Windham’s win ends Lewiston’s 119-match winning streak; Lewiston’s girls, however, win the Class A title and Waynflete (boys) and North Yarmouth Academy (girls) win Class C titles.
Glenn Jordan
Glenn Jordan joined the Portland Press Herald in 1994 to cover the fledgling Portland Sea Dogs. A native of Vermont, he studied philosophy in college and worked at two newspapers in New Hampshire and one in Connecticut before moving to Maine. He spent his first two years of marriage living in the keepers quarters of the Portland Head Light and has three grown children. In addition to baseball, he has covered nearly every sport played in Maine, from biathlon and curling to running and sailing. Currently he works part-time and can be found near cross country trails in fall, swimming pools and ski slopes in winter and tennis courts in spring. All other times, he’s probably on a pickleball court. He is a two-time USA Pickleball national medalist (silver and gold) and played for both the Austin Ignite and Indianapolis Drivers in 2023, helping Indy win the inaugural National Pickleball League championship over Austin in a league for senior pros aged 50 and over.
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Tennis: Falmouth girls ready to sparkle one more time
The night before the Western Maine tennis finals, members of the Falmouth High girls tennis team labored not over tendencies and scouting reports of their next-day opponents, but of costumed jewels affixed to lime green flip-flops with the help of glue guns, coaches Sandra Stone and Prisca Thompson and at least one patient mom. “It’s […]
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Windham boys, Gorham girls advance
Western Class A tennis: Windham and Gorham win the West, and will meet Lewiston.
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On to the state finals after 5-0 victories
Western Class C tennis: The Waynflete boys and NYA girls handle their regional final opponents.
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Separate journeys, identical results
Western Class B tennis: The Falmouth girls cruise, the Cape boys struggle, but both win titles, 5-0.
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Writer learns how to Bee dad, at the national level
WASHINGTON, D.C. – How we got from bedtime stories involving bowls full of mush and a young mouse to nightly quizzes on Latin roots and the proper spellings of vibrissae (nostril hairs) and nudicaudate (having a hairless tail) is a bit of a blur. In clear focus, however, on a red-carpeted stage under the bright […]
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Familiar foes meet in state rowing finals
Waynflete and Yarmouth, Maine’s only school rowing programs, meet with a title on the line.
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Toe the line, with or without shoes
A movement is afoot. A barefoot movement. Or, at least a shift toward shedding shoes. A small but growing segment of the running population is harkening back to the days before sneakers, before waffle shoes, before heel-and-toe hit its stride. These are folks who run either in bare feet or with minimalist shoes that offer […]
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Tennis Notebook: SMAA, WMC crown doubles champs
The seedings are complete for the 48 boys and 48 girls who remain in the state singles tennis tournaments, which resume Friday morning at the Wallach Tennis Center on the campus of Bates College in Lewiston. Before examining the likely candidates for the semifinals and finals on Memorial Day – and with Waynflete’s boys sweeping […]
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Tennis Notebook: State singles qualifiers noteworthy for absence of upsets
Qualifying rounds for the high school state singles tournament took place over the weekend, and coaches did a pretty good job of seeding in the region composed of players from the Western Maine Conference and Southern Maine Activities Association. From a field of 63 at Deering High, all 16 girls seeded in the Region 5 […]