AUBURN — A slow start cost the Bath Middle School eighth-grade girls basketball team in a 31-23 setback to Auburn on Monday. The 1-2 Destroyers trailed 13-1 after a quarter, 19-8 at the half and 25-13 through three. Sierra Wallace led Bath with seven points, with Emma Gould adding five, Marissa Parks four and Mackenzie […]

NORTON, Mass. — Senior forward Sarah Fitzgerald scored eight points as the Wheaton College women’s basketball team rolled to an 88-48 win over Yeshiva University on Wednesday. Every Wheaton player scored at least two points in the win, while Yeshiva’s Rebecca Yoshor tallied a game-high 22 points in the loss. The Lyons jumped out to […]

TOPSHAM — Willie Kavanaugh and Hunter Lohr had 15 and 11 points, respectively, to lead the Mt. Ararat Middle School seventh grade boys basketball team to a 50-17 victory on Bath on Wednesday. Shayne Clark added six points and led the Eagles in rebounding. Austin Damon contributed five points, while Matthew Kearney and Sean Roberts […]

LEWISTON — Tickets for the 2014 NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship, hosted at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, will go on sale Jan. 2. The championship, which will be held March 21-22, will feature two semifinal games on March 21 at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and the national championship game Saturday at 7 […]

BATH — The Mt. Ararat Middle School team pulled away throughout for a 50-33 victory over rival Bath on Wednesday. The Eagles led 20-13 at the half. The Destroyers made a run in the third quarter to get close, but Mt. Ararat pulled away for the win. The Eagles pressured the ball, leading to turnovers, […]

BATH — Madison Savary had 11 points, leading the Morse High School girls basketball team to a 40-39 victory over Erskine Academy in recent action. Trailing 21-13 at the half, the Shipbuilders outscored the Eagles 23-6 in the third quarter for a 36-27 lead. Erskine battled back behind 12 points from Michelle Lemelin, but Morse […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. Bill Belichick saw promise and versatility watching tape of Logan Mankins play left tackle in college. The New England coach now needs his stalwart left guard to duplicate those efforts more than ever. When starting left tackle Nate Solder left the Patriots’ loss Sunday against Miami because of a concussion, his second in […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Kobe Bryant is expected to miss about six weeks with an injured left knee. The Lakers said Thursday that an MRI showed Bryant has a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau of his knee. The team said Bryant had hyperextended the knee in Tuesday night’s game at Memphis. On Thursday […]

BRUNSWICK When the names of various teams to watch in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference were tossed about during the preseason, Brunswick High School girls’ basketball likely didn’t get much mention. But people are talking about the Dragons now. With Thursday’s convincing 49- 22 win over Oxford Hills, the Dragons improved to 4-1 and are […]

FREEPORT — Chloe Smedley scored five of her 19 points in the fourth quarter as York came from behind to slip past Freeport, 47-46, in Western Maine Conference girls high school basketball play on Thursday. The Falcons jumped out to a 17-10 first-quarter lead, but the Wildcats chipped away from there, closing to 31-26 at […]