BRUNSWICK — The high school soccer semifinals have arrived, along with the field hockey state championships, with a busy slate of contests scheduled for today and Saturday.
In Western Maine Class B today, the top-seeded Morse (13-1- 1) girls host No. 4 Poland (8-5-2) at 3 p.m. on Tainter Field. Also, the Western C’s No. 1 Lisbon Greyhound girls (13-1-1) are in action today at 2:30 p.m. against No. 4 Waynflete (9-2-4), and both the boys and girls Richmond teams are on the field for Western D contests, with the topseeded Bobcat (13-0-1) girls hosting fourth-seeded Buckfield (8-7) at 2 p.m. and the No. 1 and undefeated Richmond boys (14-0) entertaining rival and No. 4 Greenville (8-7) at 3 p.m.
Postseason contests continue on Saturday, highlighted by a clash of “Battle of the Bridge” rivals as fourth-seeded Brunswick (9-4-2) visits No. 1 Mt. Ararat (13-1-1) at Topsham in an Eastern A showdown at 5 p.m. The Eagles were 1-0-1 against the Dragons during the regular season.
In Western C football action, seventh-seeded Lisbon (4-4) and head coach Dick Mynahan head to Oak Hill, the No. 2 seed, on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. The host Raiders are coached by former Mynahan assistant Stacen Doucette, giving fans a battle between teacher and student. Oak Hill won the regular season meeting at Lisbon Falls 21-14 on Sept. 29.
The Lisbon field hockey team has reached its first ever Class C state championship and will take on Eastern C champ Winthrop at 2 p.m. at the University of Maine. Julie Wescott’s Greyhounds sport a 16-0-1 mark, while Winthrop is 15-1-1.
Bowdoin College has playoff action as well. The third-seeded Polar Bears field hockey team, 12-2, is home to No. 6 Williams (6- 9) at 1 p.m., while the Bowdoin women’s soccer squad, the No. 4 seed with a 10-3-1 mark, entertains No. 5 Hamilton (9-4-1) at 12:30 p.m. Also, the men’s soccer team is seeded fifth at 8-4-2 and visits No. 4 Tufts (8-3-3) at 1:30 p.m. Bowdoin lost to the Jumbos on Wednesday 2-1.
And, in cross country action, Bowdoin hosts the NESCAC Championships, with the men running in an 8K at 11 a.m., and the women following with a 6K at noon.
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