BUCKSPORT – Before Friday night’s LTC Class C semifinal playoff game at Carmichael Field had even started, an unidentified Bucksport High football player unwittingly provided the theme for the game in the pregame huddle. “Remember guys,” he exhorted his teammates. “They’re silver, but we’re gold.”… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Sometimes the most important drive in a football game does not produce points – but it’s by no means pointless. Clinging to a three-point lead midway through the fourth quarter of Friday night’s LTC Class C football quarterfinal against Orono, the Foxcroft Academy… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – One of the secrets to the success of the Foxcroft Academy football program isn’t the guys who make the big plays during a given game. It’s the younger guys who are sprinkled into the mix during that same game to get a taste… Read More
BANGOR – Special teams made for a special evening for the John Bapst High football team. The Crusaders returned a punt for a touchdown, recovered an onside kick, watched a 41-yard field-goal try come up short and then celebrated as Kyle Gallant’s second-chance 31-yard field… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – It’s playoff time, and the beat goes on for the Foxcroft Academy football team. The undefeated and top-ranked Ponies used their deep and relentless ground game and an attacking defense to subdue No. 4 Rockland 32-0 in an LTC semifinal at Oakes Field… Read More
It’s semifinal weekend in the LTC football ranks, with three familiar faces and a new kid on the block. Familiarity reigns at the top of the standings, where top-ranked and undefeated Foxcroft Academy is in search of its third consecutive Eastern Maine Class C championship… Read More
LINCOLN – One hallmark of the Mattanawcook Academy football program for years has been the presence of big, talented players along the line of scrimmage. As the Lynx prepare for Saturday’s 2006 Eastern Maine Class C final at Foxcroft Academy, nothing has changed. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Look at the list of the top 10 tacklers in this year’s final LTC Class C statistics, and there’s not a Foxcroft Academy player to be found. It’s a classic example of how statistics tell none of the story and much of the… Read More
BUCKSPORT – The LTC Class C football semifinal between Mattanawcook Academy and Bucksport was a battle won in the trenches, but the win was a costly one for the Lynx of Lincoln as they suffered a big casualty. The third-seeded Lynx avenged a one-point regular… Read More
The state championship experience is becoming quite familiar to the Foxcroft Academy football team, but the Ponies’ third trip to Portland’s Fitzpatrick Stadium in the last four years will mark their first night-time quest for statewide supremacy in Class C. In 2003, when Foxcroft defeated… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Foxcroft Academy football coach Paul Withee wasn’t sure that 2005 would be a year his Ponies would contend for Eastern Maine and state championship honors when preseason practices began in mid-August. But steady improvement fueled by two defining moments have landed Foxcroft back… Read More
LINCOLN – Friday’s LTC Class C semifinal football playoff game between top seed Mattanawcook Academy and No. 4 seed Bucksport involved more than 100 plays. It’s rare when you can say a game like that came down to one play, but this one was a… Read More
The Eastern Maine Class C football playoffs have a familiar look. The same four teams that qualified for the semifinals a year ago are back. Last year, Bucksport and Foxcroft Academy were the top two seeds – rankings that held up through the regional final,… Read More
BUCKSPORT – The Bucksport Golden Bucks have battled their way to the Eastern Maine Class C football championship behind a high-powered offense featuring 2,400-yard tailback Nick Tymoczko. But some of the bigger plays of this undefeated season have come not on the ground, but through… Read More
Bucksport and Foxcroft Academy have been frequent foes with Eastern Maine Class C football titles on the line. In 2001, the Golden Bucks edged the Ponies 14-13 in overtime. In 2002, Foxcroft earned a 14-0 victory. Now comes a third meeting in four years, with… Read More
Nick Tymoczko and Bobby Gilbert. It’s a matchup steeped in speed, strength, agility, vision and all the intangibles that make for a star running back, and it’s a matchup that will be featured Saturday when top-ranked Bucksport hosts No. 2 Foxcroft Academy for the Eastern… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – The first half couldn’t have been much worse for Foxcroft Academy in Friday night’s LTC Class C semifinal playoff game. The second half couldn’t have been much better. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
PORTLAND – All week long, the talk leading into the Class C state title football game between Foxcroft Academy and Boothbay was on the big linemen and the running backs. With the unbeaten teams taking a combined total of 6,000-plus rushing yards into the game,… Read More
Defenses carry Belfast, Foxcroft to regional titles Two big plays by Ponies lead to shutout of Bucks
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Signs, omens, portents of things to come… Whatever you want to call them, there were plenty of them going into Saturday’s LTC Class C title football game. And they were all good for Foxcroft Academy. It was tough enough that Bucksport was about… Read More