The Western Class B baseball and softball finals will join the Class A games Wednesday, with Class C and D now on Thursday.
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.
Boys’ lacrosse: Scarborough back in final
The three-time defending state champs cruise past Marshwood, 14-2.
Softball: Sanford wins with a run in seventh
Two freshmen come through for Sanford, backing Sam Adams’ tough pitching.
Girls’ softball: Red Storm’s sixth-inning rally seals victory
Scarborough will host Thornton Academy in the semifinal Saturday.
Softball Notebook: Despite low seed, Clippers brimming with confidence
They’re the lowest remaining seed in any class in the high school softball playoffs, but the 12th-seeded Yarmouth Clippers were not in awe of Tuesday’s 13-2 destruction of No. 5 Mountain Valley in a Western Class B preliminary game. “They didn’t get that excited,” said Yarmouth’s first-year coach, Amy McMullin. “I thought they would have, […]
Tigers make it ‘snowball’
Softball: Massabesic jumped out to a 3-0 lead, but Biddeford’s bats and base-running create an avalanche of 14 runs.
Softball: Sanford’s Adams focused on the playoffs
Samantha Adams has provided offense and pitching for the third-seeded Spartans.
Hasson named S. Portland girls’ varsity basketball coach
Longtime assistant JV coach Lynne Hasson will replace Mike Giordano, who resigned earlier this spring after 17 years.
Softball Notebook: Falmouth’s on the way to becoming a factor in Class B
Ray Fox knew his Falmouth High softball team was making progress. The email from his predecessor confirmed it. After Falmouth’s nine-inning 5-3 win at Yarmouth, which featured back-to-back homers by senior shortstop Maddie Inlow and freshman Julia Treadwell in the ninth, Fox saw the note from John Keyes. “It said congratulations on Falmouth’s first winning […]
Softball: Scarborough’s feeling playoff fever in 9-5 win
The Red Storm top Biddeford and have a shot at the No. 1 seed in Western Class A.