Coach: Paul Soracco, second year Conference/Class: KVAC/Class A Last year’s results: Boys: KVAC and Class A state champions; Girls: KVAC champions, third at Class A states Returning athletes: Boys: Seniors — Osman Doorow, Stefan Porter, Isaac Escobar; Juniors — Abshir Abukar, Keyshawn Green, Aden Mohamed, Mwesa Mulanda, Hassan Mohamed; Sophomores — Abbas Muktar, Isse Tawane, […]
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Boys’ lacrosse: Blue Devils strike early and often in win over Messalonskee
LEWISTON — The Lewiston High School boys’ lacrosse team couldn’t ask for a better start to the 2016 season in a game against the Messalonskee Eagles. It took Blue Devils 16 seconds to score when Mohamed Khalid was immediately inserted into the game after the opening draw and went straight to the net where he […]
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2016 Lewiston High School Boys’ Tennis Preview
Coach: Tom LeBlond (Fourth year) Conference: KVAC; Class: A North Last year’s record: 10-4 (Lost in the Eastern Maine Class A semifinals) Returning athletes: Seniors — Kyle Morin, Eric Hall, Reid Pomerleau, Sam Zashut, Nick Poland; Juniors — Ben Ferrence, Cole Ouellette; Sophomore — Joe Bisson. Key losses: None Promising newcomers: Sophomore — Timo Teckenberg Season outlook: With […]
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Boys Indoor Track and Field: Shariff-Hassan impressive state meet leads to Athlete of the Year
Abdi Shariff-Hassan was clutch at the Class A Indoor Track and Field State Championships in February, helping his team to a solid finish and earning him Sun Journal’s Boys’ Indoor Track Athlete of the Year honors. “I enjoy competing,” Shariff-Hassan said. “I looked at my time and I looked at (the other competitors time). I […]
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Boys’ Hockey: Rancourt helped lead Lewiston to elusive title
The prevailing sentiment at the start of the boys’ hockey season was that Lewiston had all the pieces in place to win the Class A state championship. Yet the Blue Devils had been down that road before in the 14 seasons since 2002, the last of Lewiston’s then 20 state titles. This year, the Blue […]
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H.S. Softball: Edward Little, Lewiston start season inside
Monday was the first day for high school softball pitchers and catchers to start practicing in Maine. So naturally it snowed, forcing anyone with hopes of making the first tosses outside to hold those thoughts and settle down in the gym. “It’s certainly ironic,” Edward Little senior pitcher Sarah Hammond said of the ill-timed snow. […]
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Emerge Film Festival to feature documentary on Lewiston soccer team
One Team: The Story of The Lewiston High School Blue Devils from LHSOneTeamFilm on Vimeo. LEWISTON — The Lewiston High School boys’ soccer team won its first state championship last November. Next month, the story on how those athletes from six countries — Congo, Germany, Kenya, Somalia, Turkey and the U.S. — came together as […]
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Lewiston soccer team documentary to debut director’s cut at Emerge Film Festival
One Team: The Story of The Lewiston High School Blue Devils from LHSOneTeamFilm on Vimeo. From the moments when everything started to fall into place last fall for Ian Clough and his team, late April was circled in pencil as a goal. Clough, along with producers Brad Bosse and Tom Fournier, and director of photography […]
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VIDEO: Highlights from the Class A state championship hockey game
LEWISTON — Have you ever wanted to hang out in the rafters at the Colisee in Lewiston? Ever stop to think about what the goals and the game would look like from up there? On Saturday, we affixed a camera above the cage at the south end of the rink, above the cage where Lewiston […]
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Class A boys’ hockey state final: Rancourt’s rebound lifts Lewiston past Scarborough
LEWISTON — Jeromey Rancourt was the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. Scarborough goalie Ross LeBlond made one save, then a second, but the third time was the charm for Lewiston, which toppled the Red Storm 2-1 for the Class A boys’ hockey state championship at Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Saturday […]