On the hottest day of the track and field season (temperatures at the Brewer Community Track reached the low-90s), the athletes who dealt with the heat fared the best, whether a seasoned veteran or a relative beginner.
Travis Lazarczyk
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Travis Lazarczyk has covered sports for the Portland Press Herald since 2021. A Vermont native, he graduated from the University of Maine in 1995 with a BA in English. After a few years working as a sports information director and in the ski industry, he began his journalism career at the Berlin (N.H.) Reporter in 1999. Prior to joining the Press Herald, Lazarczyk spent 20 years covering sports in central Maine at the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. He's been twice honored as the Maine Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Waterville beats Winslow for KVAC B title
WINSLOW — The Winslow and Waterville high school baseball teams met twice in the regular season, each time a Winslow win. When they played on Friday afternoon at Jack Nivision Field for the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B baseball championship, the Panthers were eager to change the script.
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NBA: UMF graduate Clifford on the big stage
On Tuesday, Steve Clifford spoke to Len McPhee, his basketball coach at the University of Maine at Farmington. Even as he accepted the head coaching job with the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats, Clifford’s roots were not far from his mind.
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YOUTH BASEBALL: Tourney set for ‘Little’ Fenway
OAKLAND — Harold Alfond Fenway Park is built to two-thirds scale of Boston’s original, but for the ballplayer who hits one of its Green Monster this weekend, or even over it, the thrill will be full-sized.
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BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: Veilleux relish USM run
The University of Southern Maine’s run at the NCAA Division III World Series, which ended with a championship game loss to Linfield on Tuesday, was the culmination of a few years of hard work, said relief pitcher Nate Veilleux, a Messalonskee High School graduate.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: These players represent central Maine well
On Friday morning in Appleton, Wis., Erskine Academy graduate Shyler Scates took the mound for the University of Southern Maine baseball team in the first game of the Division III College World Series.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Winslow tops Maranacook in 7th inning
WINSLOW — The Winslow High School baseball team hasn’t played too many close games this season, but Thursday’s 4-3 win over Maranacook is the type of game the Black Raiders expect once the playoffs begin, and it was the type of game coach Jesse Lacasse felt his team needed.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL NOTES: Pitching key for Waterville
Pitching was a question mark at the start of the season for the Waterville Senior High School baseball team, if only because of a lack of varsity experience. With the regular season nearing its close, and Waterville (11-3) once again near the top of the Eastern Class B standings, it’s apparent pitching has become one of the Panthers’ strengths.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Perry keeping the 4th festive
Nick Perry remembers the fireworks. He was 8 or 9 years old, and Perry recalls the crowds and the food. Most of all, Perry’s earliest memories of the annual Winslow Fourth of July celebration center around the fireworks.
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HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Waterville sweeps — again
WINSLOW — The location was new, Winslow High School’s refurbished Donald Matheson track, but the result of the Community Cup track and field meet was the same. For the ninth consecutive year, the Waterville girls and boys each won the title.