The hard-working pitcher still has two years of high school and travel baseball before becoming a Division I player at the University of Connecticut, or, possibly, an MLB draft pick.
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USM baseball rides 14-game winning streak into league title series
The Huskies travel to Eastern Connecticut State for the best-of-three Little East Conference championship series, starting Thursday.
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Georgetown’s Edwin Thompson, a Jay native, excited to coach against fellow Mainer
College baseball: Georgetown Hoyas’ first-year coach and his squad square off next week against his protege, friend and fellow Mainer Tyler Hanson, who is an assistant coach at Virginia Tech University.
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USM, St. Joe’s baseball teams hungry for action after last spring was curtailed
The two best NCAA Division III programs in the state are playing again, and both have talented, veteran teams poised for strong seasons.
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Sanford Mainers on hold as NECBL officials monitor health crisis
While the Cape Cod League canceled its 2020 season on Friday, the New England Collegiate Baseball League has yet to make a decision for a season that is slated to begin in early June.
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Local roundup: Cougars rally past Red Eddies in lacrosse opener
Mt. Blue gets three goals from Sam Smith down the stretch to come back from a two-goal deficit in a 10-9-win.
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College World Series: Arkansas beats Oregon St. in game 1 of finals
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Arkansas scored four fifth-inning runs against a faltering Luke Heimlich and moved a step closer to its first national championship in baseball with a 4-1 win over Oregon State in Game 1 of the College World Series finals Tuesday night. The finals opener, delayed a day because of rain, seemed to […]
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USM Huskies optimistic after .500 Florida trip
University of Southern Maine head baeball coach Ed Flaherty works on bunting during practice. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald) GORHAM — Ed Flaherty stood in the middle of a group of University of Southern Maine baseball players inside the USM Fieldhouse, and explained, in minute detail, how to execute a bunt. “Placement,” he emphasized, “is more […]
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College Baseball: Maine falls to UMBC in America East final
The University of Maine had numerous opportunities to force a final game against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on Sunday in the America East baseball tournament. But the Black Bears could not capitalize. Zach Bright drew a four-pitch walk off UMaine closer Jeff Gelinas in the bottom of the 10th inning, lifting the Retrievers […]
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College baseball: Holmes, Wong help Husson continue winning
Lewiston High School graduate Mike Wong, an infielder at Husson University, throws the ball against Norwich.Former Dirigo High School standout Ben Holmes is in his senior season as a pitcher at Husson University. Ben Holmes and Mike Wong took different paths to the Husson University baseball team, but the local products from Central Maine have […]