If you look at the girls performance list for Monday’s Class A track and field championships at the University of Southern Maine, there doesn’t appear to be a clear-cut favorite. “It’s a toss-up, I don’t think anyone is favored that much,” said Ron Kelly, coach… Read More
BATH – Barely an hour into Saturday’s Class A outdoor track and field state championship meet, the Bangor High School boys team had it won. Say what? One hour into a 71/2-hour meet? It was just the second of 19 events in a marathon, back-and-forth… Read More
BATH – With her team facing a tough task trying to duke it out with the larger teams at the Class A high school state track and field championship at McCann Field, Jesse Labreck viewed things from a more personal vantage point Saturday. “It’s not… Read More
It happened for him in soccer. Now can it happen for Cam Cormier in indoor track? For Bangor High’s record-breaking sprinter, leading the Rams to a State Class A indoor track and field title would equal a similar accomplishment on the soccer field last fall:… Read More
WINDHAM – On the hottest day of 2005 to date, Maine track and field fans witnessed perhaps the greatest high school race ever in the Pine Tree State. When Portland brothers Ayalew and Sintayheu Taye and South Portland’s Eric Giddings toed the line for the… Read More
BATH – Brian Vail’s 19th birthday couldn’t have gone any better. First off, he completed what some people think is the “impossible double” (400, first; 800, second), anchored the winning 4×400 relay team and received a nice present: a state championship trophy. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
GORHAM – Going into Monday’s Class A state championship meet at the Costello Field House at the University of Southern Maine, Bangor High girls coach Maynard Walton and everyone else who was involved thought both meets could come down to the relay. In the girls… Read More
ORONO – Coming into Saturday’s Class A track and field state championship meet, Waterville coach Ian Wilson worked up two distinct scenarios for his girls team: best case and worst case. “We went over the seeds the day before and we added up the points,”… Read More
BATH – When Ian Wilson’s boys 3,200-meter relay team was disqualified in the first event of the day on Saturday, some may have dismissed the incident as one of those minor stumbles that occur throughout the course of championship meets. Six hours later, as the… Read More
ORONO – For three years running, Edward Little girls coach Steve Robertson has gone into the final weekend of the season hoping for one of track’s rarities: The perfect meet. One without the ebbs and flows that mark a sport made up 19 separate competitions… Read More
BATH – As runners in the day’s final event swept past his vantage point late Saturday afternoon, Gary Capehart was left reciting the what-if creed familiar to track coaches everywhere. “What could we have done to tweak out two or three more points?” the Bangor… Read More