BANGOR – The Eastern Maine Class D baseball championship game was expected to be a pitcher’s duel between Katahdin of Stacyville junior Andy Kay and Southern Aroostook of Dyer Brook sophomore Dakota Sleeper, who are summer league baseball teammates and close friends. It certainly lived… Read More
BANGOR – Searsport High School junior righthander Nate Adams said he threw his last no-hitter in Little League when he was 11 or 12 years old. He couldn’t have picked a better stage for his latest one. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
STANDISH – Not since 1975 had Searsport High School won a state baseball title. But it was symbolic of the high expectations the program has had in recent years that the modern-day Vikings had been reminded of that fact each spring. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BANGOR – Nobody had shut out the Houlton High School baseball team this season. Until Tuesday, that is. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++)… Read More
BANGOR – Collin Henry flirted with trouble in the first inning of Wednesday night’s Eastern Maine Class C baseball final. But once the George Stevens Academy junior lefthander escaped that bases-loaded situation, he was poised for a big performance. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
MADAWASKA – It was part tribute, part therapy, but ultimately Wednesday’s Eastern Maine Class C baseball preliminary-round game between Madawaska and Woodland was what it was – a ballgame. And it was a ballgame Woodland won, rallying from a pair of five-run deficits to earn… Read More
BANGOR – George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill junior lefthander wasn’t sharp in Tuesday’s Eastern Maine Class C championship game against Searsport. But Hilts, who lasted just 4 2/3 innings, laid down a key sacrifice bunt in the bottom of the seventh and Ross Gallagher… Read More
BLUE HILL -After watching his team strand four runners in the first two innings of Saturday’s 8-1 win over Houlton in their Eastern Maine Class C semifinal, George Stevens Academy baseball coach Dan Kane had two ways to look at things. Sure, his players missed… Read More
BANGOR – The lineup hasn’t been as offensively scary for George Stevens Academy as it has in the past, so the Eagles have been doing it with pitching, defense, and an aggressive, small-ball attack. Different approach … Same result. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
STANDISH – The Armandi Brothers. Sounds more like a circus trapeze act than a successful high school athletics trio. Monday night, the Armandis provided a 1-2-3 punch that helped lead Jay High School to a 5-3 victory over George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill for… Read More
BLUE HILL – Dusty Bates was working on a no-hitter Saturday – which usually means the subject isn’t discussed in the dugout. But before George Stevens Academy took the field for the fifth inning of its Regional baseball semifinal against Hodgdon, the senior righthander talked… Read More
BANGOR – It was with serious reservations that Tim Johnson accepted the baseball coaching job at Hall-Dale High School. Johnson, the dean of students at Mount Ararat High in Topsham, had coached at Hall-Dale for eight years in the 1980s. But he feared the 45-minute… Read More
CORINTH – Lowell Oyster had just seven hits in 41 at-bats during Central High School’s regular season, but the senior left fielder came up with a clutch single to open the eighth inning. He continued to third on a two-base error, and scored on Joe… Read More