Ramblers hit the turf at 12:01 a.m. for first practices of fall season.
Mike Mandell
Staff Writer
Mike Mandell came to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel in April 2022 after spending five and a half years with The Ellsworth American in Hancock County, Maine. He came to Maine out of college after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2016. He spent 2015 as the Mizzou football beat writer for the Columbia Missourian after previously covering high school sports and Mizzou women’s basketball for the newspaper. He lives just outside of downtown Waterville, less than a mile from the Morning Sentinel newsroom.
Posted inField Hockey, Football, Sports, Times Record Sports, Varsity Maine
Watch: High school squads open season with ‘Midnight Madness’
Some teams in Maine kicked off fall practices hours before sunrise. So did Varsity Maine.
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Posted inSports
Maine Highland Games bring elite athletes, Scottish fare to Thomas Point Beach
Kilt-clad pros compete in the caber toss, sheaf toss and many other events in Brunswick.
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports
Thomas College earns naming rights to Ice Vault with ambitious hockey future ahead
The school also has added women’s club hockey, which will begin play next year.
Posted inSports
Cooper, Ace Flagg return to home state for camp at UMaine’s Memorial Gym
Cooper, who will play for the Duke University men’s basketball team next season, and his twin brother, Ace, showed off their skills and interact with youngers from across state.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Basketball: Longtime local coach Ken Lindlof set for Maine Basketball Hall of Fame induction
Mike Adams, Julie (Veilleux) Sinclair and Heather (Ernest) Bond are among the others to be inducted Sunday in Bangor.
Posted inAuto Racing, Sports
Auto racing notebook: Trevor Sanborn looks to continue Oxford Plains success at 250
Sanborn, Johnny Clark, D.J. Shaw have set sights on Oxford 250 on Aug. 25.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Sidelines: After long offseason, dawn of promising central Maine football season nears
We’re now in the lull of the sports calendar, but a season with so much to offer will soon shatter the monotony, Mike Mandell writes.
Posted inBeach to Beacon, Sports
Beach to Beacon: Luke Marsanskis claims Maine men’s crown in near-record time
The Cumberland native wins by more than two minutes with a time of 29:12 – two seconds shy of Ben True’s record from 2009.
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Beach to Beacon: Teanne Ewings sets girls’ record in High School Mile; Henri Rivard wins tight boys’ race
Ewings, a senior-to-be from Houlton, finished in 5 minutes, 20.1 seconds as she took down Ruth White’s 2-year-old record.