Traip Academy of Kittery has self-reported the use of an ineligible football player to the Maine Principals’ Association and expects to forfeit its Class D West wins over Telstar, Maranacook and Boothbay. Athletic director Mike Roberge and football coach Ron Ross confirmed the forfeits to Seacoast Online and WGME-TV on Wednesday. The MPA has not […]
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High school roundup: Oxford Hills edges Mt. Blue in girls’ soccer
The Vikings scored first when Ally Hanley converted a relay from Hannah Mathieu for a 1-0 halftime lead. Caitlyn Kane evened the contest at 1-1 in the second stanza for the Cougars. Goalie Addie Schanz made 12 saves for Mt. Blue, while goalie Sam Bickford interrupted nine to earn the win in net for Oxford […]
Field hockey: Leavitt edges Oceanside, climbs to No. 2 in West B
TURNER — With 12 seconds remaining on a stopped clock, Kierstin Leclerc set herself over the ball after Leavitt earned a penalty stroke with time ticking away in the first half. She looked up at Oceanside goalie Zoe Billington, searched for an opening, put her head back down and awaited an official’s whistle. Given the […]
H.S. Boys’ Soccer: Falcons fly past Greyhounds, stay unbeaten
Since then? Blowouts, which explains why the Falcons were momentarily flustered when Lisbon pulled even late in the first half Tuesday afternoon. “We had that good, quick start, and then we got flat for a little bit,” Mountain Valley coach J.T. Taylor said. “I think we kind of got complacent with that goal. They’re in […]
Local roundup: Larr steers Raiders past Cougars
DIXFIIELD — Halee Larr scored a goal in each half, leading Oak Hill to a 3-0 victory over Dirigo in a girls’ soccer game Monday. The Raiders got on the scoreboard with 6:21 left in the first half when Brittany Marquis scored. Lair followed with her first goal and topped off Oak Hills’ scoring in […]
Girls’ Soccer: Mountain Valley slips past Lisbon on Klein’s hat trick
LISBON — Mountain Valley’s Sarah Klein was the closest thing to a one-girl wrecking crew Monday against Lisbon. Klein crashed the Greyhounds’ senior day parade with a hat trick, her third goal coming with just 2:26 remaining to give the Falcons a 3-2 victory. Mountain Valley fought back twice to win its sixth straight match. […]
Girls’ Soccer: Madison tips Monmouth, clinches No. 1 seed
MONMOUTH — No other Mountain Valley Conference girls’ soccer team has been able to contain both of Monmouth’s strikers, Sidney Wilson and Haley Fletcher, for most of an 80-minute game. Those vanquished rivals didn’t have Monica Ouellette and Madison Curtis simultaneously, unselfishly, roaming the defensive third. Madison does, which is why the Bulldogs will be […]
Field hockey: Mt. Blue edges Oxford Hills in OT again
For the second time, Victoria Newbill played hero in an extra session. Newbill collected a pass just outside the circle up the right side, carried the ball on the run to a tough angle, drew Oxford Hills keeper Shannon Fillebrown out of the cage and fired a shot past her to lift the Cougars to […]
H.S. Field Hockey: Eddies drop Blue Devils in regular-season finale
LEWISTON — Entering Monday’s regular-season finale, Edward Little High School’s Madison DeRosa had gone the whole year without a goal. That changed rather quickly against Lewiston, when the junior back scored twice in the opening 10 minutes as the Red Eddies defeated the host Blue Devils, 3-0, on Lewiston’s senior day to cap a series sweep […]
H.S. Soccer notebook: Spruce Mountain confirms Brown as boys’ coach
Willie Brown always thought he might be a head coach someday. He just wasn’t sure it was going to be in soccer or expecting it to be this year. The former multi-sport athlete at Livermore Falls started the year as the junior varsity coach with the Spruce Mountain boys’ team but suddenly found himself the […]