Edward Little’s Ibn Khalid drives around South Portland’s Scott Lewis. during their game in South Portland on Tuesday. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald) SOUTH PORTLAND — Darby Shea wasn’t about to miss twice. After failing to cap a stirring comeback at the end of regulation when he missed a pair of foul shots with 17 seconds […]
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Dirigo upends Orono in Class D football crossover
DIXFIELD — With plenty on the line for Dirigo, Dallas Berry scored three touchdowns, including a catch-and-run pass from Cole Brown, and Mike Packard rushed for two scores as Dirigo spread the wealth and raced away for a 40-7 win over Orono before a Homecoming crowd at Harlow Park. Something had to give between the […]
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Lisbon seniors hoping to leave on top
Tyler Halls reacts after his seventh-inning one-run double drove in an insurance run against St. Dominic Academy last season. LISBON — Somewhere there are two runner-up medallions waiting for Nate Havlicek and several of his Lisbon baseball and football teammates to add them to their trophy cases. Havlicek, a senior, doesn’t know the whereabouts of […]
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Kings, South Portland/Freeport/Waynlete settle for draw
AUBURN — Both teams’ coaches weren’t happy with the way things started Wednesday, and neither was particularly pleased with the ending, either. Poland/Leavitt/Oak Hill/Gray-New Gloucester and South Portland/Freeport/Waynflete battled through three periods and overtime with nothing decided, settling for a 3-3 tie at Norway Savings Bank Arena. “The key is you can’t play from behind […]
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High school lacrosse: Brunswick tops South Portland for Class A crown
“(Sophomore Christian) was a lefty attackman, and then he turned out to be a gifted LSM,” the elder Glover said. “I watched him go after it with his brother, and I said, ‘Oh, he’s pretty good going both ways.’” Late in the third quarter of Saturday’s Class A state championship game, any second guesses coach […]
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Field Hockey: No. 3 Ramblers edge No. 6 Red Riots
Sure, the defending Eastern Class C champions won 11 games. But they did so in dramatic fashion, winning seven of those 11 games by a single goal. “It’s how we’ve been playing all season, and it’s been killing me,” Winthrop coach Jessica Merrill said. The important part, though, was that they won those games. And […]