Windham soccer team ranked 12th in nation
The Windham High School girls soccer team, which has won two consecutive Class A state championships, has been chosen as the nation’s 12th best team in the USA Today/National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s preseason Super 25 girls poll.
The Eagles are the only team from Maine, boys or girls, who were selected in the polls.
Windham will enter the season with a 36-game unbeaten streak, having gone 17-0-1 in each of the last two seasons.
Windham used five second-half goals to beat Edward Little High School of Auburn 5-1 in last fall’s state championship game after scoring three second-half goals the previous year to beat Bangor 3-0 for the title.
There were only two other New England teams in the girls poll.
Bow High School in New Hampshire was picked sixth and Hingham High (Mass.) was chosen 24th.
Immaculate Heart Academy of New Jersey was the nation’s top-ranked girls team.
McFarlane leads State of Maine tourney
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — Amateur Reese McFarlane of Purpoodock Golf Club in Cape Elizabeth, took a one-stroke lead after the first round of the State of Maine Championships Tuesday at the Sugarloaf Golf Club, with a three-over par 75.
Five-time champion, Bob Darling of Fox Ridge Golf Club finished the day in second place, while 2013 champ, Shawn Warren trailed in third with a five-over par 77.
Defending champion John Hickson of Dick’s Sporting Goods is 10 strokes back after a first-round 82 landed him in a four-way tie for sixth place with three-time runner-up, Jeff Seavey, Jason Harris, and Ron Bibeau.
The final round of the tourney begins Wednesday morning.
Sea Dogs to play two Wednesday
PORTLAND — Tuesday night’s Eastern League contest between the Portland Sea Dogs and Erie SeaWolves at Hadlock Field was postponed due to rain.
The game will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Two seven-inning games will be played.
Tickets for Tuesday’s postponed game may exchanged for tickets of equal or lesser value to any remaining 2015 Sea Dogs home game, subject to availability.
Teague cost schools $300K to settle claims
More details surfaced Tuesday about scandals that forced Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague out of his job.
Reports out of VCU — where Teague held the same position prior to heading to Minnesota — detailed payments of at least $300,000 were made to settle gender discrimination claims since 2012.
VCU reportedly paid women’s basketball coach Beth Cunningham $125,000 after she filed a lawsuit against the school and Teague claiming gender discrimination.
Cunningham left VCU in 2012 for a similar job at Notre Dame. She is currently the associate head coach for the Fighting Irish.
Onetime Gopher associate athletic director Regina Sullivan filed a lawsuit less than a year later alleging she was fired because she was expected “to take a passive role and defer to men’s opinions,” particularly when it came to issues surrounding Title IX.
Sullivan was paid $175,000 by Minnesota.
Teague resigned Friday and the school is the subject of a US Department of Education probe regarding its Title IX compliance.