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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Local roundup: Richardson’s double lifts Mustangs
MONMOUTH — Hunter Richardson drove in Gage Cote and Nick Dovinsky in the bottom of the seventh with a walk-off double for Monmouth’s 5-4 victory over Hall-Dale in a MVC match-up. Richarson, who finished the day with three hits, including another double, recorded the win on the mound after coming on in relief for starter […]
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H.S.softball: Kahkonen catches on to new role for Oxford Hills
AUBURN — Annika Kahkonen thought she had been thinking about and preparing for the challenges ahead this softball season. As Oxford Hills’ veteran catcher, she had two new pitchers to work with and a crucial leadership role on her team. “I came into the season prepared to have to work with the pitchers,” Kahkonen said. […]
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H.S. Baseball: Winthrop stays unbeaten, pulls away from Mt. Abram
Hickey delivered precisely that Saturday morning with a no-frills, four-hit complete game for the Ramblers in a 9-2 MVC baseball victory over stubborn Mt. Abram. Winthrop (4-0) needed three runs in the fifth inning and five in the sixth to pull away. Hickey didn’t give up a hit until there were two outs in the […]
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Local roundup: Vikes’ West goes wild, throws no-hitter
PARIS — Bayley West fired a no-hitter Friday as Oxford Hills shut down Skowhegan, 6-0, in a MVC baseball matchup. Jake Spinhirn led the Vikings (4-1) with two hits and one RBI, while Aiden Heikkinen and Braden Bean each pounded out two hits. Nate Morris worked the first two frames for Skowhegan (1-3) and was […]
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Behind the Black & White: A night of reflection as hockey documentary premieres
AUBURN — There were cheers. There were laughs. There were tears. It was a whirlwind of emotion Friday night at St. Dominic Academy where more than 100 people showed up to witness nine months of hard work by University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth freshman and former St. Dom’s goaltender Zack Roy, a digital media major. He was […]
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Softball: Hornets swarm Panthers
TURNER — Katie DeBlois has hit her share of shots in pregame batting. But a good pop in practice never can compare with a beautiful belt in a ball game. That was the case Friday afternoon when Leavitt’s junior first baseman flipped the game around with a first-inning wallop. “During soft toss, I hit a […]
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H.S. Baseball: Dirigo leapfrogs Oak Hill on Cooper Chiasson single in sixth
WALES — Dirigo baseball is senior-led and tradition-rich, as usual. When a freshman and a first-year junior starter are the ones coming up with the big hits in a late-inning rally, good luck to the rest of the MVC. The ninth-grader, third baseman and left fielder Cooper Chiasson, capped the Cougars’ comeback with a two-run single […]
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Girls’ lacrosse: Devils overwhelm Vikings
PARIS — The Lewiston High School Blue Devils girls’ lacrosse team demonstrated its scoring depth Thursday afternoon. Junior Kristina Blais led the offensive output for the Blue Devils with five goals and two assists in the 11-2 victory over the Oxford Hills Vikings. Emily Brochu chipped in with a hat trick and two assists, while […]