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Hall-Dale’s Owen Free, center, and Dirigo’s Caden Hutchinson, left, fight for a rebound during a Class C South boys basketball quarterfinal Monday at the Augusta Civic Center. (Rich Abrahamson/aStaff Photographer)
Dirigo’s Brady Philbrick shoots against Hall-Dale defenders Tayshaun Cleveland, left, and Davis Madore during a Class C South boys basketball quarterfinal Monday at the Augusta Civic Center. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Buckfield’s Taylor Harvey steals the ball from Boothbay’s Tatum French during a Class D South quarterfinal on Monday in Augusta. (Cooper Sullivan/Staff Photographer)
Buckfield Sarae Devoe makes a foul shot during the Bucks’ 61-31 win over Boothbay in a Class D South quarterfinal on Monday in Augusta. (Cooper Sullivan/Staff Photographer)
Waynflete’s Haviland Clark goes up for a shot while being defended by Maranacook’s Grady Hreben, left, Elijah Freeman, center, and Alex LaBelle during a Class C South quarterfinal on Monday in Augusta. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Maranacook’s Gage Mattson clears a rebound from Waynflete’s Haviland Clark during a Class C South quarterfinal. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Sacopee Valley’s Silas Nielson, right, and Mount View’s Brady Bryant battle for a loose ball during a Class C South quarterfinal on Monday in Augusta. Mount View won, 58-46. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Sacopee Valley’s Silas Nielson goes up for a shot against a sea of Mount View defenders during the Hawks’ 58-46 loss to Mount View in a Class C South quarterfinal on Monday in Augusta. (Rich Abrahamson/aStaff Photographer)
Greely’s Victoria Zandan leaps to a first-place finish in the long jump. Zandan won with a best lead of 17-1 1/2. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Winslow’s Hassan Hobbi, middle, clears a hurdle as he begins to pull away from the field on his way to an easy victory in the 55-meter hurdles at the Class B indoor track championship on Monday in Lewiston. Hobbi finished 7.98. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Bryce Holden of Mt. Ararat competes in the long jump finals during the Class A indoor track and field state championships in Gorham on Monday. Holden won the event with a jump of 22-0.50. (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer)
Kate Morrison, left, of Portland and Grace Alexander of Cheverus/Waynflete head into the final lap of the 4×800-meter relay during the Class A indoor track and field state championships in Gorham on Monday. Portland went on to win the event with a time of 10:08.74, while Cheverus/Waynflete came in second (10:09.99). (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer)

Rich is a career photojournalist and writer who got his start in newspapers in 1987 at the Fort Morgan Times in Colorado. His appreciation for photography and stories began as a kid while watching slide...

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ Dillingham stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. During summer breaks he worked in the press and composing rooms at...

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...

Cooper Sullivan covers high school and collegiate sports in Brunswick and the surrounding communities. He is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he studied at Wake Forest University ('24) and held...

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