When Dick Balentine cut his teeth in the Maine cross country coaching scene in 1979, he showed up to his first preseason practice at Hampden Academy with only four prospective runners ready for his tutelage. To say Hampden’s program has grown by leaps and bounds since… Read More
BELFAST, Maine — For coaches and runners alike, the Maine Cross Country Festival of Champions not only provides Maine schools a taste of out of state competition, but a midseason barometer as postseason races beckon in October. If Saturday’s day of fast running is any indication,… Read More
BELFAST, Maine — Luke Laverdiere was speechless in more ways than one after breaking the tape at Saturday’s Maine Cross Country Festival of Champions at the Troy Howard Middle School. The Yarmouth High School senior came agonizingly close to breaking a course and meet record… Read More
On Friday, it was announced that the league’s new team, scheduled to drop the puck in the fall of 2018, will be named the Maine Mariners. Read More
In the fall of 2002, approximately 410 high school runners — 241 boys and 169 girls — crossed the finish line at the inaugural Maine Cross Country Festival of Champions. Saturday’s 16th edition of the event is expected to showcase its largest field yet, with… Read More
The University of Maine women’s soccer team fell 2-1 to Hartford. Read More
Gary Snowden has been an avid golfer his entire life, and enjoys whatever time he can spend at Country View Golf Course in Brooks. But the 75-year-old Belmont resident, who spends his winters in Florida, achieved a rare feat in August at the course along Route… Read More
Two races into her freshman campaign, Steelman has already cracked record books. Read More
The Mariners have lost their first two games while the Buccaneers have improved to 1-1. Read More
The cancellation puts UMaine, which is idle this weekend, in a scheduling bind. Read More
Rack City, a pool hall located on Broadway, will be sending two teams — an eight-ball squad and a nine-ball contingent — to the Team Amateur Pool National Championships. Read More
Michael Flanagan, a Sanford native and 18-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, experienced a thrill that made the game's final score somewhat irrelevant. Read More
Art Mathisen, a 20-year veteran of the Army who is now the CEO of a hospital in Vermont, returned to Maine for the Ironman 70.3 triathlon last month. Read More
Some of the state’s top harness horses and drivers will converge on Bangor Raceway on Friday night with big money up for grabs. The “Sire Stakes” finals, an event for two-year old horses, will be contested at historic Bass Park for the second consecutive year. Between… Read More
Westbrook native and former University of Maine football star Trevor Bates was released from the Patriot's practice squad Tuesday. Read More
Like a lot of athletes, the itch to remain competitive burned inside Guerrette after she hung up her basketball sneakers, so she subsequently took up endurance sports. Read More
This fall, with its drop to Class D after four years in Class C, Foxcroft Academy is going home, so to speak, to the LTC. Read More
If coach Mark Shields’ Trojans are going to replicate that success, they’ll have to survive what will be a rugged voyage in a new-look Class C North that features some tough competitors. Read More
Last fall’s run to the Class C North football championship set off a tidal wave of schoolboy athletic success at Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor. In the months that followed the school’s first regional championship in football, state titles in boys basketball and… Read More
Over the last four years, Foxcroft Academy football coach Danny White has welcomed the challenges playing in Class C North had presented his Ponies. This fall, with its drop to Class D, Foxcroft is going home, so to speak, to the LTC. And… Read More
