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Class C West Football Championship: Leavitt locks down Wells, 14-9
TURNER — November in Maine doesn’t favor the kind of football offense that traditionally prevails in video games and summer 7-on-7 drills. When Leavitt backs and receivers saw a cadre of volunteers taking shovels and snow blowers to Libby Field on Friday morning, surely they suspected it would take a titanic defensive effort Saturday afternoon […]
Class C West Championship: Explosive offenses from Leavitt and Wells collide in Turner
TURNER — This fall’s first football encounter between Leavitt and Wells came down to two streaky offenses, two opportunistic defenses, one intentionally allowing the other to score, and the other team fighting furiously not to let the other return the favor. Leavitt held on for a 26-19 road victory Oct. 17, the biggest speed bump […]
Class C West Football Semifinal: Spruce Mountain stopped by Wells
Neither one produced points, which in the low-temperature, high-stress world of November high school football falls into the category of recipes for disaster. Reid Chase made the tackle on the opening goal-line stand and recovered a third-down fumble in the latter sequence to seal a 14-13 Wells victory at Griffin Field. “We had a big […]
H.S. Football Game of the Week: Clashing styles of Wells, Spruce create superb matchup
Spruce Mountain’s big plays have been a little better than Wells’ long drives. At the risk of oversimplifying the details, that has been the story in the two most recent renewals of the budding rivalry between the Phoenix and Warriors. There’s no reason to expect either team to shy away from using their meal ticket […]
Class C West Football Quarterfinal: Wells runs wild on Poland
WELLS — Chris Carney rushed for three touchdowns, giving him school single-season records of 28 scores and more than 1,700 yards, leading No. 3 Wells to a 55-28 Class C West football quarterfinal win Friday night over No. 6 Poland at Warrior Memorial Field. Wells (7-2) will travel to Spruce Mountain (8-1) in the semifinals […]
Field Hockey Playoffs: Switcheroo sparks Allison, Falcons past Warriors
RUMFORD — Scoring the game-winning goal in a field hockey playoff game has plenty to do with skill, of course. There’s also an enhanced value at this time of year to being in the right place at the right time, however. Or in Chelsea Allison’s case, the left. Being relocated from one wing to the […]
H.S. Football: Leavitt wins on comeback, goal-line stand
WELLS — Nobody who watched Friday’s first half at Warrior Memorial Field, during which yards were gobbled up in Arena Football-ish quantities, would have expected three sacks, two interceptions and a goal-line stand to settle the issue. That was the case, though, and all the above belonged to reigning Class C champion Leavitt, which rallied […]
H.S. football: Wells knocks off Poland
POLAND — The kickoff return team showed a lot of gumption, and when Poland scored the first touchdown of the game on the opening set of downs, it appeared the Knights might give Wells a run for its money in a Class C football Friday night. No such luck. The Warriors were unfazed by the […]
H.S. Football: Vigue, Spruce Mountain race past Wells
LIVERMORE FALLS — In the space of two hours, Wells experienced the adrenaline rush, the false sense of security and the heartbreak of trying to tackle Spruce Mountain’s Matt Vigue. Ten times Friday night, the senior all-purpose back took a pitch or a handoff from Peter Theriault and was hit more quickly than he could […]