Spruce Mountain junior Calley Baker (11) and Carrabec senior midfielder Lauren Chestnut (1) battle for the ball in Jay on Monday afternoon. (Tony Blasi/Sun Journal) JAY — Two goals on a pair of penalty kicks and a red card issued to a key player — which forced Spruce Mountain to play down a player — put […]
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Boys' Soccer: Mustangs strike too quickly for Cobras
NORTH ANSON — It was quick and it was clinical, even if it wasn’t effortless. Effort, at least early on, was part of the problem. Monmouth Academy boys soccer coach Joe Fletcher was so dispirited by his team’s lack of effort that he plucked all four members of his starting midfield off the pitch at […]
Girls' Soccer: Mustangs eke out win over Cobras
N ANSON, ME – SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 Monmouth Academy’s Alicen Burnham (8) gains control of the ball against Carrabec High School in North Anson on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer)N ANSON, ME – SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 Monmouth Academy’s Abbie Crawford (20) battles with Carrabec High School’s Caitlin Crawford (16) […]
C South softball quarterfinal: Greyhounds rally back from 6-1 to defeat Cobras
Carrabec’s Ashley Cates connects with the ball during Wednesday afternoon’s Class C South quarterfinal softball game in Lisbon. Carrabec’s Mackenzie Baker gets a lead at second base as Lisbon’s Kiley Merritt, gets ready for the ball. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) LISBON — Lisbon hadn’t dwelt on its predicament while clawing back from a 6-1 deficit in […]
H.S. softball: Norman's triple lifts Lisbon over Carrabec
LISBON — Brittany Norman ripped two long triples for the Lisbon Greyhounds on Wednesday during a key Mountain Valley Conference high school softball matchup. But it was her lightest-hit ball of the game that produced her team’s biggest run, a sacrifice fly that scored teammate Ivy Norris for the winning run in a big 6-5 […]
Monmouth softball hammers out win over Carrabec
MONMOUTH — The Monmouth softball team had the perfect antidote for a pair of recent tough losses: Play your best game of the season against a quality opponent. The Mustangs got some timely hitting, including a three-run homer from Haylee Langlois, and played their best defensive game of the year Wednesday afternoon in downing Carrabec […]
Lisbon edges Carrabec in girls' soccer prelim
LISBON — With six games remaining in the regular season, the Lisbon High School girls’ soccer team had a .500 record, coming off lopsided setbacks to Madison and Monmouth Academy. Since then, Jenniffer Perron’s squad has found that confident swagger, rolling off six straight wins, including Friday’s 2-0 Class C South preliminary win over 10th-seeded […]
High school baseball: Lisbon opens with win
LISBON — Three years from now, Lisbon High School freshman baseball player Jack Tibbetts probably won’t remember his first varsity at-bat. In blustery, cold conditions on Wednesday, Tibbetts’ teammates were praising the young left fielder, whose memorable sacrifice bunt keyed a two-run uprising, leading the Greyhounds to a 2-1 Mountain Valley Conference win over Madison/Carrabec. […]
H.S. Baseball: Francis, Lisbon knock out Carrabec
He pitched five solid innings and paced the Greyhounds at the plate as well in a 4-2 victory over Carrabec in a Class C South preliminary-round game at Doughty Diamond. Francis’ first hit of the game — a two-out double to deep left-center in the bottom of the first went for naught. His second was […]