Lisbon’s Isaiah Thompson runs the balls down the field into Oak Hill’s Hill’s defense during Saturday afternoon’s football game at Oak Hill High School. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) WALES — Lisbon has been in more close games than coach Chris Kates would prefer, but the Greyhounds showed in Saturday’s season finale at Oak Hill that they […]
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H.S. football: Week 8 staff picks
RANDY WHITEHOUSE (68-14) Lewiston at Edward Little Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale at Mountain Valley Gray-New Gloucester at Poland Leavitt at Gardiner Spruce Mountain at Madison/Carrabec Oxford Hills/Buckfield at Windham Mt. Blue at Skowhegan Dirigo at Telstar Lisbon at Oak Hill WIL KRAMLICH (66-16) Lewiston at Edward Little Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale at Mountain Valley Gray-New Gloucester at Poland Leavitt at Gardiner […]
Game of the Week: Greyhounds, Raiders renew no-nonsense rivalry
Lisbon quarterback Lucas Francis scores Lisbon’s first touchdown of a 20-14 win over Oak Hill last year. (Sun Journal file photo) Any self-proclaimed high school football connoisseur who hasn’t sampled the Lisbon-Oak Hill rivalry isn’t truly a connoisseur. It’s not as celebrated as the city rivalries, and documentary filmmakers haven’t chronicled it. That seems fitting […]
Weekend Blitz and top 10: Plenty of good matchups for final week
Lewiston (2-5) at Edward Little (3-4) Friday, 7 p.m. A rivalry so good they’ve already decided to play the sequel next week. Oxford Hills (5-2) at Windham (0-6) Friday, 7 p.m. Vikings have little to play for except rebounding from last week’s loss. For Eagles, this is essentially their playoffs. Mt. Blue (4-3) at Skowhegan […]
H.S. roundup: Buckfield girls' soccer earns rare win over Richmond
BUCKFIELD — Molly Bourget scored the only goal Buckfield needed for an 1-0 East/West Conference girls’ soccer victory over Richmond on Tuesday. The win is the Bucks’ first over the Bobcats’ in more than 10 years. Bourget’s goal came with 15 minutes remaining in the game. Hannah Shields and Julia Dow set up the score. […]
C South field hockey quarterfinal: Dirigo tops Lisbon in overtime
DIXFIELD — When the Dirigo High School field hockey team defeated Lisbon, 6-0, in an early season Mountain Valley Conference matchup, Cougars coach Gretchen Curtis knew if there was a second meeting, her good friend Julie Petrie’s Greyhounds were likely going to be better. Curtis was on point. She watched her third-seeded squad fight through […]
Lisbon's Schlotterbeck, Monmouth girls race to MVC cross country titles
AUGUSTA — Prospects for a third straight Mountain Valley Conference championship appeared distant when the Monmouth Academy girls cross country team opened the season this fall. But the Mustangs came together quickly, integrating five new runners into their top seven. They won all their MVC meets this season and Saturday at the University of Maine […]
H.S. roundup: Eddies earn clutch football win over Red Riots
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Edward Little (3-4) overcame a 14-0 halftime deficit, then capped a frantic last-minute drive with a touchdown and conversion with 5.1 seconds remaining to beat South Portland (1-6) on in football action Friday night. South Portland broke a 14-14 tie on a 12-yard run by Anthony Poole with 1:18 remaining, but […]
Weekend Blitz and Top 10: Some ultimate matchups in season's penultimate week.
Portland (5-1) at Oxford Hills (5-1) Friday, 7 p.m. Vikings have plenty of incentive to refocus for Bulldogs after beating Bonny Eagle. Scarborough (4-1) at Lewiston (2-4) Friday, 7 p.m. Blue Devils’ reward for back-to-back wins is a defending state champion coming off of its first loss since this time last year. Edward Little (2-4) […]
H.S. football: Week 7 staff picks
RANDY WHITEHOUSE (58-12) Scarborough at Lewiston Maranacook at Dirigo Mtn. Valley at Wells Madison/Carrabec at Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale Edward Little at South Portland Leavitt at Morse Yarmouth at Gray-New Gloucester Oak Hill at Spruce Mountain Portland at Oxford Hills/Buckfield Messalonskee at Mt. Blue Poland at Lisbon Telstar at Traip WIL KRAMLICH (56-14) Scarborough at Lewiston Maranacook at […]