WALES — Oak Hill High School wasn’t going to let Madison’s Madeline Wood beat it during the second half of the Raiders’ tilt with the Bulldogs on Thursday. The 5-foot-4 sophomore guard drilled three 3-pointers in the first half before being swarmed defensively in the second half by Oak Hill’s Danielle Samson and Jamie Prue. […]
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High school roundup: Winthrop holds off Lisbon to remain unbeaten
LISBON — Jacob Hickey scored 16 points and Dakota Carter added 11 as Winthrop dropped Lisbon 55-41 in a boys’ basketball game Monday. The undefeated Ramblers (5-0) and Greyhounds (1-4) were tied at 28 when Winthrop reeled off 27 points in the second half to pull away. For Lisbon, Johnny Yim was the game’s leading […]
Soccer roundup: Madison, Hall-Dale collect MVC crowns
MADISON — Kayla Bess found the back of the net with 1:19 to play in the second overtime as Madison edged Monmouth 2-1 to earn a win in the MVC Championship game on Saturday. Shannon Buzzell scored Monmouth’s lone goal with 13 seconds remaining in regulation to force the extra session. Sydney Leblanc netted the […]
Girls’ Soccer: Madison tips Monmouth, clinches No. 1 seed
MONMOUTH — No other Mountain Valley Conference girls’ soccer team has been able to contain both of Monmouth’s strikers, Sidney Wilson and Haley Fletcher, for most of an 80-minute game. Those vanquished rivals didn’t have Monica Ouellette and Madison Curtis simultaneously, unselfishly, roaming the defensive third. Madison does, which is why the Bulldogs will be […]
H.S. Soccer notebook: Spruce Mountain confirms Brown as boys’ coach
Willie Brown always thought he might be a head coach someday. He just wasn’t sure it was going to be in soccer or expecting it to be this year. The former multi-sport athlete at Livermore Falls started the year as the junior varsity coach with the Spruce Mountain boys’ team but suddenly found himself the […]
Elderly couple injured in wrecker accident in Madison
MADISON — An elderly couple were both listed in fair condition Sunday morning after a flatbed wrecker hit their vehicle Saturday afternoon on Route 148 in Madison. The woman, who was driving, was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor by a LifeFlight of Maine helicopter after the accident, according to police. Officer Eric […]
H.S. softball: Madison tops Calais for Class C crown
Madison’s freshman second baseman thought she had produced a measly two-out single Saturday, but as she legged it around the bases, her hit to right became something far greater. “When I hit it, I didn’t think it was going to go that far,” Wood said. “I thought I was just going to get a base […]
Western Class C softball: Madison shuts down Hall-Dale for regional crown
STANDISH — When Emily McKenney was asked prior to Tuesday’s game what her game plan was, she answered with a blank stare. “My pitching coach asked me what my strategy was, and I was like, ‘Um I don’t have one,’” McKenney said. No strategy? No problem for McKenney and the Madison Bulldogs. The senior pitcher […]
Class C West Softball Semifinal: Madison outduels Telstar
MADISON — No. 1 Madison scored on an error in the third inning and held on for a 1-0 Class C West softball semifinal win over No. 4 Telstar Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs avenged their only regular-season loss in the MVC and advanced to Tuesday’s regional title game at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish. Madison […]
Wilton man found dead at Somerset County Jail
MADISON — A Wilton man accused of putting a gun to a teenager’s head and smoking marijuana with teens was found dead early Wednesday in his cell at the Somerset County Jail. Corrections officers found Joseph F. Daoust, 27, unresponsive during a routine security check shortly before 2 a.m., Jail Administrator Cory Swope said in […]