RUMFORD — Thirteen hasn’t been a jinx for the Mountain Valley High School cheerleading team. The Falcons are working with fewer hands on deck than ever, a product of the school essentially shrinking in half from the beginning of its 25-year history to now. That hasn’t stopped them from soaring to customary heights. Mountain Valley […]
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AHL: Falcons top Pirates in shootout
LEWISTON — For the seventh time this season, the Portland Pirates took a home game to a shootout, and for the seventh home game in a row, they earned at least a point. What they needed — and didn’t get — was a win. Cody Goloubef sniped the top corner of the cage over the […]
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Boys’ Basketball: Brannon, Greyhounds shoot down Falcons
Mountain Valley’s shooting night was the stuff of nightmares. Brannon finished with a season-high 28 points in a little under three quarters, including four 3-pointers, to lead the Greyhounds to a 68-17 win over the Falcons, Lisbon’s sixth win in a row. “My teammates were setting me up good, getting me some good shots,” Brannon […]
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AHL: Chaput returning to Lewiston
For many fans of the Lewiston Maineiacs, the beleaguered junior hockey team that left Lewiston in 2011, the players who called the Androscoggin Bank Colisee home for varying lengths of time became adopted members of the hockey community, and of the community at large. Another one of the former team’s young stars — Michael Chaput […]
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Girls’ Basketball: Dirigo clamps down on Mountain Valley
DIXFIELD — The only problem lately for the Dirigo girls’ basketball team has been putting away games in the second half against good opponents. What better time to start than Thursday night, against their neighbor and longtime rival? Up-and-coming Mountain Valley gave Dirigo fits for a half, but the Cougars held the Falcons to 11 […]
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Preview 2013: Mountain Valley Alpine Skiing
Coach: Nate Nicols (first year) Conference: MVC; Class: C Last year’s results: Girls, MVC champions, second in Class C state meet; Boys, second in conference, third in state. Returning letter-winners: Boys: Senior — Lance Richard; Juniors — Chris Bourret, Jared Arsenault, Corbin Arsenault, Conner Woods, Tucker Phelps; Sophomores — J.T. Greene, Isaac Brennick. Girls: Seniors […]
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Preview 2013: Mountain Valley Nordic skiing
Coach: Ray Broomhall (third year) Conference: MVC; Class: C Last year’s results: Boys, 2nd in MVC, 11th in Class C state meet; Girls, 8th in MVC, 13th in state. Returning letter-winners: Boys: Seniors — Andrew Boucher, Lance Richard, Nick Fitzpatrick; Juniors — Conner Woods, Corbin Arsenault, Jared Arsenault; Sophomore — J.T. Greene. Girls: Seniors — […]
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Mtn. Valley Boys’ Basketball
Coach: Tom Danylik (second year) Last year’s record: 13-7, lost Western B semifinal Returning letter-winners: Juniors — Caleb Gauvin (6-2 center), Tom Marshall (5-10 guard), Brad Marshall (6-0 forward). Key loses: Adam Volkernick (guard), Dominic Haines (guard), Jacob Theriault (guard), Ryan Nicols (guard), Ryan Stickney (center), Sean Murphy (guard). Promising newcomers: Juniors — Andrew Cote […]
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Boys’ soccer: Freeport, Poland settle for draw
FREEPORT — Western Maine Conference foes Freeport and Poland entered Wednesday’s high school boys soccer clash holding down the final two playoff spots in Western Class B. A 0-0 double-overtime deadlock, though not glamorous, might have done the trick, as both teams picked up valuable Heal Points in their quest for a postseason berth. “I […]
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Class C Football: Leavitt dismantles Mountain Valley
TURNER — Mountain Valley might consider rounding up Gray-New Gloucester, Poland and Lake Region and starting a support group. Because collectively, for the past month, those four football programs ran into Leavitt and paid for Belfast’s sins. The Hornets were unceremoniously, unexpectedly eliminated from the 2012 regional playoffs — in a different conference, mind you […]