FAIRFIELD — The Mt. Ararat High School softball team rallied for seven runs in the seventh, but came up just short 8-7 in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference loss to the Lawrence Bulldogs (3-8) on Friday. Lawrence scored two runs in the first, one in the second and five more in the third for an […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Portland Sea Dogs (34- 16) used a Blake Swihart blast to break a tie in the sixth and held on for a 6-3 EasternLeague win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (17-33) Monday afternoon at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. Scott Copeland worked into the sixth for the Fisher Cats, but was […]

LIVERMORE FALLS With a bare-bones roster of nine players, Wiscasset has already shown resilience this season. Coming back from three runs down in the seventh against a Spruce Mountain team two classes above it, then snuffing out Spruce’s own comeback bid on a bang-bang play at the plate, Wiscasset showed it isn’t just fighting for […]

FREEPORT The Freeport High School baseball team came into Friday’s Western Maine Conference matchup with a lot of confidence against Poland, Western Maine Class B’s top-ranked team. Earlier in the season, the Falcons had beaten Poland, 5-3 in arguably their best performance of the season. Prior to the game, Freeport coach Bill Ridge told his […]

OAKLAND — Messalonskee scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to rally for an 8-7 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference win over Brunswick on Friday. Johnathan Wilkie’s sacrifice fly scored the tying run and the Eagles (9- 2) took the lead when Caleb Bean reached on an error. Jake Dexter doubled and singled […]

FREEPORT — The host Falcons improved to 7-2 Saturday with a7-6 Western Maine Conference win over Greely (3-5). Freeport led 2-0 at the half, but the Rangers tied the game three times in the second half. Deadlocked 6-6, the Falcons tallied the game-winning goal with 18 seconds remaining. Meredith Broderick led Freeport with three goals […]

PARIS (AP) — Stan Wawrinka lost his first Grand Slam match since becoming a major champion, falling 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 to 41st-ranked Guillermo Garcia Lopez of Spain in the first round of the French Open on Monday. The Australian Open champion had 61 unforced errors on center court and won only 54 percent of […]