Eli Spaulding of Freeport ties for fourth, Maine’s best boys’ finish since 2016; Ruby Haylock places third in the girls’ division.
Steve Craig
Staff Writer
Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.
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Freeport 15-year-old shows he can compete with some of New England’s best junior golfers
Eli Spaulding plays 36 holes in 1-under par and is in fifth in the New England Junior Amateur Championship at Val Halla.
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Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Greely High pitcher to play in elite tourney staged for MLB scouts
Zach Johnston is one of 175 high schoolers across the nation heading to the invitation-only Area Code Underclass Games in Los Angeles.
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What would professional soccer in Portland look like?
The United Soccer League, which has pledged an expansion team for Portland if a stadium is built, has had its best success with attendance in markets similar in size to Maine’s largest city.
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Olympics: Maine’s Rachel Schneider narrowly misses advancing to 5,000-meter final
The 30-year-old from Sanford, making her first appearance at the Olympics, finishes seventh in her semifinal and is edged out of the final by less than a second.
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Maine native Rachel Schneider arrives in Tokyo for Olympic debut
Schneider is soaking up the atmosphere and doing final workouts before competing Friday in the semifinals of the 5,000-meter run.
Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Baseball: 2021 Varsity Maine All-State team
Brady Afthim, Windham senior, pitcher/catcher: The Varsity Maine Player of the Year dominated SMAA hitters, with 128 strikeouts and five walks over 53 1/3 innings with a 0.53 ERA. He struck out 23 Portland batters in an extra-inning game, and 16 in a 1-0 playoff loss to Thornton Academy. Considered the top catcher in the […]
Posted inSoftball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Fryeburg Academy’s Morgan Fusco named Miss Maine Softball
Fusco, a senior catcher, batted .620 with seven home runs and 26 RBI while leading the Raiders to the top seed in Class B South.
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Basketball recruit Dominick Campbell taking his game to Notre Dame
The former Waynflete standout plans to sign a national letter of intent to play for the Fighting Irish.
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Plourde takes 5-stroke lead into final round of Maine Women’s Amateur
For the second day in a row, Bailey Plourde of Newcastle shoots the best round at Bangor Municipal Golf Course.