Archive for ‘Sports’

  • Freeport handles Lakers 33-6, take upperhand in playoff race

      By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer FREEPORT — The word playoff has rarely been spoken of as Lake Region stumbled to one-win or winless seasons over the past five to six years. Saturday should have been a playoff in the minds of this year’s Lakers as they battled Freeport for the sixth and final […]

  • Raiders lose their cool early, unable to rally at Falmouth

      By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer FALMOUTH — Talk is cheap in football, especially when your team is behind. Falmouth won the battle of the words and on the field Friday night as the Yachtsmen blistered the Raiders 40-14. Each team had over 80 penalty yards, as trash talk spilled into “chippy” play that […]

  • Youth prevails at Waterford Fall Foliage 5K

    WATERFORD — People run the Waterford Fall Foliage 5K for different reasons. Top female runners Audrey and Addie Blais of Naples used the Sunday run to help them build momentum for the upcoming high school conference championship at St. Joseph’s College this Friday. The two girls are leaders of the Lake Region cross-country team. Others […]

  • Fowler’s second half goals lift Lakers past spirited Raiders, 2-1

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Coach Pauline Webb starts each practice with three words — focus, energy and intensity. It took all three for Lake Region to rally past an inspired Fryeburg Academy field hockey team last Thursday in Naples. Senior Lucy Fowler scored a pair of goals to lead the Lakers to a […]

  • Raiders unable to control the line, Oceanside rolls 38-34

      By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer FRYEBURG — In a wild game that featured back-to-back kickoff returns for touchdowns, over 200 yards in penalties, nearly 500 yards of rushing and a late hail Mary completion, Coach David Turner boiled it down to one simple line. “We got beat upfront,” said the Fryeburg Academy coach, […]

  • Hornets sting Lake Region, 62-0

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Leavitt 62, Lakers 0. Ouch, that stung! Top-ranked Leavitt put on a football clinic Friday night at Art Kilborn Athletic Field, showing the home crowd why they were Class B champions four years ago and were state runner-ups in 2010 and 2011. The Hornets thoroughly dominated Lake Region in […]

  • Lake Region sports recaps

    GIRLS’ SOCCER Lakers 3, Poland 2. When your team has scored just four goals in eight games, Lake Region varsity girls’ soccer Coach Harvey Toews had to feel pretty good about his team’s chances last Friday after CeCe Hancock netted two scores. Of course, Poland put tighter clamps on the talented sophomore the rest of […]

  • Fryeburg Academy sports recaps

    CROSS-COUNTRY This is exactly what Bill Reilly hopes to see in his runners as the “big meets” — conference, regionals and states — approach. Last Friday’s trip to Freeport proved quite noteworthy for the Raiders. One, although her team has been decimated by the flu, Anna Lastra notched her first varsity win with a run […]

  • Lake Region weekly recaps

    FIELD HOCKEY Lakers 2, Freeport 1. Lucy Fowler scored both goals, unassisted, in the first half, the first at 23:23 and the second at 21:58 to lead the Lakers past the Falcons last Wednesday. Lee Brown scored at 3:18 in the second half with a hard drive in the circle. Meghan VanLoan had four saves […]

  • Fryeburg Academy recaps

    FOOTBALL Some teams seem to panic when they trail in a ball game and see that time is running out. For the Raiders, quickening the pace seems to keep more players focused with less time to “overthink” the game. For the fifth time this year, the Raiders beat the clock, working their two-minute drill to […]