Jeff Gelinas does it with his offense as well as his pitching, hitting two home runs.
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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Softball Notebook: Western Class B is full of teams chasing Fryeburg
It’s early in the season but Fred Apt, coach of five-time Western Class B champion Fryeburg Academy, sees an important change for 2013. “I think the league is more well balanced than it has been in quite a few years,” Apt said after his team took close, competitive wins at Poland (2-1) and against Greely […]
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College Connections: Brunswick grad taking charge for Wheaton
Leila Mills has scored a lot of goals, but never one like this. Last Thursday, Mills — a Wheaton College junior from Brunswick — scored with a second remaining in regulation to give the Lyons an 8-7 women’s lacrosse win against Bridgewater State. “I’ve never been able to score one like that. It was really […]
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Red Storm beat ‘Wait until next time’ Riots
Scarborough romps 15-5, as South Portland elects not to use pitcher Erin Bogdanovich so early in the year.
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College Connections: Bouchard fits in at Valparaiso, she’s ‘living the dream’
Janelle Bouchard’s path to Indiana, where she’s the starting catcher on the Division I Valparaiso University softball team, began before she even reached Kennebunk High. “When I was an assistant coach at the University of Rhode Island, I first saw Janelle when she was in the eighth grade playing for her travel team in the […]
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Patriots Day 5-miler: ‘King Louie’ rules the men; Anderson repeats for women
Louie Luchini wins by more than a minute, while Meredith Anderson beats her 2012 winning time by 17 seconds.
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Red Claws need Texas two-step
Step one would be tying the series Saturday against Rio Grande Valley, step two would be taking the series.
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D-League Playoffs: A lone star not enough for Red Claws
Josh Selby’s 23-point final period couldn’t overcome a poor start and now Maine must win twice in Texas.
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College connections: High school rivals join forces to lead a lacrosse resurgence
Abby Capobianco had just taken over as head coach of Assumption College’s moribund women’s lacrosse program and Camille Auger of Kennebunk was targeted as her first key recruit. When Auger came to the Worcester, Mass., campus for her official visit, her host was former Scarborough star Lindsay Hagerman. The two didn’t know each other but […]
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Softball preview: Two programs, one penthouse
SCARBOROUGH — Scarborough High and South Portland. South Portland and Scarborough. When it comes to Western Class A softball the order doesn’t really matter. The two programs have been at the top, and figure to be there again this season. “Since we’ve been in Class A, South Portland’s been the school that’s either been in […]