Oak Hill coach Stacen Doucette lamented his team’s second-half struggles after Friday night’s game against Dirigo. The Raiders fortunately left Dixfield with a victory, but they haven’t always been so lucky. All six Oak Hill contests contain traces of struggles after halftime. Even when the Raiders were outscoring opponents or holding them even after half, […]
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MPA considering change to co-op teams
Some high school sports in Maine — including ice hockey and football — are feeling a numbers crunch, but a proposed policy revision making its way through Maine Principals’ Association committees could provide schools more flexibility in joining forces to more fully fill out undermanned rosters. The MPA’s current cooperative team policy requires the total […]
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College football: Bates falls to Wesleyan
For the third straight week, the Wesleyan University football team held its opponent to single digits as the Cardinals held back Bates in 28-7 win at Garcelon Field on Saturday afternoon. The win is Wesleyan’s 11th in a row over Bates, and the Cardinals (3-1) are now 31-4 all time against the Bobcats (1-3). Neither […]
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H.S. Football: Mountain Valley topples Poland
RUMFORD — Mountain Valley continued to run wild in Friday’s Class C South football game against Poland. The Falcons broke things open by scoring five touchdowns — including runs by Kyle Farrar, Nick Newman and Elijah Turner — in the second quarter en route to a 53-12 win at Chet Bulger Field. The Falcons have […]
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H.S. football: Edward Little drops game to Deering, 41-28
AUBURN — Edward Little dropped the ball and lost to Deering 41-28 on Friday at Walton Field. Three first-quarter fumbles led to 14 Rams points, and that was too much for the Red Eddies to overcome. “We turned the ball over early,” EL coach Dave Sterling said. “When you turn the ball over like that […]
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H.S. Football: Windham holds off Oxford Hills
In an offense averaging 200 yards a game in the air, winning the trenches led Eagles coach Matt Perkins to take what was given to them by running the ball, averaging 4.4 yards per carry as a team and beating Oxford Hills at their own game. “We like to pass, but tonight our kids were […]
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Football roundup: Lewiston scores second win
WATERBORO — Tanner Cortes hit Gordon Beckwith with a screen pass on a third-and-long in the fourth quarter and Beckwith rumbled into Massabesic territory to spark a late rally and help lift Lewiston to a 27-22 win over the Mustangs on Friday night. Shortly after Beckwith’s gain, Garrett Poussard powered into the end zone from […]
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Football: Hornets bring down Phoenix
The Hornets held off a third-quarter charge by the Phoenix (4-3), who suddenly came to life after halftime, to lock up a 26-6 victory in a football game on a cold Friday evening. “We were up against it tonight pretty good,” Leavitt coach Mike Hathaway said. “Our best lineman was out. We lost our tailback, […]
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Ramblers roll over Black Bears, finish regular season unbeaten
WINTHROP — The next time the Winthrop/Monmouth Ramblers play a football game that counts, their little brothers’ and sisters’ Halloween candy will be half gone, and their parents will be less than a week away from electing a new President of the United States. That’s why, with winless Maranacook serving as the foe, the Ramblers […]
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Football: Dragons thump Cougars
BRUNSWICK — It might have been easy for the Brunswick High School football team to overlook this game. After handing Brewer its first loss of the season last week and taking control of Class B North, the Dragons played host to a two-win Mt. Blue team on Friday night. Not so much. On his very […]