TURNER — What Leavitt football has accomplished the past six years isn’t unprecedented in the Maine high school history books. It’s close, however. And when you consider all the variables and complications that go into it, it’s nearly inconceivable, if not impossible. The Hornets have won five regional championships in six years, adding the latest […]
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Class C West Football Championship: Leavitt locks down Wells, 14-9
TURNER — November in Maine doesn’t favor the kind of football offense that traditionally prevails in video games and summer 7-on-7 drills. When Leavitt backs and receivers saw a cadre of volunteers taking shovels and snow blowers to Libby Field on Friday morning, surely they suspected it would take a titanic defensive effort Saturday afternoon […]
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Class B East Football Championship: Brunswick bashes Lawrence, 48-19
BRUNSWICK — Bessey. Bandouveres. Brunswick. Beast of B-East. If that all has a nice ring to it, five touchdowns in their first five possessions of the Pine Tree Conference football championship Friday night sounded even better to the Dragons. Junior Will Bessey scored two of those and had his second monster game of the playoffs […]
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H.S. Football: Lisbon High School’s Philbrick a blocking, tackling machine
LISBON — In Class D football, guards get moved to tailback and fullbacks are shuffled to tackle, sometimes within the confines of the same, 48-minute game. Lisbon followers have watched Coach Dick Mynahan move the pieces on his chess board for parts of four decades. He doesn’t get second-guessed loudly around these parts, but some […]
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Head to Head: By day or by night?
Oakes: Well, we’re both parents and we’re both in the newspaper business, so right off the bat everyone should know we’re not bound by the clock or the calendar. I have lost track of how many semi-lucid, electronic conversations you and I have participated in at 1 a.m. And as for nights and weekends, what […]
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Class C West Championship: Explosive offenses from Leavitt and Wells collide in Turner
TURNER — This fall’s first football encounter between Leavitt and Wells came down to two streaky offenses, two opportunistic defenses, one intentionally allowing the other to score, and the other team fighting furiously not to let the other return the favor. Leavitt held on for a 26-19 road victory Oct. 17, the biggest speed bump […]
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H.S. Football: No secrets when Oak Hill Raiders, Lisbon Greyhounds meet
The first go-round was a controlled scrimmage. The second, a glorified exhibition, as it had no bearing on playoff positioning. This time, the Class D West championship lingers in the balance when defending state champion No. 3 Oak Hill (9-1) travels to No. Lisbon (8-1) for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff at Thompson Field. “I don’t […]
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H.S. Football Top 10: Elite teams haven’t slipped in November
1. Thornton 8-1 (Last week: 1) Trojans stopped Scarborough’s five-game winning streak with a 50-burger, highlighted by three TDs in first 10 minutes. 2. Windham 8-1 (2) Eagles’ supporters a little peeved that their team beat Cheverus 35-7 but has to travel to the Stags for regional final. 3. Cheverus 8-1 (3) If Stags’ 35-6 […]
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H.S. Football: Elwell’s comeback brings Raiders’ title defense in line
WALES — The timeline or graph of Connor Elwell’s all-over-the-charts junior football season at Oak Hill can be plotted around three checkpoints. Each of them labeled, “Lisbon.” Elwell broke his left foot during the Raiders’ first preseason scrimmage against the Greyhounds. It was a two-month sentence that involved crutches, a walking boot, water bottles, weights, […]
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Oakes’ football forecast for Nov. 14-15
Class A East: Cheverus 28, Windham 21 Class A West: Thornton 35, Bonny Eagle 26 Class B East: Brunswick 34, Lawrence 27 Class B West: Marshwood 38, York 14 Class C East: Winslow 29, Waterville 28 Class C West: Leavitt 30, Wells 21 Class D East: MCI 22, Bucksport 12 Class D West: Oak Hill […]