BRUNSWICK — The last time a Lisbon High School boys’ basketball team advanced to the postseason, it was the 2005-06 season. The seventh-seeded Greyhounds that year lost to Poland in a Western Maine Class B preliminary contest. What followed was eight years of tough times before this year’s Greyhounds put together an eight-game mid-season winning […]
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Boys’ Eastern A Prelim: Devils bounce Bulldogs, advance to quarterfinals
The eighth-seeded Blue Devils followed the run by going nearly a full quarter without scoring a point. Yet the suffocating zone defense that is now becoming their trademark kept the ninth-seeded Bulldogs at bay just enough to earn them a ticket to the Augusta Civic Center for the fourth year in a row. “It’s like […]
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State finals on TV after agreement between CCCC, Time Warner Cable
PORTLAND — With Time Warner Cable and the Cumberland County Civic Center reaching a three-year production agreement, the Class A high school basketball state finals will be televised on March 1, the cable company announced in a news release Tuesday. The agreement will allow Time Warner Cable to extend its fiber-optic connectivity in order to […]
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Western C Prelim: Cougars survive and advance
DIXFIELD — Nothing like tournament time to kick in the ol’ survival instincts. No. 9 Monmouth had No. 8 Dirigo backed into a corner in Tuesday night’s Western C prelim at Defoe Gymnasium. It was already clear to the Cougars that they couldn’t shoot their way out, so they scratched and clawed their way to […]
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H.S. girls’ basketball: Cougars rally past Blue Devils
FARMINGTON — The steal in and off itself was challenge enough for Eryn Doiron. When the Mt. Blue sophomore guard earned possession of the ball in the final minute Tuesday night, she still had to stay in bounds, find someone to pass the ball to and then hope her Cougar teammates could turn her efforts […]