The Red Storm swipe seven bases and improve to 4-0 atop Class A South.
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.
Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Baseball: Falmouth pulls away from Noble for 5-1 win
The Navigators score three runs in the fifth to break a 1-1 tie, while Eli Cowperthwaite twirls a one-hit, 11-strikeout gem.
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Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Meet the newest Mainer on track to pitch for powerhouse Vanderbilt
Gorham High’s Wyatt Nadeau, a 6-foot-6 sophomore who throws nearly 90 mph, has attracted attention from several NCAA Division I baseball programs.
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports
South Portland grad projected as a high pick in July’s MLB draft
Hunter Owen, a 6-foot-6 left-hander, is 3-0 with a 3.33 ERA this season as a starting pitcher for Vanderbilt University.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Press Herald owner considering sale of his newspapers to new nonprofit
Reade Brower, who owns the Portland Press Herald and other daily and weekly newspapers across the state, has been in preliminary discussions with the Maine Journalism Foundation.
Posted inSports
Westbrook teen ready for opportunity with USA Hockey’s U-17 team
Carter Amico, a 6-foot-5 defenseman, is one of just four Mainers in the past quarter century to be chosen to play with the national development squad.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Varsity Maine boys’ basketball Player of the Year: Will Davies, Thornton Academy
The 6-foot-3 senior led Class AA South in scoring and assists and was third in rebounding while helping the Trojans advance to the South final.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Boys’ basketball: 2023 Varsity Maine All-State team
Our team of the state’s top players includes eight seniors and four juniors.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Kennebunk High grad has task of replacing Rams’ legendary football coach
Keith Noel, Kennebunk’s defensive coordinator the past three years, replaces Joe Rafferty, who retired in February after 44 years as the head coach.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Basketball: Four prominent head coaches retiring in southern Maine
Bob Davies and Eric Marston of Thornton Academy, Mark Karter of Gorham and Dean Plante of Old Orchard Beach combined to win more than 1,100 high school basketball games.