Mike Mestieri works in the family business. The hours are long, the pay isn’t great, but he loves every minute of it.
Travis Lazarczyk
Columnist
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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Clukey delivers positive message at camp
This is the second year Julia Clukey has organized and operated her Camp For Girls at the Kennebec Valley YMCA camp on Maranacook Lake. Ninety-eight girls ages 8 to 12 signed up for this summer’s two week session, which ends today. Approximately 95 showed up each day. Thanks to a number of central Maine businesses, 45 percent of the campers received some type of financial aid in paying the $350 cost of the camp, and 37 campers had their fees paid in full.
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NEW ENGLAND BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: Second chance leads to success for Wood Borgman
If it were not for her time playing basketball with the All-American Red Heads, Sheryl Wood Borgman thinks her life would be completely different. She almost certainly wouldn’t have gone to college, which means she never would have become a high school English teacher, which means she never would have coached basketball, volleyball or softball. That softball team Borgman started at Faith Christian School in Lafayette, Indiana, where she currently teaches, wouldn’t exist.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Winkin gets his due
Ryan Rebar looked over his shoulder, to the spot he was standing when he handed the Dr. John Winkin Award to his uncle. The Senior All-Star Game was about to start, and Rebar and his East teammates prepared to take the field.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Rebar is Mr. Baseball
ORONO — After a season in which he was named the Penobscot Valley Conference pitcher and player of the year, Foxcroft Academy’s Ryan Rebar had one more award to claim.
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NE BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: Lawrence’s McGee was a good player, too
When the New England Basketball Hall of Fame let Mike McGee know he would be inducted as a member of the Class of 2013, it was easy to think McGee was entering the Hall as a high school coach. McGee retired after this past season, ending 28-year career as head boys basketball coach at Lawrence High School with 350 wins, five Eastern Class A titles and two state championships.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Dad has the answers
Dads, they all have opinions. Give my father, John Lazarczyk, an opening, and he’ll go on for an hour about how the Baltimore Colts of the 1950s were an indestructible football machine.
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CLASS B BASEBALL: York shuts down Winslow in title game
In the Class B baseball state championship game Saturday afternoon at Larry Mahaney Diamond, Adam Bailey had Winslow hitters guessing for all seven innings. The 6-foot-6 righty was dominant at times, and always effective, and his effort on the mound led the Wildcats to a 4-1 win and their first state title since 1971.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Pellerin named Lawrence head coach
Jason Pellerin, an assistant coach with Lawrence the last few seasons and a former varsity girls basketball coach at the school, will take over for McGee, who retired after 28 seasons, 350 wins and two state championships.
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CLASS B BASEBALL: Power, defense key to Winslow’s run to state final
Winslow was one of the top teams in Eastern Class B all season, while York, the No. 5 seed in the Western B tournament, got hot at the right time, knocking off No. 4 Yarmouth, No. 1 Greely and No. 2 Falmouth to win the region.