AUBURN — Step right up, Eastern Class A boys’ basketball fans and coaches. Get your blood pressure medication here. Only five weeks until the tournament, and the way it looks right now, there might be a run on the stuff. Tim Dudley collected Steele Savage’s 3-point bid off the back rim and banked it in […]
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H.S. Skiing: Hornets, Panthers prevail at Black Mountain
RUMFORD — Leavitt successfully defended its turf in the girls’ races at the annual Leavitt Hornet Classic at Black Mountain of Maine on Saturday, placing three skiers in the top eight to edge Falmouth by eight points in the first major race of the 2012 ski season. Maddie Wiegman led the way for the Hornets […]
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H.S. Hockey Notes: Confusion reigns in early-season standings
The transitive property is a useful logical and algebraic tool, but don’t expect it to hold in the world of sports. That refrain is painfully obvious for anyone trying to follow Class A high school hockey this season, which at the one-third mark for most teams, is about as muddled in the standings as it […]
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High school hockey: Red Eddies disperse Red Riots
AUBURN — Having eight days to stew over a tough home loss to Bangor left Edward Little even hungrier. It showed Wednesday. After finding their legs and asserting themselves territorially over the first 10 minutes, the Red Eddies popped in a pair of goals late in the first, added another early in the second and […]
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Girls’ Basketball: EL hits reset
AUBURN — There always seems to be that moment that crops up each game for the Edward Little girls’ basketball team. The Red Eddies watch a lead slip away, their intensity level lessens or the club just needs a little spark. It can be kind of like hitting the reset button. That’s when the team […]
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Fryeburg school gets state money; Auburn too low on list
AUBURN — The Maine Board of Education on Wednesday gave the green light to six school buildings deemed in critical need of improvement, including an elementary school in Fryeburg. Auburn, where school officials are hoping to build a new Edward Little High School, among other things, was not among them. School heads will meet with […]
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Girls’ hockey: Brunswick cages Leavitt/EL
BRUNSWICK — The only fireworks in Monday afternoon’s rematch between Leavitt/Edward Little and Brunswick’s girls’ hockey teams came in the opening three minutes of the contest. And it was Brunswick setting them off, to the tune of three quick goals that stunned the Red Hornets as the Dragons skated to a 5-3 decision at Bowdoin […]
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HS Hockey Notebook: Devils thankful for fresh faces
After a tough season a year ago, Lewiston girls’ hockey coach Ron Dumont was excited to see an incoming group of freshmen turn out over the summer. Nearly halfway through the season, he’s even happier with what he’s seen from that incoming crew as varsity athletes. “We had such a tough schedule to start the […]
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High school skiing: Weathering the winter
AUBURN — The snow dance: the last bastion of hope for a desperate subset of high school athletes hoping that Mother Nature soon blesses them with the ability to ply their trade. “It worked last year,” Edward Little Nordic ski coach Dan Campbell said. “We had a bad stretch of weather (for skiing) at the […]
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2012 Sun Journal Ski Overview
2012 Alpine Skiing Overview Class A A normally deep local field in Class A alpine racing is about as thin as it has been in recent memory this year. That’s not to say that the traditional powers at Edward Little, Mt. Blue and even Oxford Hills aren’t going to make some noise, but it’s going […]