Thursday, June 20, 2013
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BOSTON (AP) — Brent Seabrook's goal 9:51 into overtime lifted the Chicago Blackhawks to a wild 6-5 victory over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night and tied the Stanley Cup finals through four games.
The game has changed since Amy Vachon led the Cony High School girls basketball team to a pair of Class A state championships and went on to star for the University of Maine. But it's hardly passed her by.
Ryan Dempster allowed three runs over six innings, but lost for the fourth time in six starts as the Red Sox mustered just seven hits in a 6-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away.
MIAMI (AP) -- Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.
BOSTON (AP) -- His teammates always knew Daniel Paille was more than a speedy penalty killer who specialized in defense for the Boston Bruins.
BOSTON (AP) — Jonny Gomes hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, completing a doubleheader sweep.
Bill Swift had a pretty good thing as a high school baseball coach in Phoenix, Ariz. His team was a perennial playoff contender and played in a beautiful facility. But the last couple of years, Swift began wondering what life at the next level would be like.
Dana Wilson of Brewer was arrested a month after his induction.
Noteworthy themes from Boston Bruins' win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night.
BOSTON (AP) — Tuukka Rask shut out the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night and got enough help from the Bruins' offense to do it without another exhausting overtime.
The longest season of their baseball careers continues for several central Maine collegians who have hooked on with teams this summer.
ARDMORE, Pa. -- The most recent golden era of golf in England had everything but the one prize that brings credibility.
Manu Ginobili broke out of a slump in a big way with 24 points and 10 assists in his first start of the season, and the Spurs beat the Heat 114-104 on Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead.
ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — A steady hand gave Justin Rose the shiny U.S. Open Trophy. A wild ride gave Phil Mickelson yet another silver medal.
After the Chicago Blackhawks badly outplayed the Boston Bruins in the first period of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals Saturday night, Seguin ditched the microphone he had been wearing as part of the TV broadcast. Then he headed back into the dressing room so the team could hash out its problems in peace.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Jon Lester insisted he was victimized by bad luck, even though the box score suggested otherwise.
Daniel Paille scored at 13:48 in overtime and the Bruins beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 on Saturday night to even the Stanley Cup finals at a game apiece.
In Greenville, more than 4,000 hunters win a chance to try to bag Maine's signature beast.
Jamie Plummer, who struck out 13, escaped jams in each of the final four innings to lead Richmond to a 3-0 victory. Even Richmond coach Rick Coughlin didn’t expect this type of performance from his lanky senior, and he watched her pitch a perfect game Thursday against Greenville.
The deluge from Scarborough started with a leadoff home run by Marisa O’Toole and just kept coming. Scarborough scored four times in the first two innings and went on to a 9-3 victory over Skowhegan in the Class A softball final Saturday afternoon at Cony Family Field.
In the Class B baseball state championship game Saturday afternoon at Larry Mahaney Diamond, Adam Bailey had Winslow hitters guessing for all seven innings. The 6-foot-6 righty was dominant at times, and always effective, and his effort on the mound led the Wildcats to a 4-1 win and their first state title since 1971.
Cassidy Adams turned in a spectacular performance Saturday to help Bucksport win its second consecutive Class C state title with a 7-0 defeat of Madison.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Held in check by Baltimore’s pitchers for 18 consecutive innings, the Boston Red Sox finally played like the highest-scoring team in the major leagues.
Cheverus has another close game with Massabesic, this time winning 8-7 for the state championship.
The Mariners score all their runs in the final two innings to beat Greely, 8-1, and earn the school's first state championship in any sport.
Scarborough takes control early and sends Cheverus to a second straight loss in the Class A state final, 15-4.
The Richmond softball team will face the same team with the same dominant pitcher they faced last year in the Class D final today at St. Joseph's College.
Messalonskee (13-6) upended the top three seeds — Bangor, Hampden and Oxford Hills — by a combined 13-6 score to reach the Class A state title game for a second straight year. The Eagles will play Westbrook (16-3) at 2 p.m. Saturday at Morton Field.
The Class A state final is exactly where Skowhegan will be Saturday. The Indians (14-5) face Western A champion Scarborough (18-1) at noon at Cony High School.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Milan Lucic remembers it as if it was yesterday.
Jamie Plummer pitched a perfect game — allowing only one ball out of the infield — as the Bobcats defeated No. 2 Greenville 12-0 in the Western D final in a game stopped in the bottom of the fifth inning by the mercy rule.
STANDISH -- Errors can make or break a baseball game.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Davis singled home the tiebreaking run with two outs in the 13th inning, giving the Baltimore Orioles an exhausting 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the opener of a four-game series between AL East contenders.
CHICAGO (AP) — Andrew Shaw scored on a deflection in triple overtime to lift the Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins in a riveting Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday night.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Long after the celebration was over, Marian Hossa finally made it home and managed to fall asleep around 3 a.m. The Chicago star woke up a few hours later, roused by a noisy neighbor.
PORTLAND -- The Cony girls lacrosse team admittedly didn't know much about Cheverus, its opponent in the Eastern A title game Wednesday at Fitzpatrick Stadium.
WATERVILLE -- The Gardiner boys lacrosse team can take small comfort in the fact it was only outscored by two goals in the second half of Wednesday's Eastern Maine Class B championship game against Yarmouth.
Alfredo Aceves threw six solid innings, Daniel Nava homered and the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Wednesday night.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- One day of practice wasn't enough for Patriots coach Bill Belichick to share his thoughts on new backup quarterback Tim Tebow.
NE BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: Lawrence's McGee was a good player, too
When the New England Basketball Hall of Fame let Mike McGee know he would be inducted as a member of the Class of 2013, it was easy to think McGee was entering the Hall as a high s ...
Blackhawks beat Bruins 6-5 in overtime
Boston and Chicago play a rare high-scoring game with the Blackhawks getting the final goal.