Pete Warner

Asst. Sports Editor

 

UMBC edges UMaine baseball; No. 1 Black Bears face Stony Brook next

By Pete Warner on May 18, 2013, at 5:25 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine baseball team will go into the America East Baseball Championship as the conference regular-season champion and the tournament’s No. 1 seed. The Black Bears also will be coming off a loss. The University of Maryland Baltimore County ended a 21-game losing streak against ...
Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes (5) hits a RBI sacrifice fly in the 10th inning against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on Friday night.

Gomes’ sacrifice fly in 10th lifts Red Sox past Twins

By Joe Oberle, The Sports Xchange on May 18, 2013, at 5:55 a.m.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Boston Red Sox came to Target Field on Friday night looking to avenge a series loss to the Minnesota Twins last week at home and won the series opener 3-2 in a tightly contested 10-inning game. With the score tied in the 10th, the Red Sox manufactured ...
Mike Fransoso

UMaine baseball seniors Fransoso, Bazdanes set for final home games

By Pete Warner on May 16, 2013, at 5:51 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — New Hampshire natives Mike Fransoso and A.J. Bazdanes have enjoyed some shining moments as members of the University of Maine baseball team. This week, they will play on their home turf at Mahaney Diamond for the final time as the Black Bears close out the regular season ...

Fransoso hit in eye by pitch; UMaine baseball team beats Boston College

By Pete Warner on May 14, 2013, at 6:52 p.m.
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Mike Fransoso realizes his baseball career could have ended Tuesday afternoon. The University of Maine senior is counting his blessings after he was hit in the right eye by a pitch during the first inning of the Black Bears’ game against Boston College. The left-handed hitting ...

UMaine baseball team tours Fenway Park; plays at Boston College on Tuesday

By Pete Warner on May 13, 2013, at 8:58 p.m.
BOSTON — With the spring semester in the books, the University of Maine baseball team is taking advantage of some other baseball-related activities as it concludes its regular season. On Monday, the Black Bears visited Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. UMaine coach Steve Trimper said the UMaine ...

Penobscot Valley Softball 2 at Katahdin 1

By Terry Duffy on May 13, 2013, at 4 p.m.
At Stacyville, Kayla Dube of Penobscot Valley pitched a four-hitter and struck out 13 to outduel Katahdin’s Ashley Randall (7 strikeouts) in a pitchers’ duel. Meghan Howie, Shaelyn Jones, Molly McGinn and Kasha Sereyko stroked a single apiece for the Howlers from Howland. Ashley Randall had a double and single ...

UMaine’s Labreck headed to NCAAs in heptathlon; Conner to compete in 10K

By Pete Warner on May 13, 2013, at 2:55 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — It’s not official yet, but it appears as though Jesse Labreck of the University of Maine will be competing in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships next month. Labreck broke her own school record in the heptathlon at last weekend’s ECAC Championships, scoring 5,551 ...
Jesse Labreck, University of Maine, Orono track and field heptathlete, jumps a hurdle Tuesday afternoon at UMaine.

UMaine track star shooting for elusive spot in NCAA championships

By Pete Warner on May 09, 2013, at 8:19 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Jesse Labreck has one more chance to qualify for the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. On Friday, the fifth-year senior from Oakland begins the most important competition of her career during the first day of the heptathlon at the ECAC Track and Field Championships ...

Southern Maine baseball team wins league tourney opener

By Pete Warner on May 08, 2013, at 10:38 p.m.
GORHAM, Maine — Senior Tucker White belted a home run and two singles with four runs scored and two RBIs Wednesday as the top-seeded University of Southern Maine Huskies defeated the sixth-seeded Western Connecticut State University Colonials 13-2 in the opening game of the 2013 Little East Conference Baseball Tournament ...
Steve Trimper

UMaine baseball team setting up for run at America East title

By Pete Warner on May 07, 2013, at 7:50 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — There are two weekends of regular-season play remaining for the University of Maine baseball team, but the Black Bears are already starting to plan ahead for the postseason. With six games to play, including this weekend’s three-game series at Binghamton, UMaine is in 1st place in the ...
A crew from Sargent Corporation does site preparation Monday as part of a project to renovate the track around Old Town High School's Victory Field.

Community support enables Old Town High School to begin building new track as part of proposed $1.5 million athletic facilities project

By Pete Warner on May 07, 2013, at 2:30 p.m.
OLD TOWN, Maine — As members of the Old Town High School track team ran laps on the asphalt driveway behind the school Monday afternoon, a crew from Sargent Corporation was digging up the earth around Victory Field, some 250 yards away. By next fall, coach Rod White’s track and ...

Husson, Saint Joseph’s to play in NCAA softball tourney at Babson

By Pete Warner on May 06, 2013, at 8:46 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — The Husson University softball team, which recently won its fifth consecutive North Atlantic Conference championship, is headed back to the postseason. Coach Amanda Bourgoin’s Eagles earned the NAC automatic bid and learned Monday they are bound for Babson Park, Mass., for the first round of the NCAA ...

UMaine men finish third, Labreck wins heptathlon at AE track championships

By Pete Warner on May 04, 2013, at 9:19 p.m.
VESTAL, N.Y. — Maine natives Kelton Cullenberg and Donald Clark each won an individual event Sunday to spearhead the University of Maine men to a third-place finish in the America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Binghamton University. Cullenberg, a junior from Chesterville, won the 5,000 meters with a ...

UMaine baseball wins Sunday finale, takes two of three games from Albany

By Pete Warner on May 04, 2013, at 7:42 p.m.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Mike Connolly finally got some runs to work with Sunday afternoon. The University of Maine baseball team scored four times in the first inning, providing the junior right-hander with ample offensive support on its way to a 7-3 victory over Albany in the finale of their three-game ...
UMaine's Najee Green carries the ball during the Maine Black Bear Football 2013 Jeff Cole Scrimmage on Saturday in Orono.

Kicker Decloux on target during UMaine football’s Jeff Cole Spring Scrimmage

By Pete Warner on May 04, 2013, at 3:23 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Sean Decloux didn’t have the luxury of spending last fall as an understudy. The freshman from Ottawa, Ontario, was pressed into service as the University of Maine’s full-time placekicker. Decloux demonstrated some of the growth he achieved during his first year in Saturday morning’s ninth annual Jeff ...
UMaine's Justin Edwards shoots over New Hampshire defenseman Ferg Myrick during first-half action at Orono on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.

Report: Former UMaine basketball star Justin Edwards commits to Kansas State

By Pete Warner on May 04, 2013, at 1:01 p.m.
MANHATTAN, Kansas — The Kansas City Star reported Saturday that former University of Maine men’s basketball star Justin Edwards has committed to Kansas State University. The 6-foot-3 sophomore guard revealed March 28 that he was seeking to transfer from UMaine to a higher-level program. Edwards previously had taken NCAA official ...

Connolly plays nine positions as UMaine baseball defeats UMaine-Farmington

By Pete Warner on May 01, 2013, at 8:03 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Mike Connolly has demonstrated considerable versatility this season while serving as the starting catcher and a member of the regular pitching rotation for the University of Maine. Wednesday evening, he took the concept to a new level at Mahaney Diamond. The junior standout accomplished a rare baseball ...
University of Maine men’s basketball coach Ted Woodward directs his team during a game against Vermont on Jan. 22 in Orono.

UMaine men’s basketball program under scrutiny after subpar seasons, player departures

By Pete Warner on May 01, 2013, at 5:52 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — It has already been a tumultuous offseason for the University of Maine men’s basketball program. Three starters, including two all-conference players, are leaving UMaine in the wake of an 11-19 season under ninth-year head coach Ted Woodward. Dynamic guard Justin Edwards previously announced he intends to transfer ...

UMaine baseball team rolls past Division III UMaine-Presque Isle

By Pete Warner on April 30, 2013, at 8:44 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Two weeks ago, the University of Maine baseball team needed some late-inning heroics to beat Division III Colby College. Tuesday evening, the Division I Black Bears made sure they didn’t have to come from behind against the University of Maine-Presque Isle, another DIII team. Fran Whitten’s two-run ...

UMaine baseball team mired in offensive slump, but still atop standings

By Pete Warner on April 29, 2013, at 7:43 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Two weeks ago, the University of Maine appeared poised to run away with the America East baseball regular-season title. A sudden widespread offensive slump has since hit the Black Bears, reminding coach Steve Trimper’s ballclub it has some work to do before it can legitimately challenge for ...
 
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