Coach: Gary Dolloff (12th year) Conference: Mid-State Class: B Last year’s record: League champions, fourth in state meet Returning athletes: Seniors — Alan Carrier, Mike Provencher; Juniors — Caleb Austin, Ethan Boucher, Eddie Deroche; Sophomores — Mike Arsenault, Isaac Therrien. Key losses: Ian Austin, Dakota Jacques, Brandon Gill, Coyote Freeman. Promising newcomers: Juniors — Ian Jacques, Drew McKenna; Sophomores — Ian […]
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H.S. Football Playoff Roundup: Graham, Cape finish off Gray-New Gloucester
CAPE ELIZABETH — Matt Graham scored four touchdowns Friday night, leading No. 2 Cape Elizabeth to a 33-16 Class C South football quarterfinal win over No. 7 Gray-New Gloucester. Cape (7-2) will host No. 3 Wells (7-2) next week in the semis. Gray-NG (4-5) matched the most single-season wins in the history of its program. Neither […]
H.S. Football: Wells bounces back, shuts out Mountain Valley
RUMFORD — Wells certainly was a challenge for Mountain Valley, which had high hopes of building on its first Class C South football win of the season but came up empty Friday in a 42-0 loss at Chet Bulger Field. What started out on a positive note for the Falcons soon turned in to an old […]
Girls’ soccer: Falcons take out Roadrunners
RUMFORD — It took some time to get the jitters out, but once the Mountain Valley girls; soccer team settled down, there was little doubt who was in control of the Falcons’ game against Mt. Abram at Chet Bulger Field on Wednesday. Junior Ashley Russell recorded a natural hat trick and added two assists and […]
2015 Field hockey preview: Mountain Valley High School Falcons
Coach: Melissa Forbes (19th year) Conference: MVC Class: C Last year: 4-8-2 regular season. Returning players: Seniors — Lexy Duguay (F), Maddie Kaubrys (M), Lexi Edwards (F), Danielle Thibodeau (M); Juniors — Chelsea Allison (F), Makayla Burgess (M), Brooke Carrier (D), Marissa Crosby (F), Kassie Thibodeau (G), Liza White (D); Sophomores — Abby Harding (F), […]
Boys’ basketball: Mustangs fight off Falcons, 52-49
MONMOUTH — Mountain Valley Conference boys’ basketball might be appropriately renamed the Fab Five this winter. With the quintessential quintet of Boothbay, Dirigo, Winthrop, Hall-Dale and Madison likely levitating above the pack, not necessarily in that order, any game between two teams in the next echelon is a donnybrook in the gotta-have category. So far, […]
Mountain Valley boys’ basketball preview
Mountain Valley had never endured a boys’ basketball season like the one that unfolded in 2013-14. After winning 13 games and reaching the Class B West semifinals the previous winter, the Falcons snak to 2-16 and last in Class C West Heal Points. The Falcons should bounce back substantially and look more like their old […]
Mountain Valley wrestling preview
Coach: Gary Dolloff (first year, 11th overall) Conference: Mid-State League Class: B Last year’s results: West regional champions; second in state. Returning athletes: Seniors — Ian Austin, Dakota Jacques, Michael Provencher, Brandon Gill, Coyote Freeman; Sophomores — Caleb Austin, Ethan Boucher, Eddie Deroche. Key losses: Jacob Thornton, Anthony Boucher, Zach Cross. Promising newcomers: Freshmen — […]
Class C West Football Quarterfinal: Spruce Mountain squelches Mountain Valley
There’s Wells at home next week, and potentially a trip to Leavitt two weeks down the highway. But after last Saturday’s 28-14 loss to the Hornets – one in which the Phoenix lost out on an undefeated regular season and home field advantage – how they handled Halloween Night against the Falcons was a good […]
H.S. Football Game of the Week: Phoenix aim to get back on track
High school football fans had mixed feelings about the consolidation of Jay and Livermore Falls in 2011. One major positive out of the school merger, in gridiron terms, was the idea that the communities would face Mountain Valley again after more than a decade in different divisions. Someday, maybe even in the next year or […]