Coach: Dustin Williamson (10th year) Conference: KVAC; Class: A. Last year’s results: Girls, KVAC champions, third in state meet; Boys, third in conference and state Returning letter-winners: Boys: Seniors — Matt Thibodeau, Colby Varney, Rylee Knox; Juniors — Noah Castonguay, Justin Freda, Harrison Knowlton, Josh Therrien; Sophomores — Nate Allen, Chad Bates, Jarod Farrar, Mitchell Morrison, […]
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Girls’ Hockey: Leavitt/Edward Little wallops Winslow
AUBURN – There’s a difference between one-sided and ugly. The Leavitt/Edward Little cooperative girls’ hockey team’s 5-0 triumph Saturday over Winslow at Norway Savings Bank Arena was a resounding mismatch by every statistical measuring stick except the scoring column. Credit Winslow senior goaltender Jessica Cain for keeping the neon numbers from escalating out of control. […]
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Girls’ basketball: Leavitt edges Morse in opener
BATH — Through 32 minutes of girls’ high school Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference basketball Friday, Morse and Leavitt combined for just 21 field goals. Blame can certainly be passed around. From the Shipbuilders and Hornets trying to figure things out in their first game of the campaign, to both defenses playing in your face basketball, […]
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Preview 2013: Leavitt Boys’ Basketball
Coach: Mike Hathaway (sixth year) Last year’s record: 6-13, lost Western B preliminary Returning letterwinners: Seniors — Matt Powell (6-8 center), Nate Coombs (5-10 guard), Levi Morin (6-3 forward), Zac Goulette (6-0 guard); Juniors — Mitchel Davis (6-5 forward), Korey Caito (6-2 forward), Austin Anderson (6-3 forward), Isaiah Trask (5-10 guard), Matt Albert (6-2 center), […]
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For better or worse, Phoenix will rise in B West via the MVC
Expectations are high at Spruce Mountain for the 2012-13 basketball season. The Phoenix have virtually everyone back after reaching the Western B quarterfinals last year, and a spot among the Mountain Valley Conference’s elite is there for the Class B school’s taking. What Spruce does beyond that is anyone’s guess, though. Like most Class B […]
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Leavitt’s Morin named Fitzpatrick semifinalist
Leavitt Area High School center and linebacker Levi Morin has been named one of the 12 semifinalists for the 43rd annual Fitzpatrick Trophy, presented each year to an outstanding senior football player. Morin helped Leavitt (11-0) to its sixth state championship overall and its fourth undefeated season since 1995. The Hornets routed the Winslow Black […]
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The Hot Corner: Champions, even before the Gold
This job has never been confused with “working,” but the football teams from Leavitt and Oak Hill high schools made the past three months feel like a vacation. On one hand, it is tempting to wake up the morning after the state championship tripleheader at Portland’s Fitzpatrick Stadium, consider the tingle in still-thawing fingers and […]
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Western Class C Football Championship: Leavitt runs away from Winslow, 47-18
The opponent scored first. Somebody in green got hurt. And then the Hornets got angry and spent the rest of Saturday night pummeling the Winslow Black Raiders into submission. Nate Rousseau, Billy Bedard and Nate Coombs each scored two touchdowns in a 47-18 Leavitt victory that was a gem in all phases. “‘We’ve won a […]
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Class C Football Championship: Two storied programs stack up
For the fourth time in the past five years, Leavitt will play a football game on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. In Maine, that means you’ve extended the season as far as it can go, earning the right to play for a state championship. Three previous journeys to Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland ended with a win […]
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Class C Football Championship: Nothing stops Leavitt’s O’Malley
TURNER — Speed and power. They’re the ingredients, packaged in one form or another, that spell success for almost every football player at every level. Stir in healthy doses of persistence, vengeance and passion for the game and you probably have something special. And you’ve described Conor O’Malley to the letter. If Leavitt is to […]