WESTBROOK – The Westbrook baseball team’s quest for an undefeated season came to an end on Tuesday as the Blazes (12-1) dropped their first game of the season, falling 5-4 on the road to Scarborough. Despite the loss, Westbrook, who beat South Portland 8-1 on Monday, still remains on top of the Class A West […]
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Despite loss to Scarborough, Westbrook still on top of baseball standings
WESTBROOK – The Westbrook baseball team’s quest for an undefeated season came to an end on Tuesday as the Blazes (12-1) dropped their first game of the season, falling 5-4 on the road to Scarborough. Despite the loss, Westbrook, who beat South Portland 8-1 on Monday, still remains on top of the Class A West […]
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Bonny Eagle bombs away
GORHAM – When he connected for a grand slam in Tuesday’s 17-5 win over Gorham, Bonny Eagle’s Evan Amell said he didn’t think he had hit hard enough to get it out of the park. “I didn’t think it was gone. It was a very low pitch, and I just felt like I had to […]
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SOFTBALL: Tigers come back to top Scots
BIDDEFORD – At 48 degrees with a persistent drizzle, Monday wasn’t the best spring day for softball. But few afternoons this year have been ideal, and with a 1-4 record over the last five games heading into Monday’s matchup against Bonny Eagle (4-6), Biddeford was willing to take the bad with the good. They just […]
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Hundreds turn out to get ‘Into the Mud’ in Gorham
GORHAM – What can we say? It was a mess. Not that that wasn’t the intended result. Hundreds of athletes from across the state turned out in flamboyant costumes with an apparent gluttony for punishment in the University of Southern Maine’s inaugural “Into the Mud Challenge” held in Gorham on Saturday. What they found waiting […]
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SOFTBALL : Red Riots return to dominance
GORHAM – If the rest of the league thought that the Red Riots’ 9-8 squeaker against Marshwood last week might be a sign of weakness or fatigue for the South Portland softball team, those hopes were decidedly dashed the next time the Riots took the field. In an outing that quickly substituted exclamation points for […]
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Westbrook baseball continues its white-hot start
WESTBROOK – The nickname “Blue Blazes” is an appropriate one for the Westbrook baseball team this season, as they have come out of the gate on fire as the Blazes look to capture the Class A state championship. Westbrook ran its record to 5-0 on Monday as the team traveled to Gorham and shut out […]
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Blazes vanquish Knights
NORTH BERWICK – Mercy rule games are pretty frequent at the high school level. The disparity between teams in terms of talent fluctuates widely from year to year, and every so often you get a game where one side hangs a dozen or so runs on the other, ending the game early. But you don’t […]
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Gorham walks off with win over Redskins
GORHAM – It would have been understandable if the Gorham baseball team went out in the seventh inning of Tuesday’s game with Sanford and gave up. After all, the Rams had given up a three-run lead in the top of the seventh inning and instead of leaving the field with their first win of the […]
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Coming full circle: Westbrook seniors want to finish storied careers with state title
WESTBROOK – As the long shadows cast by evening sun began to creep onto the Westbrook High School baseball field last week, a group of young men – stripped down to T-shirts and sweating profusely despite the early-spring chill – ran the bases. Each completed circuit was followed by another, until their breathing came in […]