GRAY — One minute was the difference in an 80-minute battle between Gray-New Gloucester and York on Saturday afternoon. Maddie Amidon scored two goals 57 seconds apart midway through the first half, and then she added the nail in the coffin late in the second in a 3-0 WMC girls’ soccer victory for the Wildcats […]
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Boys’ Soccer: York gets best of Gray-New Gloucester
GRAY — Homecoming is a time for old friends to reconnect. Unfortunately for Gray-New Gloucester’s current boys’ soccer players, connecting was hard to do. By the time the Patriots did start putting passes together, they were down 2-0 and visiting York held on at the end for a 2-1 WMC victory at Myles Burbank Memorial […]
H.S. Football: Spruce Mountain sprints past Gray-New Gloucester
GRAY — Quality trumped quantity when Spruce Mountain and Gray-New Gloucester met on the gridiron Friday night. The Patriots ran 39 plays to the Phoenix’s 16, but Spruce Mountain scored on four of them, jumping out to a 30-0 lead and running away with a 51-6 victory in a Class C South football game at […]
H.S. football: Freeport blanks Gray-New Gloucester
POWNAL — What a difference a year makes. Last season, coach Paul St. Pierre’s first leading the Freeport High School football team, didn’t go well, including a 36-0 loss at Gray-New Gloucester. That setback was part of an 0-8 season for Freeport. On Saturday at Pownal Recreation Field, the Falcons returned that loss to the […]
Boys soccer: Gray-New Gloucester battles to scoreless draw
GRAY — The beauty of the Beautiful Game is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. “It was a dirty, grimy, defensive-type game, which you love,” Kennebunk boys’ soccer coach Greg Cavanaugh said. “These are specials for these guys. You remember the battles that you play double overtime. And it’s just fun.” Gray New-Gloucester and […]
H.S. Field Hockey: Cape Elizabeth overtakes Gray-NG in OT
The Capers, who didn’t win a game last year and started off this season 0-2, scored less than two minutes into overtime to rally past Gray-New Gloucester, 2-1, in a WMC matchup on Monday. Senior Taylor Young gave the Capers (1-2) their long-awaited win with a long shot from the top-right of the shooting circle […]
HS Football: Raiders overrun young Patriots
GRAY — The highlight for the young Gray-New Gloucester Patriots in Friday night’s Campbell Conference Class C game against Fryeburg Academy came when sophomore Reese Kneissler stopped Fryeburg running back Tyrese Deloatch-Jeffrey inches shy of the goal line as the halftime buzzer sounded. Unfortunately for the Patriots, the Raiders had already crossed the goal line […]
High School Football roundup: Mountain Valley thumps Gray-New Gloucester
GRAY — Kyle Farrar led the way as Mountain Valley thwacked Gray-New Gloucester 63-6 in the season opener. Farrar, a senior, ran for five touchdowns in Friday’s game, and helped the Falcons put the game away early. Mountain Valley led 21-6 after one quarter and 42-6 at halftime. “Obviously, we were extremely happy with the […]
2016 Sun Journal football preview: Gray-New Gloucester Patriots
Coach: Mark Renna (third year) Class: C South Last year’s results: 4-4, lost in Class C South quarterfinals Returning athletes: Seniors — Brandon Laflamme (OL/DL), Joe Gurney (OL/DL); Juniors — Eric Thompson (OL/DL), Eric Brown (OL/DL), Boomer Simmons (RB/DB). Key losses: Austin Chase, Zack Haskell, Triston Herod, Jacob Baggs, Jacob Zeisler Promising newcomers: Senior — […]
Gray-NG football: Patriots set out to prevent stepping back
With that barrier now finally broken the Patriots face an equally daunting challenge — not stepping back. “We could still go 0-8,” third-year head coach Mark Renna said. “We definitely don’t think we’re going to just walk in this league and go 4-4 again. We know we have to work hard, and that the possibility […]