WINDHAM – Jonathan Lenz and Brandon Gastia don’t talk much outside of the track and field arena. In it, they’re collegial. The two seniors from Hampden Academy and Old Town, respectively, like each other. Competing together in three jumping events during Saturday’s Class B state… Read More
BATH – Four years ago, then-Belfast High freshman pole vaulter Bryna Harrington finished fifth at the Class B state championships with a vault of 8 feet, 6 inches and set a goal for herself to improve by a foot every year. Harrington didn’t quite reach… Read More
WINDHAM – Sophomore Huey Morse has a family history of excellence in the javelin, but until Saturday he was known as the younger brother of two standout throwers. Caleb Barnaby has competed in track four years, but until this spring had never tried the long… Read More
LEWISTON – Records fell, streaks continued, upsets occurred, and new champions were crowned at the State Class B indoor track and field championship meet Monday. First, the records: Old Town sophomore Cassie Hintz smashed Laura Duffy’s 18-year-old mark in the two-mile run by better than… Read More
ORONO – Before the Belfast boys headed to Orono for one final spring track meet, Dale Nealey gathered them together on Saturday and focused not on the job ahead, but on the job they’d already done. His seniors had gone four years without losing a… Read More
WINSLOW – For the Belfast boys, Saturday’s Eastern Maine Class B championship track and field meet was an opportunity to extend a streak of dominance. For the Hampden Academy girls, it was a chance to return to dominance. Both teams accomplished their goals as the… Read More
ORONO – In terms of team successes, the only big splashes representatives of Eastern Maine were able to make at Saturday’s soggy Class B track and field state championship meet were in pools of water accumulating on the track and the turf. Individually, however, the… Read More
CARIBOU – Of the 367 student-athletes assembled on a beautiful, balmy Saturday at Caribou High School’s athletic complex, only two left as four-event winners at the end of the Eastern Maine Class B Regional track and field championship meet. Not so coincidentally, those two individuals’… Read More