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PHOTOS: Oak Hill/Lisbon, Dirigo wrestlers hit the mat

Dirigo’s Owen Libby, top, tries to get control of Lisbon/Oak Hill’s Zoe Buteau during a high school wrestling meet at Lisbon on Saturday. Buteau won the 128-pound match by decision. (Bob Conn/The Times Record) Jack Tibbets of Lisbon/Oak Hill ties up Dirigo’s Jason Beaucage during their 126-pound match at Lisbon High School on Saturday. Tibbets […]

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2018-19 High School Cheering preview capsules

Buckfield Bucks Coaches: Jennifer Dobson and Vickie Dobson (second year) Class: D  Returning athletes: Senior —Wyatt Lewis; Juniors —Chloe Warren, Saige Collette. Key losses: Meagan Strout, Marie Robertson, Cassidy Hart, Promising newcomers:  Senior — Jenna Doucette; Freshman — Jackie Lee; Foreign Exchange students — Pim Phimraphat, Sofia Martinez Soriana. What to expect: The Bucks feel […]

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Track and Field: Lisbon and St. Dom’s join forces for new indoor season

Members of the Lisbon/St. Dominic Academy indoor track team pose for a photo prior to Monday’s practice at Bates College in Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Lisbon High School and St. Dominic Academy practiced together last indoor season, but were scored separately in meets. This season, the two class B-size schools are combining athletes to make […]

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Wrestling preview: Zoe Buteau's second senior project? A state title

Oak Hill High School senior Zoe Buteau’s goal is to be the first girl to win a state championship in a Maine Principal’s Association sanctioned meet. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) LISBON — Zoe Buteau selected an unusual endeavor for her senior project at Oak Hill High School — she organized a preseason high school wrestling meet. […]

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Monday Morning QB: Raiders were prepared to weather storm

Oak Hill’s Caleb Treadwell, top, celebrates after diving through the mud as teammate Gabriel Bergeron, bottom, takes his turn at the end of Saturday’s playoff game against Lisbon in overtime. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Bad weather is often considered the great equalizer in football, and it’s not unkind to apply that axiom to seventh-seeded Oak Hill’s […]

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H.S. football: Raiders upset Greyhounds in D South mud bowl

Oak Hill High School’s James Borkowski, Jr., right, and Gavin Rawstron, bottom, tackle Lisbon’s Lucas Francis during Saturday playoff football game in Lisbon on October 27, 2018, in Lisbon, Maine. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LISBON — Oak Hill spent nearly the entire first 48 minutes of Saturday’s Class D South quarterfinal backed up in its own […]

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Girls' soccer C South quarter: Mt. Abram, Knight foil Lisbon

Lisbon goalkeeper Sarah Haggerty jumps on a shot by Kaylee Knight of Mt. Abram during the second half in Lisbon on Wednesday. Haggerty made the save. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) LISBON — The Lisbon goalie was on the ground, Mt. Abram was down 1-0 in the second half and Kaylee Knight was hurtling toward a wide […]

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H.S. football: Greyhounds pick off Raiders

Lisbon’s Isaiah Thompson runs the balls down the field into Oak Hill’s Hill’s defense during Saturday afternoon’s football game at Oak Hill High School. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) WALES — Lisbon has been in more close games than coach Chris Kates would prefer, but the Greyhounds showed in Saturday’s season finale at Oak Hill that they […]

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Game of the Week: Greyhounds, Raiders renew no-nonsense rivalry

Lisbon quarterback Lucas Francis scores Lisbon’s first touchdown of a 20-14 win over Oak Hill last year. (Sun Journal file photo) Any self-proclaimed high school football connoisseur who hasn’t sampled the Lisbon-Oak Hill rivalry isn’t truly a connoisseur. It’s not as celebrated as the city rivalries, and documentary filmmakers haven’t chronicled it. That seems fitting […]