Portland pitcher Ryne Lawson completes his follow through after delivering a pitch in the second inning of the Sea Dogs’ 9-0 romp over the Altoona Curve, at Hadlock Field, Wednesday. Lawson hurled six scoreless innings while improving his record to 3-9. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)

PORTLAND — Ryne Lawson hasn’t been the most fortune-kissed hurler on the Portland Sea Dogs staff. Nor ”“ and his record will bear this out ”“ has been the most successful. Wednesday, however, Lawson was both lucky and superb in helping the Dogs to a 9-0 thrashing of the Altoona Curve, before a soldout Hadlock […]

SANFORD — No one seems to want to see the Sanford Mainers’ season come to an end. Certainly not the Mainers themselves, who Tuesday saw to it that they didn’t, with a 5-3 East Division semifinal series clinching win against the North Shore Navigators, before a Goodall Park gathering of 568. The win, the rubber […]

Sanford Mainers relief pitcher Kyle Davis delivers a pitch during the third inning of an NECBL East Division playoff game with the North Shore Navigators. The Mainers won the game, 5-3, to win the best of three series, and will now advance to the East Division championship series against the Newport Gulls. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)

LYNN, Mass. — This might go down as one of the great “woulda coulda” games in Sanford Mainers playoff history. Presented with the chance to knock the North Shore Navigators out of the postseason, the Mainers instead pulled their punches and suffered a 3-2 setback in Game 2 of their best of three NECBL East […]

Sanford left fielder Dylan Pratt (21) looks perplexed after taking a strike during his at bat in the eighth inning of the Mainers NECBL playoff game with the North Shore Navigators, Monday night. Pratt later struck out, and the Mainers wound up losing to the Mavs, 3-2. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)

WORCESTER, Mass. — The Saco 13-16 All-Star softball team knows the definition of heartache. A core group of girls who make up this year’s team has spent the past three seasons on the outside looking in when it comes to various all-star state title games. In 2006 the team finished second as 12-year-olds in the […]

SANFORD—You can’t win them all, even though for much the last two weeks, the Sanford Mainers did just that. Thursday, however, the Mainers’ eight-game winning streak came to a screeching halt, after absorbing a 12-1 hammering supplied by the Newport Gulls before 417 spectators at Goodall Park. “We came out ready to play tonight,” said […]

Newport Gulls shortstop Tim Smalling leaps over Mike Roth of the Sanford Mainers, who slid into second base during an attempted hit and run in the second inning of their NECBL contest, Thursday at Goodall Park. Roth had to return to first base when a drive by Dylan Pratt (not pictured) went foul. (DAN HICKLING/Journal […]

AUGUSTA — Advanced Tech of Biddeford had five days to psyche itself up for the beginning of the Maine State American Legion tournament. Unfortunately for Biddeford, Day 1 proved to be a huge let down. The Zone 5 champions fell behind early and wound up suffering 14-3 rout at the hands of Zone 1 champs, […]