Freeman is the only player from Maine – and one of just six from New England – participating in this weekend’s ODP National Training Camp in Florida.
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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Boys’ basketball: Yarmouth, York serving notice in Class B South
The teams played into overtime in the Clippers’ season-opening win. Since then, each team has one narrow loss.
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Boys’ basketball: York nips Gray-New Gloucester, 68-66
The Class B Wildcats win their seventh straight game and put an end to the eight-game streak of the Class A Patriots.
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Boys’ basketball: Yarmouth quickly gets back on track with win over Freeport
The Clippers improve to 10-1 with a resounding 57-31 victory, bouncing back from their first loss of the season.
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MPA tournament sites coming into focus
The basketball tournament schedule is virtually unchanged, but sites are still unsettled for some sports.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
High school football notebook: Scarborough’s Flaker wins team MVP award at all-star game in Florida
UMaine gets commitments from two of the top players in Class A – Thornton Academy quarterback Jack Emerson and Bonny Eagle running back Zac Oja.
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Boys’ basketball: Falmouth’s starting guards are hitting on all cylinders
Seniors Brady Coyne and Jack Stowell were projected to be among the best players in Class A South, and they haven’t disappointed.
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Will a lineman win the Fitzpatrick Trophy for the first time since 1977?
Bonny Eagle’s Thomas Horton is one of three finalists for this year’s award, given to the top senior in Maine high school football.
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Wrestling: Plenty of reasons to be motivated at Zeb Leavitt Memorial Invitational
For Cheverus, the event was about honoring one of the school’s former wrestlers. For other teams, it was a day to take advantage and learn from being in a tournament atmosphere.
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Several UMaine teams sidelined this weekend because of COVID-19 cases
The Black Bears have had to postpone or cancel events for women’s hockey, women’s basketball, swimming and indoor track.