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H.S. baseball: Clutch hitting, pitching and defense give Saints 5-2 win over Hawks

AUBURN — In between the rain drops and muddy bases, Monday’s Western Maine Conference baseball game presented several opportunities for St. Dom’s and Sacopee Valley to score runs. The Saints took advantage of their opportunities. The Hawks, with more than a little resistance from St. Dom’s reliever Justin Keaney and his defense, did not. Keaney […]

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Girls’ Basketball: Sacopee Valley nips St. Dom’s

The see-saw battle never stopped, but it never swayed as far as those first few minutes. Sacopee Valley led at the end of every quarter, including the final one to finish off a 40-37 victory in a WMC girls’ basketball clash at Callahan Family Memorial Gymnasium. “I thought it would be a pretty good game,” […]

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Boys’ Basketball: Sacopee Valley rallies past St. Dom’s

Finally, it paid off. The Hawks used full-court pressure for nearly the full game, and it broke St. Dominic Academy at the end. The fourth quarter belonged to the Hawks, who only led once, but it was the only lead that mattered in a 35-34 WMC boys’ basketball victory at Callahan Family Memorial Gymnasium on […]

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C South Boys’ Soccer: Pomerleau’s goal enough for Monmouth to advance to semifinals

MONMOUTH — Playoff soccer magnifies missed opportunities, even when they come in the first few minutes of a game, in part because another opportunity may never arise. Fortunately for Monmouth’s Avery Pomerleau, he got a second chance not long after he’d just missed on his first in Tuesday’s Class C North quarterfinal. The junior striker […]

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Class C baseball: Raiders pick off Hawks

The Hawks ran into a roadblock at Saturday’s Class C state championship. Two to be precise — Gage Feeney and Jared Taylor. Feeney tossed a complete game four-hitter and Taylor went 3 for 4 with two doubles and five runs batted in to lead Washington Academy to a 7-1 win at Mahaney Diamond on the […]

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Western Class C baseball: Hawks find their respect

STANDISH — Sacopee Valley won more than its first Class C West baseball championship in 21 years this spring. It claimed the Mountain Valley Conference Invitational. And don’t you dare think the Hawks aren’t finding that part of the equation just as satisfying. “I feel like they were overlooking us,” senior pitcher Anthony Haskell said, […]

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HS Football: Sacopee forfeits game with Winthrop/Monmouth

Facing the prospect of having 12 players take the field against an undefeated Winthrop/Monmouth team with nearly five times that many, Sacopee Valley has forfeited Friday night’s scheduled football game at Maxwell Field. Sacopee Valley notified Winthrop administrators on Wednesday night that it would not be fielding a team this week. Whether it will for […]