They’re the lowest remaining seed in any class in the high school softball playoffs, but the 12th-seeded Yarmouth Clippers were not in awe of Tuesday’s 13-2 destruction of No. 5 Mountain Valley in a Western Class B preliminary game. “They didn’t get that excited,” said Yarmouth’s first-year coach, Amy McMullin. “I thought they would have, […]
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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Tigers make it ‘snowball’
Softball: Massabesic jumped out to a 3-0 lead, but Biddeford’s bats and base-running create an avalanche of 14 runs.
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Softball: Sanford’s Adams focused on the playoffs
Samantha Adams has provided offense and pitching for the third-seeded Spartans.
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Hasson named S. Portland girls’ varsity basketball coach
Longtime assistant JV coach Lynne Hasson will replace Mike Giordano, who resigned earlier this spring after 17 years.
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Softball Notebook: Falmouth’s on the way to becoming a factor in Class B
Ray Fox knew his Falmouth High softball team was making progress. The email from his predecessor confirmed it. After Falmouth’s nine-inning 5-3 win at Yarmouth, which featured back-to-back homers by senior shortstop Maddie Inlow and freshman Julia Treadwell in the ninth, Fox saw the note from John Keyes. “It said congratulations on Falmouth’s first winning […]
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Softball: Scarborough’s feeling playoff fever in 9-5 win
The Red Storm top Biddeford and have a shot at the No. 1 seed in Western Class A.
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Western Maine Conference: Hall, Tomaszewski smash sprint marks
Kate Hall sets two all-time Maine bests, and Denzel Tomaszewski runs the state’s fastest 100 ever.
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Sanford survives a scare against Marshwood
Infielder Caitlin Pierce’s running catch preserves a 7-6 victory and enhances the playoff possibilities.
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Softball notebook: Greely finds success with coach known for success
Coaching at Greely High is something of a homecoming for first-year varsity softball coach Jessica Gomez. She went to Cumberland area elementary schools until her family moved to Jackman before sixth grade. A 2001 grad of Forest Hills, Gomez, then known as Brady, was a four-time, first-team America East pick at the University of Maine […]
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College Connections: Babson losing booming bat in softball
Babson College softball coach Dave Canan said he can think of only one reason why he’ll be glad that Scarborough’s Catie Funk is no longer on his team. “I won’t miss being petrified of being killed in the third-base box,” Canan said. “To be honest, when Catie was batting, I didn’t even stand there. I […]