Gary Hawkins's blog

For the first few minutes of Saturday morning’s Class D state championship soccer game, it looked as if Richmond was in over its head.

Credit Winslow High School football fans with sticking by their team despite all the adversity it faced this year.

Field hockey is the No. 1 girls sport at Gardiner Area High School and will likely remain so until Coach Moe McNally decides to hang it up.

Matt Brown has been around Gardiner football most of his life, both as a player and a head coach. He resigned two years ago but returned as a volunteer assistant this season.

Congratulations to the Browne family for hosting the Maine high school team and individual championships at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro each fall.

The Erskine boys soccer team has made smooth transition to Class A this season, something the Eagles did a few years back when they also jumped up to Class A.

Cony junior Kyle Bonenfant defeated one of the state’s top golfers, Mt. Ararat’s Henry Fall, twice in the span of five days recently.

We seldom know what goes on behind the scenes when a coach steps down. This would seem to be the case with the resignation of Cony High School baseball coach Ray Vallee.

There’s more than one way for a coach to motivate an athlete.

I like the idea of naming fields and gymnasiums after people who spent time there.