AUGUSTA When Mountain Valley Conference rival Dirigo High School of Dixfield was announced as the Class C cheering state runner-up Saturday, the Lisbon Greyhounds couldn’t predict who had defeated the Cougars. Certainly it wouldn’t be them, fourth-place finishers at the Western Maine Class C championships two weeks earlier. So it was more than a modest […]

BRUNSWICK The outlook coming into Saturday might have been described as confident and hopeful. The Lewiston High School indoor track teams entered the KVAC championships at Bowdoin College with varying degrees of optimism. The boys’ team was confident in its potential for a championship showing. The girls were hopeful to have a good day as […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick High School boys basketball team completed its Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference regular season with a 72-47 victory over Lawrence on Friday. Pearson Cost led the balanced Brunswick lineup with 15 points, including two 3-pointers. Thomas Hanson had 14 points, Taran Payne 10, Alex Bandouveres nine and Josh Dorr eight. The Dragons […]

LEWISTON — The Bowdoin College women’s track and field team placed second at the Maine State Championship on Friday night at Bates College. The Polar Bears totaled 171.5 points to trail only Bates (230). Southern Maine (146), Colby (132.5), Husson (26) and St. Joseph’s (15) rounded out the team scores. Bowdoin had a pair of […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 29 points to lead the Thunder to a 131-108 win Sunday over the Los Angeles Clippers, who were without All-Star Blake Griffin. The Clippers announced before the game that Griffin will be out indefinitely because of a staph infection in his right elbow. Without him, the Clippers fell […]

BOSTON (AP) — Four games, four wins and rare season sweep for the Montreal Canadiens over the Boston Bruins. Carey Price made 34 saves to lift the Canadiens to a 3-1 victory Sunday night, giving Montreal wins in all four meetings this season. “There’s been a lot of matchups between those two teams in the […]