MONMOUTH — Dirigo baseball defeats are so infrequent that they get taken personally, especially when the Cougars feel there were extenuating circumstances. There are no asterisks in the Heal Point standings, of course, but the absence of seniors Kaine Hutchins, Tyler Frost and Mitch Kubesh didn’t help Dirigo’s cause in a season-opening home loss to Monmouth. […]
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H.S. Football: Lewiston promotes Nicholas to head coaching post
LEWISTON — Bruce Nicholas is the same age as the retired coach, Bill County, he is replacing at the helm of Lewiston High School football. His have-clipboard, will-travel passion for youth sports has always given him a much younger image, however. And Nicholas, 56, hopes that energy will fuel what he sees as a multi-year plan […]
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Island games: Challenging to be an outlier
VINALHAVEN — Tim Kane has been around athletics all his life, but nothing compares with the sporting life on an island school. “There’s things you deal with that you don’t normally deal with at mainland schools,” said Kane, who is in his first year as Vinalhaven’s principal. “But it’s enlightening and it’s fun. It’s a […]
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Island games: Not all away games are created equal for East-West Conference teams
First up for the Buckfield Junior/Senior High School baseball team, a three-plus-hour rollick across the winding, pothole-dotted back roads of Maine. Then, a ferry. After loading the vessel, the team makes the final leg — a 75-minute ride — over western Penobscot Bay’s following seas and rolling waves to one of Maine’s largest and most […]
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High school baseball: Ramblers rip Greyhounds
But it was the Ramblers who shook off the early-morning Memorial Day weekend wake-up call, pounding out 14 hits in a 10-1 win in windy and cool conditions. Winthrop left Lisbon with a 10-2 record, while the Greyhounds fell to 10-3. Lisbon will host St. Dom’s on Tuesday and the Ramblers will face at Mt. […]
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Boys’ lacrosse: Martin a defensive catalyst for Oak Hill
WALES — Matty Martin is always looking for a new challenge, which is part of the reason the four-year Oak Hill starting goaltender was drawn to the position in the first place. Before he proved to be the Raiders’ staple between the pipes, Martin’s lacrosse career began as an attack in seventh grade. But when […]
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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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Boys’ Lacrosse: Maranacook/Winthrop continues offensive display in rout of Oak Hill
WALES — Maranacook/Winthrop peppered Oak Hill to the tune of 20 goals the first time the two teams met back on April 25 with the Raiders playing without regular starting goaltender Matty Martin. Martin was back in net for the second go round Friday, but not even the four-year Oak Hill starter could slow down the […]
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H.S. Softball: Edward Little fights back against Lewiston, 18-10
AUBURN — The team with a dozen losses wasn’t supposed to send 11 batters to the plate and score six runs in the first inning. Not that it was a complete shock, this being the second meeting of the season in the Lewiston-Edward Little softball rivalry. The Devils’ three one-run losses in the past two […]
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H.S. softball: Rebels rally past Raiders
BETHEL — They had them right where they wanted them. Telstar Regional High School softball coach Jim Lunney was trying to convince his team of that Friday. Down a run with six outs left, he wanted his Rebels to believe they were in the perfect position against Oak Hill. “We had the top of the […]