WOOLWICH As the playoffs approach, the Morse High School Unified basketball team thinks they have a chance to compete. Thursday they took a positive step towards the playoffs with an 86-77 victory over Leavitt at Woolwich Central School. The Shipbuilders, in their first year of Unified competition, got 16 points from Keegan Companion and 14 […]

MEXICO CITY Two of the European Tour’s hottest players brought their best golf to their first World Golf Championship. Louis Oosthuizen, a world-class player for the better part of a decade, drilled a long iron into 4 feet for eagle on the par-5 15th and had birdies on two of the short par 4s at […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin College women’s ice hockey team will take on top-seeded Middlebury in the NESCAC semifinals on Saturday afternoon. Fifth-seeded Bowdoin faces No. 1 Middlebury at 1 p.m. in the first semifinal game, while No. 3 Amherst takes on No. 2 Connecticut College in the second semifinal at 4 p.m. at Chip Kenyon Arena. […]

BRUNSWICK The Merrymeeting Bay Chapter of Trout Unlimited is excited to host its second annual Cabin Fever Reliever — March Brown Madness II! On Saturday, from 8:30 a.m.-noon at Coastal Enterprises, Inc., at 30 Federal Street, the chapter will present its own brand of cabin fever relief, “March Brown” Madness II, this year with Bill […]

PORTLAND Both the boys and girls basketball teams from Greely came away with victories over Hampden Academy in the Class A State Championship Thursday night at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. A free throw by Shane DeWolfe with 5.5 seconds left gave the Rangers a 47-46 victory,. Zach Brown led Greely with 16 points, and […]

WELLESLEY, Mass. — Sophomore Liv Sandford, and juniors Katie Allard and Sydney Howard all notched hat tricks and career-highs in scoring as the Bates College women’s lacrosse team rolled to a 21-5 non-conference victory at Wellesley College on Wednesday. Sandford tallied four goals, tripling her career total, and added an assist, three ground balls, two […]

BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College sophomore David Reynolds has been named Second Team All- New England Small College Athletic Conference in men’s basketball awards handed out by the conference on Wednesday. Reynolds enjoyed a breakout campaign this winter, leading the Polar Bears in scoring at 15.4 points. His long-distance shooting was the key to his emergence, […]

PHILADELPHIA Justin Williams scored Ward stopped 21 shots and the Carolina Hurricanes snapped a six-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night. The Flyers had been the hottest team in hockey, winners of six straight overall and riding a 10-0-2 streak for their longest span without a regulation loss […]

CLEVELAND J. J. Redick scored 22 points, Joel Embiid had 17 points and 14 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers delivered an in-person sales pitch to LeBron James by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-97 on Thursday night to end an 11-game losing streak against the Eastern Conference champions. Ben Simmons scored 18 and Dario Saric 16, […]