In recent years, the Waterville Senior High School indoor track and field teams have dominated the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference meet. The Purple Panthers will be the Class B favorites in both the girls and boys meets today at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, but they’ll face some strong competition, the girls from a deep Winslow team and the boys from Erskine and Belfast.
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 BOYS BASKETBALL: Slow start doesn’t stop Bulldogs
SKOWHEGAN — Maybe Lawrence was due for a let down after playing its best defensive game of the season against Bangor on Tuesday.
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Lawrence overcomes slow start
SKOWHEGAN — Maybe Lawrence was due for a let down after playing its best defensive game of the season against Bangor on Tuesday. That letdown came in the first quarter of their Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A boys basketball game against Skowhegan on Thursday. After Aren LeBrun’s halfcourt shot at the buzzer, Skowhegan had […]
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Hale’s return dramatic
WATERVILLE — Chris Hale missed two games after breaking his nose against Winslow on Jan. 28.
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Hale’s buzzer beater lifts Waterville past Nokomis
WATERVILLE — After breaking his nose against Winslow on Jan. 28, Waterville Senior High School sophomore guard Chris Hale missed a pair of games. Nokomis probably wishes he missed one more. Wearing a mask to protect his broken nose, Hale scored a game-high 29 points. Hale’s biggest shot was his last, a jumper at the […]
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SIDELINES — TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: A game within the game
Finally, Super Bowl Sunday is here. The longest two weeks of the year are the 14 days between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl.
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SUPER BOWL: Super fan loves all things Patriots
BELGRADE — The electric sign outside of Christy’s General Store doesn’t advertise any specials these days. You’ll see the New England Patriots logo, followed by “Brady Brady Brady,” followed by the simple and succinct nickname every Patriots fan knows well, “Gronk.”
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Mt. Blue holds off Lawrence
FAIRFIELD — It was a pretty good week to be Mt. Blue boys basketball coach Jim Bessey. On Tuesday, his Cougars picked up a big road win at Bangor. On Friday, Mt. Blue went into the most hostile gym in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference’s Class A division and earned another huge road victory.
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Mt. Blue holds on for win at Lawrence
FAIRFIELD — It was a pretty good week to be Mt. Blue boys basketball coach Jim Bessey. On Tuesday, his Cougars picked up a big road win at Bangor. On Friday, Mt. Blue went into the most hostile gym in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference and earned another huge road victory. Playing in front of […]
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: Tigers passing their goals
Before the start of the season, when he realized he’d start three freshmen, Forest Hills boys basketball coach Anthony Amero kept his team’s goals small. Let’s go .500, he said, and make it to the Western Class D tournament at the Augusta Civic Center for the 12th straight year.