TURNER — Freshman Jonathan Schomaker lined up on the starting line last week alongside cross country runners from around the state. While most everyone was placing their feet in position for the starting gun to go off, Schomaker pushed the same arm bars on the same wheelchair he has used since he was six years […]
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Cross country: St. Dom's boys and girls, Monmouth girls reach Class C championships
CUMBERLAND — The Class C and B regionals had all the finishes and exciting aspects of a cross country race one could ask for. Saturday’s finishes at Twin Brook featured dominating teams, close and runaway finishes, insane kicks, and even freshmen winning the Class A and C girls’ races. In the first race of the […]
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Monmouth girls, Boothbay boys earn MVC cross country titles
Runners jockey for position at the start of Saturday’s MVC Championship cross country race in Augusta. AUGUSTA — Haley Abbott’s asthma backed off enough Saturday for the Boothbay runner to run to an easy — though surprising — victory at the Mountain Valley Conference cross country championships. Abbott, who is normally third on her team, […]
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Cross Country: Winthrop’s Hickey, St. Dom’s girls win South regional titles
Winthrop senior Jacob Hickey had watched someone else win the Class C Boys’ individual race the previous two years — he finished second in 2015 — but wanted the title for himself in his final attempt. His time of 16:40 was more than 40 seconds faster than his next-closest competitor. In other words, more than […]
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Cross country: Winthrop’s Hickey, Monmouth girls win at MVC championships
AUGUSTA — Winthrop’s Jacob Hickey brought along an accessory to push himself at the MVC cross country championships. A pair of sisters paced each other and paced the Monmouth girls to the conference title, and an Oak Hill sophomore came out of essentially nowhere to finish second in the girls’ race. “I started running with […]
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Cross Country: Doorow tops Class A North; Hampden, Brunswick win team titles
Paul Casavant from Hampden Academy and Tessa Cassidy of Brunswick took second in their respective races, but in doing so helped lead their teams to regional titles at Troy Howard Middle School. Casavant finished a distant second to Lewiston’s Osman Doorow, crossing the line 25 seconds behind Doorow’s winning time of 15:40.39, but his Broncos […]
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MVC Cross Country Championships: Mustangs shock Saints
AUGUSTA — Unless you were part of the Monmouth Academy girls’ cross country camp, privy to the daily workouts and weekly progressions, the times and numbers didn’t add up. Boothbay and St. Dom’s beat Monmouth by 40 points in a regular-season meet. Two weeks ago, in the Mountain Valley Conference midseason showcase, the Mustangs were […]
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KVAC Cross Country Championships: Bangor boys upset wounded Lewiston; Horne sounds for Mt. Blue
AUGUSTA — The coach-athlete relationship sometimes is a lot like the parent-teenager dynamic. No, you can’t borrow the car. No, you can’t have a late curfew. No, you can’t run the KVAC cross country championship race and risk aggravating your ailing knee. Lewiston coach T.J. Niles wasn’t so much showing Mohamed Mohamed tough love with […]