telstar junior co-captain […]