AUBURN — The 2019 American legion baseball season began with rust and mistakes for Pastime as Topsham Post entered Auburn’s Pettengil Park and left with a 10-2 season-opening win on Tuesday. Topsham pitcher Hunter Lohr pitched six innings of one-run ball and gave up just five hits. Lohr had success against Lewiston High School during the […]
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Lisbon downs Topsham junior legion, 8-1
LISBON — With the Lisbon High School baseball team just coming off a state championship, several of its players kept the cleats on and switched jerseys to the newly formed junior legion team, Post 209. Nick Ferrence, a member on the Greyhounds championship squad this past season as a freshman, threw a complete game, scattering six hits […]
Class A North Baseball: Double trouble for Eagles
AUBURN – The tale of Thursday’s Class A North high school baseball quarterfinal game between sixth-seeded Mt. Ararat and No. 3 Edward Little was told in the first two-and-a-half innings. The Eagles, looking for three consecutive playoff wins on Austin Field, hit into three double plays in the opening three frames. On the other side, the […]
Area playoff roundup: Cloutier lifts Eagles to lacrosse prelim victory over Rams
AUGUSTA — Jess Cloutier scored in the second overtime to lift the Mt. Ararat High School girls’ lacrosse team to an 11-10 victory over Cony in a Class B preliminary contest on Tuesday. The ninth-seeded Eagles improved to 6-7 and visit top-seeded Yarmouth on Friday in the quarterfinals at 6 p.m. The No. 8 Rams finished […]
HS boys lacrosse: Biddeford tops Mt. Ararat for first playoff win
BIDDEFORD — Missing six total players, including five starters, the Biddeford High School boys’ lacrosse team might have folded after Mt. Ararat took a 5-1 lead late in the first quarter. Instead, head coach Jason Martel made a defensive adjustment, inserting Nate Eugley at goaltender, then Nick McSorley scored four of his seven goals after halftime […]
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 […]
A pair of Eagles claim Class A track titles
LEWISTON — Travis Snyder said it wasn’t supposed to happen. His commanding takedown of the 11-year-old pole vault state record looked anything but unexpected, however. On his way to winning three individual events at the Class A track and field state championships Saturday at Lewiston High, Snyder broke the previous Class A record of 16 feet […]
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 […]
HS tennis: Dragons, Eagles fall in tennis quarterfinals
FARMINGTON — Senior Mick Gurney’s remarkable progression over the regular season and gutsy performances by Mt. Blue’s doubles teams came in handy during a Class A North high school tennis quarterfinal Thursday. Gurney prevailed in his singles match, and the doubles teams cashed in on a pair of victories to lead the No. 4 Cougars (9-4) […]
HS baseball: Mt. Ararat doubles up Dragons, 6-3
Heading into Thursday’s regular season finale against “Battle of the Bridge” foe Mt. Ararat, the Brunswick High School baseball team already had a successful season with seven wins after a combined 3-45 over the previous three seasons. But these Dragons wanted more. With a 7-8 record and hovering around the final playoff berth in the Class A North […]