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BDN, Sea Dogs collaborate for Bangor Community Day at Hadlock Field
PORTLAND, Maine — The Boston Red Sox have special nights for their New England neighbors like State of Maine Day at Fenway Park. The Portland Sea Dogs, the Red Sox’s Double-A Eastern League affiliate, has had special community days for fans from specific towns primarily in the Portland area. But ...
AUTO RACING
Caribou’s Spud Speedway opens for season on Sunday afternoon
Spud Speedway owner Troy Haney figures there were only four good racing weekends last summer at the racetrack. Rain or the threat of rain hurt car counts and attendance the other weekends. But it’s a new season and Haney is optimistic about the prospects for a better summer of racing ...
High School Softball
Oceanside softball’s Rachel Frye no-hits Medomak Valley 9-0
THOMASTON, Maine — There wasn’t much of a celebration after Oceanside High School junior righthander Rachel Frye pitched a no-hitter to beat Medomak Valley of Waldoboro 9-0 in a battle of the top two seeds in the Eastern Maine Class B softball ranks Wednesday afternoon. “We didn’t know it was ...
High school softball
Powerhouse Calais eyeing championship run in Eastern C softball
The Calais High School softball team has been a model of success. Beginning with the 2006 season, the Blue Devils’ regular season record is 97-6. The Blue Devils won Eastern Maine Class C championships in 2008 and 2009 and captured the state championship in 2009. Coach Greg Smith considers defending ...
Strike zones should be larger in high school softball
The official definition of the Major League Baseball strike zone reads as follows: “The strike zone is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants and the lower ...
Grindle pitches Brewer past Bangor 7-0
BREWER, Maine — The Brewer High School softball team wanted to earn some valuable Heal points and avenge an earlier loss when archrival Bangor came calling to Coffin Field Monday night. They accomplished both in impressive fashion. Junior right-hander Alexa Grindle tossed a seven-hitter and the Witches broke a scoreless ...
High School Softball
Grindle pitches Brewer past Bangor 7-0
BREWER, Maine — The Brewer High School softball team wanted to earn Heal points and avenge an earlier loss when archrival Bangor came calling to Coffin Field Monday night. They accomplished both in impressive fashion. Junior right-hander Alexa Grindle tossed a seven-hitter and the Witches broke a scoreless tie with ...
Pro Baseball Report
Butterfield: Interleague play should determine home-field advantage for World Series
TORONTO, Ontario — Brian Butterfield said he is a traditionalist. The Toronto Blue Jays third base coach and Orono native doesn’t like interleague play. But since it is here to stay, he would like interleague play to determine which league gets the home-field advantage in the World Series. Beginning in ...
High School Softball
Stanhope, Cosgrove lead Bangor past Oxford Hills
BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor High School softball team picked up some valuable Heal points Friday as sophomore right-hander Alexis Stanhope tossed a three-hitter and junior designated hitter Carly Cosgrove drove in four runs with a triple, two singles and a bases-loaded walk to lead the Rams to a six-inning ...
Auto Racing Report
Two Aroostook County drivers to battle in Oxford 150 American-Canadian Tour
Two of the drivers expected to be in the mix to win Sunday’s Oxford 150 American-Canadian Tour race are Aroostook County neighbors. Fort Kent’s Austin Theriault, an ACT regular running fourth in points after three races, and Frenchille native Shawn Martin, an OPS Late Model regular, will be challenged by ...
Rich Kimball’s ‘Downtown’ radio show will gain three new stations
Rich Kimball’s drive-time radio sports talk show will be expanding. Downtown with Rich Kimball, which airs from 4-6 p.m. Monday through Friday on Fox Sports Net AM 910 WAEI Bangor, will also be heard on WFAU-AM 1280 in Gardiner/Augusta, WIGY-FM 97.5 Madison-Skowhegan and WRKD-AM 1450 in Rockland beginning on June ...
Auto Racing Report
Newburgh man offering charitable rides in race car driven by NASCAR’s Tony Stewart
NEWBURGH, Maine — If you show up to the Make-A-Wish Foundation walkathon at Bangor’s Cascade Park between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday, you will notice a NASCAR Sprint Cup car on display. Newburgh’s Greg Veinote owns the No. 20 Home Depot Joe Gibbs Racing car driven by Tony Stewart from ...
High School Softball
Bucksport softball remains undefeated with 16-3 win over Orono
ORONO, Maine — The Bucksport High School softball team won the Eastern Maine Class B championship a year ago and the undefeated Bucks took another step toward sewing up the top seed for the Eastern C playoffs on Wednesday night. Junior righthander Cassidy Adams scattered six hits over six innings, ...
Hard-nosed running back Phillip Coulombe excelled despite shoulder problems
Editor’s note: One in a series profiling the 2012 Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. SIDNEY, Maine — Football is a grueling sport. Players are required to engage in physical contact on almost every play. Injuries are common; players have to learn how to play in discomfort. They sometimes have ...
High School Softball
Caribou’s Emily Staples has been dominant force in the circle
CARIBOU, Maine — Caribou High School softball coach Ryan Deprey said when she isn’t playing softball, senior righthander Emily Staples is “probably one of the nicest kids you’ll ever find.” But when she steps inside the circle, a transformation takes place. “She’s an absolute animal. She’s more competitive than I ...
Portland’s versatile Ryan Flaherty realizing a dream by playing for Baltimore Orioles
He grew up a Boston Red Sox fan. And that means the Green Monster, the 37-foot left-field wall at Boston’s Fenway Park, always meant something special to him as it has to many Red Sox fans. But Portland’s Ryan Flaherty got up close and personal with the Green Monster two ...
High school softball
Hayward pitches five-inning no-hitter as Old Town blanks John Bapst
OLD TOWN, Maine — The Old Town High School softball team was eager to bounce back from its first loss of the season, 5-1 to Ellsworth last Friday. The Coyotes did just that Monday. Junior right-hander Kendra Hayward tossed a five-inning no-hitter, senior first baseman Ashley Abbott drove in three ...
AUTO RACING
Weston prevails in caution-filled race at Speedway 95
HERMON, Maine — Eleven cars started the 50-lap Sportsman feature at Speedway 95 Saturday night. It was the first of a three-race series in the Sportsman class. But one car after another fell by the wayside until, nine caution flags later, Norridgewock’s Nate Weston took the checkered flag by 12 ...
Kennadi Grover’s four hits, five RBIs lead Oceanside softball past Gardiner
THOMASTON, Maine – Although Oceanside High School softball coach Rusty Worcester said junior third baseman Kennadi Grover was hitting around .480 entering Friday afternoon’s game against Gardiner, Grover said she hasn’t been swinging the bat as well as she would have liked. But she swung it pretty well on Friday ...
Mattawamkeag’s Dennis Libbey earns Maine Sports Hall of Fame honor
Editor’s note: One in a series profiling Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. BANGOR, Maine — There were 12 players on Dennis Libbey’s Mattawamkeag High School baseball team. There were only 83 kids in the entire school. When he jogged out to shortstop for tryouts at the University of Maine, ...
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
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Diversity predicts export success, MIT professor tells Maine audience
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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