BUCKSPORT The clock hadn’t struck 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon but the wrestling mats already were being rolled up at Jewett Gymnasium. It had been a long day as competitors representing 18 different Class B and Class C wrestling programs battled at the annual Penobscot Valley Conference championship meet. Yet darkness hadn’t fully set in outside […]

BRUNSWICK The high school basketball season is nearing its completion, with one week remaining before tournament time. Girls Kelly LaFountain’s Mt. Ararat Eagles went through big struggles recently, dropping three straight games to Mt. Blue, Edward Little and Oxford Hills. Wins over Erskine Academy and Skowhegan seem to have the Eagles pointed in the right […]

TOPSHAM — The Mt. Ararat High School freshman boys basketball team picked up two recent wins. The 10-4 Eagles beat Skowhegan 69-33, with quarterly leads of 18-0, 42-7 and 55- 22. Alex LaFountain had 12 points, while Eli Timberlake and Eric Segars got 10 each, and Garrett Bolduc was a top rebounder. Skowhegan’s Will Stinson […]

BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College men’s and women’s squash teams will compete in the 2013 New England Small College Athletic Conference Tournament scheduled for this weekend at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. The sixth-seeded Bowdoin women will open with a firstround match against Tufts tonight at 7 p.m. The fifthseeded Bowdoin men received a first-round […]

CLINTON, N.Y. — Hamilton College swimmers and divers finished first in six events, but the Continentals lost 161- 139 against Union College in a dual meet at Hamilton’s Bristol Pool on Jan. 26. Ian Nichols of Freeport was second in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.84) and the 200 breast (2:20.42) The winning 400 free relay finished […]

BATH — The Bath Area Family YMCA is scheduled to host its sixth annual triathlon event on June 2. The Bath Area YMCA’s triathlon, dubbed the “Y-Tri,” will consist of a 525-yard swim in the YMCA pool, followed by a 10-mile bicycle race along Bath roads, and ending with a 5K (3.1 miles) run through […]

Phil Mickelson thought his 25-footer for a 59 was going in. So did caddie Jim Mackay, playing partners Jason Dufner and Rickie Fowler, and the fans packed around the ninth green at TPC Scottsdale. Lefty even pointed his putter at the cup and started walking toward the hole, ready to celebrate golf’s magic number. Then, […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — David Lee finished an assist short of a triple-double, Klay Thompson scored 27 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Dallas Mavericks 100-97 Thursday night. Lee had 15 points, a seasonhigh 20 rebounds and nine assists, and Jarrett Jack scored 13 points, including two free throws with two seconds left […]

BOSTON (AP) — Thomas Vanek stood in front of the Boston net, his back to the goal, as long as he could before a hit from Andrew Ference sent him flying. Even as he fell, he got enough on the puck to set up Tyler Ennis for a goal. “That pass to Ennis was really […]