DIXFIELD — What we know after a blustery Monday afternoon at Harlow Park is that Oak Hill baseball is back, and that Dirigo hasn’t gone anywhere. A weird Mountain Valley Conference contest marked by base-running blunders in both directions ended with the two-time defending Class C champion Cougars on top, 4-2, and with both clubs […]
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High School Notebook: Knights’ perfect start about to be tested
The Poland softball team will get tested early with two key matchups this week. The Knights play at Fryeburg Monday and then host Gray-New Gloucester Wednesday. The Raiders were in the regional final two years ago and lost to Greely last year in the semifinals. The Patriots reached the regional final last spring and lost […]
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H.S. softball: Theriault’s season to remember
POLAND – Lindsay Theriault isn’t counting down the days to the end of her athletic career, but the Poland senior knows her days are numbered. “I’ve been thinking about it,” said Theriault. “That’s a big motivation.” Theriault has been a staple in three sports at Poland. Between soccer, basketball and softball, she’s invested a lot […]
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H.S. Baseball: Greyhounds trample Wolverines
LISBON — Lisbon High School senior hurler Kyle Bourget remembered the two starts he had against Wiscasset last season. Both were losses, and the Greyhounds found themselves on the outside looking in come Western Maine Class C postseason time. Bourget didn’t allow history to repeat itself in his team’s Mountain Valley Conference season opener. The […]
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H.S. softball: Rough start for Red Eddies
AUBURN — The Edward Little softball team knew it would have a pretty good measuring stick early in the year to gauge the rest of its season by. The Red Eddies not only played the defending Class A state champions from Scarborough in the preseason but also hosted the defending Eastern A title winners in […]
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H.S. Baseball: Messalonskee wins chess match with Lewiston
LEWISTON — Sometimes you play the percentages, and sometimes the percentages play you. Leading 2-1 and embroiled in a fifth-inning jam Friday afternoon, Lewiston went by the book and walked two of Messalonskee’s most vaunted hitters, Jake Dexter and Zach Mathieu, with first base open. Each time, however, a game-of-inches base hit by Jonathan Wilkie […]
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Boys’ lacrosse Mtn. Valley 5, Mt. Blue 0 BETHEL — Coyote Freeman made 10 saves Thursday afternoon, leading Mountain Valley to a 5-0 shutout of Mt. Blue in Class B KVAC boys’ lacrosse. The game was played at Gould Academy due to wet field conditions in Rumford. Mountain Valley (1-0) scored two goals in a […]
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H.S. boys’ lacrosse: Brunswick too much for EL
AUBURN — Down by a pair of goals Thursday, the Edward Little boys’ lacrosse team had the chance to turn the tide. Brunswick had three players in the penalty box and the Red Eddies had ample opportunity to seize momentum and close the gap just before halftime. That’s not how it played out for Edward […]
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H.S. softball: Skowhegan pounds Oxford Hills
PARIS — It wasn’t the matchup most teams would like to open a season. The Oxford Hills softball team faced the defending Eastern A champions from Skowhegan Wednesday, and the Indians showed they hadn’t missed a beat since last spring. Skowhegan broken open a 1-1 tie with seven runs in the third and never looked […]
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H.S. Baseball: Emerson’s 2-hit gem leads Lewiston past Hampden, 1-0
If Eddie Emerson exhibits the same control and velocity his left arm wielded Wednesday at Deschenes Field, however, Lewiston will be a nightmare every fourth day in May and June, too. Emerson tossed a two-hit, 11-strikeout, 80-minute masterpiece in a 1-0 season-opening KVAC triumph over Hampden. “I felt pretty good in the bullpen,” Emerson said. […]