Kennebunk’s Jaime Spang (3) makes her way towards the net en route to scoring a goal in the second half of the Class A girls lacrosse state championship game, Saturday, at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland. Brunswick goalie Paige Montgomery (50) defends on the play.

PORTLAND — It mattered. A lot. Which is why it hurt a lot. The pain was etched on the faces of the likes of Jamie Spang and Meghan Smith, of Maggie Lavoie and Jen Bryant, and the rest of the Kennebunk girls lacrosse sorority. It was visible, almost palpable, even clear across the Fitzpatrick Stadium […]

CHICAGO — Two state championships in a single season is enough to make any resumé look good, and Kennebunk freshman Abbey Leondardi’s resumé is littered with accolades. Add another to the list. The sensational distance runner was named the Gatorade Maine Girls Track and Field Athelte of the Year, it was announced on Wednesday. Leonardi, […]

SACO — All they wanted was a chance. Not just to get to the girls lacrosse state championship game. That’s a trip that Kennebunk had already made two years running. But a chance to win the championship. The No. 4 Rams gave themselves the opportunity to win that elusive first state title by defeating No. […]

KENNEBUNK — They’re not facing complete strangers, but it’s been a while since the No. 4 Kennebunk girls have faced No. 2 Thornton Academy on the lacrosse field. You’d have to flip the calendar back one year to last year’s Western Maine Class A quarterfinal to find the last meeting, one that the Rams won […]

Kennebunk’s Molly Centore (1) and the rest of the fourth-seeded Rams are once again in the Western Maine Class A championship game. They take on No. 2 Thornton Academy, today, at 4 p.m.

Former Kennebunk head coach Charlie Burch, left, talks to his team during a timeout in its game earlier this season against Falmouth. Burch resigned this weekend to become the top assistant coach for the University of New England. He had been the Rams’ coach for the last 12 seasons, and for 12 years before that […]

KENNEBUNK — Far from burnt out on the game he loves, Charlie Burch has decided to take his coaching talents to the next level. The Kennebunk boys lacrosse coach for the last 12 seasons has decided to step away from the team and join the coaching staff at the University of New England as its […]

GORHAM — It wasn’t supposed to end this way, not against a Gorham team that although carried the top seed, had amassed its unbeaten 13-0 record playing a schedule of lower tier teams the equal of squads from day cares and old age homes. So it was that playoff tested No. 4 Kennebunk decided that […]

Kennebunk attacker Jamie Spang fires a shot toward the net guarded by Gorham goalie MacKenzie Smith (25), in the first half of a Western Maine Class-A girls lacrosse semifinal playoff game, at Gorham High School, Saturday. Spang scored on the play, one of seven goals she netted in Kennebunk’s 12-10 victory. Kennebunk, seeded No. 4, […]