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    WINDHAM, N.Y. – Exeter native Adam Craig tuned up for the U.S. Mountain Bike Championships with a second-place effort Saturday in the men’s elite cross country race at the East Coast Nationals at Windham Mountain. Craig, who will represent the United States at the Summer… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – Bill Bissell hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning Sunday to help push Brewer to a 9-4 Zone 1 American Legion baseball victory over Penquis. Chase Daniels had two singles and three RBIs for the first-place Falcons. Chris Maguire added two… Read More
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    The Maine Tide and Maine Sting play their last home doubleheader today when the Boston Aztecs send their Women’s Premier Soccer League and National Premier Soccer League (men’s) teams to Boucher Field on the Husson College campus in Bangor. The men’s game between the 0-4-4… Read More
    Jovan Belcher, a senior defensive end at the University of Maine, has been named a first-team Preseason All-American by Phil Steele’s 2008 College Football Preview Magazine. Belcher, who was chosen as a second-team Preseason All-American last month by Lindy’s Publications, was an All-Colonial Athletic Association… Read More
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    BANGOR – The opportunistic Brewer Falcons were unfazed after spotting Bangor a quick 1-0, first-inning lead during Thursday night’s American Legion Zone 1 baseball game at Mansfield Stadium. In fact, Brewer righthander Chase Daniels not only held the Comrades scoreless the rest of the way,… Read More
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    HAMPDEN – Brad Moscone hit two singles, drove in three runs and earned the pitching win Wednesday to lift the Millinocket 11-12 all-stars to a 7-4 District 3 baseball victory over Hampden. Seth Brown singled twice for Millinocket and Jordan Morrow hit a single and… Read More
    SACO – Ryan Gay of Pittston found out Wednesday how difficult it is to hang onto a lead, but he’s not discouraged in his bid to win the 89th Maine Amateur Golf Championship. The 17-year-old Gay finished with a 2-over-par 73 at Biddeford-Saco Country Club… Read More
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    YARMOUTH – Yarmouth High School will host the 19th annual Betty Blakeman Memorial, the largest event sanctioned by the Maine Tennis Association, July 18-20. Competition will be offered in men’s and women’s open singles and doubles, mixed doubles, and men’s ages 55-over classes. Players of… Read More
    HERMON – Cecile Seekins of Stockton Springs added her name to the family roster of winners Wednesday night as she won the Ladies Division feature during Wacky Wednesday racing at Speedway 95. Seekins, the mother of 2007 Ladies Division champion Lindsey Seekins and wife of… Read More
    BREWER – Lincoln Lumber handed the Brewer Falcons their first loss of the season in the first game of a Wednesday Zone 1 American Legion baseball doubleheader, but Brewer came back with a vengeance in the second game. Lincoln downed Brewer 11-7 behind two key… Read More
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    BREWER – Billy Bissell cranked two, three-run home runs to power the Brewer Falcons to a 13-2 American Legion baseball victory over the Trenton Acadians Tuesday night. Bissell sparked Brewer’s five-run first inning with his first homer and its four-run fourth inning with his second… Read More
    HAMPDEN – Zach Violette led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a single, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored the winning run on an error to give Brewer a 5-4 extra-inning victory over Holbrook in Tuesday’s District 3 Junior League baseball… Read More
    Christina Bush has been involved with cheerleading ever since she was in the third grade, and now has received an opportunity to continue coaching the sport she loves. The 2003 Brewer High School graduate, who competed in varsity cheering for the Witches all four years… Read More
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    BANGOR – The Motor City American Legion baseball team featured nearly every aspect of the game – pitching, defense, plate discipline and timely hitting – in Saturday’s Zone 1 doubleheader with Lincoln. The hosts erupted for 13 runs and nine hits in a 13-5 romp… Read More
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    Happy Fourth of July weekend and don’t burn the burgers. Baseball has been fortunate to be part of Fourth of July celebrations. The “national pastime” has derived great benefits from positioning itself in the same sentence as hot dogs, apple pie and the flag. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    EUGENE, Ore. – Another Mainer is going to the Summer Olympics in China. Anna Willard set an American record in winning the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9 minutes, 27.58 seconds at Thursday night’s Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
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    OLD TOWN – Adam Boucher hit an RBI fielder’s choice tie it at 4-4 in the third inning and scored the winning run on a passed ball to lead the Old Town 11-12 All-Stars to a 5-4 District 3 baseball win over Lincoln Wednesday. Old… Read More
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    HERMON – Orrington’s Dan Grover Jr. maneuvered past pole-sitter Darren Durrell of Newburgh on the sixth lap in the Little Enduro feature and went on to gain his third victory of the year during Wacky Wednesday racing at Speedway 95. Eddington’s Don Blanchard was third followed by Orrington’s… Read More
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    BANGOR – Jordan Clarke’s two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning drove home Ian Edwards to give the Bangor Comrades a come-from-behind 10-9 American Legion Zone 1 baseball victory over previously undefeated Trenton at Mansfield Stadium on Tuesday night. “I was just looking… Read More
    HAMPDEN – Ryan Shaw has stepped down after five seasons as the boys varsity soccer coach at Hampden Academy – for a couple of good reasons. Not only are he and his wife the proud parents of a 10-week-old daughter, Hannah, but the commute just… Read More
    ORONO – Trevor Singer has been hired as an assistant coach for the University of Maine men’s soccer team, head coach Pat Laughlin announced Tuesday. Singer comes to the Black Bears via UMass where he was part of a team last season that finished as… Read More
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