Kierstin Leclerc scored once and added two assists and three other Hornets found the back of the cage as No. 4 Leavitt ran away from No. 5 Lake Region 4-0 in the teams’ Western Class B quarterfinal on Tuesday. “It was important for us to know we could score early,” Leavitt coach Wanda Ward-McLean said. […]
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Class C Football: Leavitt passes test against Wells
Once the Warriors took the Hornets’ best shot in the first quarter, it became abundantly clear that Leavitt wouldn’t be burying another overmatched Western Class C foe. It took three second-half touchdowns from Nate Rousseau to put away a 34-12 victory at Libby Field. Rousseau rushed for 112 of his game-high 121 yards after intermission […]
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Field Hockey: Hornets cage Black Bears in season finale
On one sideline stood the defending Class B state champion Hornets with a bench and JV team deep enough to have fielded three varsity squads. On the other stood the Black Bears, with two coaches, three injured players and a pile of equipment where any substitute players would otherwise have been standing. There were no […]
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Class C Football: Leavitt dismantles Mountain Valley
TURNER — Mountain Valley might consider rounding up Gray-New Gloucester, Poland and Lake Region and starting a support group. Because collectively, for the past month, those four football programs ran into Leavitt and paid for Belfast’s sins. The Hornets were unceremoniously, unexpectedly eliminated from the 2012 regional playoffs — in a different conference, mind you […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Hornets, Black Bears knotted again
TURNER — One by one, Maranacook girls’ soccer players took their turns embracing goalkeeper Elizabeth D’Angelo as she walked off Libby Field between overtime periods Tuesday night. D’Angelo returned the love with a good-natured jab: “Never do that again!” Only four days earlier, the junior goalie scratched, clawed, but couldn’t stop an overtime penalty kick […]
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H.S. Football: Aylward, Hathaway, Mynahan up for USA Today award
Jim Aylward of Mountain Valley, Dick Mynahan of Lisbon and Mike Hathaway of Leavitt are three of eight Maine football coaches vying to be named the USA Today’s Best High School Football Coach in the country contest. Aylward, Mynahan and Hathaway are joined on the ballot by Kevin Cooper of Bonny Eagle, John Hersom of […]
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H.S. Football: Hornets show air power against Knights
TURNER — The Leavitt Hornets have been so good at lighting up the scoreboard the past two weeks that even when they run the wrong play, they score. Tyler Chicoine threw for 190 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score as the Hornets dropped Poland, 62-0, at Libby Field Friday night. Leavitt (4-0) […]
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HS Football: All in a half’s work for Hornets
TURNER — In years past, Leavitt’s starters have been used to getting their work in for a half, then watching the backups mop things up in the final 24 minutes. But the Hornets haven’t just been letting teams hang around so far this season. They’ve had some legitimate nail-biters, which is why they welcomed Saturday […]
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H.S. field hockey: Hornets blank Windjammers
TURNER — One of the aftereffects of a state championship victory can be the target that teams feel the following season. With much of its team back this year, the Leavitt field hockey team knows that opponents just might be eying them a little more intently. That means there can’t be much let down in […]
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H.S. Football: Opponents walk Leavitt’s line
TURNER — Every high school football team’s final loss of a season gets used as bulletin board and weight room wall motivational material. Leavitt seniors Matt Powell and Levi Morin took the stigma of a playoff disaster on their home field against Belfast to an even higher level. Sometimes Morin, a center and linebacker, would […]