After the Medomak Valley boys basketball team beat Gardiner in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference championship game, 61-57, coach Nick DePatsy praised the Tigers.
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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CLASS B INDOOR TRACK & FIELD STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Brown stars, Panthers win
LEWISTON — The Waterville girls indoor track and field team went into the Class B state championship meet with a number in mind: 132. That’s the team record for points in the meet, and that’s what the Purple Panthers hoped to score.
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Waterville girls indoor track and field repeats as state champs
LEWISTON — The Waterville girls indoor track and field team went into the Class B state championship meet with a number in mind, 132. That’s the team record for points in the meet, and that’s what the Purple Panthers hoped to score. Waterville didn’t quite reach that mark, the Panthers finished the day at Bates […]
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HIGH SCHOOL INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Ladd looks for edge in rivalry
Messalonskee High School senior Harlow Ladd will be running for a state record today in the Class A boys 2-mile, but while Ladd will be competing at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, he’ll have one eye on the Class B indoor track and field state meet at Bates College in Lewiston.
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EASTERN A BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Cougars click on all cylinders
AUGUSTA — Brunswick boys basketball coach Todd Hanson made a prediction after his team’s Eastern Maine Class A quarterfinal game against Mt. Blue.
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EASTERN A BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Bangor knocks off Lawrence
AUGUSTA — Beat the Bangor High School boys basketball team once in a season, and you’re doing something right. Beat the Rams twice, and you’re in rare company. Beating Bangor three times is next to impossible. On Saturday night at the Augusta Civic Center, Lawrence couldn’t quite pull off the feat.
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Eastern A boys: Third time is no charm for Lawrence
After two regular-season wins over Bangor, the Bulldogs fall in the quarterfinals, 48-31.
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EASTERN B BOYS BASKETBALL: Gardiner knocks off Nokomis in overtime
BANGOR — With Nokomis playing excellent defense on Gardiner’s top-scoring duo, guard Jake Palmer and center Aaron Toman, somebody else had to step up for the Tigers.
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EASTERN A BOYS BASKETBALL: Too close to call
As the top seed with a 17-1 record, Hampden Academy is the favorite entering the Eastern Class A boys basketball tournament. But after a regular season in which a number of good teams regularly beat each other up, Hampden wears the favorite title loosely.
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CENTER COURT: Gardiner, Nokomis hope to make run at MDI
Gardiner Area High School boys basketball coach Jason Cassidy and his staff sat in the bleachers and scouted Wednesday night’s preliminary round game between Waterville and Nokomis. Cassidy was glad to not be playing in a prelim game himself.