Stories by Staff Aroostook Republican

Brazil vs. Columbia

Brazil had many goal scorers in this Aug. 31 matchup with Columbia, with Alex Levesque, Dylan Bouchard, Jaden Picard and Jacob Walton all getting into the action. Bouchard and Konnor Huckins had an assists. It was a team effort in offensive passing that lead to many of the goals. Brazil received good defensive stops by Tyra Sterner, Keegan Bell, Justin Walton and Macie Towson. Brazil’s goalies, Jaden Picard, Calvin Hersey and Jace Violette, saved many of Columbia scoring chances.

McElwain captures Maine Marathon title

Spencer McElwain, a Caribou native now residing in Arundel, won the Maine Marathon, held Sunday in Portland.

McElwain finished in 2 hours, 31 minutes and 36 seconds, which was 49 seconds clear of runner-up Taylor Days-Merrill of Fairhaven, Mass.

The win put McElwain in distinct company as he joined Evan Graves of Caribou and Maninda Marube of Auburn as the only individuals to win both the Maine Marathon and the Maine Half Marathon.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine  — Homecoming weekend was a successful one for the University of Maine at Presque Isle soccer teams as they were able to sweep past Unity in the Saturday doubleheader played at Park Family Field.

The UMPI women won in dramatic fashion by scoring the game-winning goal with time winding down for a 2-1 victory over the Unity Rams.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The University of Maine at Presque Isle women’s soccer team entered the season with high expectations. With many key returners and a plethora of newcomers, fifth-year head coach Trevor Parent hopes his Owls can improve on its 5-9-1 record from a year ago.

The Owls return one of their top scoring threats from 2015 in Sam Nadeau, a junior from St. David, who scored five goals and had five assists to lead the team in points (15). She earned AD3I All-Independent first team honors despite an injury-shortened season.

MAINELY OUTDOORS
By Bill Graves

Fifty years ago when I was growing up in a small Aroostook County town, if a hunter needed shells or even a new or used gun, he went to the local hardware store. If it was a really tiny hamlet, surrounded mostly by woods or farmland, often a single convenience store served the widespread, rural population. From penny candy to nails and There were 50-cent boxes of .22s for plinking and killing rats, rifle shells for deer and a few boxes of shotgun shells to put partridge or rabbit in the stew pot, which they also sold.