BRUNSWICK — The first week of high school fall practice is set to begin on Monday. Brunswick High School has a list of the first week practice times and locations: Cheering Cheerleaders will meet Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. behind the gym. Cross country Runners meet at the amphitheater behind the school all week from […]
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MPA, legislators reach agreement on allowing athletes to compete in more elite events
The Maine Principals’ Association is removing some hurdles for Maine high school athletes looking to compete at regional and national events. State legislators and the Maine Principals’ Association reached a handshake agreement earlier this week designed to give athletes more opportunities to compete at elite events and have their coaches coach them. The agreement provides […]
Local Runner Recognized: Mt. Ararat’s Berry-Gaviria earns Gatorade Award
CHICAGO — In its 34th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the Gatorade Company, announced on Monday that Mt. Ararat High School junior Lisandro Berry-Gaviria is its 2018-19 Gatorade Maine Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year. Berry-Gaviria is the first Gatorade Maine Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year to be chosen […]
Year in Review: Out with 2018, in with 2019
BRUNSWICK — My mother used to tell me that as she aged, the years seemed to go by faster and faster. Moms always seem to be right, and with a blink of eye, 2018 has turned into 2019. It seemed like only yesterday that we were watching the New England Patriots fall to the Philadelphia Eagles […]
Mt. Ararat Runner Shines: Lisandro Berry-Gaviria receives more accolades
TOPSHAM — Athletes in their first year of high school are often timid and uncertain, just hoping to fit in with more mature peers. Lisandro Berry-Gaviria of Bowdoinham was nothing like that when he arrived at Mt. Ararat High School’s preseason cross country sessions two years ago. Already he had read and digested The Youth and […]
Area Runner Makes Good: Lisandro Berry-Gaviria of Mt. Ararat qualifies for Nike Cross Country Nationals
WAPPINGER FALLS, N.Y. — Mt. Ararat High School’s Lisandro Berry-Gaviria has qualified for the Nike Cross Country Nationals. On Saturday at Bowdoin Park, Berry-Gaviria placed third in the Nike Cross Northeast Regional, finishing in 16:10. The Nationals will be held in Portland, Ore., this upcoming Saturday. Berry-Gaviria, a junior, won the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference, […]
Polar Bear Weekend: Bowdoin men’s hockey slips past Middlebury, 4-3
BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College men’s ice hockey team picked up its first win of the season in a 4-3 final over Middlebury on Saturday afternoon. Both teams are now 1-1 (1-1 NESCAC). Bowdoin scored 4:37 into the game to open up an early 1-0 lead. Keenan Murray fired a shot off Adam Wisco’s pads and […]
Class B Cross Country: York boys end 70-year drought
Belfast — A while back, Ted Hutch came across some microfilm of this newspaper that included a story about York High winning a state championship in cross country. Alfie Walker of Fryeburg Academy was eighth in the Class B South regional and hadn’t beaten any of the top contenders for the cross country state title. That […]
Class A Cross Country: Mt. Ararat’s Berry-Gaviria wins again
Belfast — Lisandro Berry-Gaviria’s plan worked to perfection. As for Sofie Matson’s face-plant, that worked out as well as could be expected. In the end, both runners successfully defended their Class A cross country state championships on a raw Saturday morning, with times faster than any others who followed in the other meets at Troy Howard […]
Class C Cross Country: Maine Coast Waldorf boys, Orono girls reign supreme
BELFAST — When organizers decided, in light of an ominous forecast, to hold the cross country state championship earlier Saturday than originally scheduled rather than gamble on better weather by postponing until next weekend, they did so knowing that Class C might be affected by the leading edge of the storm. Sure enough, cold rain began […]