WINTHROP — The Hall-Dale High School baseball team is coming on strong.
May 2013
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: Rams work on details
The Cony baseball team is hitting .327, which is fairly consistent for a high school ball club, but averages only tell part of the story of the team’s success this season.
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Dalheim belts 1st career HR in Bears’ victory
READFIELD — Carson Dalheim hit his first career home run and Kevin Johnson drove in three runs to lead the Maranacook baseball team past Gardiner 9-3 in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B game Wednesday afternoon.
LOCAL ROUNDUP: Pooler smacks homer for Panthers
WATERVILLE — Dan Pooler hit a home run and Brian Bellows struck out eight to lead the Waterville baseball team past Nokomis 10-1 in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference game Wednesday afternoon.
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Huskies open tourney with win
HARWICH, Mass. — Junior lefty Logan Carmen pitched a three-hit shutout and Tucker White homered to lead the top-seeded University of Southern Maine baseball team to a 5-0 win over Daniel Webster College in the first round of the New England regional tournament Wednesday.
GOLF: Guan preps for 2nd PGA event
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Guan Tianlang is one of five amateur players being honored this week for the Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Awards.
COMMENTARY ON FOOTBALL: Notre Dame greedy, not chicken
Brady Hoke was talking the way football coaches do, the way university presidents can’t. Imagine, if you will, the snickering in academia if Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, a biochemist by trade, accused her counterparts at Notre Dame of chickening out on a science fair.
Report: State’s ‘digital learning strategy’ plans unfinished
A group of digital education experts is recommending that Maine create an online directory to help school districts and teachers find, choose and write reviews of digital learning resources.
OUTDOORS: Osprey numbers taking off again
This column continues the discussion of osprey biology from my last column. I wrote about the dependence of osprey on live fish for food. Ospreys are not picky about the fish they prey upon in either salt- or freshwater environments. As long as the fish are in shallow water or within 3 feet of the surface of deeper water, they are at risk from an attack from above by a feathered menace.
PREAKNESS: Orb draws rail at Preakness
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Preakness draw was over, and trainer Shug McGaughey listed a variety of reasons why he was OK with having Kentucky Derby winner Orb starting Saturday’s race from the rail.