Sometimes, an athlete from Maine will perform well at an out-of-state college, and you’ll hear people say that it’s great for Maine kids to be doing such things.

Sometimes, an athlete from Maine will perform well at an out-of-state college, and you’ll hear people say that it’s great for Maine kids to be doing such things.

After Skowhegan won the Class A state title in 2011, Skowhegan field hockey coach Paula Doughty told her husband that the Indians would be even better a year later.

People in the Skowhegan field hockey program sometimes talk about “the great ones.” They’re not just the best players, but ones who care about the team and can often be found working with younger players.

Few players, if any, had as many expectations this season as Messalonskee’s Kristy Bernatchez.

The expectations for Winthrop field hockey this fall were obvious. The Ramblers returned most of the same team that had lost in overtime in the Class C state championship game one year earlier. To a person, they wanted to take that next natural step and win the Gold Ball.

The end of the girls basketball game between Nokomis and Skowhegan on Saturday afternoon looked a lot closer to a tournament atmosphere than a preseason game in November.

Leah Edmondson’s freshman season at Northeastern started with the beep test, included an awful lot of road games, and ended with probably her best performance of the season.