Maine Majestix again split at national field hockey championships
The Waterville-based Maine Majestix Under-16 team again split its games at the National Club Field Hockey Championships in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
The Majestix lost to Princeton, New Jersey 5-1 before rebounding to post a 4-1 win over Boston.
The Majestix are 2-2 in pool play.
Belfast’s Kelsey Mehuren had three goals, two against Boston and the only one vs. Princeton.
Mehuren’s Belfast High School teammate, Kylie Nelson, and Messalonskee High School of Oakland’s Josie Varney scored the other goals in the win over Boston.
Messalonskee’s Lydia Dexter suffered a facial injury and will miss the rest of the tournament.
Nelson has now scored a goal in three of the four games and shares the team lead in goals with Mehuren. Varney has a pair of goals.
The Majestix beat the nation’s No. 2-ranked Saints from Virginia 4-3 on Sunday after losing to Windy City (Illinois), the nation’s No. 8 team, 4-2.
Gladiator captures Friendship Sloop race
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Maine — Gladiator emerged from a record field of 20 sloops to win the Friendship Sloop race Saturday.
Gladiator, owned by Bill and Caroline Zuber of Friendship, was the first to round the Bear Island mark in a race described as “a loose circumnavigation of Greenings Island” by race organizer Miff Lauriat.
Noel March, the current commodore of the Friendship Sloop Society, skippered the boat as it held the lead from Bear Island to the finish back on the northwest corner of Greenings with a time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 52 seconds.
Helen Brooks out of Northeast Harbor, skippered by Stu Siddons, finished second.
Ex-UMaine player signs with women’s pro hockey team
Former University of Maine women’s ice hockey player Kelly McDonald has signed with the Buffalo Beauts of the National Women’s Hockey League.
McDonald, an Ancaster, Ontario, native, is a former Black Bears captain and led the team with seven assists in 2013-14. She was a member of the Hockey East All-Academic team and was a Maine Scholar Athlete winner.
“To have the chance to compete against some of the best talent in the world again is an amazing opportunity. I look forward to the challenges and successes that are to come,” McDonald said in a news release. “I feel very fortunate and excited to be a part of history in this inaugural season. This is a pivotal time for women’s hockey and I am honored to have this opportunity to help grow the game. I am confident that the NWHL will emerge as the elite league for women’s hockey in the world.”
The NWHL was founded by former Northeastern player Dani Rylan, and will begin its first season this October with Rylan as commissioner. The other teams are the Connecticut Whale, New York Riveters and Boston Pride.
Cowboys’ Bryant issues ultimatum
With Wednesday’s deadline for a long-term contract approaching, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant has demanded action from executive vice president Stephen Jones.
According to ESPN’s Ed Werder, Bryant called Jones last week to tell the Cowboys that he will not report to training camp and sit out regular-season games without a new contract by Wednesday, the NFL’s deadline for franchise players to sign long-term deals.
The report said negotiations are not active, with only one meeting between the Cowboys and Bryant’s representatives.
Bryant’s one-year franchise designation pays him $12.8 million for 2015.
Bryant led the NFL with 16 touchdown receptions and is seeking a deal worth more than $100 million over seven or eight years, in line with the contracts of the league’s highest-paid receivers, Detroit’s Calvin Johnson and Arizona’s Larry Fitzgerald.
Former Packers defensive back Bush suspended
Former Green Bay defensive back Jarret Bush has been suspended for four games by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances, according to multiple reports.
Bush remains unsigned following the 2014 season in which the nine-year veteran played in 15 games for the Packers.
His contract expired after last season. Bush would have to serve the suspension when he is signed by a team.
Bush was arrested in March and charged with public intoxication. He had spent his entire NFL career with the Packers before later being released without any further charges being filed.