The Waterville track and field teams broke a handful of records and steamrolled their competition en route to sweeping the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B meet last spring for a seventh straight year.

KINGSTON, R.I. — When it was finally over, and the young men in the green had tossed their gloves high in the air and piled atop each other between first base and the pitcher’s mound, the home dugout slowly emptied until one player remained, head in his palms, fingers massaging his scalp, digesting the painful truth that the next time he peeled off the blue jersey with MAINE across the chest would be his last.

BOSTON (AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury walked to the plate thinking he had an advantage. One pitch later, he was running away from his celebrating teammates.