LISBON — It’s hard to imagine many teams keeping Deliah Schreiber and Lisbon off the scoreboard for an 80-minute girls’ soccer game. Now, Hall-Dale has done it twice, including Saturday morning on the stage where it mattered most. Eva Shepherd and Dani Sweet each scored a goal and No. 9 Hall-Dale’s defense did the rest […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Madison tips Monmouth, clinches No. 1 seed
MONMOUTH — No other Mountain Valley Conference girls’ soccer team has been able to contain both of Monmouth’s strikers, Sidney Wilson and Haley Fletcher, for most of an 80-minute game. Those vanquished rivals didn’t have Monica Ouellette and Madison Curtis simultaneously, unselfishly, roaming the defensive third. Madison does, which is why the Bulldogs will be […]
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Girls’ soccer: Hall-Dale holds off Lisbon
LISBON — The Hall-Dale High School girls’ soccer team had only one approach going into its match-up against the Lisbon Greyhounds. Bulldogs coach Guy Cousins said the goal all season has been to, “Play their style of soccer,” and he thought his team “dictated that right from the beginning,” as visiting Hall-Dale defeated Lisbon, 1-0, […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Mustangs run away from Raiders to stay unbeaten
MONMOUTH — Monmouth Academy girls’ soccer scored 10 goals in its preceding win and two more in a span of about three minutes early in Wednesday afternoon’s contest against Oak Hill. Don’t criticize the Mustangs for believing the floodgates would stay unsupervised. Blame human nature. “We started out well, and then after the two goals […]
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KVAC Girls’ Track and Field Championships: EL returns to form
BATH — How long does it take to go from being a track and field powerhouse to a heartwarming Cinderella story? Two years, apparently, if you’re the Edward Little girls. The Red Eddies won a sixth consecutive KVAC championship at McMann Field in 2012 before watching Lawrence steal the 2013 crown without much of a […]
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Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country’s chief of defense said Monday. Air Marshal Alex Barde told demonstrators supporting the much criticized military that Nigerian troops can save the girls. But […]
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H.S. Girls’ Tennis: Devils bounce back in big way
LEWISTON — To say that Lewiston girls’ tennis is back deceptively implies that it ever went away. The only losing season in Anita Murphy’s hall-of-fame coaching career ended with the Blue Devils sneaking into the 2013 Class A East playoffs, thanks to a late-season win over Mt. Blue. “I never told the girls that if […]
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Girls’ Lacrosse: Eagles’ early flight too much for Devils
Lewiston showed substantial heart Tuesday afternoon after watching Messalonskee fill the net seven consecutive times in the first half at Don Roux Field. The Blue Devils crawled to within a pair on three different occasions after intermission before dropping a 12-9 KVAC and Class A East verdict. “From about the 13-minute mark of the first […]
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U.S. prepares to send team to Nigeria to help search for kidnapped girls
WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration on Wednesday began preparing to deploy a team of military and civilian advisers to aid the search for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, members of Congress pressed for a more muscular response against the militant Islamist group that carried out the mass kidnapping last month. While international efforts to help the […]
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Girls’ roundup: Spruce Mountain comes down on Lisbon, 7-3
JAY — Emily Keene scattered just two hits and Spruce Mountain played solid defense as the Pheonix defeated Lisbon 7-3 in MVC softball action Friday afternoon. Hayley Doyen led off the bottom of the third for the Pheonix (3-1) with a single. Following a walk and an infield hit, Kailee Newcomb knocked in a pair […]