Also read: Steve Ouellette quits as St. Dominic Academy hockey coach AUBURN — The nights never got shorter, and even the proximity to home wasn’t enough to offset the hours and stress involved in being a full-time athletic director for Gene Keene. Keene has resigned his post at St. Dominic Academy. His final day on the […]
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Class C baseball final: St. Dom’s bashes Bucksport for fifth title
BANGOR — The inability to string together hits and put up crooked numbers was the elephant in the box score for Saint Dominic Academy baseball all season, especially against top-flight competition. At the best possible time, in the environment where it mattered most, the elephant turned into a three-ring circus Saturday, complete with all the requisite […]
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Class C baseball championship: Saints no underdog, but they wear label well
AUBURN — Not many high school baseball teams knock off the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in a region to reach a state championship game. We know Saint Dominic Academy has never done it in a baker’s dozen years of excellence under the watchful eyes of Coach Bob Blackman, because, well, the Saints are always […]
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Class C baseball championship: Mitch Lorenz, Gavin Bates charge up Saints’ title hopes
AUBURN — One of the standard questions when a baseball team is scouting its opponent in a state championship game is, “Yeah, but have they used up their ace?” Technically, Saint Dominic Academy did. Mike Bryant went the distance Wednesday night in a 5-1 victory over Winthrop for the Class C West title, meaning that he […]
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Class C West baseball: St. Dom’s outlasts Winthrop for seventh regional crown in 13 years
STANDISH — After a night of agonizing missed opportunity after missed opportunity, Saint Dominic Academy finally watched the right guy walk to the plate at the right time. Senior Mitch Lorenz greeted Winthrop reliever Ben Allen with a one-out single to right field in the seventh inning, scoring Ray Mosca and Mike Bryant with the go-ahead […]
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Class C West baseball championship: St. Dom’s juggernaut back for more
AUBURN — President George W. Bush was just past the halfway point of his first term. Your internet connection, if you had one, probably was dial-up. Your wireless phone, if you knew such a luxury, likely was “smart” enough to make calls, but only after you flipped it open. Long before discussions about their quarterback’s […]
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High school baseball: St. Dom’s stifles Maranacook in West C semifinal
READFIELD — St. Dominic Academy did something that no team has done all season — the Saints shut out Maranacook which scored 122 runs in 18 games going into the Western Class C semifinal game. The Saints’ (13-5) win came from a complete game effort from starting pitcher Mitch Lorenz, who had six strikeouts and seven […]
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Class C West Baseball quarterfinals: Mike Bryant, No. 8 St. Dom’s dismiss No. 1 Dirigo
DIXFIELD — With apologies to LL Cool J: Don’t call it an upset. St. Dom’s has been here for years. Led by the live, rested arm of senior Mike Bryant, the Saints looked like the same baseball club Thursday they’ve been for a decade-and-a-half, no matter what the Heal Points or Class C West tournament say […]
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Class C West Baseball prelim: St. Dom’s, Mitch Lorenz take out Madison
Nobody who has watched St. Dom’s baseball go to 11 Class C West championship games under coach Bob Blackman had any doubt what the Saints were going to do. Madison even knew, and it was destined to work, anyway. “I really wanted to score first,” Blackman said. “I felt that we could play better from […]
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H.S. Baseball Playoffs: Class C West bracket brutal for top seeds Dirigo, Winthrop
Nowhere in high school sports is the single-elimination format scarier for top-ranked teams and their coaches than baseball, the game in which a dancing curveball or a perilous hop can stymie the best on the wrong day. Easy to understand, then, why one potential quarterfinal matchup in Class C West quickens everyone’s pulse rate ever-so-slightly. […]