LISBON — A lot has happened since the last time Lisbon went head-to-head with St. Dominic Academy on April 24 in the season opener for both clubs. One thing the Greyhounds remembered from that meeting was Saints’ starting pitcher Mitch Lorenz and what he had in his arsenal. In its second go-round with Lorenz, Lisbon […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lisbon pitcher Kyle Bourget makes rapid recovery
Lisbon’s senior football quarterback and baseball pitching ace knew enough from a lifetime in sports to diagnose the injury: A torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. While the Greyhounds gutted out a playoff victory in his absence, Bourget added and subtracted numbers in his head, seeking reassurance that his high school athletic career […]
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H.S. Track: Collier shatters personal best in 300 hurdles as Lisbon sweeps MVC meet
Collier accomplished that feat Tuesday, and did so against one of the top Class C hurdlers in the state, Boothbay’s Morgan Crocker. In her first meeting of the season with Crocker, Collier ran a personal best of 49.46 seconds in the 300 as Lisbon once again swept a Mountain Valley Conference meet. “I had tougher […]
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H.S. Softball: Telstar pushes past Lisbon with late surge
LISBON — Coach Jim Lunney had his newspaper headline picked out well before the end of Telstar’s 12-3 victory over Lisbon on Monday. “Howard’s double clears the bases; Johnson drives her in,” Lunney said. That is what he told Becca Howard during a stoppage of play with no outs and the bases loaded in the […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lisbon walks off on squeeze play against Oak Hill
LISBON — With the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the seventh of a deadlocked game, there was no one Lisbon coach Randy Ridley wanted more at the plate than Austin Fournier. The Greyhound junior didn’t disappoint, dropping down a perfectly-placed bunt on a designed squeeze play to score Ryley Austin from […]
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H.S. Baseball: Dirigo wins pitching duel against Lisbon
DIXFIELD — Typically, it takes more than one hit to win a baseball game. But with Gavin Arsenault on the mound, Dirigo didn’t need a surplus of offensive production to bypass Lisbon on Monday. The Dirigo starting pitcher went all seven innings, scattering five hits while striking out 10 and walking just two in the […]
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WISCASSET — What a difference a week makes. A little over a week ago, Lisbon and Wiscasset watched as a heavy round of showers washed out the baseball field on which they were playing. The Greyhounds led, 7-0, but the game was called off in the third inning, and the teams had to start all […]
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H.S. Baseball: Monmouth takes advantage of 10 Lisbon errors, wins 6-5 in eight innings
MONMOUTH — The conditions for Monday’s MVC baseball showdown between Lisbon and Monmouth were summer. The level of play at crucial times, well, decidedly spring training. Monmouth prevailed 6-5 in eight innings at Chick Field in a walk-off situation that you might never see again, but a fitting footnote to this one. Previously undefeated Lisbon dropped […]
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H.S. Track: Lisbon’s Rogers overcoming odds as double leg amputee sprinter
Don’t tell Nick Rogers he can’t do something, because he’ll prove you wrong at every turn, whether that turn is in his personal life or on the track. The Lisbon senior sprinter has had to overcome adversity literally since birth when he was born without fully formed fibulas on both legs, a medical condition known […]
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H.S. Track and Field: Lisbon dominates first home meet in 14 years
LISBON — When Nicholas Harriman got out of class Tuesday, his immediate thought was to change into his track uniform and head to the bus for yet another road meet. It wasn’t until a fellow teammate told him there was no reason to head to the bus that it dawned on the Lisbon junior distance runner […]