Cape Elizabeth running back Ryan Weare, left, gets tackled by Gardiner defensive back AJ Chadwick during the Class C South title game Friday in Cape Elizabeth. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) Cape Elizabeth’s Ryan Weare gets up just after Gardiner’s Nate Malinowski, left, and Blaise Tripp tackled him just over the end zone during the Class C […]
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Skowhegan blanks Lawrence to win B North football title
Skowhegan’s Cameron Barnes (83) evades a tackle by a Lawrence defender during the Class B North championship in Skowhegan on Friday. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) Lawrence High School quarterback Braden Ballatd (19) drops back to hand the ball off against Skowhegan during the Class B North championship in Skowhegan on Friday. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) […]
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Football at Fenway will be ‘kind of surreal’ for UMaine players, coaches
DeShone Kizer takes a snap as the Notre Dame quarterback against Boston College on Nov. 21, 2015, at Fenway Park in Boston, home of the Red Sox. The University of Maine football team takes on UMass on Saturday at Fenway Park. (AP file photo) Jason Matovu grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 20 minutes from […]
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Bates football: Litchfield's Flaherty finds role with Bobcats
Bates junior Kyle Flaherty, an Oak Hill High School graduate, charges upfield against Trinity earlier this season. (Theophil Syslo/Bates College) Late in the third quarter against Tufts, Bates diveback Kyle Flaherty took a handoff and charged up the middle for a touchdown, It was only a 2-yard run, but Flaherty was finally back in the […]
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Central Mainers producing for nationally ranked Husson football
Husson kicker Devin Pickett prepares to attempt a field goal as Luke Washburn, front, prepares to block a defender during a game earlier this season in Bangor. Photo by Husson athletics BANGOR — Devin Pickett took a few steps back, waiting for the snap. He patiently waited for the ball to be placed on the ground. […]
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Bobcat Beat: Bates football wants to finish on high note
Bates defensive back Jon Lindgren flies to attempt to make a tackle during the Bobcats’ win over Bowdoin last week. Lindgren was named NESCAC defensive player of the week. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) The CBB trophy now claimed, it’s time for the Bates College football team to finish on a high note. “We’re rolling now. […]
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With playoff hopes dashed, UMaine football team sets sights on Fenway game
University of Maine receiver Micah Wright is taken down by Delaware defenders K.C. Hinton and Nasir Adderley during Saturday’s gameat Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland. (Carl D. Walsh/Portland Press Herald) The University of Maine football team’s slim NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoff hopes were dashed by Saturday’s 31-17 loss to Delaware at Portland’s Fitzpatrick Stadium. But […]
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Richard B. Marshall
PORTLAND — Richard Barrak Marshall, 85, of Portland, formerly of Farmington, died in the comfort of his home, surrounded by family on Saturday morning, Oct. 28. He was born in North Providence, R.I., on April 4, 1932, a son of James and Eva (Lister) Marshall. He was a 1950 graduate of Gould Academy where he was […]
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H.S. football: The state of 'Local 14'
For the first time since 2001, the Sun Journal won’t have one of our “local” teams to cover in a state championship game. The final five of the 14 teams (including Class E Telstar) that we cover regularly from our palatial Park Street newsroom and gridirons across the Androscoggin-Oxford-Franklin country region bowed out last Friday […]
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College football: Delaware upends Maine in Portland
Micah Wright gambles on punt returns for the University of Maine. Coach Joe Harasymiak has had to accept it. Saturday, it proved costly. With the score 17-17, Wright tried to field a low kick within his own 5. He fumbled and Colby Reeder of Delaware returned it for a touchdown. “It was obviously the difference […]