Also read: Maslah Hassan finds home on Lewiston soccer fields LEWISTON — The Lewiston High School boys’ soccer team turned heads earlier this season when, as the Sun Journal first reported in September, the Blue Devils cracked USA Today’s top 25 national boys’ soccer poll. The team has done nothing but improve against tougher competition since […]
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Boys’ soccer: Edward Little outlasts Mt. Ararat
That the game ended just 6:19 into the first 15-minute overtime might have come as a surprise, considering that in the first 170 minutes of soccer this season between the teams, each team had produced one goal and seemed destined to play longer. The eighth-seeded Red Eddies secured the 2-1 win and a trip to […]
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Class B South girls’ soccer prelim: No. 12 Fryeburg rolls past No. 5 Oak Hill
WALES — Oak Hill probably saw two or three girls’ soccer teams in the Mountain Valley Conference that could compete with Fryeburg Academy. What the Raiders probably didn’t encounter was a player who could locate corner kicks, or anything in the neighborhood of the flag that could resemble a corner kick, more accurately than Esme […]
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Girls’ soccer: No. 7 Lisbon ousts No. 10 Carrabec in Class C South preliminary round game
LISBON — Throughout the regular season, Lisbon High School girls soccer coach Jake Gentle and his Greyhounds worked tirelessly on improving a defense that entered the season having lost a ton of talent to graduation. Though the ’Hounds struggled at times this season, the defense has finally come together. Lisbon showcased that hard work on […]
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Bates Roundup: Women’s Rowing shows well at Head of Charles Regatta
While a repeat victory wasn’t in the cards for the Bates College women’s rowing team at the Head of the Charles Regatta this past Sunday, the Bobcats’ first varsity eight boat did cross the finish line in third place in the Women’s Collegiate Eight race in Cambridge, Mass. Bates’ first boat finished behind perennial top […]
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Soccer: Buckfield can’t take Richmond
RICHMOND — Buckfield girls’ soccer coach Larry Thornton knew that his team needed to start strong and play mistake-free to upend the 12-1 Richmond Bobcats in an East-West Conference regular-season finale clash on Tuesday. Problem is the Bobcats are the type of team that forces mistakes, a theme in Richmond’s 6-0 win over the Bucks […]
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Local roundup: Roadrunners pull out last-minute win
DIXFIELD — The Mt. Abram Roadrunners scored in the final minute to defeat the Dirigo Cougars 1-0 in boys’ soccer action Monday. With 46 seconds remaining, Luke Romanoski found Court Talmage, who fired the ball at the 18-yard mark. Seth Thomas made 11 saves for the clean sheet for Mt. Abram, while Randy DeRoche stopped 10 shots […]
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Boys’ soccer: Wolverines chew up Raiders
WISCASSET — It took less than a minute for the Wiscasset High School boys’ varsity soccer team to register a goal in its 4-0 win against Oak Hill on Monday. The Wolverines (4-9-1) put up 15 first-half shots and 27 total against the Raiders (0-12-2). Oak Hill goalkeeper Kaleb Morissette was kept busy, making 15 […]
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Boys Soccer: St. Dom’s pushes past Monmouth
AUBURN — The St. Dominic boy’s soccer team celebrated senior day Monday, as its 10 seniors played their final regular-season home game. And thanks to those seniors the Saints also celebrated a 3-2 win over Monmouth Academy in a key late-season Class C South tilt. “It’s huge. It’s definitely, at this point, it’s all about […]
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Girls’ soccer: Madison rallies to 2-2 tie with Monmouth
In the first half Monday at Chick Field, Emily Grandahl and Haley Fletcher lived up to that reputation and landed the Mustangs a two-goal lead. With time ticking and daylight fading, Madeline Wood and Ashley Emery answered for the Bulldogs. After two fruitless five-minute overtimes, the result was a 2-2 MVC deadlock that didn’t make […]