BRUNSWICK — In a meeting between the top two teams in the NESCAC, Bowdoin defeated Wesleyan, 3-1, on Friday evening to earn the top seed for the upcoming conference championship. The Polar Bears survived the tight match, which featured 19 lead changes and 44 ties. Wesleyan (15-4, 8-1) lost its first conference game of the season. […]
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Monday Night Football: McCourty leads New England Patriots past Buffalo Bills
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Devin McCourty was pleased that the New England Patriots defense didn’t have to play second fiddle to Tom Brady and Co. for once. With the Patriots leaning more on Stephen Gostkowski’s leg than Brady’s arm against the Buffalo Bills on Monday night, McCourty stepped up and returned an interception 84 yards to […]
Seagulls’ season comes to an end in quarters
ROCKPORT — The No. 5 Old Orchard Beach football team’s first Class E season came to an end as they fell to No. 4 Camden Hills 22-0 during a cold, drizzly quarterfinal showdown on Monday afternoon. “We were pretty strong defensively in the first half. We just gave them short fields. They got the ball […]
HS Football Quarterfinal: Oak Hill Raiders earn sloppy upset of Lisbon
Lisbon — Oak Hill spent nearly the entire first 48 minutes of Saturday’s Class D South high school football quarterfinal backed up in its own end. The seventh-seeded Raiders needed overtime to finally make No. 2 Lisbon’s defense protect its goal line. But that was all they needed. Sophomore quarterback Gavin Rawstron wasted little time in […]
Boys Soccer Semifinal: Freeport keeps rolling, knocks off Greely, 3-1
FREEPORT — In a close soccer match, where two teams battle tooth and nail, a game could be decided with a bad bounce or an unfortunate call. In Friday’s Class B South semifinal game, there was no concern for that. Freeport proved to be the better team as the Falcons beat Greely, 3-1, in boys high […]
High School Soccer: Mt. Ararat Eagles put away Bangor, 3-2, in boys soccer semifinal
BATH — There were few secrets heading into Friday night’s Class A North boys high school soccer matchup between third-seeded Bangor and No. 2 Mt. Ararat at McMann Field. In an early season encounter in Topsham, it took a Travis Nadeau double-overtime goal to lift the Eagles to a 1-0 win, and through 40 minutes of […]
Class B Cross Country: York boys end 70-year drought
Belfast — A while back, Ted Hutch came across some microfilm of this newspaper that included a story about York High winning a state championship in cross country. Alfie Walker of Fryeburg Academy was eighth in the Class B South regional and hadn’t beaten any of the top contenders for the cross country state title. That […]
Class A Cross Country: Mt. Ararat’s Berry-Gaviria wins again
Belfast — Lisandro Berry-Gaviria’s plan worked to perfection. As for Sofie Matson’s face-plant, that worked out as well as could be expected. In the end, both runners successfully defended their Class A cross country state championships on a raw Saturday morning, with times faster than any others who followed in the other meets at Troy Howard […]
Class C Cross Country: Maine Coast Waldorf boys, Orono girls reign supreme
BELFAST — When organizers decided, in light of an ominous forecast, to hold the cross country state championship earlier Saturday than originally scheduled rather than gamble on better weather by postponing until next weekend, they did so knowing that Class C might be affected by the leading edge of the storm. Sure enough, cold rain began […]
World Series Champs: Boston Red Sox capture World Series
Los Angeles — Chris Sale’s final pitch for this Boston juggernauttriggered a celebration on the Dodger Stadium infield, among thousands of fans who made their way to California — and even outside Fenway Park back home. The quest is complete. Yes, these 2018 Red Sox really are that great. A team to remember from top to […]
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