The statistics, or in the case of Gabe Hinds, the complete lack of them, lie. If you look at the University of Maine football team’s stat sheet from any of the past three seasons, and brush off Hinds because his name doesn’t appear anywhere, you’re missing the point, and missing what a valuable member of the Black Bears Hinds has become.
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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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Shea makes a big leap at Maine
ORONO — It was late August, 2008, and Steve Shea’s football resume consisted of exhibition games at Nokomis Regional High School, one all-star game and a redshirt season at the University of Maine. And there he was, starting at right guard for the Black Bears in front of 70,585 screaming fans in the University of Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium.
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GOLF: Amateur champ wins match play
MANCHESTER — It happened on every hole. While their caddies jumped into golf carts and motored down the fairway after each tee shot, Ryan Gay and Matt Greenleaf walked together, talking about golf, life and everything in between.
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GOLF: Gay wins Match Play Invitational
MANCHESTER — Ryan Gay won holes 15 and 16 to clinch a 3 and 2 win over Matt Greenleaf in the Maine State Golf Association’s Match Play Invitational at the Augusta Country Club on Wednesday.
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MSGA MATCH PLAY INVITATIONAL: Gay tops Hamel, Plummer
MANCHESTER — Tim Gay watched his son Ryan’s golf match against Mark Plummer on Wednesday afternoon and remembered when all Ryan wanted to do was play a round with Plummer, who owns a record 13 Maine Amateur titles.
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Gay beats Plummer to advance to match play semis
MANCHESTER — Top seed Ryan Gay won a pair of close matches on Wednesday, to advance to the semifinals of the Maine State Golf Association’s Match Play Invitational at the Augusta Country Club
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MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS: Tournament going according to plan
MANCHESTER — There weren’t many surprises during the first round of the Maine State Golf Association’s Match Play Invitational. Only two of the 16 matches were won by the lower-seeded player. There also wasn’t much suspense during the opening round, as just one of the 16 matches made it 18 holes, and nine matches were decided in 15 holes or fewer.
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GOLF: Change of pace at match play tourney
AUGUSTA — Expect some aggressive play during the Maine State Golf Association’s Match Play Invitational, especially from Ryan Gay.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Football season is here
PORTLAND — Jack Cosgrove, the head football coach at the University of Maine for nearly 20 years, paused just after he stepped to the podium. He looked at his notes, then out at the room, and smiled.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Good end to tourney
FARMINGTON — On the final day of the New England Babe Ruth 13-15-year-old tournament, the teams from Trumbull, Conn., and Braintree, Mass., more than made up for the lack of sportsmanship on display the previous night at Hippach Field. After Trumbull’s 3-1 win in the tournament’s championship game, after all the trophies and plaques had been handed out, the last two teams standing posed together at home plate while friends and families from both sides snapped pictures and mingled.