Ernie Clark
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Skowhegan names alum Tom Nadeau to boys basketball coaching post
SKOWHEGAN, Maine — Skowhegan Area High School is reaching back to one of its greatest teams in an effort to rebuild its boys basketball program. Tom Nadeau, a key player on the Indians’ 1998 Class A state championship squad, has been approved as the school’s new boys varsity basketball coach, ...
11 Skowhegan baseball players suspended four games for athletic code violations
SKOWHEGAN, Maine — The Skowhegan Area High School baseball team had parlayed early season victories over Bangor and Hampden Academy into a second-place ranking in Eastern Maine Class A entering Monday’s play. Maintaining that status may be problematic after 11 members of the team were suspended for four games beginning ...
Big innings lift Calais past Mattanawcook Lynx
LINCOLN, Maine — After three straight Eastern Maine Class C championship seasons, it’s a bit of a rebuilding year for the Calais High School baseball team. Eight starters had to be replaced this spring, most by players seeing their first extensive varsity duty, and with that has come some growing ...
Two Maine umpires to work Little League World Series
Two Little League Baseball and Softball umpires from Maine are among 115 game officials announced Monday who will be working this summer’s nine different Little League World Series. Louis Durbin of Cherryfield and Maine District 1 and Joseph Ouellette of Brewer and Maine District 3 will represent the Pine Tree ...
Offensive patience helps Foxcroft top MDI to remain undefeated
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The run-producing blasts over the fence or into the outfield gaps usually mark the most memorable moments of baseball rallies. But sometimes it’s the subtler aspects of the game that lead to opportunities for those big bats to produce, as was the case during a key moment ...
Concussion awareness on LTC football coaches’ minds
ORONO, Maine — It was a flash in time that took Bob Sinclair by surprise one Friday night last fall. The Orono High School football coach watched as one of his strongest, most physical players made what looked to be merely glancing helmet-to-helmet contact with an opponent from Stearns of ...
John Bapst baseball team earns doubleheader sweep of Caribou
BANGOR, Maine — The John Bapst baseball team took two different routes to its Penobscot Valley Conference Class B doubleheader sweep of Caribou at the Winkin Complex on Friday afternoon. Evan Pelkey’s double to deep left-center field with one out in the bottom of the seventh drove home Shawn Curran ...
Former Brownville Junction, Penquis coach Carroll Conley dies at 80
GLENBURN, Maine — Former Brownville Junction and Penquis Valley of Milo boys basketball and baseball coach Carroll Conley Sr. was remembered Friday for his love of teaching those sports. Conley, who compiled a 282-107 record over 20 years as a varsity basketball coach and guided the Brownville Junction baseball teams ...
Dexter native in first-ever Maine heavyweight title bout during MMA New England Fights
LEWISTON, Maine — A little more than two weeks remain until New England Fights hosts its largest-ever card of mixed martial arts bouts at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Thirty-four bouts currently are scheduled for the May 18 NEF 7 program, nine pro fights and 25 amateur contests. One change near ...
Bar Harbor police dispatcher gets second chance to finish marathon
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Nearly three weeks later, Lori Bartlett’s words remained filled with emotion as she recalled her family’s experience at the 117th Boston Marathon. Bartlett, a Bar Harbor police and fire dispatcher, was running in the historic race for the first time in conjunction with the Dana-Farber Marathon ...
Youthful Bucksport tips George Stevens to continue fast baseball start
BUCKSPORT, Maine — The future looks bright for the Bucksport baseball program, with seven sophomores among its starters for Wednesday afternoon’s battle against George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill. The present looks pretty promising, too, as the Golden Bucks scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to ...
Marcus Davis inks extension with Bellator MMA
BANGOR, Maine — Marcus Davis’ scheduled mixed martial arts bout against Darrius Heyliger in Lewiston on May 18 likely will be his last as a welterweight. But it almost certainly won’t be his last fight. The former Ultimate Fighting Championship contender known as “The Irish Hand Grenade” recently signed a ...
Gray two-run single rallies MDI baseball team past Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The Mount Desert Island baseball team has walked a fairly fine line early this spring, with pitching and defense overcoming a sluggish offense. The Trojans used a slightly different formula for success Tuesday afternoon, overcoming a porous start defensively with solid pitching and timely offense to rally ...
Star athletes at Brewer, Old Town, Jonesport-Beals turn back to baseball
BREWER, Maine — Spencer Valley grew up on a baseball field like so many other youngsters, playing in the local Little League as well as in middle school. But when other athletic interests began taking priority — in Valley’s case soccer, hockey and track and field — he simply ran ...
Seventh-inning rally lifts unbeaten Hampden past Brewer
BREWER, Maine — The Hampden Academy baseball team’s status as the only remaining undefeated team in Eastern Maine Class A five games into the regular season has been built more on perseverance than dominance. Only one of the victories has come via the 10-run rule, a 10-0 six-inning conquest of ...
Antone delivers game-winning RBI in ninth as Hampden edges Bangor
HAMPDEN, Maine — Four previous at-bats Friday afternoon produced minimal results for Hampden Academy senior shortstop Cooper Antone. But given an additional opportunity when the batter before him was intentionally walked with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning, Antone delivered an opposite-field single that drove home Matt ...
Third-inning blitz propels John Bapst baseball team past Old Town
BANGOR, Maine — The John Bapst Crusaders scored just one run in their first nine innings of the high school baseball season — a stretch of relative futility covering a season-opening shutout loss at Foxcroft Academy and their first two innings of Thursday night’s game against Old Town. But their ...
Maine runners take part in grass-roots efforts to honor, aid Boston Marathon victims
GARDINER, Maine — Jennifer Boudreau, her two young children and brother-in-law were like thousands of other spectators lining Boylston Street in Boston during the midafternoon hours of April 15. They were waiting for a loved one — Jennifer’s husband — to complete the 117th Boston Marathon. Ward Boudreau finished the ...
Pitching, defense lift Bangor baseball past Brewer
BANGOR, Maine — Moments after an error-filled loss Monday, the Bangor High School baseball team held a brief players-only meeting beneath the Mansfield Stadium grandstand. The results of that conversation, as well as a few lineup changes, provided the Rams a fresh approach to Wednesday’s game against rival Brewer — ...
Southern Aroostook baseball team looks ahead after Putnam era ends
DYER BROOK, Maine — There’s no looking back for this year’s Southern Aroostook Community School baseball team. Instead, all eyes were on the future as the Warriors prepared to play their season opener at Hodgdon on Tuesday afternoon. A look back would have included reflections on a trip to the ...
More than 500 help with ground search for missing Glenburn teen Nichole Cable
Silenced by legislators at budget talks, LePage says Mainers are being played for ‘patsies’
Family of third plane crash victim puts Knox County on notice
Emma Libby, 15, overcomes ruling to win Sport-4 race at Speedway 95
Hampden firm pokes holes in traditional boat mooring, leaving room for lobsters, crabs and other sea life
Jeffrey Nugent says his brother Ted Nugent is wrong on background checks
Maine protects a woman’s right to choose
Funding isn’t everything: Education reform takes innovation, cooperation
Strengthening the schools Maine already has
Basketball season never ends for Worcesters of Washburn, a family of 1,000-point scorers
Promise of land brought Theriault family to ‘Acadie’ in 1630s
How do I teach my kids it’s not OK to be bullied, even by family?
Not even chemotherapy could quell Maine woman’s longing to be in the kitchen