On a night when the Sea Dogs honor Joan Benoit Samuelson with a bobblehead, they have the potential tying run thrown out at the plate.
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Cold Sea Dogs shut out by Yard Goats
The Yard Goats just keep coming to bat in a rout at Portland.
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Registration for 4,000 Beach to Beacon 10K bibs set for March 16
General registration for the 2018 TD Beach to Beacon 10K will take place on March 16, race organizers announced Friday. Four thousand race bibs will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 7 a.m. One day earlier, Cape Elizabeth residents will be able to register for 600 bibs, also starting at 7 a.m. […]
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Samuelson sets unofficial record in 20th Beach to Beacon
Former Olympian Joan Benoit Samuelson, right, is congratulated by Deena Kastor, winner of bronze medal in the women’s marathon at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, after finishing the 20th annual TD Beach To Beacon 10K road race Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in Cape Elizabeth. CAPE ELIZABETH — Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson […]
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Beach to Beacon: Legacy runners celebrate two decades
Kelly Brown, left, and Maureen Sproul, right, with elite men’s race winner Ben True in 2016. After running the very first Beach to Beacon 10k in 1998, Peg and Peter Rearick looked at each other and decided that the course in Cape Elizabeth was too hilly, and the late-summer weather was too hot for running. […]
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UMF graduation speaker: ‘It is in our hands to better our society’
FARMINGTON — University of Maine graduates got an emotional sendoff during Saturday’s commencement from their senior class speaker and Joan Benoit Samuelson, a hero and role model for women everywhere. In turn, they helped Chelsea Lear-Ward recover her composure during her senior class speech by applauding loudly along with a few thousand people when she […]
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Benoit Samuelson is UMF 2015 Commencement speaker
FARMINGTON — The commencement speaker for the University of Maine at Farmington Class of 2015 will be Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic gold medalist and champion for women’s distance running. Samuelson will receive an honorary degree at the ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, on the UMF campus. A Maine native, Benoit Samuelson has blazed a […]
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Beach to Beacon road race sets record for registration time
CAPE ELIZABETH (AP) — Runners desperate for a run on a warm, sunny day set a record with the fastest registration for the popular Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race in the event’s 18-year history. Open registration for the Cape Elizabeth race filled up 4,000 slots in 4 minutes and 15 seconds on Friday. The […]
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Boston victims to be remembered at Beach to Beacon road race
CAPE ELIZABETH (AP) — Undertones of the Boston Marathon bombings will be evident when thousands of runners take to the course for the TD Beach to Beacon 10-kilometer race in Maine. The starting horn for Saturday’s race in Cape Elizabeth will be sounded by Karen Rand, a former Westbrook resident who now lives in Somerville, […]