Game 2: Leavitt 20, Yarmouth 12. For the second consecutive year, Yarmouth – a team that dominated the old Class C in back-to-back years before Leavitt, Cape, Wells and Spruce Mountain dropped in as a result of reclassification – gave the Hornets fits. Leavitt appeared to find its groove by jumping out to an early […]
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Class C Football State Championship: Air up there comfortable for Leavitt Hornets
TURNER — “Defending state champion” is a bit of a misnomer when applied to Leavitt football. Oh, the Hornets certainly are all that, by definition. Ten consecutive wins have put Leavitt in position to keep the Class C gold Friday night against Winslow at the University of Maine. Let’s take inventory, though, of what some […]
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Class C West Football Analysis: Five out of six ain’t bad, or easy
TURNER — What Leavitt football has accomplished the past six years isn’t unprecedented in the Maine high school history books. It’s close, however. And when you consider all the variables and complications that go into it, it’s nearly inconceivable, if not impossible. The Hornets have won five regional championships in six years, adding the latest […]
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H.S. Football: Parkin propels Leavitt back to regional final
TURNER — As a 185-pound junior nose tackle, Will Parkin should have been an easy person to overlook in Leavitt’s 2013 Class C championship defense. Matt Powell, Conor O’Malley, Levi Morin and Clay Rowland earned the headlines among a star-studded, senior-laden lot. All four are on a college roster this autumn. The number of tackles […]
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Class C West Football Quarterfinal: Hornets handle hungry Lakers
TURNER — For all the talk this week about forfeits and the need for 1-versus-8 playoff games, Lake Region showed up at Libby Field on Friday night carrying the back pages of the playbook inside the kitchen sink. The Lakers threw it all at top-seeded Leavitt and stayed within reach for almost a half. But […]
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Field hockey playoffs: Spruce Mountain stymies Leavitt in West B semifinal
TURNER — When Spruce Mountain made the decision to leave the Class C-dominated MVC for the Class A- and Class B-heavy KVAC, one of the hopes was that its teams would be better prepared for their annual foray into the Western Class B playoff bracket into which they are customarily thrown. That the Phoenix justified […]
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Class B West Field Hockey Quarterfinals: Leavitt flies past Freeport
TURNER — If Ashley Mathieu took the time to glance over her shoulder before swatting the ball into the cage for Leavitt’s third goal Tuesday afternoon, it wouldn’t have counted. The scoreboard at the opposite end of the field, dealing only in whole numbers, read all zeroes. But a referee’s stopwatch confirmed that Mathieu beat […]
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Field hockey: Leavitt edges Oceanside, climbs to No. 2 in West B
TURNER — With 12 seconds remaining on a stopped clock, Kierstin Leclerc set herself over the ball after Leavitt earned a penalty stroke with time ticking away in the first half. She looked up at Oceanside goalie Zoe Billington, searched for an opening, put her head back down and awaited an official’s whistle. Given the […]
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Field hockey: Leavitt rallies past Spruce Mountain in second half
A strong move from Kierstin Leclerc at the top of the arc drew all of Spruce Mountain’s defenders from the goalmouth, though, and Leclerc relayed an Emma Martineau drive to Royer on the right side. Royer settled the ball and wristed it past Spruce Mountain goalie Grace Ryan with 9:04 to play in regulation, lifting […]
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H.S. Football: Leavitt throws down Lake Region
TURNER — The Leavitt air show continued Saturday in another one-sided Class C West football victory. Levi Craig threw five touchdown passes — four to Gabe Seeley — and ran for another score in a 58-14 Homecoming rout of Lake Region at Libby Field. It was the third consecutive win for the Hornets (4-1). Craig, […]