Adjustments, resilience see Black Raiders through to signature win.
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.
Boys basketball: Winslow fends off Lawrence in tight affair
Black Raiders defeat Bulldogs 63-61 to earn crucial KVAC win.
Sidelines: Family of Dick Meader honors his memory with gifts to Carrabec basketball teams
New sneakers, warmup shirts provide another example of the coaching icon’s impact, staff writer Mike Mandell writes.
Cheering: Erskine Academy wins 1st-ever KVAC Class B championship
Eagles post best-ever finish to beat out Leavitt for first.
High school notebook: Cony indoor track surprising entering final month
Cony, Winslow/Waterville swim teams making progress in pool.
Schools could face tough decisions should small-sided soccer division come to Maine
MPA committee to review eight-player soccer proposal Thursday as the sport’s landscape is set to change again.
Basketball notebook: Winslow boys rolling as Reynolds smashes scoring marks
Size, experience leading Kents Hill girls to strong season in Class C South.
Wrestling: Skowhegan coaching duo still going strong nearly 2 decades later
Brooks Thompson, Tenney Noyes constants in Maine high school wrestling.
Boys basketball: Big 4th quarter propels Lawrence past Skowhegan
Bulldogs score 29 in fourth to claim 61-51 victory over River Hawks.
Boys basketball: New-identity Maranacook runs past Waterville
Black Bears, set on outworking opponents, top Purple Panthers 76-49.