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BREWER – Clayton Blood tried to ignore the fact that Tuesday’s five-team track meet included two teams from opposite sides of the Penobscot River who share a storied athletic rivalry. “It’s become another day at the office,” the first-year Brewer coach said, before trying to… Read More
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BUCKSPORT – On a blustery day that progressed from heavy overcast to bright sun to driving rain to bright sun … all in a span of 20 minutes, Nichole Pacheco discovered an age-old secret of track and field on Friday. “Blankets,” the Bucksport High freshman… Read More
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LEWISTON – Adam Macbeth headed into Monday’s state Class B track championships with a head full of high hopes, an eye toward a team title … and a hamstring that was barely holding together. Over a six-hour span at Bates College’s Walter Slovenski Indoor Track,… Read More
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GORHAM – Brewer High School track coach Dave Jeffrey couldn’t help wonder what might have been as he observed Monday’s state Class A track and field championship meet at the University of Southern Maine field house. Jeffrey shook his head when talking about twins Elise… Read More
ORONO – With Saturday night’s Eastern Maine Indoor Track League championship all of 20 minutes old, the Bangor girls found themselves in a pickle that threatened to derail their quest for a first league championship. Star long jumper Emily Capehart, a big favorite in the… Read More
COLLEGE Southern Maine women 219, New York U. 105, Rhode Island 43, Smith 36, UMass.-Dartmouth 31, Fitchburg 25 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
ORONO – At certain times during the Eastern Maine Indoor Track League season coaches and athletes take a look at the schedule, notice who their competition for a given week is, and recognize the meet as one that could have some late-season implications. And then… Read More
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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
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
ORONO – In prepping for the high jump, Maria Millard did more stretching and run-throughs than actual hurling herself over the bar. Waiting for the rest of the field to clear lower heights, Orono’s Millard ran through the turf infield of the Beckett Family Track… Read More
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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
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
DOVER-FOXCROFT – For any ordinary Eastern Maine championship meet, Orono High pole vaulter Ellen Vollmers might have gone in wanting to smash her own state record of 9 feet, 6 inches. This week, because of a nagging back injury, Vollmers’ strategy for Saturday’s Class C… Read More
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DOVER-FOXCROFT – As the skies finally opened up in earnest and coaches huddled nearby on Friday night, Theresa Alvarez took temporary refuge under the makeshift lean-to formed by a pile of high-jump pits and waited for two events she’d never run. The Penobscot Valley Conference… Read More
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At Bangor, Saturday Corrected boys teams scores: Bangor 186, John Bapst 131, Narraguagus 131, Hermon 62, Nokomis 52.5, Orono 37, Bangor Christian 30.5 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i =… Read More
BREWER – With the May sun still high in the sky and her day’s work behind her, Brewer senior Lisa Patterson congratulated three teammates on Saturday afternoon and got ready to catch a few rays. “Two records. Two batons,” Patterson said with a smile, referring… Read More
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BREWER – With one fluid glide across a concrete circle, one powerful pump of his tattooed right arm, and one guttural bellow, Nick Coffin ended all the shot put suspense on Friday afternoon. An hour later, with finals yet to come (but his best throw… Read More
ORONO – For the first two weeks of the season, the teams with the most-feared rosters in the Eastern Maine Indoor Track League had a couple of things in common. First, they all had perfect records that they’d piled up while beating the daylights out… Read More