CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints still have one of the league’s top-scoring offenses, but lately it’s the defense that’s been carrying the NFL’s most complete team. On a night when Brees and the offense couldn’t get much going and made some uncharacteristic mistakes, New Orleans put the clamps on Cam Newton […]
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Old Orchard Beach girls cruise to hoops win
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach girls basketball team improved to 3-1 on the season with a 61-36 win over visiting Hebron Academy on Monday night. The Lady Gulls would jump out to a 20-5 lead after the opening quarter and would cruise to the win from there. Shani Plante led the way […]
Boys Basketball: Douglass carries Lisbon Greyhounds to win
LISBON — DJ Douglass knows eyes are on him this year every time his Lisbon High School boys’ basketball team takes the court. With Lisbon having to replace graduated 1,000-point scorer Jonah Sautter, Douglass has shown the shooting touch, including Friday night’s 29-point effort in Lisbon’s 60-52 Mountain Valley Conference win over Mt. Abram. The Greyhounds […]
High School Hockey: Red Riots fall to Bulldogs, 6-2
PORTLAND — The Portland/Deering Bulldogs used a fast start to hold off the South Portland/Freeport/Wayneflete Red Riots, 6-2, for its first win of the boys high school hockey season. Portland/Deering (1-1) rebounded from a mid-week loss to Edward Little by overwhelming the Red Riots in the game’s opening minutes, taking a two-goal lead just 6:16 […]
Maine HS Weekend: MacMillan powers Dragons to 3rd girls basketball win
BRUNSWICK — Charlotte MacMillan had 15 points, six blocks, five rebounds and added three assists to lead the way for the Brunswick High School girls basketball team to a 50-35 victory over Falmouth on Friday. The Dragons (3-0) led 31-24 at the half, but steadily pulled away in the second half in dropping the Yachtsmen to […]
Boys Basketball: Westbrook earns first win with 83-71 victory over Morse
BATH – You don’t have to be around basketball for a very long time to realize that if you can’t rebound and don’t pass well, you typically don’t win many ball games. After a solid first quarter by Morse, Westbrook closed out the half on a 14-2 run and continued to sail in the second half, […]
High School Hoops: Phoenix cruises past Richmond Bobcats, 67-27, in boys basketball
JAY — Spruce Mountain coach Scott Bessey saw no sense in leaving in his starters or keeping up the pressure on Richmond after the Phoenix constructed a sturdy 41-9 halftime lead in a high school Mountain Valley Conference boys basketball game on Friday. Bessey called up his reserves and called off his press in the second […]
Patriots Slumping: Pittsburgh Steelers hold off Patriots, 17-10
PITTSBURGH Ben Roethlisberger didn’t want to use the word “crossroads.” He did anyway. His team mired in a three-game losing streak and with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots on the other sideline Sunday — a sight that typically signals doom for Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers — the longtime quarterback understood his team’s […]
UMaine Football: Black Bears fall to Eastern Washington
CHENEY, Wash. — For most of the season, the University of Maine was able to dictate football games behind a dominant run defense. But in the FCS semifinals Saturday, Eastern Washington capitalized on two early turnovers, took a four-touchdown halftime lead and ended Maine’s season with a 50-19 victory on the red turf of Roos Field. […]
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