After nearly seven straight months of baseball, Ryan Leach will get his first extended stay back home in Farmingdale next week.
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SPORTS: Celebrating the end of an era
FAIRFIELD — Main Street bears scant resemblance to the bustling scene that greeted Harold and Naj Joseph when they opened a clothing store here in 1945 shortly after Harold returned from the war.
ON THE GREEN: Amateur champ got progressively better
Women’s Amateur champion Emily Bouchard estimated she’s only played about 15 rounds of golf this year, maybe one reason she got progressively better each day during last week’s championship at the Augusta Country Club. The 22-year-old from Saco went 85 on the first day to 1-under par 71 on the third and final day to win her second straight title.
MAINE WOMEN’S AMATEUR: Bouchard wins second straight title
MANCHESTER — For the first two days of the Maine Women’s Amateur golf championship, the course at the Augusta Country Club was the clear-cut winner.
Bouchard wins Maine Women’s Amatuer
MANCHESTER — Defending champion Emily Bouchard of Saco shot 1-under-par 71 Wednesday to win the Maine Women’s Amateur golf championship going away.
MAINE WOMEN’S AMATEUR: Guenther takes lead on Day 2
MANCHESTER — Leslie Guenther’s never won a Maine Women’s Amateur title, but she has finished second three times.
BASEBALL: Chadwick thriving in Wisconsin
More than three quarters of the way into the longest baseball season of his life, Forrest Chadwick welcomes the three-day all-star break afforded to him this week by the Northwoods League of the upper Midwest.
Guenther takes 1-shot lead at women’s amateur
Leslie Guenther of Norway Country Club shot her second consecutive 79 to take a one-shot lead over Springbrook’s Pennie Cummings at the Maine Women’s Amateur at the Augusta Country Club on Tuesday.
MAINE WOMEN’S AMATEUR: Cummings jumps out to lead after 1st round
MANCHESTER — Many of the competitors in Monday’s Maine Women’s Amateur golf tournament weren’t even born when Pennie Cummings won her first championship in 1964.
GOLF: Bouchard shoots for Women’s Am title
MANCHESTER — The rough has been cut to half the length used during the recent Maine Open, but the course at the Augusta Country Club will still present many challenges for the 90 golfers teeing off this morning for the 1st Maine Women’s Amateur.