WATERVILLE — Nikki Pickering scored 10 minutes into the second half and then assisted on a late goal by Annie Papadellis to help the Colby College women’s soccer team to a 2-0 win over the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday.
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Roadrunners hold off Cobras
NORTH ANSON — Emma Houston scored two goals as the Mt. Abram girls soccer team beat Carrabec 3-2 in a Mountain Valley Conference game Wednesday.
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KVAC FIELD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES: Indians, Warriors win titles
WATERVILLE — It wasn’t a state championship, or even a playoff game, but Skowhegan still found incentive in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A championship game.
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Oakland council likes pipeline
OAKLAND — The Town Council is moving forward with Kennebec Valley Gas Company, which seeks to build a 60-mile main natural gas pipeline through Oakland and other central Maine communities.
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Epstein all but gone
CHICAGO — Boston Red Sox executive Theo Epstein has agreed to a five-year contract with the Chicago Cubs, according to multiple media reports.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER: Strong 2nd half lifts Winslow
THORNDIKE — Nick Papsis scored the game-winning goal with 14 minutes, 45 seconds left to lift Winslow to a 3-2 win over Mt. View on Wednesday in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B boys soccer game.
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MLB: Report says Francona ‘distracted’ during final year with Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) — As the Boston Red Sox disintegrated in what would become the worst September collapse in baseball history, some at Fenway Park grew concerned that the pain medication Terry Francona was taking after a half-dozen procedures on his knee was affecting his ability to manage, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
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Two racinos vying for votes
The campaign for Question 2 on Maine’s Nov. 8 ballot has been focused so far on a racino proposed in Biddeford. Largely overlooked has been the ballot question’s other proposal, for a racino 197 miles away in Washington County.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Winslow captains showing the way
WINSLOW — Winslow High School football coach calls Shane O’Connell “The Gov,” because O’Connell served as the Governor of Boys State this past summer. Siviski calls Vitaliano Tantoco “Vital,” because of his importance to the Black Raiders’ line play.
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Kennebec Behavioral Health move approved, criticized
SKOWHEGAN — A plan to move Kennebec Behavioral Health offices and daytime outpatient care to a house on Water Street was approved unanimously by the staff review committee of the Planning Board, even though it drew opposition from an abutter Wednesday who said his quality of life will be destroyed by 60 to 75 mental health patients visiting the center daily.