Defense sets the tone, and East QBs Braden Ballard and Grant Hartley combine for three touchdown passes.
Steve Craig
Staff Writer
Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.
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East has much to prove in Lobster Bowl
Last season was a tough one for East players, and now they get a final chance to turn it around.
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Lobster Bowl is fitting end for many football players
Some wish they could keep playing and others are glad to have a final farewell to a tough, rewarding sport.
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Cape’s Reese McFarlane becomes first Maine golfer to win New England Amateur since 1994
McFarlane wins the 54-hole tournament by 2 strokes, and Jack Wyman of South Freeport ties for sixth.
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Lobster Bowl: Coaching legend Dick Mynahan happy to have one more game
The retired Lisbon coach is stressing participation and the overall value of the game with his West squad.
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Jack Wyman captures Maine Amateur golf title for 2nd straight year
The defending champ from South Freeport holds off Camden’s Cole Anderson by a stroke.
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Defending champ Wyman takes lead at Maine Amateur golf
Jack Wyman of South Freeport shoots a 3-under 68 in the second round of the three-day tournament.
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High schooler takes first-round lead at Maine Amateur golf championship
Cole Anderson, 17, of Camden Hills Regional High, shoots a 5-under 66 at Belgrade Lakes Golf Club.
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High scores mark first round of New England Women’s Amateur golf
Erin Holmes of Gray is the low scorer from Maine on a day when only eight golfers break 80 at The Woodlands Club.
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Boys’ team Coach of the Year: Matt Rix, Marshwood wrestling
After 34 years of coaching, Rix leaves with 10 team state championships.