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High school baseball
Lee caps off productive day by topping Deer Isle-Stonington
BANGOR, Maine — Nearly 13 hours after facing its first pitch of the day, the Lee Academy baseball team walked off Mansfield Stadium on Saturday evening feeling justifiably satisfied. Two victories over two different opponents at two different locations will do that for a team. After defeating Penobscot Valley of ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
Foxcroft knocks John Bapst from baseball’s unbeaten ranks
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Forrest Law figured he was due a turn of good fortune. His first two at-bats Friday not only produced two strikeouts, but when the Foxcroft Academy third baseman missed some signs during his second plate appearance a pinch-hitter replaced him for his next scheduled time up. But ...
Road racing report
Record field poised for Sugarloaf Marathon, 15K
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — The stock market should experience such growth. The Sugarloaf Marathon and its accompanying 15-kilometer run will feature a record field for the third straight year when the 30th annual event is held on May 20. A combined field of 1,328 runners have registered for the races, ...
ERNIE CLARK
End of an era at MCI also a sign of the times
on May 10, 2012, at 1:42 p.m.
Long before there were Caron Butler and DerMarr Johnson and Brad Miller and Cuttino Mobley and Sam Cassell, there were guys like Skip Chappelle and Ed Guiski who enhanced their athletic and academic standing with a postgraduate year at Maine Central Institute. For Chappelle, who went on to star as ...
Maine Central Institute to end postgraduate basketball program
PITTSFIELD, Maine — The Maine Central Institute postgraduate basketball team has played its last game. Citing the program’s fit with the school’s mission as well as economic considerations, the MCI board of trustees decided this week to discontinue the school’s nationally recognized postgraduate basketball team as of July 1. “The ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
Seventh-inning double lifts Medomak Valley boys past Mount View
THORNDIKE, Maine — As the high school baseball season reaches its midpoint for many teams, the sense of urgency increases — particularly for those on the borderline for playoff berths. Two such teams from Eastern Maine Class B met Wednesday afternoon, with that sense of urgency helping to set up ...
High school notebook
Jamie Russell returns to Piscataquis Community High School boys basketball post
GUILFORD, Maine — Jamie Russell, who recently resigned from his second stint as the boys varsity basketball coach at Penobscot Valley High School in Howland, will revisit another former coaching stop next winter. Russell, who has accumulated 304 victories during his 27-year coaching career, has been named the boys varsity ...
HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS
Oceanside’s Doutreluigne hopes to benefit from clay-court roots
ROCKLAND, Maine — Jordan Doutreluigne knew little of his destination when originally informed that his year as an exchange student would be spent at Oceanside High School. “I didn’t know anything about Maine,” said Doutreluigne, who grew up in Mouscron, Belgium, located in the northwestern part of that north-central European ...
HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
National high school basketball rules panel opts against shot clock
The National Federation of State High School Associations’ basketball rules committee, meeting in Indianapolis recently, considered a proposal to add a shot clock to the high school rules but agreed that the sport played by about 1 million boys and girls in approximately 18,000 high schools is functioning well without ...
High School Baseball
Bangor baseball standouts Corneil, Worcester hope to remain teammates at USM
BANGOR, Maine — Christian Corneil and Curtis Worcester have shared success in the Senior League World Series, the high school baseball ranks and during American Legion play. They’re aiming to continue that run this spring as seniors at Bangor High School and then again this summer with the Bangor Comrades. ...
Haslam’s one-hitter lifts Ellsworth past MDI
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Injuries have hit the Ellsworth High School baseball team hard this spring, particularly the loss of senior pitcher Thomas Sawyer to a dislocated knee even before the Eagles played their first game. Classmate Kyle Haslam is determined to spark a second-half surge by coach Mike Boles’ ...
Future of MCI postgraduate basketball team in doubt
PITTSFIELD, Maine — A prep school program that has helped to develop such NBA talent as Caron Butler, Brad Miller, Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley and sent 135 players on to NCAA Division I college teams may be in jeopardy. A decision on the future of the Maine Central Institute ...
Mixed Martial Arts Report
Ex-UFC champion Tim Sylvia ‘stoked’ for Maine MMA debut
Tim “The Maine-iac” Sylvia has fought in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Honolulu and many other major-league venues around the country while earning a livelihood in mixed martial arts. But the Eastbrook native and two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion has yet to fight in his home state — something that ...
High school baseball
Bangor tops Hampden to remain undefeated
BANGOR, Maine — Before this spring Wyatt Frost had never hit second in a batting order, a spot usually reserved for a player willing to advance baserunners via a sacrifice bunt or a grounder to the right side of the infield. The senior catcher is enjoying his new perch in ...
Girls team up with boys so Van Buren can field baseball team
VAN BUREN, Maine — Coming up with enough players to field a baseball team has been a challenge for the Van Buren Crusaders in recent years. In both 2005 and 2006 the team played full schedules with just the minimum nine players — and in 2006 the “Iron 9” advanced ...
HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
Limestone sophomore pitcher throws 20-strikeout opener
LIMESTONE, Maine — Things weren’t going so well for Chris Bernier as he opened the baseball season on the mound for Limestone-Maine School of Science and Mathematics recently. Four batters into the game he had already yielded two walks, a double and a single, and the Eagles already trailed Ashland ...
High school baseball
Bangor’s pitching, defense subdue Brewer
BANGOR, Maine — This may be one of Bangor High School’s youngest baseball teams of recent vintage, but so far stellar pitching has overcome any hints of inexperience. Greg Duff and Curtis Worcester combined to pitch a two-hit shutout as the Rams remained undefeated with a 4-0 Eastern Maine Class ...
Road racing report
Lyons suffers dehydration, labors to 15th straight Boston finish
SAD 22 superintendent Rick Lyons of Hampden completed his 15th consecutive Boston Marathon earlier this month. But as was the case for most of the other 21,602 runners who endured scorching mid-April temperatures in the mid-to-upper 80s to finish the 26.2-mile journey, it wasn’t easy. The 59-year-old Lyons ran a ...
High School Baseball
Andrews, Deschaine help John Bapst top MDI to remain undefeated
BANGOR, Maine — The John Bapst baseball team has taken a liking to new head coach Dave Gonyar, and the results are showing themselves not only in the dugout but also on the field. Righthanders Max Andrews and Jon Deschaine combined on a three-hitter with 12 strikeouts as the Crusaders ...
ERNIE CLARK
Teams adjusting to new, safer world of high school baseball
on April 26, 2012, at 11:47 a.m.
If the slogan “chicks dig the long ball” has any truth to it, there’s likely to be little romance stirring in high school baseball this season. The new BBCOR standards, designed to slow the speed of the baseball upon impact with the bat, seemingly have lived up — or down ...
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