The Spartans rally early in the game and get past the Red Riots to earn a semifinal matchup with top-ranked Scarborough.
Steve Craig
Staff Writer
Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.
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Football notebook: Experience balances expected routs in the playoffs
Yes, some teams will lose one-sided games, but having the chance to be on the field is worth it.
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Volleyball: Scarborough returns to Class A title game
The 2016 runner-up beats Biddeford in three games, 25-19, 25-17, 25-17.
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Football: South Portland tops Portland, 34-17
The Red Riots get four TDs from Jake Poole – two passing, two rushing – and win this year’s Battle of the Bridge.
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District was asked not to hire Gray-New Gloucester football coach who urged taunt
His predecessor warned that Duane Greaton, who instructed high schoolers to ridicule an opponent, was unqualified.
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High school football notebook: Last hurrah for Sanford’s Cobb Stadium
The Spartans are ending a 65-year run at the facility, playing their final regular-season game there Friday night before moving to a new high school.
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Drums, whoops and war paint: Team spirit, or racial mockery?
A Native American complains that Wells’ school nickname, ‘Warriors,’ fostered behavior at a football game by students and adults that is offensive to her culture.
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Scoreboard-watching can be painful at high school football games
Sixty percent of all games since 2012 have been decided by 20 or more points. Attempts to tackle the problem have had little effect.
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Football: Marshwood slips past Kennebunk, 15-12
An 80-yard run by Tommy Springer gives the Hawks a lead late in the third quarter and a key Ian Parmley interception down the stretch seals a win in a Class B South battle of unbeaten teams.
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Football: Cape wears down Fryeburg, 23-7, in Class C matchup
The Capers’ Ryan Weare rushes for two TDs and quarterback Andrew Hartel passes for over 200 yards.