Brian Curit has compiled a 125-65 record in 20 years with the Tigers, making the playoffs each season.
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.
Posted inBoys Hockey, Girls Hockey, Sports, Varsity Maine
Many changes coming for high school hockey in 2019-20
The Biddeford boys will be the host team for a new co-op program, and three boys’ teams will drop from Class A to B.
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Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Football: Tough start to the season only gets tougher for Portland
The Bulldogs, last year’s Class A North champs, are 0-2 in their first season in Class B. Next up: Powerhouses Marshwood and Kennebunk.
Posted inSports
Pro soccer in Portland? It’s a possibility
Officials from USL League 1, in the third tier of North American pro soccer, are back in Maine to size up Portland as an expansion site.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
No need to wait: We predict the 2019 state football champions
Eight-man football makes its debut in Maine this fall … but the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Some football coaches less than thrilled by revamped Class B
Six traditional Class A programs have dropped to Class B this fall, raising the league to 22 teams.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Is this linebacker tough? Ask anyone who knows her
Elizabeth Drelich has switched this fall from field hockey to football – and her new teammates are impressed by how quickly she is acclimating to the sport.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education, Sports, Varsity Maine
Fewer Maine students getting in the game, survey shows, as high school sports participation falls 4.5%
The drop during the 2018-19 school year – the first time Maine fell below 50,000 athletes in 22 years – came as participation nationwide declined for the first time in 30 years.
Posted inSports
Portland’s Trejyn Fletcher adjusting to his first season of pro baseball
After one quick advancement in the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm system, the 18-year-old has been working to improve in the rookie Appalachian League.
Posted inSports
Cumberland’s Ted Hart signs with Maine Mariners
A four-year player at Yale, Hart will try to become the first Maine native to play for Portland’s ECHL squad.