MCI’s Tucker Sharples gets taken down by Leavitt’s Damien Calder during the season opener in Turner on Friday night. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) TURNER — Leavitt got off to the fast start it wanted, scoring touchdowns on the first two drives against defending Class C state champion Maine Central Institute. And while the Huskies still had […]
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Lewiston’s Kalilwa, two Bobcats heading to NCAA D-III track and field championships
Lewiston High School graduate Adela Kalilwa and a pair of Bates College athletes will compete at the NCAA Division III track and field championships later this week at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The field for all events was announced Saturday. Kalilwa, a sophomore at the University of Southern Maine, has qualified in the triple […]
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USM coach Ed Flaherty celebrates 1,000th career victory in win over Bates College
GORHAM, ME – MAY 2: University of Southern Maine baseball coach Ed Flaherty hangs out in the dugout with grandson Kaden Pooth (cq), 2, on Wednesday during a home game against Bates in which Flaherty scored his 1,000th career win. Pooth, a regular in the dugout, is known as “Boss” by the players. (Ben McCanna/Portland […]
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Women's lacrosse: Eliasen, Vaillancourt go from rivals to teammates at USM
Morgan Eliasen, left, and Mariah Vaillancourt are freshmen on the University of Southern Maine women’s lacrosse team. (University of Southern Maine athletics) Neither Morgan Eliasen nor Mariah Vaillancourt entered the University of Southern Maine expecting to suit up for the school’s women’s lacrosse team. The spring sports season is here, though, and the freshmen and […]
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USM Huskies optimistic after .500 Florida trip
University of Southern Maine head baeball coach Ed Flaherty works on bunting during practice. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald) GORHAM — Ed Flaherty stood in the middle of a group of University of Southern Maine baseball players inside the USM Fieldhouse, and explained, in minute detail, how to execute a bunt. “Placement,” he emphasized, “is more […]
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USM's Del Gallo aiming for national wrestling title
University of Southern Maine sophomore Peter Del Gallo wrestles Bridgewater State’s Shawn Ferrell in a 125-pound match on in Gorham in Novebmer. Del Gallo pinned Ferrell in 48 seconds. Right from the start, Peter Del Gallo was in trouble. He was in the Division III Northeast regional final on Feb. 25 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and […]
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Women's basketball: Turner's Eells leading USM into postseason
University of Southern Maine sophomore Chantel Eells shoots over Bates College’s Nina Davenport in November. Eells, a Leavitt Area High School graduate, is a key player for the Huskies this year. (Jason Johns/USM Athletics) The way the season started was a dreadful continuation of the last year. The University of Southern Maine women’s basketball team […]
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C South girls' basketball prelim: No. 10 St. Dom's upends No. 7 Kents Hill
KENTS HILL — Pressure mounted in multiple ways when No. 10 St. Dominic Academy and No. 7 Kents Hill School met in a Class C South girls’ basketball preliminary round game Tuesday. The visiting Saints unleashed a full-court pressure that kept the Huskies to just 15 first-half points, but the hosts then put the pressure […]
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MCI runs over Cape Elizabeth in Class C state football championship
Maine Central Institute’s Adam Bertrand (6) breaks a tackle by Cape Elizabeth High School’s Zach Stewart (5) in the first half of the Class C state championship game at Harold Alfond Stadium at the University of Maine in Orono on Friday. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) ORONO — New class, new foes, no problem. For the […]
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B North field hockey: MCI tips Gardiner
MCI’s Allison Hughes jumps into the arms of her mother and head coach Nancy Hughes and father Greg Hughes, right, after defeating Gardiner in the Class B North championship game Tuesday in Hampden. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — As it turns out, Eva Bickford’s goal just over two minutes into the game was all […]