Sanford running back-defensive back Kevin Bougie capped a stellar high school football career with the 29th annual Fitzpatrick Trophy Sunday.

The third Sanford player ever to win the award led his team with 1,357 yards and 20 touchdowns this season while leading the Redskins to the Western Maine Class A final.

The senior standout, who also helped lead Sanford to the Class A state title as a junior last year, was also the Redskins’ primary placekicker and kick returner. He finished the season with 33 solo tackles as a defender.

The Fitzy, named for former Portland High School football coach and athletic director James J. Fitzpatrick, is presented annually to the state’s best senior football player in terms of accomplishment on and off the field.

Bougie ranks 20th in a class of 285 students and is his school’s Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizenship Award winner.

Bougie, who also won the Allen Award as the Southern Maine Activities Association’s player of the year, beat out fellow finalists Brandon Casten of Wells, Jeremy Shorey of Lisbon, and Matt DiBiase of South Portland for this year’s Fitzy award.

Cheers to Old Town

The Old Town Indians cheerleading program continued its trophy collection run Saturday by finishing first at the second annual Big East Conference Cheering Championship at Bangor High School.

The Indians, who also won the Penobscot Valley Conference title two weeks ago, began their run with the 1999 Class B state championship, the school’s first-ever state cheering title, last February.

A crowd of approximately 450 fans at Bangor High School watched the Indians win the Big East title with 79 points.

Bangor finished second in the competition with 77 points in the final round and Brewer wound up third with 75. Defending champ Hampden Academy was fourth with 72.

Old town team members are Renee Anderson, Kailee Bradstreet, Amy Dauphinee, Missy Dorr, Meghan Foster, Courtney Gibbs, Stacy Goodspeed, Kim Hamel, Kate Hogan, Angela Madden, Cassie Madden, Cheri McDonald, Jessica Stoup, and Avril Williams.

Seven of the eight Big East teams participated in the competition. Nokomis of Newport, Caribou and Presque Isle did not make the finals. John Bapst of Bangor was the only Big East team not competing.

Roughed-up Red Riot

Orono defenseman Matt Hedrick seems to be none the worse for wear despite suffering a gashed chin and a concussion in the third period of the Red Riots’ hockey game against Winslow Saturday night.

Hedrick caught a stick in the chin and had to have several stiches to close the wound after the game. He left the ice and the game with help from two coaches after the third period due to the effects of the concussion, the most notable of which was a constant twitching in one arm.

“He’s fine now. He suffered a mild concussion and he might have had five or six stitches,” said Orono coach Greg Hirsch. “He went to Mid-Maine Medical right after the game and was treated, and he got checked out today and they pretty much gave him a clean bill of health.”

Hirsch said Hedrick, who was held out of practice Monday, is cleared to play in Orono’s game Wednesday against Hampden Academy, but Hirsch plans to hold him out as a precaution.

“He’ll be available, but I think we’ll keep him out ’til our game in Presque Isle Saturday,” he said.