RICHMOND — When a defending state champion high school baseball team has 10 returning players, including five starters, it seems safe to assume another run at the title is possible. While another run seems likely for the Richmond Bobcats, the path getting there may not be as clear. Three key losses from last year’s state champs […]
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Red Sox end trip 3-8 with 1-0 win over Diamondbacks
PHOENIX — An awful opening trip ended with a win for the Boston Red Sox. Mitch Moreland homered off Merrill Kelly on the first pitch of the seventh inning, and the World Series champions beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 1-0 on Sunday. Boston went 3-8 against Seattle, Oakland and Arizona, its worst start since losing nine of […]
Baylor holds off Notre Dame, 82-81 for NCAA women’s basketball title
TAMPA, Fla. — Baylor lost a star player, then the rest of its 17-point lead. But the Lady Bears, led by the ever-poised Chloe Jackson, kept their composure. Jackson drove for a tiebreaking layup with 3.9 seconds left, and that put the game into the hands of another tournament hero. Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale missed the […]
Sea Dogs stumble out of the gate, lose 4-0
PORTLAND — Professional baseball returned Thursday night to Hadlock Field as the Portland Sea Dogs opened their 26th Eastern League season with a 4-0 loss to the Reading Fightin Phils. Technically it was a sellout, but only about half of the 7,368 tickets sold for Opening Day actually passed through the turnstiles. The temperature at game […]
Red Sox drop another to the Athletics, 7-3
OAKLAND, Calif. — When the reigning AL MVP openly regrets challenging you, that’s pretty high praise. Center fielder Ramon Laureano threw out another Red Sox runner in a key spot, and the Oakland Athletics kept Boston stumbling with a 7-3 win on Thursday. Laureano tossed out three runners as the A’s took three of four in […]
Journal Tribune 2018-19 Boys Basketball MVP: Thornton Academy’s Payton Jones
SACO — Payton Jones made an immediate impact on the basketball court for Thornton Academy last year as a freshman — so much so, that he was named the Journal Tribune’s Boys Basketball Rookie of the Year in 2018. There would be no sophomore slump for Jones this season. The TA standout averaged 15 points […]
Journal Tribune Boys Basketball All-Stars
MVP: Payton Jones, Thornton Academy Rookie of the Year: Ashton Crowell, Biddeford All-Stars Carter Edgerton, Biddeford Cody Saucier, Biddeford Max Murray, Kennebunk Cam Lovejoy, Kennebunk Zack Sullivan, Kennebunk Kyle Pasieniuk, Kennebunk Trevor Beals, Massabesic Ryan Crockett, OOB Zac LaPlante, OOB Leyton Bickford, Sanford Anthony Bracamonte, Thornton Academy Dylan Griffin, Thornton Academy Tyler Bridge, Wells Matt […]
Bowdoin College roundup: Women take down Bates in lax action
LEWISTON — The Bowdoin College women’s lacrosse team put on a defensive clinic in a 14-2 road win at Bates on Wednesday night. The 14th-ranked Polar Bears held the 21st-ranked Bobcats scoreless for the first 33:01 of the game en route to improving to 5-4 (3-3 NESCAC). Bates fell to 7-4 (3-3 NESCAC) The Bowdoin defense […]
Let the Good Times Begin: Sea Dogs return
Portland The boys of summer returned to Hadlock Field Tuesday afternoon. The 26th edition of the Portland Sea Dogs is scheduled to get underway Thursday evening with a baseball tossed from the left hand of Kyle Hart, a 26-year-old native of Ohio who is returning to Maine for a second season in the Double-A Eastern […]
MLB Boston: Fiers, 3 A’s relievers shut down Red Sox
Oakland, Calif. Ramon Laureano didn’t have time to think. Luckily, he had arm strength and adrenaline aplenty to help get the job done. Mike Fiers gave Oakland another stellar start, Laureano threw out a baserunner for a second straight game and the Athletics made Matt Chapman’s homer stand in a 1-0 win over Chris Sale […]
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