DIXFIELD — A word of warning to Oak Hill or any other opponent trying to trick the Dirigo secondary. They may be junior-dominated, but the Cougars’ defensive backs are fully grown men when it comes to keeping trade secrets. “We’ve got a lot of experience in our secondary with me, Mike (Casey) and Gavin (Arsenault),” […]
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College Football: Bates kicks Bowdoin for CBB title
Between grind-it-out offense, jarring defense and timely special teams. Bates can share the credit for Saturday’s 10-7 football triumph over Bowdoin at Whittier Field in Brunswick. One thing the Bobcats don’t have to share, for the second time in three years, is the coveted CBB title. Bates (3-4) won it outright by sweeping in-state rivals […]
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Class D West Football Quarterfinal: Raiders outlast rain, Black Bears, 7-6
WALES – Maine high school football’s two great equalizers, foul weather and the double wing offense, bolstered big, burly Maranacook’s Class D West playoff upset hopes most of Saturday afternoon. Oak Hill’s two table-tilters, Alex Mace and Kyle Flaherty, ultimately were too much to stop. Mace rushed for 101 of his game-high 118 yards in […]
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High school football: Old Orchard Beach ends Winthrop/Monmouth’s season
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Winthrop football coach Dave St. Hilaire used a few tricks and nearly treated his Ramblers to a victory in a Class C football quarterfinal game on a cold Halloween night. The Ramblers faked a punt that led to a touchdown and used a halfback pass to reel off a 95-yard touchdown […]
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High school football: No. 2 Dirigo thumps No. 7 Boothbay in West C quarterfinal
DIXFIELD — Dirigo kept its nose to the grindstone in a Western Class D quarterfinal Friday night at Harlow Park, methodically putting together a 34-12 win over Boothbay to advance to the regional semifinals. The Cougars still expect more, though they continue to improve. Senior Tyler Frost rushed for 128 yards and scored two touchdowns […]
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Class C West Football Quarterfinal: Wells runs wild on Poland
WELLS — Chris Carney rushed for three touchdowns, giving him school single-season records of 28 scores and more than 1,700 yards, leading No. 3 Wells to a 55-28 Class C West football quarterfinal win Friday night over No. 6 Poland at Warrior Memorial Field. Wells (7-2) will travel to Spruce Mountain (8-1) in the semifinals […]
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Class C West Football Quarterfinal: Hornets handle hungry Lakers
TURNER — For all the talk this week about forfeits and the need for 1-versus-8 playoff games, Lake Region showed up at Libby Field on Friday night carrying the back pages of the playbook inside the kitchen sink. The Lakers threw it all at top-seeded Leavitt and stayed within reach for almost a half. But […]
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High school football: No. 4 Bangor avenges late-season defeat, topples No. 5 Oxford Hills
BANGOR — Consider it a return to normalcy for the Bangor High School football team. Dane Johnson rushed for 129 yards and two touchdowns, and the Rams’ defense shut out Oxford Hills of South Paris until the game’s final seconds Friday night as Bangor secured a 24-7 victory over the Vikings in an Eastern Maine […]
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Class C West Football Quarterfinal: Spruce Mountain squelches Mountain Valley
There’s Wells at home next week, and potentially a trip to Leavitt two weeks down the highway. But after last Saturday’s 28-14 loss to the Hornets – one in which the Phoenix lost out on an undefeated regular season and home field advantage – how they handled Halloween Night against the Falcons was a good […]
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High school football playoffs: Messalonskee ends Mt. Blue’s season in East B quarterfinals
OAKLAND — A lot can change over the course of a season and no one learned that lesson harder than Mt. Blue on Friday. Mt. Blue got the better of Messalonskee when the two teams met three weeks into the season in Farmington. The Eagles returned the favor on their home field, hammering the Cougars […]