A win over three-time defending Class D state champ Oak Hill was unsurprisingly one of them, as was a week two road win at Traip, which came on the heels of a big season-opening road win at Lisbon. The other game that came down to the wire was a home win against seemingly depleted Dirigo. […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Party over here, tears over there
Two distinctly different emotions erupt in the moments immediately after the conclusions of an overtime playoff football game. One, obviously, is euphoria, especially when it comes from a program that hadn’t won a playoff game in 16 years (before some players on the team were born) and hadn’t won a home playoff game in 22 […]
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Football: Dirigo holds off Old Orchard Beach
DIXFIELD — Second verse, same as the first for Dirigo High School. One week after earning the fourth seed with a win over Old Orchard Beach, the Cougars hosted the Seagulls again at Harlow Park on Friday. This time, though, there were no secrets — just hard-nosed football in a Class D South quarterfinal. Cooper Chiasson […]
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Boys’ Soccer: Edward Little evades Mt. Blue in quarterfinals
AUBURN — Through three halves of play this season against Mt. Blue, top-seeded Edward Little was all even with the Cougars. Then an inspired halftime speech by head coach Tim Mains and a quick start to the second half turned a scoreless game into 4-0 win for the No. 1 Red Eddies over the No. […]
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HS Football: Cougars clinch home field for next week with 12-6 win over Seagulls
DIXFIELD — Old Orchard Beach opened the second half of Friday night’s Campbell Conference Class D season finale with a surprise for Dirigo — the wildcat formation. The wildcat solved the Seagulls’ problems moving the ball more consistently, but not their tendency to draw penalties that kept them from capitalizing on scoring chances. Hunter White, […]
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Field hockey: No. 3 Traip eliminates No. 6 Dirigo
KITTERY — Sierra O’Brien knew where she had to be. And now the Traip Academy field hockey team is going back to where it wants to be. O’Brien, a senior forward, scored a goal in each half and the third-seeded Rangers played their most complete game of the season, downing No. 6 Dirigo, 2-0, in […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Local teams looking to finish strong
Oak Hill coach Stacen Doucette lamented his team’s second-half struggles after Friday night’s game against Dirigo. The Raiders fortunately left Dixfield with a victory, but they haven’t always been so lucky. All six Oak Hill contests contain traces of struggles after halftime. Even when the Raiders were outscoring opponents or holding them even after half, […]
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Cross country: Winthrop’s Hickey, Monmouth girls win at MVC championships
AUGUSTA — Winthrop’s Jacob Hickey brought along an accessory to push himself at the MVC cross country championships. A pair of sisters paced each other and paced the Monmouth girls to the conference title, and an Oak Hill sophomore came out of essentially nowhere to finish second in the girls’ race. “I started running with […]
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KVAC cross country: Barber, Cougars take conference titles
AUGUSTA — Mt. Blue’s Tucker Barber wasn’t sure at first when it would happen. He just knew to trust his gut when it told him to make his move with about a mile left in the KVAC cross country championships at Cony High School. “I had no idea how the race was going to go,” […]