LEWISTON — Amherst broke a scoreless halftime tie by scoring on its first two drives of the second half and avoided a stunning upset with a 19-7 NESCAC football win over Bates College at Garcelon Field on Saturday. New Bobcats coach Malik Hall said his team’s enthusiasm at halftime, when the score was 0-0, was […]
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Women's lacrosse: Mammoths stifle Bobcats
Liv Sandford, right, of Bates College, battles Amherst College’s Rebecca Wistreich for a loose ball during Saturday’s lacrosse game at Garcelon Field in Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — After allowing a five-goal flurry early in Saturday’s NESCAC women’s lacrosse game against No. 4 Amherst, Bates virtually shut down the Mammoths for the final 50 […]
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College football: Amherst airs out Bates, 41-17, in NESCAC opener
AMHERST, Mass. — Ollie Eberth’s sweet touch gave Bates College a sour start to the NESCAC football season Saturday. The sophomore quarterback led Amherst to a 41-17 lead over the Bobcats by racking up 241 totals yards (211 through the air) and four touchdown throws. Eberth started the scoring with a 49-yard pass over the […]
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Bates men’s lacrosse stuffs Amherst to reach NCAA quarterfinals
LEWISTON — The Bates College men’s lacrosse trio of Charlie Fay, Kyle Weber and Matt Chlastawa call themselves “Two-and-a-half men” — Fay is 6-foot-4, Weber stands 6-foot-2 and Chlastawa tips the tape at just 5-foot-6. On Saturday, two-and-a-half men gave Amherst College all it could handle in the teams’ NCAA round of 16 playoff matchup. The […]
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PHOTOS: Bates College women hang on to top No. 9 Amherst
The win keeps Bates (5-0) unblemished on the season. The loss is Amherst’s first in two games. Bates got off to a quick start in the first half. Kaileigh Maguire put the Bobcats ahead 1-0 at the 28:37 mark. Maguire then assisted a scoring strike by Emma Brinkman two minutes later to give Bates a […]
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College Football: Bates can’t slow down NESCAC champion Amherst
LEWISTON — After three successful seasons with defense as it calling card, Bates College football simply is asking the young group charged with carrying on that tradition to get better from now through November. The Bobcats accomplished that Saturday, even if it was not immediately tangible on the scoreboard that overlooks Garcelon Field after a 37-14 […]
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Peter C. Stenberg
1949 – 2015 LISBON — Peter Stenberg passed away on Sunday, Aug. 9, at home. He was born in Boston on Nov. 19, 1949, to Peter Stenberg and Sabina Mary Kavanaugh. He attended Boston area parochial schools as a child and graduated high school from Cardinal Cushing Academy. He went on to graduate from University […]
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College baseball: Jumbos eliminate Bobcats
MEDFORD, Mass. — Playing their second game of the day, Bates held Tufts University to just four hits, but the Jumbos captialized on nine walks and three hit batsmen to earn a 7-1 victory in an elimination game of the NESCAC championship Saturday afternoon. The Jumbos extended thir lead to 6-0 in the top of […]
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Men’s college tennis: Amherst blanks Bates
LEWISTON — It was the kind of test that the Bates College men’s tennis schedule is loaded with. Paul Castonguay wants his Bobcats challenged and Saturday the Amherst College team did just that. The Lord Jeffs blanked Bates 9-0 to win their 11th straight. “Every team on our schedule is legit and a ranked team,” […]
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Democrats call for GOP lawmaker’s resignation for ‘hateful’ comments
AUGUSTA — After a liberal blogger published a slew of incendiary comments attributed to Rep. Lawrence Lockman, R-Amherst, the state’s Democratic Party has called for the lawmaker’s resignation. Lockman, a first-term legislator who serves on the Labor Committee, “holds some of the most abhorrent beliefs ever heard from a public official in Maine,” said state […]