WINTHROP The depth as a result of the Winthrop and Monmouth football merger paid off for the Ramblers on Saturday. The Winthrop/Monmouth contingent outlasted Lisbon, taking home a 14-8 victory Saturday in a slugfest at sun-soaked Maxwell Field. The game was originally scheduled to be played on a cool evening the night before, but issues […]

BATH The McMann Field Complex was ready, and the Morse High School boys soccer team stepped onto its new turf field ready to start a new positive chapter. Unfortunately, the Winslow Black Raiders had other ideas, scoring early and often in a 7-0 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B victory on a chilly Friday night. […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Frank Gore scored a goahead, 1-yard touchdown with 5:47 remaining, Colin Kaepernick threw for a career-high 412 yards and three touchdowns, with 13 completions to Anquan Boldin, and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 34-28 on Sunday. Boldin had 208 yards receiving in a spectacular San Francisco debut […]

BREWER — Lucas McCue rushed for a 116 yards in the first half, and the defense held Brewer to under 100 total yards as the Brunswick High School football team rolled to a season-opening 47-2 victory over the Witches on Friday in Eastern Maine Class B play. Brunswick (1-0 and slated to visit 0-1 Gardiner […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fussing with her skirt and flubbing her shots, Serena Williams was troubled in the U.S. Open final by the swirling air and the strong play of Victoria Azarenka. After one miss, Williams declared, “I can’t play in this wind.” After blowing a big second-set lead, Williams chucked her racket toward the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Clay Buchholz is ready to rejoin the Boston Red Sox rotation after missing three months with a strained neck. The right-hander said he threw about 30 pitches in a routine bullpen session Sunday at Yankee Stadium, his final hurdle before starting Tuesday night at Tampa Bay. Struggling left-hander Felix Doubront will […]

RICHMOND — Kelsea Anair had four goals and Amber Loon chipped in three as the Richmond High School girls soccer team opened defense of their state Class D championship with a 15-0 East-West Conference victory over Valley on Friday. Merenda Martin and Haley Murphy added a pair of goals each, and Sara Wright, Autumn Acord, […]

LISBON FALLS — Nichole Jones tipped home a shot from Michaela Bedell with 20:33 remaining in regulation as the defending Class C state champion Lisbon High School field hockey team played to a 1-1 Mountain Valley Conference deadlock with Spruce Mountain on Friday in season-opening action. The Phoenix (0-0-1) jumped on top 1-0 on a […]

OAKLAND — Freshman Cole Guerin scored his first high school goal as the Mt. Ararat High School boys soccer team opened with a 3-0 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference win against Messalonskee on Saturday. Robbie Small staked Mt. Ararat (1-0, slated to host Lewiston tonight at 6 p.m.) to a 1-0 halftime lead, with Chris Pepin […]