It was a Sugarloaf Sweep for Kaelyn Woods of Gray-New Gloucester High School. The sophomore backed up her Class B classical title with a convincing freestyle victory Friday on the second and final day of the Nordic state championship meet at Sugarloaf Outdoor Center in Carrabassett Valley. Competing in rainy and icy conditions that caused […]
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HS Skiing: Gray-NG’s Woods wins WMC nordic race
Kaelyn Woods of Gray-New Gloucester won the Western Maine Conference girls’ classical nordic race at Stark’s Hill in Fryeburg on Saturday. Woods completed the 5.3K course in 19:26.1, ahead of Merriconeag’s Samantha Pierce (19:53.4) and Freeport’s Lily Johnston (19:54.1). Keaton McEvoy was the Patriots’ next top skier, finishing 25th. Yarmouth placed four skiers in the […]
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HS Skiing: Gray-NG’s Lobozzo wins WMC slalom title
Gray-New Gloucester senior Noah Lobozzo won the Western Maine Conference slalom title at Thursday’s conference alpine championships at Shawnee Peak. Lobozzo finished with a combined time of 1:27.93 for his two runs to win the title, edging Yarmouth’s Tucker Grout by six-tenths of a second. Lobozzo’s 43.13 was the top time in the first round. […]
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HS Hockey: Eddies blank 26ers, 4-0
AUBURN — An early shorthanded goal set the bar high for Edward Little’s penalty kill Saturday night. And the Red Eddies gave themselves too many opportunities to try to meet that standard going forward. While they didn’t get on the board a man down again, the Eddies’ special teams did play at a high level […]
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Girls’ basketball: Freeport tips Gray-New Gloucester
FREEPORT — Desperate. That one word best described the way the Freeport High School girls’ basketball team approached Saturday night’s Western Maine Conference matchup with 8-5 Gray-New Gloucester, a Patriots team with a resume that includes wins over top Western Maine Class B teams Greely and Wells. One night after a demoralizing loss to Yarmouth, […]
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H.S. skiing: Gray-NG’s Woods claims Sassi Memorial title
RUMFORD — Kaelyn Woods had her own expectations for Saturday’s Sassi Memorial Classic at Black Mountain: The Gray-New Gloucester sophomore hoped to finish among the top five in the hotly-contested race. Then, one of her coaches mentioned that she was the skier to beat in the girls’ 5-kilometer event. That was news to Woods. “That definitely […]
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Brady, Manning to meet again
DENVER (AP) — Only one of them can be the greatest. Peyton Manning could be the one — owner of a record four, working on five, Most Valuable Player awards, current holder of NFL single-season records for passing yardage and touchdowns and architect of a career-reviving second act, the likes of which has rarely been […]
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Huddle Up: An appreciation of Patriots AFC Championship history
Charles Barkley was right. We don’t appreciate the Patriots enough. So, with this being the Patriots’ 10th AFC Championship appearance, I offer an appreciation of their first nine. Going all the way back to their first one in 1986, when crusty current offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia was a crusty special teams coach, I’ve ranked […]
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Pats Blount with Colts
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — LeGarrette Blount ran the Patriots into their third straight AFC championship game. The 250-pound back had four touchdown runs and New England kept Andrew Luck from a second straight comeback win to beat the Indianapolis Colts 43-22 Sunday night. Blount scored on three 2-yard runs in the first half, then burst […]
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Pats wary of Colts’ ‘D’
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A defense that allowed 44 points in a playoff game might boost the confidence of its next opponent. Such generosity rarely leads to wins. But the New England Patriots aren’t counting on the Indianapolis Colts being that vulnerable again. “I hope we can find something that we can move the ball […]