PORTLAND — Professional baseball returned Thursday night to Hadlock Field as the Portland Sea Dogs opened their 26th Eastern League season with a 4-0 loss to the Reading Fightin Phils. Technically it was a sellout, but only about half of the 7,368 tickets sold for Opening Day actually passed through the turnstiles. The temperature at game […]
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Red Sox drop another to the Athletics, 7-3
OAKLAND, Calif. — When the reigning AL MVP openly regrets challenging you, that’s pretty high praise. Center fielder Ramon Laureano threw out another Red Sox runner in a key spot, and the Oakland Athletics kept Boston stumbling with a 7-3 win on Thursday. Laureano tossed out three runners as the A’s took three of four in […]
Journal Tribune 2018-19 Boys Basketball MVP: Thornton Academy’s Payton Jones
SACO — Payton Jones made an immediate impact on the basketball court for Thornton Academy last year as a freshman — so much so, that he was named the Journal Tribune’s Boys Basketball Rookie of the Year in 2018. There would be no sophomore slump for Jones this season. The TA standout averaged 15 points […]
Journal Tribune Boys Basketball All-Stars
MVP: Payton Jones, Thornton Academy Rookie of the Year: Ashton Crowell, Biddeford All-Stars Carter Edgerton, Biddeford Cody Saucier, Biddeford Max Murray, Kennebunk Cam Lovejoy, Kennebunk Zack Sullivan, Kennebunk Kyle Pasieniuk, Kennebunk Trevor Beals, Massabesic Ryan Crockett, OOB Zac LaPlante, OOB Leyton Bickford, Sanford Anthony Bracamonte, Thornton Academy Dylan Griffin, Thornton Academy Tyler Bridge, Wells Matt […]
Bowdoin College roundup: Women take down Bates in lax action
LEWISTON — The Bowdoin College women’s lacrosse team put on a defensive clinic in a 14-2 road win at Bates on Wednesday night. The 14th-ranked Polar Bears held the 21st-ranked Bobcats scoreless for the first 33:01 of the game en route to improving to 5-4 (3-3 NESCAC). Bates fell to 7-4 (3-3 NESCAC) The Bowdoin defense […]
Let the Good Times Begin: Sea Dogs return
Portland The boys of summer returned to Hadlock Field Tuesday afternoon. The 26th edition of the Portland Sea Dogs is scheduled to get underway Thursday evening with a baseball tossed from the left hand of Kyle Hart, a 26-year-old native of Ohio who is returning to Maine for a second season in the Double-A Eastern […]
MLB Boston: Fiers, 3 A’s relievers shut down Red Sox
Oakland, Calif. Ramon Laureano didn’t have time to think. Luckily, he had arm strength and adrenaline aplenty to help get the job done. Mike Fiers gave Oakland another stellar start, Laureano threw out a baserunner for a second straight game and the Athletics made Matt Chapman’s homer stand in a 1-0 win over Chris Sale […]
Alliance of American Football ends first season prematurely
The Associated Press SAN DIEGO The Alliance of American Football has ended its first season prematurely and told most employees that they will be terminated as of Wednesday. Employees were notified of the decision in a letter from the AAF board on Tuesday afternoon. The board essentially is majority owner Tom Dundon, who also owns […]
Area briefs: Denious player of week, Rinaldi and Dorr register lax points
AREA BRIEFS Bowdoin’s Denious NESCAC Player of Week BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College sophomore Eliza Denious has been named the New England Small College Athletic Conference Women’s Lacrosse Player of the Week. Denious scored seven goals, including four in the final 11:03, to lead the Polar Bears from a three-goal deficit to a 17-15 victory […]
Davis, A’s shut down slumping Red Sox, 7-0
OAKLAND, Calif. — Pitcher Aaron Brooks reminded himself to hustle and back up home, even though he had zero doubt strong-armed center fielder Ramon Laureano would throw out the runner at the plate. Brooks didn’t have to do a thing. And a run got saved, at an early stage of the game when momentum means so […]
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