Coach: Greg Perkins (22nd year) Last year’s record: 9-4-2 (3rd in Eastern A) Returning players: Seniors — Tori Couture (MF), Courtney Pelletier (F), Danielle Demers (B), Madison Williamson (MF), Kayla Nadeau (B), Jordan Tate (F), Gabby Laperriere (MF); Juniors — Amanda Williams (G), Sam Goulette (B), Hannah Johnston (F), Kaelena Perron (F). Key losses: Emily […]
Edward Little
Edward Little golf
Coach: Chris Williamson (first year) Last year’s record: 5-5 Returning players: Travis Landry, Nate Corliss, Nate Pushard, Brandon Dubuc. Key losses: Cody Russell, Brian Bickford. Promising newcomers: Cooper Easter, Ryan Rossignol, Mickey Lawrence, Brian Crane, Corey Henderson, Kyle Karkos. Outlook: With 15 golfers out for the team and a good group of solid talent at […]
2011 Sun Journal Field Hockey Overview
2011 Sun Journal Field Hockey Overview Several area schools had successful runs in the playoffs last season in field hockey action. Here is how the teams shape up this year: Class A The Class A conversation, particularly in the East but most of the time statewide, usually begins and ends in Skowhegan, and there is […]
2011 high school golf overview
2011 High School Golf overview Several area high schools had solid conference seasons last year, and a handful are looking very good this season as well. here is a short breakdown of how the schools in the tri-county area are shaping up this season: KVAC A Oxford Hills had one of the more successful seasons […]
Eastern Class A Football: Devils look loaded
One chain link. Lewiston was that far away from its first trip to a Class A championship game in 23 years last fall. Faced with fourth-and-a-speck-of-dirt from its own 10-yard line, the Blue Devils took the no-guts, no-glory approach, kept its punter on the sideline and called a sweep that would be debated for nine […]
Legion baseball: Hyde, Gayton quell Bangor rally
AUGUSTA — Gayton Post 31’s pair of aces held up against Bangor’s full house on Saturday, and the Twin Cities-based American Legion baseball team is back in the championship round for the second consecutive year. Gayton lefty Corbin Hyde froze Bangor’s Jack Stacey with a swooping curve ball with the bases loaded in the bottom […]
West rallies to win Lobster Bowl
BIDDEFORD — Alex Rose was so bent on keeping his promise, he did it twice. Rose intercepted two passes in the final 2:47 to preserve the West’s 16-13 victory over the East in the 22nd annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic before about 3,000 fans at a sweltering Waterhouse Field on Saturday. Net proceeds from […]
Lobster Bowl gives coaches a chance to bond, give back
HEBRON — The job description reads like a combination of bed and breakfast host, jail guard, psychiatrist, nurse and football coach: Spend the hottest week of the year living on a quiet private school campus located in an out-of-the-way hamlet in Western Maine chaperoning recently-graduated young men who are also elite athletes. Work morning, noon […]
Another Lobster Bowl shootout in the works
HEBRON — The 22nd Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic includes a rematch of sorts, of last November’s Class B state championship game. That game was billed as a battle between the high-powered offense of Leavitt and the stifling defense of Mountain Valley. Defense ruled the day, as the Falcons shut down the Hornets, 20-0. Don’t […]
Lobster Bowl Notebook: Daigle brings good cheer to Lobster Bowl
HEBRON — The record books show that Dawna Daigle is the third of three siblings to participate in the Lobster Bowl, and the first cheerleader of the three. But that’s not how Daigle sees it. “I just remember my brother (Scott) screaming with excitement the whole game, on the sideline cheering on his team,” she […]