TOPSHAM — Team members and parents clapped and cheered Thursday after the School Administrative District 75 school board voted unanimously to change the status of the Eagles Girls Hockey Club to a high school varsity sport. Eagles coach Ron Hutchins stood before the school board with half the members of the girls hockey club to make […]
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UMaine ousted
WORCESTER, Mass. — The University of Maine men’s ice hockey season came to an end on Saturday evening at the DCU Center as the Black Bears fell 5-2 to Minnesota Duluth in the opening round of the NCAA Regionals. The Black Bears end the season at 23-14-3, while Duluth improved to 25-9-6. Spencer Abbott and […]
McCabe notches career lacrosse win No. 219
CLINTON, N. Y. — Head coach Tom McCabe became the winningest coach in Bowdoin lacrosse history on Saturday afternoon as the Polar Bears built a big first half lead and held off Hamilton for a 13-9 victory. The 15th- ranked Polar Bears improved to 4-1 (2-1 NESCAC), while the Continentals fell to 1-4 and remained […]
Tiger wins again
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods hit so many great shots that he couldn’t single one out as the best. Winning was as sweet as ever, even after a PGA Tour drought that stretched over 923 days and 27 tournaments. The best part about posing with the trophy at Bay Hill? The conversation was back on golf, […]
UConn storms past Penn State, 77-59
KINGSTON, R. I. ( AP) — Bria Hartley scored 20 points to lead a balanced Connecticut offense and help the topseeded Huskies beat fourthseeded Penn State 77- 59 on Sunday in the Kingston Regional semifinals. The Huskies’ stellar defense stymied a high-powered Nittany Lions offense that averaged 87.5 points in the first two games of […]
Stewart wins rainshortened Fontana
FONTANA, Calif. — When dark clouds ominously obscured majestic Mount Baldy north of Auto Club Speedway early in Sunday’s race, NASCAR’s drivers all realized they were probably in for a short day on a long track. Nobody did a better job racing until the raindrops fell than Tony Stewart. Stewart got his second NASCAR victory of […]
What is the biggest star?
The largest stars are so big that they may be as much as 2 billion miles across. If a star that big were in the center of our solar system, where the Sun is now, it would be so big that it would swallow up all the planets from Mercury to Saturn, including Earth. The […]
Sugg names Ashlee Stone honorees
LISBON — Philip W. Sugg Middle School Principal Kate Race and Assistant Principal Thomas Landberg congratulated the second quarter sixth, seventh and eighth grade students as recipients of the Student Achievement Ashlee Stone Memorial Awards during a recent assembly. Second quarter award winners were sixth- graders Patience Ottaviano, daughter of Mercy and Conrad Thomas, and […]