The Hawks, led by Lindsey Poirier, advance to the regional semifinals against No. 1 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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Field Hockey: York girls shut out Freeport 4-0 in playoff opener
YORK — Being a heavy favorite and with rain increasing, the last thing York High’s field hockey team wanted was to give Freeport any hope in Tuesday’s Western Class B quarterfinal. Freshman Lily Posternak sensed the urgency, battled ferociously for an early possession, then rifled a reverse stick swipe into the goal after 38 seconds. […]
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Field Hockey Notebook: Several playoff games could become upsets this week
As unheralded No. 11 seed Sanford High showed Saturday when it beat No. 6 Thornton Academy in the preliminary round, playoff upsets can and do happen in field hockey. Now the question is: Will it happen again this season? Here are three games on Wednesday that could have “upset special” attached to them. CLASS A: […]
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Field hockey: Westbrook holds off feisty Tigers
Micaela LeBeau’s early goal is enough in a 1-0 prelim win.
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College Connections: Hoxsie leads Scarborough contingent at Roger Williams
Trevor Hoxsie admits that he’s enjoying “living the life” as a senior at Roger Williams University, sharing a house that overlooks Narragansett Bay. “It’s a great location. The second you get on campus you’re taken over by it,” said Hoxsie, one of the three Scarborough High grads on a team that improved to 12-2-1 with […]
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Field hockey: York finishes perfect regular season
Simpson scores three goals as the Wildcats beat NYA, 4-0.
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Field Hockey Notebook: Westbrook’s Murphy wins 200th
WESTBROOK — Beth Murphy considered field hockey her third sport when she was an athlete at Westbrook High. It was in track and field and basketball where she won state titles (a young Lisa Blais helped, too). Murphy played basketball at the University of Maine from 1979-83 until felled by a knee injury. But once […]
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Fitzpatrick scores 6 TDs as Cheverus cruises
Joe Fitzpatrick gains 261 yards as Cheverus makes up for a loss that ended a streak.
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College Connections: Former Cape star beats injuries in her ‘remarkable journey’
One significant knee injury might cause a college athlete to rethink her desire to play a sport. A second injury to the same knee, wiping out a good chunk of a second season? Would that be pause for thought? “No, it never even crossed my mind,” Karyn Barrett said. “I just love the sport. I […]
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Field hockey: Snap goes Red Storm’s streak
Scarborough’s 29-game winning streak ends with a tie.