SALEM — Monmouth Academy girls soccer coach Gary Trafton spent the preseason worrying where the team’s goals would come from after losing the program’s single-season goal-scoring leader from last year’s side to graduation. Saturday’s convincing 7-1 Mountain Valley Conference win over Mt. Abram may have served to alleviate Trafton’s concerns. Junior Audrey Fletcher scored four […]
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Game of the Week: Poland, Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale find footing before key Class D battle
Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale’s Ian Steele carries the ball past Oak Hill’s Colin French, left, earlier this month in Winthrop. (Sun Journal file photo) Poland quarterback Brady Downing passes against Gray-New Gloucester in Poland in 2016. (Sun Journal file photo) Poland and Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale find themselves tied with Oak Hill in the middle of the Class D South Heal […]
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College roundup: CMCC soccer teams sweep Unity
AUBURN — Central Maine Community College scored a goal in the first and second halves to scrape by Unity College 2-1 in women’s soccer on Tuesday. In the first half, Delia Schreiber scored to give the Mustangs (4-2) a 1-0 lead off an assist from Samantha Belardo. Belardo scored a much-needed goal in the second […]
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Local Roundup: Nordiques get hot in second period, burn Islanders
FALMOUTH — The L/A Nordiques exploded for five goals in the second period to pull away from the Cape Cod Islanders, 6-0, in NA3HL junior hockey action on Sunday. Kyle Secor scored two goals during the onslaught. Zack Mullen had one and added his second goal in the third period. The Nordiques (2-0) outshot the […]
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Boys' soccer: Monmouth hands Oak Hill first loss of season
Oak Hill’s Colby Leighton (22) fights for possession of the ball between Monmouth’s Cody Michaud, left, and Hayden Fletcher during the Mustangs’ win in Wales on Wednesday. (Wil Kramlich/Sun Journal)Monmouth goalie Connor Davies leaps above a crowd to make a save during the Mustangs’ win over Oak Hill in Wales on Wednesday. (Wil Kramlich/Sun Journal) […]
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Boys' Soccer: Mustangs strike too quickly for Cobras
NORTH ANSON — It was quick and it was clinical, even if it wasn’t effortless. Effort, at least early on, was part of the problem. Monmouth Academy boys soccer coach Joe Fletcher was so dispirited by his team’s lack of effort that he plucked all four members of his starting midfield off the pitch at […]
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Girls' Soccer: Mustangs eke out win over Cobras
N ANSON, ME – SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 Monmouth Academy’s Alicen Burnham (8) gains control of the ball against Carrabec High School in North Anson on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer)N ANSON, ME – SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 Monmouth Academy’s Abbie Crawford (20) battles with Carrabec High School’s Caitlin Crawford (16) […]
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College roundup: CMCC women’s soccer beats Vermont Tech with strong second half
RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt. — Deliah Schreiber had a goal and an assist, and Central Maine Community College scored four second-half goals to defeat Vermont Tech 4-2 in women’s soccer action Saturday. Samantha Belardo, Katelynn Greene and Rachel Dunn also scored for the Mustangs. Savannah Fisher assisted on Belardo’s goal. Schreiber and Fisher played at Lisbon […]
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College roundup: Bates men’s soccer shuts out UMaine-Farmington
LEWISTON — Ciaran Bardong and Morgan Dewdney scored second-half goals to push the Bates (1-0) past UMaine-Farmington (1-2) in men’s soccer action Wednesday. Bardong scored from Peder Bakken with 25:41 left in regulation. Six minutes later, Dewdney and Sam Huebschmann went for a header off a pass from from Liam Goldfarb. Dewdney connected for the […]
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Boys' soccer: Hall-Dale handles Monmouth with well-rounded effort
Hall-Dale High School’s Ian Stebbins leaps over Monmouth Academy goalie Connor Davies during a soccer game Wednesday in Farmingdale. (Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal) FARMINGDALE — Just a couple of match days into the new season, a pair of Mountain Valley Conference boys’ soccer heavyweights sit at opposite ends of the spectrum. Hall-Dale’s 3-0 victory over Monmouth […]