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Bates College football coach Mark Harriman likes NESCAC’s switch to nine-game slate

Bates’ Frank Williams runs for yardage during the Bobcats’ 29-17 win over Williams at Garcelon Field on Saturday. Mark Harriman is entering his 20th season as Bates College’s football coach, and each year the slate has been the same: Eight games preceded by a scrimmage. The NESCAC is breaking from tradition and changing its football […]

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College baseball: Bates tops Trinity

Bates College shortstop Asher MacDonald tags Trinity’s Ben Reinisch out as he tried to steal second base when a pitch in the dirt bounced off the chest of Bates catcher Jack Arend, but the Bates catcher scooped it up and fired a perfect strike for the out. LEWISTON — Saturday morning, Connor Russell was sitting […]

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Local roundup: Knights win baseball opener over Lakers

POLAND — Noah Salmons cracked two doubles, drove in three runs, then snuffed out a Lake Region rally in the seventh to pick up the save in an 8-6 Poland win in both teams’ Western Maine Conference season-opener on Monday. Gawain Tibbetts led the Knights’ offense with three hits while Jake Wiseman added a pair. […]

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Campus Notes: Bates lacrosse moves up to top of rankings

Now there is only one left with zero. The Bates College lacrosse team is the only remaining undefeated men’s lacrosse team in NCAA Division III after Tufts and Salisbury suffered their first setbacks of the season last week. Thanks to those losses, the Bobcats have moved up in a couple of polls. They jump from […]

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Bates College’s Beaudet makes the transition to college track and field from Edward Little

Anna Beaudet of Bates College graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn.  LEWISTON — After a winter season battling sickness and just plain getting her bearings, former Edward Little track and field standout Anna Beaudet is finally finding her groove this spring as a freshman at Bates College. “It’s been (going) really well,” Beaudet […]