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Gardiner girls soccer on the map

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. The sport routinely draws the school’s top athletes, who have been playing it since they were in grade school. This doesn’t leave a lot left over for soccer, a sport that has struggled at Gardiner. That changed this year as the Tigers went 9-1-4 during the regular season, their best ever, and drew the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Class B playoffs.
All the more impressive is the fact the field hockey team is unbeaten and playing for the state championship Saturday.  Rarely does  a school excel at both sports at the same time. The soccer team overachieved this season with a mix of freshmen and veterans. Its season ended Tuesday with a 6-5 loss to No. 5 Caribou in an exciting end to end contest. The Tigers were not the most talented team in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference this season, but they played together and they played hard.
A lot of the credit for their season goes to Coach Matt Dineen and his assistant, former Hall-Dale coach Pete Johnson. Most of all it goes to the players who put Gardiner girls soccer on the map

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After graduating from the University of Maine, Lazarczyk lanquished in the public relations biz for a few years before finally joining the news game in 1999. He worked at the Berlin (N.H.) Reporter for a year before joining the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal in July, 2000. Lazarczyk covers football, basketball and baseball. A native of Rutland, Vt., Lazarczyk over-analyzes the New England Patriots and does a spot-on impersonation of Barney from "The Simpsons."

Scott Martin is the Executive Sports Editor for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. A graduate of Lake Region High School and the University of Maine, Martin has worked at the newspapers for more than 10 years, covering high school sports for the majority of that time.

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Bill Stewart has covered professional, collegiate and scholastic sports for 10 years. A University of Maine graduate, Stewart has worked with the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal for a year. Prior to moving to Maine, Stewart worked for daily newspapers in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Stewart and his wife have one child.

Matt DiFilippo is a sports and news reporter for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Matt graduated from the University of New Hampshire and has worked for the newspapers since 1998.

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Gary Hawkins has covered sports for the Kennebec Journal for over 30 years. He's the main beat writer for boys and girls soccer, boys basketball, baseball and golf.

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