Maine High School Football News

The top male and female athletes in the state will be named, and the top athlete in each sport will be honored.

Bill McCarthy played linebacker and running back for the Mattanawcook Academy football team back in the ground-and-pound days of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

But given the specific nature of those jobs, the former NCAA Division II All-American offensive lineman from Wingate University in North Carolina doesn't anticipate a significant transition as he joins the high school ranks as the new head football coach at Hampden Academy.

ON THE WAY TO VICTORY: Messalonskee High School's Kristy Bernatchez, front, collides with Lewiston High School's Mariah Carrier during the Eagles' 18-10 win in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference girls lacrosse championship game Saturday at Thomas College in Waterville.

BATH The Waterville girls track and field team entered the Class B state championship meet looking to crush the field en route to a seventh consecutive title.

Former Nokomis High School football coach Haggie Pratt will guide the Mustangs this season, taking over for Jack Brady, who led Mount View the previous five seasons.

Garet Beal has won just about every individual postseason award available to a Maine high school basketball player, and this week the state's reigning Mr.

After a 43-year career as an athletic administrator, an assistant principal, a coach and a teacher, Thor Nilsen of Kennebunk High is retiring.

Rose Bryant of Kennebunk plans to take her lacrosse stick west and find a niche with one the nation's newest Division I programs next spring.