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Class B Nordic Skiing Championship: GNG’s Woods completes sweep

It was a Sugarloaf Sweep for Kaelyn Woods of Gray-New Gloucester High School. The sophomore backed up her Class B classical title with a convincing freestyle victory Friday on the second and final day of the Nordic state championship meet at Sugarloaf Outdoor Center in Carrabassett Valley. Competing in rainy and icy conditions that caused […]

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Class B West Girls’ Quarterfinal: Furness, Warriors get revenge at Patriots’ expense

PORTLAND — The drastic difference between Wells and Gray-New Gloucester’s two girls’ basketball encounters this winter can be explained by hunger and desperation. Round one, early in the regular season, the Patriots exhibited both. Embarrassed a night earlier by York, they clamped down and shocked the Warriors, who were still basking in the afterglow of […]

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Girls’ Quarterfinals postponed due to impending storm

We aren’t even out of the quarterfinals, and weather has wreaked havoc with the basketball tournament schedule for a second time. All four Class B West girls’ quarterfinal games scheduled for Tuesday at Portland Expo have been postponed due to the snowstorm expected this afternoon and evening. The games now will be played Wednesday, and […]

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Preview 2013: Gray-New Gloucester alpine skiing

Coach: Lucy Wilcox (first year) Conference: WMC; Class: B Last year’s results: Girls, tied for fifth at Class B states; Boys, sixth in state. Returning letter-winners: Boys: Senior — Noah Lobozzo, Pierce Stevens; Junior — Eric Wilcox. Girls: Junior — Caitlin Holmquist; Sophomores — Keaton McEvoy, Jennifer Sutherland. Key losses: Boys: Matt Lulofs, Will Bartlett. […]

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Preview 2013: Gray-New Gloucester Nordic skiing

Coach: Chris Carpentier (third year) Conference: WMC; Class: B. Last year’s results: Boys fourth in Class B states; Girls fifth. Returning letter-winners: Boys: Senior — Paul Phillips; Junior — Eric Wilcox; Sophomore — Ben Rogers. Girls: Senior — Audrey Garcia; Sophomores — Kaelyn Woods, Keaton McAvoy. Key losses: Boys: Jeremy McGrath-Holmquist, Garrett Wilbur, Cam Harmer; […]

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Cross Country Regionals: Telstar’s Holt-Andrews cruises to Western championship

CUMBERLAND — Everyone else’s regional championship race was Josef Holt-Andrews’ workout. No offense intended to the MPA’s Western Maine regional or any of the participants in it. Holt-Andrews respects the event and loves the running community. But he has bigger fish to fry. In order: Next week’s state meet, then New Englands, and finally the […]

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High School Notebook: Mustangs winning numbers game

Led by a bare minimum giving the maximum, Monmouth Academy is making a somewhat unlikely run at a Western Class C boys’ soccer playoff berth. Thirteen players suited up for the Mustangs in a trip to Jay this past week. That didn’t stop Monmouth from packing away a Heal Point-worthy 2-1 win over Spruce Mountain. […]

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H.S. Football Roundup: Spruce Mountain runs away from Gray-NG

LIVERMORE FALLS — Long touchdown runs by Alwayne Uter and Brandon Stearns broke it open in the second quarter Friday night, sending Spruce Mountain to a 56-19 Western Class C football win over Gray-New Gloucester. Spruce Mountain (5-1) has won four straight games and remains in the hunt for one of the two first-round byes […]

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H.S. Soccer: Patriots edge Falcons

FREEPORT — Gray-New Gloucester’s Tyler St. Pierre made run after run as his teammates tried to send the speedy forward on a breakaway behind the Freeport defense. Three times, the plan — both in timing and execution — worked perfectly as St. Pierre’s hat trick lifted the Patriots to their first win, a 3-2 Western […]

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Preview 2013: Gray-New Gloucester football

Coach: Jim Hersom (second year) Class: Western C Last year’s record: 1-7 Returning letter-winners: Seniors — Tyler Hicks (G/LB); Juniors — Carson Hodsdon (QB/DB), Adam Dumas (FB/LB), Nate Hennemann (T/DT), Jared Sullivan (G/DE); Sophomore — Zach Haskell (QB/HB/S) Key losses: Josh Greenleaf (RB/DB), Cam Quintal (G/LB), Aaron Chapman (TE/LB), Pat Dumas (G/DE). Promising newcomers: Seniors […]