FARMINGTON — Interviews begin next week in the search for a new girls’ basketball coach at Mt. Blue High School. Tom Philbrick recently vacated the job he’s had the last five seasons, and the Cougars are in the process of finding a replacement. The job opened up toward the end of the summer basketball season. […]
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H.S. Football: St. Hilaire named Winthrop/Monmouth football coach
Dave St. Hilaire knew how to make one team out of two schools long before Winthrop and Monmouth combined their football programs last fall. St. Hilaire, a long-time varsity and youth coach in the area, has been named head coach of the Winthrop/Monmouth football team, pending school committee approval on Wednesday night. St. Hilaire, 49, […]
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Lobster Bowl: East airs it out for win over West
BIDDEFORD — The East opened the first half of the 25th Annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic with a surgical 85-yard scoring drive. The West opened the second half with a plodding 86-yard touchdown march. That pretty much summed it up Saturday night. The West had to work for its offense. The East could strike […]
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Lobster Bowl: Goff will be a Rambler on the field, a Mustang at heart
HEBRON — After Winthrop High School and Monmouth Academy decided to merge their football programs, a team meeting was set to get the cooperative effort off the ground. The programs weren’t just merging football players, they were merging identities, a dicey proposition for two schools that were still heated rivals in other sports. Before the […]
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25th Annual Lobster Bowl: East line ready to get defensive
HEBRON — Defensive players and coaches know the deal going into the annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic. They will have to play with one arm tied behind their backs. And regardless of how well they play, the spotlight will always be on the other side of the ball. Offense sells tickets, which is vital […]
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Lobster Bowl: Old rivals gel quickly on West O-line
HEBRON — Bayley Beaulieu was nervous at first. And he probably wasn’t the only one. After spending the last four years literally butting heads with them, suddenly he found himself lining up side-by-side with some of his former rivals. These were people he’d spent many hot September afternoons and frigid October nights trying to put […]
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Main named Mt. Blue hoops coach; Pepin resigns as baseball coach
The man charged with turning around a Mt. Blue varsity boys’ basketball program that has been in turmoil since Jim Bessey retired in 2012 knows it will take some time to make the Cougars championship caliber. But as a former member of the Chicago Cubs organization, Kevin Main knows that when it comes to rebuilding, […]
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System continues to demonstrate its resiliency
If anyone had the right to be a bit dumbfounded by the Heal point system that seeds teams for postseason play in nine different Maine high school sports, it might be Gordon Faulkingham. The Jonesport-Beals boys basketball coach led his team to a No. 1 seeding in Eastern Maine Class D during the 2011-12 season, […]
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Class D baseball: Bangor Christian prevails
BANGOR — Cody Collins waited three seasons to pitch in a state championship game. Despite working only three innings in 2014 because of an elbow injury, the senior finally received that opportunity on Saturday afternoon. Collins pitched two scoreless innings, then delivered the winning run with a single in the eighth inning to lift Bangor […]
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H.S. lacrosse: Cape Elizabeth boys, Massabesic girls capture titles
PORTLAND — Yarmouth stayed close early, but Cape Elizabeth had just enough firepower and a stifling defense to make sure that “close” was all that Yarmouth achieved. Griffin Thoreck netted a pair of goals and the Cape Elizabeth defense held Yarmouth scoreless for a span of 34:16 through the middle of the game as the […]