WATERVILLE — Mike Dechaine is preparing for the biggest thrill of his professional billiards-playing career.
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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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Cheverus among best ever
Some final thoughts on the high school football season as I switch over to basketball mode…
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CLASS A FOOTBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Turnovers hurt as Lawrence losses to Cheverus
PORTLAND — Even if it played a perfect game, the Lawrence High School football team would have needed some help against the juggernaut from Cheverus.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Bulldogs make an impression
If you looked past the north end zone, you saw the signs. They hung on the fence surrounding the Fitzpatrick Stadium turf, and there were four of them. One from each of the elementary schools in MSAD 49. Fairfield, Albion, Benton and Clinton. One from each of the towns that sends students to Lawrence High School.
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CLASS A FOOTBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Lawrence tries to snap Cheverus 23-game win streak
The only time Lawrence and Cheverus have played anything resembling football against each other is in the 7-on-7 summer league.
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CLASS A FOOTBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: For Josh Perry, it’s family business
FAIRFIELD — At football’s basic level, Josh Perry is just taking over the family business.
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WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Colby starts new era with high hopes
WATERVILLE — Rachael Mack could’ve given her teammates on the Colby College women’s basketball team some background on Julie Veilleux when Veilleux was a candidate for the Mules’ head coach job. Mack could’ve told sold her teammates on Veilleux by sharing their shared experience as players in Paul Vachon’s basketball factory at Cony High School in Augusta.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Backups picked up Colby, Bowdoin
BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin’s quarterback played because the two ahead of him on the depth chart were hurt. Colby’s quarterback played because the regular starter was suspended earlier in the week.
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PINE TREE CONFERENCE CLASS A FINAL: Bulldogs Fitzy Bound
FAIRFIELD — It’s not often a momentum swing is multiple choice, but with all the big plays the Lawrence High School football team made on Friday night, it’s tough to pick the one that swung the Pine Tree Conference Class A championship game in the Bulldogs’ favor.
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Lawrence wins PTC A title
FAIRFIELD — Lawrence scored in the final minute of the second quarter to take the lead for good, then capitalized on a pair of big defensive plays in the third quarter to take a 40-14 win over Bangor in the Pine Tree Conference Class A championship game. Lawrence, now 11-0, will face either Cheverus or […]