Preview notebook: This is the last season for Roadrunners coach Darren Allen with son Ian and all his classmates on the team. Also, there’s another new coach at Gray-New Gloucester and youth will be relied upon for some area teams.
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Local roundup: Madison softball edges Buckfield
Skowhegan softball rolls past Cony.
Atlantis Martin’s pitching, Poland’s offensive onslaught too much for Oak Hill
Softball: Junior strikes out 12 batters and the Knights pull away from the Raiders with an eight-run third inning.
Local roundup: Winthrop girls roll past Valley to open central Maine tourney play
Also, Mt. Abram boys win tournament prelim, and more basketball and hockey action from Wednesday.
Local roundup: Mt. Blue girls basketball stuns Messalonskee in OT in central Maine basketball tournament
Carrabec tops Valley in C/D boys preliminary game, with Luke Carey leading the way with 28 points.
Girls hockey: Sweet Carolines — Tracey, Audette help Red Hornets take down Black Tigers
Caroline Tracey scores three goals and Caroline Audette has two in the Edward Little/Leavitt/Poland’s 6-1 victory. Winslow/Gardiner/Cony goalie Emma Michaud had 33 saves.
Local roundup: Winslow girls basketball stays undefeated with win
Silver Clukey leads Black Raiders with 21 points.
Boys hockey: Thornton, Hawks’ penalty kill stand tall in win over Kings
Thomas Thornton makes 30 saves to lift Capital Region, and Poland/Leavitt/Oak Hill/Gray-New Gloucester Kings goes 0-for-5 on the power play.
Lobster Bowl notes: Veteran coach Bill County calls on Poland’s Spencer Emerson to direct West offense
County and Emerson first crossed paths when the former coached the latter’s brother, 2007 Lobster Bowl MVP Jared Turcotte, at Lewiston. Also, kickoff moved to 5:30 p.m.
Not just a passing fancy at Lewiston football camp
Quarterbacks, receivers and defensive backs work on the finer points of the passing game at the Maine Elite Passing Camp, which moved from Augusta to Lewiston this year.