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Medomak girls youth program offers clinics, winter play

By Staff - Oct 22
The Medomak Valley girls winter youth basketball program will run Nov. 2 through Jan. 18. The program is for those in grades 3-6 in Regional ...
Medomak boys youth program offers clinics, winter play

By Staff - Oct 22
The Medomak Valley boys winter youth basketball program will run Nov. 2 through Jan. 18. The program is for those in grades 3-6 in Regional School ...
Road trip not much fun for Windjammers who drop fifth ...

By Staff - Oct 22
The Camden Hills football team has experienced its share of growing pains since its first game of the season. After earning a win over Old Town to ...
Huskies use pack mentality to score points, paw past ...

By Staff - Oct 22
Maine Central Institute has been one of the top teams in whichever region — Class C or Class D North — it has taken part in the past few seasons. T...
Windjammer, Panther girls best of best at KVAC championship ...

By Staff - Oct 21
More than 550 teenage distance runners competed in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference high school cross-country championships on Saturday, ...
Mariner win train stays on track against nemesis Trojans

By Staff - Oct 21
The Oceanside football team train, which seemed to have derailed for a few weeks midseason, appears back on the winning track. Add in the satisfact...
Goal accomplished: Schooners too tough for Riverhawks in ...

By Mark Haskell - Oct 21
The top-ranked Camden-Rockport Middle School boys soccer team had not had a goal scored on them through its seven regular-season games. However, ...
As campaign nears end, wins pile up for Midcoast squads

By Staff - Oct 21
The end of the high school soccer regular season is in sight, with Camden Hills, Oceanside, Medomak Valley and Vinalhaven-North Haven in action on ...
Championship quest: CRMS sails past GSB for league crown

By Mark Haskell - Oct 21
The Camden-Rockport Middle School girls soccer team, with an unblemished regular-season mark, had been the cream of the Busline League crop ...
Golfers bust out crying towels in fun-filled RGC event

By Staff - Oct 21
Usually the towel on a golfer's bag is used for wiping dirt from clubs and sweat from grips, but on Sunday, Oct. 20, that towel was used to wipe ...
Schooners, Johnson, Dow fastest in Busline League ...

By Staff - Oct 18
They trekked in from far and wide — a geographical area of about 60 miles from Searsport to Wiscasset — to race, all 270 of them, and when the ...
Reed takes wheel to navigate Mariner boys basketball ship

By Mark Haskell - Oct 18
What a difference a few months makes. In March, then Oceanside boys junior varsity basketball coach Larry Reed had no aspirations of leading his ...
Busline League soccer playoffs head to championship clashes

By Staff - Oct 18
The end of the season is in sight for Busline League middle school soccer, with “Championship Saturday” on the horizon. The boys and girls ...
Oceanside finishes campaign with four victories

By Staff - Oct 18
The Oceanside field hockey team wrapped its regular season on Wednesday, Oct. 16 as the Mariners saw success this year, but, ultimately, fell ...
No more KVAC championship games in most sports

By Mark Haskell - Oct 18
Times, as they say, are-a-changing for the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference. At the conference's athletic directors' meeting in the spring at ...
Windjammers cap regular season with strong win over Broncos

By Staff - Oct 18
As quickly as the high school field hockey season started, the end seemingly came in a flash, which, for the Camden Hills field hockey team, was a ...
'Frightening' 5K looks to scare up participants Oct. 26

By Staff - Oct 18
Before the candy flows into bags, pillow cases or buckets — and, ultimately, into mouths on Halloween — it may be time to get one's metabolism ...
What is your flavor in one-on-one battles with 'Pigskin ...

By Staff - Oct 17
This is the seventh week of the 2019-20 National Football League season and, subsequently, the weekly game picks from the Courier Publications/Vill...
Stick playoffs: Lions, Mustangs qualify, Mariners, ...

By Staff - Oct 17
The regular season has wrapped for the four Waldo and Knox county high school field hockey teams, as two of those squads turn the page to prepare ...
Wins on docket for Panthers, Windjammers, while Mariners ...

By Staff - Oct 16
Midcoast high school soccer teams only have a few games left on their regular-season schedules, as some jockey for playoff position and others ...
PITCH indoor programs ramp up in October

By Staff - Oct 16
As the month ramps up, The PITCH started new indoor programs on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Below is a list of some programs The PITCH offers: Field hockey ...
Young Troy Howard, Oceanside, CRMS field hockey players ...

By Staff - Oct 15
The Busline League middle school field hockey regular season is in the rear view mirror as five teams — Troy Howard of Belfast, Oceanside of ...
Female sailors take helm at Jean Becton Cup Regatta

By Staff - Oct 15
The wind and gray proved perfect conditions as The Apprenticeshop hosted the Becton Cup Regatta — an event for high school-aged female sailors — ...
Busline League soccer teams kick it up notch for playoffs

By Staff - Oct 15
The calendar has moved forward to a new month, so too have the regular seasons for Busline League middle school soccer divisions, with the league ...
Camden Hills solid early, late, but Lake Region wins middle ...

By Staff - Oct 14
Normally, how a team starts a game — and, how that squad finishes said contest — often is the difference between a win and loss. However, the ...
Pitch success for Panthers, Windjammers, islanders, but not ...

By Staff - Oct 14
The window on the high school soccer regular season has rapidly closed, as some Midcoast teams continue to jockey for playoff position and others ...
Medomak Valleys' struggles continue in tough home loss to ...

By Staff - Oct 14
The Medomak Valley football team could not have begun the high school regular season much better, as the Panthers knocked off defending state ...
Mariners 'pound rock' with Munro to run past Coyotes

By Staff - Oct 14
After a three-game skid, the Oceanside football team got back to basics against Old Town on Friday night, Oct. 11 at Wasgatt Field. Namely, it ...
Midcoast runners exhibit mettle, sportsmanship in Camden ...

By Ken Waltz - Oct 13
There is no better example of sportsmanship, respect and camaraderie in high school sports than the action of runners at the finish line of a ...
Six Midcoast golfers take games to state individual ...

By Ken Waltz - Oct 13
When high school golfers tee it up for the first hole of a round, it essentially boils down to them versus the course. One person, one ball and ...
Links fun par for course for middle school golfers

By Ken Waltz - Oct 12
Could it be possible the next Tiger Woods or Lexi Thompson carried or pushed their clubs around Goose River Golf Course on Wednesday afternoon, ...
Court pivot: Coach Breen switches gears, decides to lead ...

By Mark Haskell - Oct 11
After 15 years coaching high school boys varsity basketball in the Midcoast, Matt Breen stood at a fork in the road. And Breen, who was a 1,000-poi...
Ram tough: Camden Hills doubles up rival Bangor

By Zack Miller - Oct 10
Another day, another pair of victories in the books for the always-talented, championship-driven Camden Hills soccer squads. As usual, the ...
Can you go pick for pick with 'Pigskin Pundits' in Week 6?

By Staff - Oct 10
This is the sixth week of the 2019-20 National Football League season and, subsequently, the weekly game picks from the Courier Publications/Villag...
Black's two goals leads Mariners past Windjammers in tight ...

By Zack Miller - Oct 10
As the high school field hockey regular season comes to a close, teams playoff hopes rise or fall with each win or loss, more-so than at the ...
Windjammer mountain bikers continue to make waves on trail

By Mark Haskell - Oct 10
The Camden Hills mountain biking team is three races into its season in the Maine High School Mountain Bike Race Series. And, as usual, the ...
Panthers win, tie, Windjammer girls sail, Mariners swept

By Staff - Oct 09
Win, lose or draw, it was a mixed bag on the pitch for high school soccer teams from Medomak Valley, Camden Hills and Oceanside on Tuesday, Oct. 8 ...
With energy for cancer support, runners, walkers unite in ...

By Holly Vanorse Spicer - Oct 09
More than 40 runners and walkers took to the streets of Rockland on Saturday morning, Sept. 28 for the eighth annual Karen's Run/Walk for Cancer ...

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