Sanford 22, Lewiston 12 Mt. Blue 23, Gardiner 20 Lake Region 22, Gray-NG 14 Cape Elizabeth 28, Mountain Valley 22 Spruce Mountain 30, Poland 16 Dirigo 28, Maranacook 6 Winthrop/Monmouth 22, Oak Hill 20 Oxford Hills/Buckfield 26, Massabesic 8 Lisbon 26, Traip 12 Falmouth 28, Leavitt 21
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H.S. Football: Weekly Top 10
The Golden Trojans finally got a push, but they were still able to fend off a Windham team that is better than its 2-2 record. 2. Bonny Eagle (4-0) (2) The Scots won another laugher, beating Massabesic on the road 52-6. Only strength of schedule has kept them from overtaking Thornton. 3. Portland (3-1) (3) […]
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H.S. Football: Running the ball can’t be stopped
The first organized game of football took place in 1869. The first legal forward pass didn’t come for another 37 years. As much as the pass has gained popularity over the last 110 years, especially over the past 10-20 years at various levels, there always has been and always will be a place in football […]
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Bob McPhee’s inspiring ride from the hospital to the Hall of Fame
Outside McPhee’s home, his good friend Ryan Palmer arrives to help the wheelchair-bound sportswriter into a van for the short drive to Dirigo, where McPhee is set to cover the game for the Sun Journal of Lewiston and the Rumford Falls Times. For the 57-year-old McPhee, this routine of covering high school sports — his […]
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Bobcat Beat: Football sees encouraging signs in tough season-opening loss
Many of the mistakes Bates head football coach Mark Harriman saw in his team’s 38-7 season-opening loss at Trinity last Saturday were typical of a young team and thus correctable. The tough assignment for Harriman, his staff and the Bobcats is to correct those mistakes before this Saturday, when they hit the road again to […]
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Walter Polky resigns as Spruce Mountain football coach
Walter Polky has resigned as varsity football head coach at Spruce Mountain High School. Polky stepped down before Tuesday’s practice. The Phoenix play a home game against Poland on Friday night. Assistant coach David Frey will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the season. The Phoenix are 2-2 and ranked sixth in […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Time to ask teams: ‘Who are you?’
One local football coach said after a game Friday night that his team was “still trying to find our identity.” Never mind that said coach and team had just won a game scoring 51 points while giving up just six. But Spruce Mountain coach Walter Polky, who uttered those words, makes a good point about […]
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College football: James Madison’s big plays sink UMaine
Junior quarterback Bryan Schor tossed a 19-yard touchdown pass to John Miller on third-and-11 1:46 into the fourth quarter to give the Dukes a 24-20 lead and, following a Raven Greene interception, Cardon Johnson dashed 52 yards to give them the game’s first double-digit lead for either team in the seesaw affair. Senior running back […]
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H.S. roundup: Oxford Hills/Buckfield football falls to Portland, 36-7
PORTLAND — Oxford Hills/Buckfield dropped its second straight football game Saturday evening in a 36-7 loss to Portland. A 20-yard touchdown pass from Issiah Bachelder to Ethan Hoyt, and a safety from an Oxford Hills snap that went out of the end zone gave the Bulldogs a 9-0 lead. That was bumped up to 16-0 […]
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College football: Bantams too much for Bobcats, 38-7
HARTFORD, Conn. — Darrien Myers racked up 234 total yards and caught three touchdown passes to lead Trinity College to a 38-7 win over Bates College in the New England Small College Athletic Conference opener Saturday. Bates, which hasn’t beaten Trinity since 1979, led 7-0 after sophomore quarterback Sandy Plashkes’ 3-yard TD run 2:10 into […]