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Field Hockey: Winthrop whacks Mount View for playoff win

Mount View (7-8) goalie Alexis Bowman made a couple of kick saves on a Winthrop (12-2-1) penalty corner just over 10 minutes into the first half. She didn’t get a chance to stop a shot on another corner six minutes later. Moriah Hajduk got solid contact on her hit from just inside the circle. The […]

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Field hockey: DeMascio, Leavitt hold off Mt. View

“It is intimidating,” DeMascio, making her first varsity start, said. “I knew we’d lost last year (to Mt. View, Thursday’s oppnent), and I wanted to come back and prove we were the better team.” DeMascio stared down a flurry of activity late in the game and made what could be a candidate for save of […]

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H.S. boys’ basketball: Hornets harness Mustangs

TURNER — It might still be early in the basketball season for must-wins, but considering its record and current seeding, the Leavitt boys’ basketball team knew Friday’s game was significant. “We took it like a playoff game,” senior guard Isaiah Calder said. “We have a tendency to play to whatever the competition is. I think […]

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H.S. girls’ basketball: Phoenix run past Mustangs

JAY — It often takes a matter of seconds to go from stealing to giving. That’s how fast things can change with the unbeaten Spruce Mountain girls’ basketball team. The Phoenix are thieves in one instant and making life miserable on the defensive end. That often leads to a quick steal and sudden offense. From […]

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Mt. View softball coach charged with sex assault on student

BELFAST (AP) — A teacher at the Waldo County Technical Center who also coaches softball at an area high school has been charged with sexually assaulting a student. Police allege that 46-year-old Michael Gagnon, of Winslow, an automotive technology instructor at the career training school, assaulted the 17-year-old Belfast High School student when he took […]