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Track & Field
Bangor sweeps PVC large-school championships
BREWER, Maine — Breezy and cool conditions that at times felt more like late April than late May couldn’t prevent the records from falling at Friday’s Penobscot Valley Conference large-school track and field championships. Bangor dominated the girls competition, winning eight of the 19 events and scoring 164.3 points, well ...
Gary Allen’s marathon motivation marked by decades of endurance
CRANBERRY ISLES, Maine — The clock was working against Gary Allen as he neared the late stages of the Tacoma City Marathon in Washington earlier this month. His goal was to finish the race in less than three hours, which he had done 64 times before for the 26.2-mile distance, ...
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Old Town football coach steps down
OLD TOWN, Maine — Steve Calande, who worked during the last two years to rebuild the Old Town High School football program, is leaving that post to take a teaching and coaching job out of state. Calande said he tendered his resignation to school officials Monday, and while he did ...
High School Baseball
Worcester pitches six-inning perfect game as Bangor defeats Skowhegan
BANGOR, Maine — Jeff Fahey saw it coming, then Curtis Worcester went out and delivered — not just the no-hitter his coach had predicted, but a six-inning perfect game as the Bangor baseball team defeated Skowhegan 10-0 at Mansfield Stadium on Wednesday. The senior lefthander, bound for the University of ...
Longtime Southern Aroostook baseball coach Murray Putnam placed on leave
DYER BROOK, Maine — Southern Aroostook High School baseball coach Murray Putnam, whose 44-year tenure includes nearly 480 victories and five state championships, has been placed on paid administrative leave by school officials. “At this point that is accurate,” acknowledged Putnam, who said he has been on leave since May ...
Presque Isle climbing way up Class B baseball ranks
Their northern locale among high school baseball programs typically doesn’t lend itself to championship playoff runs. But the Presque Isle Wildcats, who last won a regional title in 1951, are playing like a team determined to buck that trend. Coach Tim Olore’s club featured both pitching and defense while sweeping ...
Bangor tips Brewer in eight innings for 13th win
BREWER, Maine — While the number of days and games are winding down in high school baseball’s regular season, the intensity is picking up among both the teams with high expectations and those merely seeking to secure postseason futures. That intensity was in evidence Monday night at Heddericg Field, where ...
Maine native Adam Craig finishes sixth among Americans at French World Cup event
Exeter native Adam Craig finished sixth among the American contingent Sunday at the International Cycling Union World Cup mountain biking stop at LaBresse, France. The 30-year-old Craig finished 52nd overall in the field of 130 competitors, 11 minutes and 37 seconds behind race winner Julien Absalon of France. Jeremiah Bishop ...
Bangor man proposes to running partner at finish line of Sugarloaf road race
KINGFIELD, Maine — When Michael Glynn reached the finish line of Sunday’s Sugarloaf 15K road race, he immediately went to one knee. But he wasn’t reeling physically from the 9.3-mile run along state Route 27 from Carrabassett Valley to downtown Kingfield. In fact, he felt great. Glynn merely was bowing ...
High school baseball
Norton, Nunez pitch Presque Isle to sweep of John Bapst
BANGOR, Maine — It was a long-awaited showdown between the top two teams in the Penobscot Valley Conference Class B baseball ranks Saturday. And surely the ride back to Aroostook County felt short and was sweet for the Presque Isle Wildcats, who rode the pitching of Ryley Norton and Saul ...
High School Baseball
Savage rallies Bangor past Oxford Hills for 12th victory
BANGOR, Maine — A day earlier Cody Savage left the field unfulfilled after stranding runners in scoring position during his team’s first loss of the spring, a 3-2 defeat at Skowhegan. The Bangor senior left fielder took that frustration out on Oxford Hills of South Paris on Friday, hitting a ...
Ex-UFC fighter Marcus Davis mulls end of fighting days, but continued involvement, possible Bangor bout
BREWER, Maine — Marcus Davis walked into his gym with computer in hand, fresh off a weekend visit to Philadelphia where he took part in his weekly online radio show and served as a commentator for a card of mixed martial arts bouts. “I’m having a lot of fun with ...
Intensity, humility marked Guiski’s playing, coaching career
Editor’s note: One in a series profiling the 2012 Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. DEXTER, Maine — At approximately 6 feet, 5 inches, Ed Guiski could be an imposing presence as a player or coach — a presence that belies his true personality, say those who know him. “Ed ...
High School Baseball
Ryan Rebar’s three-hit shutout lifts Foxcroft past Old Town
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — High-octane offense hasn’t always been a given for the Foxcroft Academy baseball team this spring. But high-quality pitching has been a constant in elevating the Ponies among the contending teams in Eastern Maine Class B, and it continued Thursday afternoon as junior righthander Ryan Rebar pitched a ...
Exeter mountain biker unlikely to make Olympic team return
As Adam Craig ate his dinner in a French chalet while snow was falling outside one evening earlier this week, he did so knowing that his chances to reclaim a position on the U.S. Olympic Mountain Biking Team are slim at best. Craig, the Exeter native who qualified for the ...
High School Tennis
Veteran Bangor boys tennis team meeting expectations
BREWER, Maine — The Bangor High School boys tennis team has spent the last decade among the pack chasing perennial state champion Lewiston for Eastern Maine Class A supremacy. But this year the Rams have been the targeted team since the opening serve of their first match, and with a ...
High School Notebook
Mike Bisson named Hampden Academy athletic director
HAMPDEN, Maine — Mike Bisson, a veteran educator with longstanding roots in high school sports, has been named the athletic director at Hampden Academy. Bisson, who begins his new job on July 1, will replace Nick Raymond, who this spring was named the school’s assistant principal. “It’s an exciting opportunity,” ...
High School Baseball
Greg Duff’s no-hitter lifts Bangor baseball past Hampden Academy
BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor High School baseball team has set a pretty high pitching standard this spring — not allowing more than two runs in any game until a 10-8 victory over Lawrence of Fairfield on Monday. Junior righthander Greg Duff raised that bar even higher at the Winkin ...
High school report
Hampden’s McCue to test Canadian basketball waters at McGill
HAMPDEN, Maine — Maine’s Mr. Basketball is crossing the border to continue his basketball career at the collegiate level. But he’s not headed south. Christian McCue, who led Hampden Academy to this year’s Eastern Maine Class A championship, will attend McGill University in Montreal this fall. “When I went up ...
Matt Hancock’s work ethic produced record results
Editor’s note: One in a series profiling the 2012 Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. CASCO, Maine — Matt Hancock is one of the most prolific scorers in NCAA Division III college basketball history, but the former Colby College star doesn’t measure his career by the 2,678 points he amassed ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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