MARS HILL – Fort Fairfield took advantage of Central Aroostook errors in the seventh inning, including one to score Brittany Pelkey from third base with the winning run as the ninth-ranked Tigers edged the No. 8 Panthers 17-16 in an Eastern Maine Class D softball prelim Tuesday. Read More
    With the high school softball postseason set to kick off today, Ashland and the Limestone Community School/Maine School of Science and Mathematics are the only Eastern Maine teams that will head into the playoffs with a zero in the loss column. “Isn’t that something, huh?”… Read More
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    BREWER – Melanie Judkins allowed five hits and four walks while striking out eight to lead Brewer to a 2-0 shutout of Cony of Augusta at Coffin Field on Saturday in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference championship. Dominique DeFilipp hit an RBI groundout in the… Read More
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    BATH – As the temperatures rose from the low 70s to the sultry 80s Saturday, so too did the quality of the athletic performances of many local athletes participating in Saturday’s state Class B track and field championship meets. The Waterville boys and girls swept… Read More
    HAMPDEN – Top-ranked Bangor advanced to the Eastern Maine Class A tennis finals for the second straight year Saturday, using strong singles play as the catalyst for a 4-1 semifinal victory over No. 4 Brewer at Bangor Indoor Tennis. The unbeaten Rams (14-0) play defending… Read More
    CALAIS – Jeremy Carr’s RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted the Calais Blue Devils to a 4-3 schoolboy baseball win over the Machias Bulldogs in the Downeast Athletic Conference final Saturday. Zack Newman hit three singles and a double for the… Read More
    FORT WILLIAM, Scotland – Exeter native Adam Craig finished 16th in an International Cycling Union World Cup mountain bike race for the second straight week Saturday. But the finish may have been good enough to secure him a berth on the U.S. Olympic Team. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
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    Each year, a traveling road show descends on a Maine community, and hundreds of onlookers drop by to (get this) listen attentively as assorted legislators, wardens and Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife staffers read a couple thousand names aloud. Sounds boring? Well, you obviously… Read More
    On Sunday, state legislators won’t be casting votes, but instead they’ll cast fishing lures in order to raise money for charity. The 12th annual Governor’s Cup Charity Bass Tournament will take place at the Birches Campground on Cobbossee Lake in Litchfield. Senators, representatives and members… Read More
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    PORTLAND – Former Deering High School and American Legion baseball star Ryan Flaherty was picked 41st overall in Tuesday’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Chicago Cubs. The Portland native and son of longtime University of Southern Maine coach Ed Flaherty just finished his junior season… Read More
    ORONO – University of Maine assistant captain Pam Patterson won the Hockey East Top Scholar-Athlete Award for the second straight year. The Miramichi, New Brunswick native, who spent her freshman year at Ohio State University, was one of 11 Black Bears named to the 81-member… Read More
    A limited number of hockey season tickets are available for the 2008-2009 season. They will require a donation to the Black Bear Fund of $250-$1,000 annually and it will guarantee optimal seat location in Alfond Arena as well as preference for post-season tickets and travel. Read More
    ORONO – Approximately 1,300 athletes will converge on the University of Maine campus as it hosts the 40th annual Special Olympics Maine state summer games today through Sunday. The athletes will be representing more than 150 teams from all around the state and range in… Read More
    LINCOLN – Lance Bernier doubled, singled and drove in two runs to help lift the Mattanawcook Academy Lynx to an 11-1 high school baseball victory over the Hermon Hawks Thursday. Peter Coggins had two singles and two RBIs for the Lynx. Jake Smith and Adam… Read More
    BELFAST – Jake Grinnell pitched a five-hitter, striking out 10 and walking three, to lead the Camden Hills Windjammers past Belfast 2-1 in baseball action Wednesday. Mykel Scalloway led off the seventh with a single, went to second on a wild pitch, moved to third… Read More
    STACYVILLE – Evan McCarthy hit three doubles and drove in a run to lift the Katahdin Cougars to a 5-2 high school baseball victory over Lee Academy Thursday. Andy Kay doubled and singled for the Cougars and Brady Curtis hit a double. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
    BREWER – Clayton Blood has been at home in a classroom for nearly three decades, including the last 10 years as an English teacher at Brewer High School. Next winter, he’s going to add some additional classroom duties – on the sidelines as Brewer’s new… Read More
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    CARIBOU – Colby College graduate Austin Ross is joining the coaching staff at the Maine Winter Sports Center. The Steamboat Springs, Colo., native was a four-year member of Colby’s ski team and skied at four Junior National Championships. Ross will focus on community programs in… Read More
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    EAST SULLIVAN – Joe Simmons’ two-out single in the bottom of the sixth inning scored Jacob Knowles with the winning run in a 6-5 baseball victory by the Sumner Tigers over Washington Academy of East Machias Wednesday. Mike Crowley had three singles, Mickey Manning added… Read More
    SAINT AGATHA – Rachel Donahue hit a triple and two singles to drive in five runs as Central Aroostook of Mars Hill closed out its regular season with a 30-4 softball win over the Wisdom Pioneers Wednesday. Sarah Long added a triple, two singles and… Read More
    BAR HARBOR – It’s hard to run fast when you don’t have good competition, whether you’re a sprinter or a distance runner. Just ask Mount Desert Island junior sprinter Danielle Hutchins whether she’d rather be way out in front or in a tightly contested race. Read More
    In the opening game of the 1984 NCAA Northeast Regional at Mahaney Diamond in Orono, University of Maine senior catcher and co-captain Eddie Hackett had the first four-hit game of his career in a 12-6 win over Rider (N.J.). “I got to go to the… Read More
    Starting times for this weekend’s 44th Whited Ford Paul Bunyan Amateur Golf Touirnament will be published in Thursday’s BDN. The tourney runs Friday through Sunday with three divisions rotating among three golf courses – Rockland Golf Club, Kebo Valley Golf Club in Bar Harbor and Penobscot Valley Country… Read More
    TAMPA, Fla. – John Tortorella was fired Tuesday as coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, four years after leading the team to its only Stanley Cup championship. The former UMaine hockey standout had one season remaining on his contract. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
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    HAMPDEN – The Penobscot Valley Conference Large School track and field championships officially wrapped up Tuesday afternoon with the contention of the pole vault during the PVC freshman championships at Hampden Academy. The Bangor boys and girls sewed up their fourth consecutive team titles. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    LEAVITT – Brittany Luetjen smacked a grand slam in the first inning to help lift the Hampden Academy Broncos to a 10-3 high school softball victory over the Leavitt Hornets Tuesday. Jill Carlisle tallied three singles and an RBI for Hampden. Michelle Wells hit a… Read More
    HARRINGTON – Jessica Tenan tripled home the tying run with two outs and scored on Sam Baker’s infield single as Narraguagus upended Woodland 5-4 in a rain-shortened, five-inning high school softball game Tuesday. The Dragons tied the game in the top of the sixth and… Read More
    ASHLAND – Nick Gimbel drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift Ashland past Katahdin of Stacyville 4-3 in baseball action Tuesday. Henry Milligan hit a single and scored the winning run in the eighth. Justin Belanger pitched a… Read More
    One of the finest teachers and coaches I had the pleasure to know and compete against has died. We were sorry to learn of the recent death of Niles Nelson III of Bangor, who for many years, was the boys varsity basketball coach at Hermon… Read More
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    DURHAM, N.C.- Kevin White was hired as Duke’s athletic director Saturday, leaving Notre Dame after eight years for a school with an elite basketball team and a football team that has had 13 straight losing seasons. Notre Dame appointed Missy Conboy as its interim AD. Read More
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