Don’t call Lisbon football coach Dick Mynahan a fortune-teller. He scouted Maine Central Institute — a team he would only face in the state championship — twice during the season, but it was due to preparation, not prediction. Yet Mynahan’s non-existent prediction came true, and the Huskies squad he traveled to watch twice is the […]
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First and 10: Head to head with Wil and Lee
Here’s the problem: The Greyhounds and Ramblers both played so well that it’s impossible to not feel bad for the losing team. I find myself wishing that I could pull the Winthrop/Monmouth players aside and tell them that despite the loss, they achieved greatness. The Ramblers lost some key players to injury and Lisbon continued […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Brunswick 35, Kennebunk 21 Wells 28, Mount Desert Island 12 Lisbon 26, Maine Central Institute 22
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H.S. Football: Weekend blitz
Class A state championship North No. 1 PORTLAND (9-1) vs. South No. 1 BONNY EAGLE (10-0) Saturday, 11:06 a.m. This title game will be played at the home of the Bulldogs, and a place that Bonny Eagle coach Kevin Cooper has made feel like home, winning five titles in five tries. Both time like to […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Lisbon’s miraculous win was filled with action and stories
Saturday’s Class D South regional championship game between Lisbon and Winthrop/Monmouth had so many twists and turns, and storylines galore, that one game story couldn’t possibly do the instant classic justice. Here are some leftover stories to tell from an “all-timer,” as one person described the game. Anatomy of a game-winning play Through 47 minutes […]
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H.S. Football: Regional final weekend blitz
No. 3 SCARBOROUGH (8-2) at No. 1 BONNY EAGLE (9-0) Friday, 7 p.m. A Bonny Eagle-Thornton Academy rematch was all set up … until the Red Storm went and upset the Trojans. What we get now is a rematch of a week two game that the Scots won, 21-7. But that was on the road. […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Maine Central Institute 35, Dexter 12 Bonny Eagle 41, Scarborough 21 Portland 28, Windham 16 Biddeford 20, Kennebunk 14 Brunswick 48, Brewer 14 Cape Elizabeth 28, Wells 20 Winslow 36, Mount Desert Island 26
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Field hockey: MCI takes out Winthrop
HAMPDEN — Momentum is paramount in a playoff game of any kind, especially when you never let the opponent have it. Maine Central Institute, the defending Class C field hockey state champion, did just that to Winthrop in the North regional final on Wednesday. The No. 1 Huskies scored early, then again in the first […]
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Class D football: Buteau ‘D,’ special teams play key for Raiders
Buteau turned those 14 carries into just 30 rushing yards, though. Buteau found it tough sledding running the ball against the Huskies, who Oak Hill head coach Stacen Doucette called a “big, physical team.” Buteau’s longest run was 10 yards, and he had multiple negative-yardage runs to go along with a fumble. “Offense was definitely […]
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High School football: The Raiders’ great escape
The Raiders struggled from the start of the Class D state game Saturday and found themselves trailing by seven with their backs against the end zone. That’s when quarterback Dalton Therrien walked into the huddle and told his Raiders they were in familiar territory. “At practice, the ball always gets put on the 1-yard line […]