Oakes: So, I don’t know if you noticed while editing a dozen stories on deadline at 11:19 p.m. this past Friday night, but Gray-New Gloucester beat Mountain Valley, 44-37, at Chet Bulger Field. This was significant, as you know, because the Patriots hadn’t won a game since 2012 and had never beaten the Falcons. And […]
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H.S. Football Weekend Blitz: Mt. Blue hosts Brewer in super sequel
Lewiston (0-1) at Oxford Hills/Buckfield (0-1) Friday, 7 p.m. Vikings trying to extend their winning streak in this series and coming off solid first half at Cheverus. Devils look to recover from one-sided loss to No. 1 Windham. Brewer (1-0) at Mt. Blue (1-0) Friday, 7 p.m. Game of the Year candidate won on a […]
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H.S. Football Top 10: Windham stays on top despite Dylan Koza injury
Eagles showed enough firepower after Dylan Koza’s unfortunate injury at Lewiston to keep the top spot for now. 2. Thornton 1-0 (2) Trojans’ one hiccup was home loss to Stags in a Class A crossover classic last year. They should be slight favorite this time around. 3. Cheverus 1-0 (3) Stags didn’t try anything fancy […]
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H.S. Football Game of the Week: Oak Hill, Dirigo continue their terrific rivalry
Oak Hill and Dirigo haven’t been gridiron rivals, indelibly linked, forever. It just looks that way when the teams get on their collision course, which resumes with a 1:30 kickoff Saturday. The programs have met nine times since 2009 and twice every year beginning in 2012 thanks to postseason rematches. In the past two even-numbered […]
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Oakes’ Week 2 high school football picks
Oxford Hills/Buckfield 28, Lewiston 7 Portland 28, Edward Little 20 Mt. Blue 35, Brewer 28 Leavitt 39, Morse 7 Yarmouth 42, Mtn. Valley 14 Fryeburg 27, Gray-NG 21 Spruce Mtn. 28, Lake Region 8 Cape Elizabeth 34, Poland 26 Winthrop/Monmouth 21, Traip 6 Lisbon 39, OOB 14 Oak Hill 26, Dirigo 20
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H.S. Football: Cheverus runs away from Oxford Hills, 42-14
PORTLAND — Beleaguered, long-suffering football opponents hoping to get back at Cheverus this season embraced the idea that the Stags don’t seem to have a bona fide “home run hitter” in their camp. Maybe not, but the purple-and-gold darned sure boast a complete lineup. Cheverus put two backs over the century mark Saturday afternoon and four […]
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H.S. football: Gray-New Gloucester stuns Mountain Valley at Hosmer Field
RUMFORD — Gray-New Gloucester delivered a message to the rest of the conference Friday with an emphatic opening-night win — its first since 2012. Quarterback Justin Bowie threw a pair of touchdowns to Tristen Herod and Austin Chase ran for three long touchdowns as Gray-New Gloucester rallied from a double-digit deficit for a monumental 44-37 […]
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H.S. Football Roundup: Dalton Therrien has huge day as Oak Hill rips OOB
WESTBROOK — Leavitt erupted for three unanswered touchdowns in the second half and held off a late Westbrook rally to win its Class B South debut, 22-21. The Hornets failed to score on two visits inside the Westbrook 20 and trailed 7-0 at the break. Then quarterback Levi Craig exploded, first hitting Hunter Sirois on […]
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Football: Poland plows over Freeport
POLAND — All Ted Tibbetts could do was smile after watching his Poland Knights vanquish a scrappy Freeport team on a chilly Friday night. The Knights made quick work of the Falcons on an opening-night football game as Poland marched off with a 49-12 victory. Freeport was a handful in the first half, but time […]