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Youth volleyball in Maine may be on verge of explosive growth
PORTLAND, Maine — Jeff Scully believes he sees a brightening future for volleyball in Maine. High school volleyball is picking up steam, he said, but the key will be getting players started at a younger age so a base can be created to support the high school efforts and upper-level ...
On Deck, a Sports calendar for Oct. 17
on Oct. 17, 2012, at 11:26 a.m.
BASEBALL Hitting League Membership At UMaine, Orono, at Paul J. Mitchell Batting Pavilion, Hitting League Membership, all levels, session 2 Jan. 1-March 31, Mondays and Tuesdays (6:30-9:30 p.m.), Saturdays (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.), $400 for each session or $750 for both, for info, contact UMaine assistant baseball coach Ryan ...
Freeze Under-16 Midgets raising money to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month
ORONO, Maine — Tobin Trautz, coach of the Maine Freeze Midget Minor (Under-16) team, is trying to help his players understand that there is more to life than hockey. To bring that point home, he has the team participate in charitable activities. This year, they are raising money as part ...
Girls youth hockey continues growth in Bangor area as Maine Freeze adds travel team
BANGOR, Maine — Based on the growth of the Bangor Youth Hockey girls program and interest from other players in the area, the first girls team has become part of the Maine Freeze travel program. The Maine Freeze conducts the travel program for three area youth hockey organizations: Brewer Youth ...
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Speed is king for soaring Maine Freeze Under-16 Tier II Midgets
BREWER, Maine — For Tobin Trautz, head coach of the Maine Freeze’s Midget Under-16 Tier II team, how his players win is more important than whether they win. “One thing we push with the kids is the process [skill development] is more important than the product [wins],” said Trautz. The ...
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Increase in gas prices prompted youth travel soccer to adopt in-district play
PORTLAND, Maine — Prompted by last year’s rise in gas prices and the amount of travel that many clubs were doing in all of the age groups, SoccerMaine, the governing body of youth soccer in the state, made a decision to promote in-district play this year. “One of the reasons ...
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Bronco Travel Soccer Club’s U14 girls off to strong start again
HAMPDEN, Maine — The Bronco Travel Soccer Club’s Under-14 girls have put last year’s success behind them, according to head coach Mike Saulter. As the club’s U13 representative in 2011, the team won its age-group state championship. This year, those players are only looking forward. “That isn’t something that’s even ...
Seacoast Blackbear’s introduction to soccer begins with Grassroots program
BANGOR, Maine — Ryan Pelletier played soccer for Brewer High School and the University of Maine at Farmington and graduated from UMF in 2011 with a degree in education. “Soccer is my favorite and education is my favorite,” said Pelletier. Now he gets to combine the two with Seacoast United ...
Five Town Football youth teams’ success built on fundamentals
CAMDEN, Maine — As coach of the Five Town Football youth teams, Chris Christie continually stresses the fundamentals to his players. The two teams are made up of 34 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from Camden, Rockport, Lincolnville, Appleton and Hope. The varsity team includes all the sixth-graders; all the fourth-graders ...
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Bangor Youth Football excited about getting new practice field
BANGOR, Maine — For years, Bangor Youth Football practiced on a field next to Cameron Field, the site for their games. It was all right most of the time, until school started and the Cohen Middle School teams needed it for softball and other athletic activities. “We kind of get ...
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Maine youth baseball team eagerly anticipating trip to Cooperstown
HERMON, Maine — A group of 12-year-old baseball players are eagerly awaiting their turn to play in Cooperstown, N.Y., later this month. Black Bear North, made up of 11 players from Greater Bangor and Hancock and Waldo counties, will compete Aug. 18-24 against 103 other teams from around the country ...
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First year for reorganized Eastern Maine Youth Lacrosse goes well
BANGOR, Maine — Dylan Cross of Brewer was one of the youngsters to join Eastern Maine Youth Lacrosse this year, and the 9-year-old enjoyed how the season went. “I felt like it was a good year and I made lots of new friends,” said Cross. Gayle Middleton, president of Eastern ...
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Maine youth soccer teams make solid Region I Championships marks
LANCASTER, Pa. — The Portland Phoenix Elite under-16 boys soccer team’s 3-1 victory over Beachside (Conn.) during pool play in the U.S. Youth Soccer Association’s Region I Championships last week could turn heads in the youth soccer community, according to Wyatt Omsberg of the Phoenix. “It kind of puts Maine ...
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Junior team league starts to blossom in new Central Maine Tennis Association
BANGOR, Maine — As Peter Ciarrocchi works to return organized tennis to Greater Bangor, he gets a strange feeling. “This is like deja vu for me again,” the 59-year-old said. In 1981, he moved from Lincoln to the Monterey area of California. He found great facilities but very little organized ...
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Mount Desert girl excited by experience at U-14 soccer national training camp
MOUNT DESERT, Maine — Opal Curless started playing soccer in kindergarten, playing at school and in recreational leagues. Even at that age, she had hopes and dreams. “Every player wants to play on the national team,” said Curless, “but I never thought [too much] about it. I never expected to ...
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Blackbear under-15 girls soccer team fires up, earns Region I tourney berth
BANGOR, Maine — Throughout the first half of Sunday evening’s girls soccer game in the State Cup Finals at Falmouth High School, the Blackbear United under-15 squad was playing on its heels against Seacoast United Arsenal. “This group has been Seacoast’s powerhouse team the last three years,” said Blackbear goalie ...
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Portland Phoenix rising fast as youth soccer program
PORTLAND, Maine — The State Cup youth club soccer season will end with its state championships Sunday and the Maine Premier Soccer Portland Phoenix will figure prominently in the matches. Seven Phoenix teams, which played under the Maine Coast United banner before becoming part of Global Premier Soccer in 2009, ...
SoccerMaine Olympic Development Program
Players from Blackbear United of Bangor GIRLS U-17 Analies Dyjak, Max McHugh, Anna Michaud, Grace Maclean, Tiffany Gray U-16 Abby Pyne, Kaitlyn Saulter, Maddie Page, Amanda Allen U-15 Diana Tyutyunnyk, Ali Boulier, Pilar Elias, Claire Petersen, Emily Berry, Faith Forsythe, Anna-Maria Dagher U-14 Opal Curless, Paige Mason, Audrey Davis U-13 ...
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Maine soccer’s Olympic Development Program gaining speed
BANGOR, Maine — Abby Pyne of Dixmont showed soccer players in Maine that they, too, could succeed after she earned a spot on the U.S. Soccer Association’s Under-15 Girls National Team last year. Currently, she’s on the U.S. Soccer Association Region I Olympic Development Program U-16 team (1996 birth year). ...
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Club sports outside mainstream — such as sailing — also face money problems, preconceptions
ROCKLAND, Maine — Clubs outside the youth sports mainstream, such as sailing, have issues that parallel those that crop up in mainstream sports. Erica Crain of Warren, whose twin daughters, Isabella and Louisa, are in the Rockland Community Sailing program, feels people draw the wrong conclusion about her girls’ sport. ...
Police find remains believed to be Nichole Cable, 15, in Old Town woods
Orono man facing murder charge in connection with death of missing Glenburn teen
Items found, authorities pursuing leads in search for Glenburn teen
LePage hopes to eliminate income tax by end of second term
Central High principal placed on administrative leave with pay after police charges
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Ignore LePage politics, get to root of DHHS funding needs
Nichole Cable: In our minds, hearts
Basketball season never ends for Worcesters of Washburn, a family of 1,000-point scorers
UMaine narrows candidate list, hopes to name men’s hockey coach next week
Eastport teen notches first ‘Bandolero’ racing victory
Not even chemotherapy could quell Maine woman’s longing to be in the kitchen
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at age 74
Fun, informative or just plain strange: 8 museums in Maine worth a road trip
Penobscot Theatre Company ends season with whirlwind production of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
