FREEPORT — Throughout the season when taking a look at the Freeport High School baseball team lineup, it is easy to be a bit confused. Up and down the lineup, fans will find three sets of brothers taking up two-thirds of the Falcons’ lineup card. “I’ve known these six kids a long time,” first-year varsity coach […]
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HS Baseball: Cockburn duo pitch Freeport to B Final
STANDISH – Heath Cockburn had it going on the hill for the Freeport High School baseball team at Saint Joseph’s College on Tuesday. Through 4 2/3 innings, the junior right-hander had seven strikeouts and had held top-seeded York to just five hits and a run, holding a 2-1 lead. Still, first-year Freeport coach Kyle Goodich […]
Class C girls lacrosse: NYA wins OT thriller in Freeport, 17-16
FREEPORT — If you were looking for offense with neither team holding more than a two-goal lead at any point, Saturday’s Class C girls lacrosse quarterfinal between North Yarmouth Academy and Freeport at Joan Benoit Samuelson Track and Field was the place to be. Natalie Farrell took a pass from Helen Hamblett and scored the winning goal […]
Class B South baseball: Falcons swing their way into the B South semis
FREEPORT — To win baseball games you need to score runs. To get runs, you need baserunners, and baserunners can get on base in many ways. Freeport took advantage of six walks and a hit batter, pounding out 11 hits, including seven in a decisive five-run fifth on its way to a 10-3 victory over Wells […]
Class B Tennis Regional: Clippers put away Falcons
PORTLAND – High school tennis can be cruel. With five matches being contested at the same time at the APEX Racket and Fitness Center on Thursday, the Freeport Falcon boys were able to see the fate that was coming all around them. With Yarmouth leading on courts 1, 2 and 4, the Clippers made the Falcons’ […]
Class C boys lacrosse prelim: Freeport explodes in second half for 20-5 win
FREEPORT — Upset-minded No. 10 Lincoln Academy rolled off the bus on Wednesday and kept up with the seventh-seeded Falcons over the first 24 minutes, trailing by only two goals at the halftime break. But Freeport scored three goals in the first four-and-a-half minutes of the second half, totaling nine in the frame to pull away […]
Onto the postseason: Playoff fields set in baseball, softball, lax; tennis regionals this week
BRUNSWICK — The spring was not kind to those who love being outside, enjoying what is typically a wonderful time to live in Maine. It was wet, cold, and certainly not the type of things we like to see for the spring high school sports season. Rainouts and muddy, soft fields, certainly made it a challenge […]
HS Tennis Semifinal: Falcons fight off Rangers, 3-2
FREEPORT — Liam Gould was fighting it. He was coughing, sniffling, with the all makings of a pretty bad cold. The timing was bad, as the Freeport High School boys’ tennis player battled Greely’s Carson Bell in a Class B South semifinal match at No. 3 singles on Saturday. Down a set, Gould rallied on, coming […]
Freeport’s Cat Gould earns silver in the Class B 100
BREWER — When Anna Reny crossed the finish line of the 300-meter hurdles at the Class B state track and field championship Saturday, she was pretty sure she had set a Cony High School record. Turns out, Reny did a little better than that. With her time of 45.12 seconds, Reny set the Class B girls […]
Area roundups: Ridley earns 200th win in Lisbon’s victory
WINTHROP — DJ Douglass pitched five solid innings, and the Lisbon High School baseball team pounded out 14 hits as the Greyhounds rolled to a 10-2 Mountain Valley Conference win over Winthrop on Thursday. The victory gave Lisbon coach Randy Ridley his 200th coaching win and lifted the Greyhounds to a 15-0 mark, with Hall-Dale set […]