BIDDEFORD – East coach Butch Arthers anticipated that the West might use the size of its line and the speed of its running backs to take a ball-control approach to Friday night’s 19th annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic. Turns out he was right, particularly… Read More
The participants in Friday night’s Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic already have an appreciation for the larger purpose of this annual clash of the state’s top recently graduated high school football players. That’s raising money for the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children. The event’s first… Read More
HEBRON – All-star training camps can make for some strange bedfellows. After all, the football teams at Foxcroft Academy and Mattanawcook Academy of Lincoln have met helmet-to-helmet on the gridiron five times in the last three seasons, three times in regular-season play and twice in… Read More
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BIDDEFORD – Lewiston High School tailback Jared Turcotte swept all of the individual honors after the 2006 high school football season. And he used Friday night’s 18th annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic to show why. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
One presumption in team sports is that defenses have the edge at the outset of competition because they merely react to offensive forays that must be developed over time. And with just one week for star football players from around the state to prepare, the… Read More
BIDDEFORD – Jeremie Pillsbury hadn’t played on the defensive line since his junior season of football at Noble High in North Berwick. But when just three linemen showed up at the West’s pre-game training camp for the 16th annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic, the… Read More
BIDDEFORD – Chris DeVinney can remember every field goal he ever made in high school. Every … single … one. Good memory? Not exactly. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
A squad of East stars will try to post its second win in three years Friday night as the 12th edition of the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic is contested in Biddeford. The East stars dropped a 6-0 decision to the West in 2000, thanks… Read More