COLLEGES
Former UMaine coach Cosgrove to receive award
Former University of Maine football coach Jack Cosgrove will be honored by the New England Football Writers Association at its annual banquet on Dec. 8.
Cosgrove will receive the George C. Carens Award for lifetime contributions to New England football. Cosgrove coached the Black Bears for 23 years and had the most wins (129) in school history, along with three conference championships and five NCAA playoff appearances. He was also a two-time second-team all-Yankee Conference quarterback for the Black Bears – and still ranks 10th on the school’s all-time list with 2,836 passing yards – and spent 34 years in Orono after joining the football program as an assistant in 1987. He became head coach on Feb. 22, 1993 and resigned after the 2015 season.
Cosgrove, a 1978 graduate of Maine from Sharon, Massachusetts, is just the third person with Maine ties to receive the award, joining Jack Bicknell (2004) and George Hale (2007).
Two seniors from this year’s 6-5 team will also be honored at the banquet.
Linebacker Christophe Mulumba Tshimanga and defensive lineman Pat Ricard were both named to the Division I all-New England team.
AUTO RACING
NASCAR: Roush Fenway Racing will be a two-car Cup program next season and its third charter will be leased to JTG Daugherty Racing.
Roush will field cars at NASCAR’s top level for Trevor Bayne and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It will mark the first time since 1995 that Roush will field only two cars. The organization once peaked at five in 2009.
SOCCER
MLS: As Minnesota United makes its long-awaited move to Major League Soccer, the franchise has pegged a coach with expansion experience to lead the charge.
United hired Adrian Heath as coach, entrusting the Englishman to be one of the team’s faces as it tries to grow the game in a state that has strongly supported soccer on the youth level.
• Sporting Kansas City signed coach Peter Vermes to a contract extension through the 2019 season.
The only person to win an MLS Cup as a player and coach with the same team, Vermes has led the organization since 2009.
TRACK
DOPING: British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill is in line to receive a third world championship gold medal after Russia’s Tatyana Chernova was stripped of the 2011 title for a doping violation.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport also stripped Chernova of her bronze medal from the 2012 London Olympics and announced a new suspension for a separate blood doping offense.
Two other female Russian runners – Yekaterina Sharmina and Kristina Ugarova – also received suspensions for biological passport violations.
HIGH SCHOOL
GIRLS’ HOCKEY: Courtney Sullivan had two goals and two assists as Greely cruised past Biddeford/Thornton Academy 8-0 at the Family Ice Arena in Falmouth.
Molly Horton had two goals and an assist for the Rangers (1-1).
Bridget Roberts and Danielle Holt each added a goal and an assist, and Ellie Schad and Lauren Gervais also scored.
Bekkah Guay stopped 17 shots she faced for the Tigers (0-2).
Mika Todd had 11 saves for Greely.
– From staff and news reports
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