INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Bates women’s rowing team still couldn’t beat Williams at a national final, but it was mutual rival Trinity that stole the show Saturday, winning the first varsity eights grand final and the 2014 NCAA Division III Championship. Bates, ranked No. 1 in Divsion III for the first time entering the national […]
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Lewiston skate park closing for repairs
LEWISTON — Skateboarders will have to find a different place to ride for the first part of June while crews seal some cracks and make other repairs in the Kennedy Park Skate Park. “We’ve never done any work on that skateboard park other than just general maintenance,” said Megan Bates, Lewiston’s deputy director highway and […]
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Rowing: Bates College favored in national title chase
This year’s trip is different. For the first time, the Bobcats are the favorites to win the Division III crown. “They know this is certainly a winnable race for them, and they have every expectation of performing at a level that will produce a win,” Bates College coach Peter Steenstra said. “For the first time, […]
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Maine colleges: Southern Maine Huskies stay alive in D-III World Series
APPLETON, Wis. — Senior Forrest Chadwick went 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBI as the University of Southern Maine Huskies defeated the Salisbury University Sea Gulls, 6-3, Saturday afternoon in an elimination game of the 2014 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament at Fox Cities Stadium. The Huskies will play Baldwin […]
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Bates grad William Worthy, longtime reporter, dies at age 92
BOSTON (AP) — William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who defied travel bans to Cold War adversaries of the United States, has died. He was 92. Worthy died May 4 at a nursing home in Brewster, Massachusetts, according to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He was a Nieman Foundation fellow from 1956 to […]
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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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Bates rowers a tight crew
At 5 a.m. all around the Bates College campus on most mornings this time of year, lights go on in dorm rooms. While many of their classmates are asleep, some rolling in just a short time ago, members of a team of dedicated college athletes on the rowing team drag themselves out of bed to […]
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College Baseball: One comeback not quite enough for Bobcats
Tufts freshman southpaw Tim Superko snuffed Bates’bid for another seventh-inning rally for a 4-2 win in Game 2 that earned the Jumbos the right to host the four-team tournament. But even though the Bobcats fell shy of their goal to host, a split with the top-ranked team in the conference gives them something to build […]
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UMF partnership to receive leadership award
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington has announced that the UMF Partnership for Civic Advancement will be honored by the Maine Campus Compact with the President’s Leadership Award at a ceremony in the State House Hall of Flags in Augusta from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, April 30. UMF’s Partnership for Civic Advancement […]
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College Roundup: Colby sweeps Bates in lacrosse
LEWISTON — No. 11 nationally ranked Colby College controlled the game from start to finish, and downed the No. 17 Bates women’s lacrosse team 10-6 in the regular-season finale for both teams Wednesday evening at Garcelon Field. The Mules (8-5, 6-4 NESCAC) finish in a tie for fifth place in the NESCAC with Tufts. The […]