Maine is home Thursday against Rio Grande Valley for the first playoff game in the club’s four-year history.
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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College connections: After brief split, Colley twins are teammates again
Growing up together in Wells, the Colley twins – Becca and Lily – were “constantly grouped together,” said Becca. So when it was time to head off to college, they decided it was time to go their separate ways. Becca in particular, “had a strong desire to get out of Maine and make my own […]
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Junior Pirates build to their best for hockey nationals
The girls’ U19 team — 14 players from nine area programs — earned the right to play in California.
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College Connections: Regan Flaherty continues on path of family’s baseball excellence
Regan Flaherty knows in the baseball world he’s still Ed Flaherty’s son and Ryan Flaherty’s little brother. That’s the way it goes when his dad has won two Division III national titles at the University of Southern Maine and his brother is fighting for a roster spot with the Baltimore Orioles. “There are always a […]
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The real sign of spring
Flowers, grass, birds singing? No, you can tell the season has changed when spring sports athletes bust out of the gym.
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Low blow quickly ends Maine fighter’s prime-time match
Home boy Marcus Davis brings Waachiim Spiritwolf to his knees, but illegally, the ruling goes.
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No more inner conflict to this born fighter
AUBURN – For the longest time, Marcus Davis felt he had to be two different people. In the cage, the mixed martial arts fighter gained international recognition as The Irish Hand Grenade, capable of exploding fists and kicks into an opponent’s face at a moment’s notice. At home he fought hard to suppress — or […]
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Lewiston’s a good home for MMA
Five shows put on by New England Fights at the Colisee have averaged more than 3,000 fans.
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College Connections: Jenni Roberts reaches goal, now wants more
Jenni Roberts is making her first trip to the NCAA women’s swimming & diving championships as a University of New Hampshire Wildcat. But the Springvale resident and 2010 Sanford High grad is no stranger to the event. Roberts was an honorable mention All-American last season in the 200 free relay for the University of Maryland […]
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College Connections: Coulombe adjusts to playing with the big girls of the ACC
Alexa Coulombe said it didn’t take long for her to figure out that basketball in the Atlantic Coast Conference was a whole new ballgame. “As soon as I subbed into games it was obvious. These girls are so much different,” the 6-foot-2 Coulombe said Wednesday, a few days after the completion of her freshman season […]